Recognizing a gap in focus on gender and other relevant diversity in scaling support tools, the development of GenderUp was funded by the CGIAR Research Programme on Roots Tubers and Bananas (RTB) and also benefited from the Senior Expert Programme funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
The team that developed GenderUp was led by Cees Leeuwis (Wageningen University) and Anne Rietveld (The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT) and further consisted of Erin Mcguire (UCDavis), Bela Teeken (IITA) and Vanya Slavchevska (The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT).
Useful inputs where provided by innovation teams who tested GenderUp: DryCard Rwanda lead by Seraphin Niyonsenga, and CGIAR Flash Dryer, led by Thierry Tran, and also by Murat Sartas, Graham Thiele, Nozomi Kawarazuka, Mercy Mwambi, Vivian Polar, Marc Schut, Steven Michael Cole, Rhys Manners, Elisabeth Gotor, Anna Muller, Diana Lopez, Luis Alejandro Taborda, Thierry Tran, Arwen Bailey, Eileen Nchanji, Marlene Elias, Sietze Vellema, Ineke Aquarius, Mark van Heck, Luc Dinnissen and Emilie Dewitte.