Congratulations to Dr Raza Saeed, Dr Sharifah Sekalala, and Professor Ann Stewart, who all successfully put in proposals for funding to the internal GCRF (Global Challenges Research Fund) catalyst and accelerator calls. The call was to develop collaborative interdisciplinary projects with a focus on global south impact.

The Projects

Raza’s project (£19,989 catalyst fund) emerged from his research and teaching in human rights with a particular focus on developing countries. The project is aimed at building the capacity of National Commission for Human Rights Pakistan in the areas of international human rights law, treaty obligations and rights-based investigation and reporting. With NCHR-P placed as the country’s national human rights monitoring organisation, the dialogues and capacity building has the potential to have an impact on ground.

Sharifah’s project (£15,341 catalyst fund) is interdisciplinary with Warwick Medical School and develops her work on using Sustainable Development Goals to achieve better health outcomes in developing countries. The pilot project will be run in conjunction with a leading civil society organisation in Uganda, Centre for Health and Human Rights, and aims to identify and act on underlying factors that hinder the realisation of sexual reproductive health and rights of young women in slums.

Ann’s project (£31,104 accelerator fund) develops her work on gender and ageing in African plural legal contexts with partners at Nairobi Law Faculty and Help Age International’s African regional office. It focuses on the development of contextually grounded, gendered life course approaches to ageing in African contexts. This aim is to encourage debate about what how to recognise, reduce and redistribute caring responsibilities.