Organization

Region: Global

Joining Date: January 2025

CIMA Research Foundation's mission is to enhance the capacity of organizations, communities, and ecosystems to address to the adverse impacts of climate change, extreme weather and biodiversity loss. To achieve this CIMA integrates scientific research, technical assistance, and practical strategies with a strong focus on capacity development, ensuring that technical assistance is tailored to stakeholder’s unique needs and contexts. 

Organization

Region: Global

Joining Date: April 2025

Climate Adaptation Works’ mission is to help vulnerable communities quantify climate risks and value solutions. Their tools and experience—from adaptation metrics (AMME) to community-led L&D evaluations—aim to provide technical assistance that is demand-driven and grounded in local realities. Climate Adaptation Works contributes to clarifying metrics, boundaries, and investment strategies that address loss and damage effectively.

Organization

Region: Global

Joining Date: March 2025

Climate Analytics is a global climate science and policy institute engaged around the world in driving and supporting climate action aligned to the 1.5°C warming limit. They connect science and policy to empower vulnerable countries in international climate negotiations and inform national planning with targeted research, analysis and support. Their international team of 130 experts and support staff work from their headquarters in Berlin and their regional offices in Africa, Australia and the Pacific, the Caribbean, North America and South Asia.

Body

Region: Global

Joining Date: May 2025

The Climate Risk Early Warning Systems initiative (CREWS) Initiative responds to demands for technical assistance by Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) on early warning systems through its three operational partners, the World Bank, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). 

Expert

Region: Africa

Joining Date: June 2025

Cyril Effiong brings expertise in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), spatial data analysis, climate modeling, and risk assessment. He holds a PhD focused on non-economic loss and damage in flood-prone communities along the Lower Niger River basin in Nigeria. His work addresses climate-induced impacts, vulnerability mapping, and locally tailored adaptation strategies. He has published on these topics in peer-reviewed journals and has translated data and research into actionable insights for policy and planning purposes.

Organization

Region: Global

Joining Date: December 2025

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) works to shape a future worth living around the world. GIZ is a federal enterprise with more than 50 years’ experience in international cooperation. Amongst others, GIZ works with governments, companies and citizens worldwide to promote a climate-friendly society and thriving natural environment – to preserve Earth as a liveable place. GIZ supports the Santiago Network’s mission by providing demand-driven technical assistance and capacity building to help developing countries avert, minimize, and address loss and damage.

Expert

Region: Asia, Global

Joining Date: December 2024

Professor Edris Alam brings over 22 years of teaching experience in public universities across the UK, Australia, Bangladesh, and the UAE. His research interests span a wide range of fields, including climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction (DRR), business continuity management, public health emergencies, and integrated emergency management to enhance resilience. Dr. Alam earned his PhD in Disaster Risk Reduction from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. In his career, he has served in various capacities for national governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and United Nations agencies. Dr Alam has authored over 100 research articles in major international journals.

Expert

Region: Asia, Global, Oceania, Latin America and the Caribbean

Joining Date: December 2024

Edward Turvill is a climate resilience expert with extensive experience addressing climate change impacts in vulnerable regions. His work supports the Santiago network’s mission by providing technical assistance to developing countries, focusing on capacity building, climate finance, and integrating climate risk into planning. With experience in the Asia-Pacific and Small Island Developing States (SIDS), he has led and advised disaster risk reduction and recovery projects. His collaborative, multi-stakeholder approach strengthens global efforts on climate resilience and loss and damage.

Organization

Region: Africa

Joining Date: August 2025

ENDA Energie is an international non-governmental organization created in 1982 and based in Dakar, Senegal and a member of the international network Environment-Development of the Third World (ENDA-TM). It is very involved in issues and actions related to energy, adaptation to climate change and mitigation of its effects, as well as gender in Africa. It is thus committed to simultaneously addressing the interdependent problems of equitable access to sustainable energy, climate change and natural resource governance in a perspective of triple energy-ecological-citizen transition.

Network

Region: Africa

Joining Date: August 2025

Endorois Indigenous Women Empowerment Network (EIWEN) is a women- and disability-led Indigenous organization in Kenya advancing climate justice, human rights, and cultural resilience. EIWEN empowers Endorois Indigenous women, girls, and persons with disabilities through advocacy, traditional knowledge, and inclusive disaster risk response. By centering intersectionality and community leadership, EIWEN contributes to the Santiago Network’s mission to strengthen locally led, rights-based responses to climate loss and damage.

Organization

Region: Global

Joining Date: December 2024

Equal Right is a global campaign working on economic justice without borders. Rooted in the principle that everyone has an 'equal right' to the world's wealth and resources, they focus on researching ambitious solutions to tackle inequality, redistribute global wealth and secure fundamental human rights for people everywhere. This includes international advocacy on the role of unconditional, individual, regular cash payments to support climate justice, including as a policy response for loss and damage.

Organization

Region: Global

Joining Date: October 2024

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) leads global efforts to achieve food security and end hunger by ensuring people have regular access to sufficient, high-quality food for active, healthy lives. With 195 members and operations in over 130 countries, FAO promotes sustainable agriculture, climate resilience and inclusive rural development. FAO’s mission aligns with the Santiago network by providing technical assistance and capacity development on loss and damage to support climate-vulnerable communities, ensuring food systems remain resilient amidst climate change impacts.