Rethinking Development Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
5.2 Development & the COVID 19 Pandemic
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Noaman and Safa reflect on the emergence, spread, political economy and impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on development work. ---> ...
51. Decolonization is not a Metaphor
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Referring to Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang's article "Decolonization is Not a Metaphor", Safa and Noaman discuss the overuse and misuse ...
4.12 Rethinking Development Mixtape
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For our Season 4 finale, we share a compilation of clips from our past 50+ episodes!
4.11 Indigenous Land Defense
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Kobei is the Founder and Executive Director of the Ogiek Peoples' Development Program, a Kenyan NGO working to secure human and land rig...
4.10 A More Comprehensive Approach
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Sabina Faiz Rashid is the Dean of the BRAC James P. Grant School of Public Health at BRAC University in Bangladesh. Dr. Rashid specializes in ethn...
4.9 Degrowth
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Giorgos Kallis is an ecological economist, political ecologist, and Professor at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology in the Catalan ...
4.8 Working With Bias
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mahrukh 'Maya' Hasan is as a designer, researcher and strategic advisor who helps social impact organizations build joyful, equitable and in...
4.7 In the Name of Development
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Andrea Cornwall is currently Pro Director of Research and Enterprise and Professor of Global Development and Anthropology at the School of Oriental an...
4.6 Women Fighting Apartheid
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Shanthini Naidoo is a South African writer and former Sunday Times journalist. She is the author of the book which in South Africa is entitled: "...
4.5 Mobilizing Against Malaria
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Marvi Rebueno-Trudeau is the Deputy-Executive Director of the Pilipinas Shell Foundation. She initially studied business management and founded a firm...
4.4 Gender, Rural Change and Realizing Rights
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Haroon Akram-Lodhi teaches agrarian political economy at Trent University. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Development ...
4.3 Afghan Women in the Lead
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Palwasha Hassan is a women's rights and peace activist who has pioneered many critical initiatives for the promotion of women's rights and...
4.2 Education in Emergencies
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jessica Oddy is an education in emergencies specialist and a PhD candidate at the University of East London's Centre for Migration, Refugees and ...
4.1 Racial Equity
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Uma Mishra-Newberry is a global social justice advocate and women's rights leader. She began her career in the US Army before becoming an educato...
3.13 Letters from our Listeners
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the last episode of our S 3, host Safa shares some reflections and reads out letters from our listeners. We will be back soon with our S 4!
3.12 Faith Based Charities
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Mohamed Ashmawey worked in program management and leadership in the private sector for 20 years, with organizations such as General Motors and the...
3.11 Strategic Communication
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Deepak Gupta has over 28 years of experience as a program and strategic communication advisor for various UN agencies - including UNFPA, UNODC, UN...
3.10 Funding a Feminist Future
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rita Thapa has over 35 years of experience as a feminist educator and a community activist in Nepal and internationally. She is the founder of Tewa,...
3.9 Political Economy of Development
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Noaman Ali is currently Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Pakistan. His research and teachin...
3.8 Principled Action
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Wafaa Saeed is currently the Deputy Director in the Operations and Advocacy division, covering Eastern and Southern Africa at UN OCHA, the United Nati...
3.7 Humanitarian Standards
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tanya Wood has more than 20 years of management experience in the humanitarian sector, in both headquarters and countries such as Guyana, Sri Lanka an...
3.6 Disability, Poverty and Society
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Shuaib Chalklen is the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. During his term as UN Special Rapporteur he establishe...
3.5 Feeding Minds
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ousman Umar is a former child migrant who spent four years travelling on foot from Ghana to Libya to Spain. In 2012 he founded an NGO named NASCO Feed...
3.4 Rethinking Humanitarianism
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jessica Alexander is the editor of The New Humanitarian’s Rethinking Humanitarianism series. She is also a humanitarian aid worker with experience w...
3.3 Constructive Criticism
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda is a human rights lawyer who has a decade of experience working with UNICEF other UN agencies and NGOs in the US, France, D...
3.2 Indigenous Future-Making
09 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Filiberto Penados is a Maya educator and activist scholar whose work focuses on indigenous education and future-making. He has held faculty positi...
3.1 Rethinking Development and Beyond
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, host Safa shares some thoughts about the evolution of the podcast, some common topics of past episodes and what to expect from season...
2.15 Connecting with your Purpose
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Yukako Sato worked with the World Food Programme (WFP) for 17 years. For the first half of her career, she coordinated food assistance programmes in c...
2.14 Rejecting Inequality, Impatient for Change
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kaveh Zahedi is the Deputy Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP). He oversees E...
2.13 Structural Racism and Speaking Truth to Power
29 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Angela Bruce-Raeburn is currently the Regional Advocacy Director at the Global Health Advocacy Incubator, which supports advocates that work for the p...
2.12 Constructing and Reconstructing Power
23 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Qi Cui has over 18 years of experience as a senior professional in leading global health programs. She has especially worked to develop alliances with...
2.11 China, Africa and the Toolbox of Development
15 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hannah Ryder is an economist by training, a former diplomat, and has close to 20 years of experience in international development. She is the founder ...
2.10 Swedish Development Cooperation
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Magnus Saemundsson is currently the Senior Education Specialist at SIDA, the Swedish governmental agency for development cooperation, based in Cambodi...
2.9 A Whole of the River Approach: Science and Sustainable Development
01 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Shahbaz Khan is the Director of the UNESCO Regional Science Bureau for Asia and the Pacific and also serves as the UNESCO Representative for...
2.8 Championing Mental Health
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Devora Kestel is a senior global mental health policy expert with more than twenty-five years of international experience in Europe, the Caribbean and...
2.7 Shifting the Power: Decolonizing Aid and Development
18 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Arbie Baguios is currently a Programme Quality and Accountability Specialist at ActionAid UK. He studied development studies at the Ateneo de Manila...
2.6 Financing at the Nexus of Gender and Climate
11 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Jeanette Gurung is a forester and gender equality and climate expert with many years of experience in the international development sector. She is...
2.5 Learning and Accountability
04 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ann-Murray Brown is Jamaican and lived and studied in South Korea for some years before adopting The Netherlands as her second home. She is a seasoned...
2.4 Doing the Right Thing: Whole World Discussions on Humanitarian Ethics
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hugo Slim is a leading authority on the ethics of war and humanitarian action with a career that combines academia, diplomacy and operations. He is cu...
2.3 Youth Participation in Development
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pelumi Fadare is a polyglot who speaks nine languages. Her various professional experiences include working at the Spanish Embassy in Belgium, a consu...
2.2 A Failure of Leadership
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Paula Donovan is the co-director of AIDS-Free World, an international organization that advocates for institutional change with a focus on reforming p...
2.1 The Challenges of our Time
06 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Robert David Cohen is an award-winning poet, journalist, children’s rights expert and communications strategist. He is the director and co-founder o...
Trailer
29 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Rethinking Development Podcast. The place where international development and humanitarian aid practitioners and leaders share their th...
1.13 The Right to Freedom of Expression
12 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A journalist by training, Mikel Aguirre worked as a radio reporter for the public broadcast of the Basque autonomous region in Spain before joining th...
1.12 Dialogue and Citizen Participation
04 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Paula Claycomb began her career in journalism before transitioning to the UN system in 1989. She worked with UNICEF on social change communication in ...
1.11 Beginning with Ourselves: Patriarchy, SHeroes and the Training of Changemakers
28 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kamla Bhasin is an Indian feminist, activist, author and facilitator. She is the Co-Founder of "Sangat" – A Global Feminist Network. She f...
1.10 Working In & With Communities
20 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Andrea Burniske has more than 20 years of experience in international development, 15 of which were spent developing and leading programs and projects...
1.9 Peaks and Valleys of Aid & Development
12 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Gary Burniske is currently the Managing Director of the Center for Global Food Security within Discovery Park at Purdue University. He is responsibl...
1.8 Working with Trauma
29 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Patricia Omidian is a medical anthropologist and international development consultant. She is also the co-founder of Focusing Initiatives Internat...
1.7 Urgency, Security and Humanitarian Assistance
19 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Barker began his career as a peace corps volunteer in Iran before beginning to work with a variety of organizations primarily in humanitarian con...
1.6 Right in Principle, Right in Practice
15 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Morgan has over 20 years of experience working in international development. He is currently the International Advocacy Director at Plan Inter...
1.5 Gender and the Environment
08 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Leisa Perch is an international development consultant with over 20 years of experience providing both technical advice and managerial support to diff...
1.4 Women in Leadership
02 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Karin Sham Poo paved the way for women in senior leadership positions in both the banking sector and UNICEF. She was the first woman to achieve a mana...
1.3 Communication in Emergencies
24 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Aziz Froutan has 15 years of extensive experience in media, public relations and strategic communications, especially regarding women's and child...
1.2 Lessons from Indonesia
04 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Gracia Hadiwijaja is a research consultant and has over 10 years of experience in the development sector in Indonesia. She has worked for the SMERU Re...
1.1 Overcoming Sectoral Analysis
30 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Akiko Maeda is a health economist with 25 years of experience in international development. She has held various technical and managerial position...