Will aid-for-hire become the new normal? | Rethinking Humanitarianism
In the previous episode, Fogbow CEO Brook Jerue questioned why the aid sector was so "infatuated" and critical of his company – a small private American firm delivering aid in high‑conflict contexts l...
10 Sep 38min
The rise of privatised aid: A conversation with Fogbow | Rethinking Humanitarianism
When private companies employ former military personnel and work with controversial political actors in the name of humanitarian aid, should they still follow humanitarian principles? And who holds th...
8 Sep 1h 4min
Grassroots aid is here to disturb the system | Rethinking Humanitarianism
For Fanta Toure, community-led crisis response efforts like mutual aid are not an emergent movement as some in the international aid system see it, but rather a return "to the way things are supposed ...
27 Aug 1h 23min
Somalia's plan to break free from aid dependence | Rethinking Humanitarianism
For Abdihakim Ainte, a senior Somali government official, the international humanitarian system's sudden contraction has been both a "cataclysmic" shock – with devastating immediate consequences – and...
20 Aug 48min
Will big donors "smell the coffee" or get left behind? | Rethinking Humanitarianism
Less than a year ago, Colum Wilson left his position at the helm of the humanitarian department in one of the world's largest donor governments. After more than two decades with the UK government, Wil...
13 Aug 49min
Error and trial: What really makes the humanitarian system change? | Rethinking Humanitarianism
Humanitarianism evolves, whether the system is ready or not. This six-episode series explores how. Ben Ramalingam has spent 20 years thinking and writing about the complexity of the humanitarian syste...
6 Aug 1h 8min
Lessons on media ethics from the Middle East | Decolonise How?
What are we getting right, what are we getting wrong, and how could we do better? A recent live webinar hosted by Patrick Gathara, with historian Assal Rad and media critic Sana Saeed, digs into the f...
7 Jul 1h 19min
How to change reporting | Decolonise How?
We've diagnosed the problem. What comes next? On the podcast: what it takes to change how crises are spoken about in newsrooms and aid organisations. Researcher Jess Crombie and journalist Chika Oduah...
23 Jun 39min
