Road Safety needs us all! iRAP started the Women in Engineering Grants first in 2021 and continues the offer again in 2022 to 30 successful applicants. The grant programme aims to benefit women with a background in engineering to undertake the Star Rating Essentials and Star Rating for Designs courses.

We are incredibly proud to announce that this year’s 30 iRAP International Women in Engineering Day Grant recipients are from 19 countries, including Thailand, Uruguay, Brazil, Mexico, India, Philippines, Kenya, Australia, Colombia, Malaysia, Ecuador, Slovak Republic, Cameroon, Romania, South Africa, Peru, Tunisia, Bangladesh and El Salvador.

Some of the highlights nominated by the successful recipients on how they intend to use their knowledge include:

• To use the iRAP methodology to assess the safety of roads, and incorporate safety measures in the design phase in Kenya.
• To evaluate roads in the city of Quito (Ecuador).
• To prioritise investments in India.
• To assess roads in Thailand and Laos.
• To make the roads of El Salvador safer and diminish the awful accidents that happen every day. With this knowledge, I would be able to assist my company more effectively in new road projects that require iRAP’s star rating system.
• To integrate the proper and appropriate road safety measures that will surely address the safety and mobility problems in the Philippines’ national road network.
• To give me the opportunity to develop more comprehensive advocacy work to create safer streets for children in particular (South Africa).

Below is a list of all our 2022 successful recipients.