Training grants for women in Engineering

Celebrating Women in Engineering: Shaping a Brighter Future

Every year, International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) shines a light on the incredible contributions of women to the field of engineering. At iRAP, we recognize the vital role women play in creating a safer, more sustainable future.

This year’s #INWED24 theme, Enhanced by Engineering, perfectly encapsulates our commitment to supporting women in engineering. We’re proud to offer a training grant opportunity again this year, designed to empower and equip the next generation of female engineering leaders.

Women make up just over 20% of our #RAPcommunity and we are keen to see that number grow. With these grants, we hope to support more women in their efforts to save lives on roads around the world.

‘We have been a part of the transportation system historically dependent on males, we now belong to the decision-makers, the designers, and the agents of change, let’s make the transportation system inclusive to all, women, children, the elderly, and the disabled.’ – Nuria Jasira Diaz Vale (Peru) Successful Grant recipient from 2021

The grants are open to women that have a background in road-related planning, design or engineering, and have not previously taken the Star Rating Essentials and Star Rating for Designs courses. Candidates will be selected on answers they provide to the following questions:

Why would you like to learn more about the iRAP methodology?
How would you use the knowledge and skills that you learn?

We will open our applications for the Women in Engineering Training Grant Opportunities soon (30 positions available).

IWED Grant Recipient's 2021

In 2021 we were incredibly proud to announce that because of the higher-than-expected interest and number of excellent applications, we had decided to extend the iRAP International Women in Engineering Day Grant Scheme to reward 31 successful recipients instead of 20. These women are from all around the word, including Nepal, Iraq, Brazil, India, Italy, Spain, Uganda, Namibia, Rwanda, Kenya, Poland, Vietnam, Romania, Jordan, Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Tanzania and Bangladesh.

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

To prioritize investment in Italy
To teach future engineers at University in Brazil
To implement in a 6,000km network in Catalonia
To disseminate to my work colleagues and contribute to the regulatory agencies in Brazil
To contribute to road safety designs in India
To advocate for safer roads in Rwanda
To solve road safety issues and implement the correct and sustainable road safety approaches in Kenya.
To motivate and pass on the knowledge to other women engineers in Poland.
To implement in the concession roads in Argentina.

Below is a list of all our successful recipients.

We would like to thank all 193 applicants for their interest. The number of applications received demonstrates that there are more women ready and willing to work on road safety assessment and we look forward to supporting their growth in our #RAPCommunity. We are very grateful for the extraordinary support of the FIA Foundation to make these opportunities possible.

Name	Job Title	Organisation	Country
Abeer Jameel	Lecturer	Mustansiriyah University	Iraq
Andressa Ka Yan Ng	Porfessora Substituta	UFAL - Universidade Federal de Alagoas	Brazil
Archana Bhanga	Authority Engineer	MARC Technocrats Pvt.Ltd.	India
Barbara Bianchini	Engineer	ANAS S.p.A.	Italy
Betania Paulino	Analista de Infraestrutura de Transportes - Engenharia Civil	Departamento Nacional de Infraestrutura de Transportes - DNIT	Brazil
Bruna Andrade	Analista de Novos Negócios	Grupo CCR Engelog	Brazil
Cintia Campos	Professora	Universidade Federal de Goiás	Brazil
Cristina Gil	Road auscultation manager	Generalitat de Catalunya	Spain
Daisy A. Latim	Volunteer Graduate Civil Engineer	Volunteer at UNRA (Design department)	Uganda
Elina Hamatwi - Lumbu	Senior Specialist - Roads Legislation Compliance	Roads Authority of Namibia	Namibia
Giuseppina Pappalardo	Post-Doc Research	University of Catania	Italy
Joyce Ishimwe	Volunteer	Healthy People Rwanda	Rwanda
Joyce Kihachu	Assistant Engineer	KeNHA-CAS Consultant	Kenya
Katarzyna Turoń	Scientific Assistant	Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Transport and Aviation Engineering, Department of Road Transport	Poland
Larissa Wendling	Especialista em Regulação	ANTT	Brazil
Le Thi THUONG	Traffic Engineer	Oriental Consultants Global	Vietnam
Linda Nekesa Masibo	Project Manager	Hasselt University	Kenya
Luana Viana de Paula Cabral	Project Manager	Certare Engenharia e Consultoria	Brazil
Mariana Niculescu	Engineer - Head of Office Pavement Management System	CESTRIN - Center for Road Technical Studies and Informatics - National Road Administration of Romania	Romania
Michelle Maura Ribeiro	Engenheira Civil e Professora Universitária	Arcadis Brasil e UniCEUB	Brazil
Muna Abdelbaqi	Road Safety Engineer	Jordan Society for the Prevention of Road Accidents	Jordan
Naomy Chemutai	Engineer (Roads)	Kenya National Highways Authority	Kenya
Natalia Tinjaca	Consultora Nacional en Seguridad Vial	Organización Panamericana de la Salud	Colombia
Nuria Jasira Diaz Valer	Especialista en Seguridad Vial	Municipalidad de Miraflores	Peru
Passy Muriuki	Graduate Engineer Transportation Department	Gibb Africa Limited	Kenya
Pranita Rana	Member	Safe and Sustainable Travel Nepal	Nepal
Reema Basnet	Engineer	SSTN- Safe and Sustainable Travel Nepal	Nepal
Sambriddhi Shrestha	Engineer, Senior Officer	Safe and Sustainable Travel Nepal, Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal	Nepal
Sinchita Poddar	Junior Monitoring Specialist	Local Government Engineering Department (LGED)	Bangladesh
Yael Zaidenknop	Jefe de proyectos y licitaciones	Autopistas Urbanas S. A.	Argentina
Yvonne Kilauwo	WASH Engineer	Norwegian Refugee Council	Tanzania

IWED Grant Recipient's 2022

In 2022, we were 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.

We would like to thank all 84 applicants for their interest. The number of applications received demonstrates that there are more women ready and willing to work on road safety assessment and we look forward to supporting their growth in our #RAPCommunity. We are very grateful for the extraordinary support of the FIA Foundation to make these opportunities possible.

Name	Job Title	Organisation	Country
Abbey Luttrell	Project Manager / Civil Engineer	GHD	Australia
Aimee Wescombe	Business Group Leader - Transport Tasmania	GHD	Australia
Annesha Das Hasi	Executive Engineer at Roads and Highways Department	Roads and Highways Department Bangladesh	Bangladesh
Asfia Sultana	Executive Engineer	Roads and Highways Department Bangladesh	Bangladesh
Besung Albright Ngum-Numfor	Graduating student, Masters in Civil Engineering	National Advanced School of Public Works	Cameroon
Blanca Rosa de Guadalupe Ortega Reyes	Técnico, atención y seguimiento de auditorias	Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Obras Públicas del Estado	Mexico
Camila Elias	Civil Engineer	SDK Engineering	El Salvador
Carolina	Engenheira civil Coordenadoria de operação	DER-SP	Brazil
Denyssa Pelin	Public Relations Specialist on Road Safety	National Company for Road Infrastructure Administration (NCRIA)	Romania
Doreen Alekana	Graduate Engineer	Egis	Kenya
Eunice Wahome	Lecturer	Kenya Institute of Highways and Building Technology	Kenya
Imen Makhlouf	Senior Transport Engineer	Private sector-PIARC-ATR	Tunisia
Kala P	Director-Road User Safety	Kerala Road Safety Authority	India
Katherin Dahiana Silva Cutti	Ayudante de ingeniero	MTOP - Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas	Uruguay
Kirsten Wilkins	Managing Director	Open Streets Cape Town	South Africa
Kunnawee Kanitpong	Professor	Thailand Accident Research Center, Asian Institute of Technology	Thailand
Maisa Pires	Engenheira Civil de Projetos, ênfase em Segurança Viária	Arteris S.A.	Brazil
María González	Special Project Manager	Consultores de Transporte, S.A.	Mexico
Marjorie Añasco	Engineer III - Planning and Design Section, Traffic Engineering Division, Bureau of Quality and Safety	DPWH-Central Office, Traffic Engineering Division - Bureau of Quality and Safety	Philippines
Martha Plazas	Civil Engineer	National Road Safety Agency of Colombia	Colombia
Megha Kashyap	Executive Transport Planning	Delhi Integrated Multi-Modal Transit System Limited	India
Norfaizah Binti Mohamad Khaidir	Research Officer	Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (MIROS)	Malaysia
Pamela Alejandra Villacrés Tapia	Architect - Master in Transport Management. Mention in Mobility, Transit and Road Safety	Metropolitan Transit Agency of the city of Quito	Ecuador
Patricia Bertozzi	Consultoria especialista em transportes	PPB Engenharia EPP	Brazil
Patricia Karen Illacanchi Guerra	Mobility Consultant	Road Safety Directorate - Peru	Peru
Romana Solarikova	Project Manager	Ministry of Transport and Construction of Slovak Republic	Slovak Republic
Rosebrenda Muchiga	Engineer Roads	Kenya National Highways Authority	Kenya
Samantha Chapman	Transport Engineer - BEng(Civil)(Hons)	GHD	Australia
Sharon Selein	Assistant Engineer	Material Testing and Research Division	Kenya
Zoranyi Sierra Díaz	Ingeniera Civil Especialista en Seguridad Vial	Interventoria Agencia Nacional de Infraestructura - Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Colombia

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