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Naomi Cravinho Lester

Naomi Cravinho Lester

Project Support Officer

 

Naomi is a project support officer and works with researchers, knowledge and communications specialists across the institute.

She is responsible for providing project support in both the Power and Popular Politics and Knowledge, Impact and Policy Clusters, as well as supporting the coordination and development of funding proposals. Her role includes providing support for proposal development, reporting and financial management, events, proofreading, contracts, and administration.

Naomi has a keen interest in human rights as well as sustainable regenerative sustainable agriculture. She previously worked in the fundraising team of the charity Médecins Sans Frontières and also has experience in the financial sector, translation and editing.

Research

Project

RLO Grantholder Event 2024

IDS will design and facilitate a three-day grant holder event in Nairobi in November 2024, bringing together researchers from across the ESRC-FCDO Raising Learning Outcomes (RLO) programme. The event represents an opportunity to showcase the breadth of work that UKRI have supported to raise...

Project

Global Civic Culture Learning project

This is a consultancy project for Citizen University, a non-profit organization in Seattle that uses responsive participatory approaches to build citizenship culture in the US.

Project

POTENCIAR: Building partnerships for Inclusion, Participation and Action

POTENCIAR is a programme focused on addressing accountability and governance issues undermining the delivery of basic services in Mozambique. The programme takes an innovative research-led and knowledge-centred adaptive approach to achieving inclusive development outcomes via a series of...

Naomi Cravinho Lester’s recent work