Best Of: Six Years and a Flood
The travel industry, just like the humanitarian industry, provides everything a person on the move needs. It is also one of the largest industries in the world with a turnover many thousand times that...
28 Jan 202239min
Best of: The Great Leap Sideways
This episode was first published in February 2021. It is with Fergus Thomas from the FCDO and deals with two important and very different issues: humanitarian reform and mental health. Together with L...
20 Jan 202242min
Best of: Arms Race for Data
AI is transforming the world and will have profound implications for humanitarian action. But how? Will it lend itself to authoritarian regimes controlling their populations and will humanitarian orga...
14 Jan 20221h 10min
37. A Brutal Year
Paula Gil Baizan, Meg Sattler and Lars Peter Nissen review 2021 and look forward towards 2022 in the humanitarian world.
7 Jan 20221h 6min
36. Dull Disasters
Timely, flexible funding is a bottleneck is most if not all humanitarian operations. Daniel Clarke has a solution to that problem. He is the co-author of the book Dull Disasters, and the director of t...
10 Dec 202150min
35. The Principled Dinosaur
Philippe Besson worked with the Swiss Development Cooperation for more than 30 years before he earlier this year retired from the position as head of the multilateral humanitarian division. In this co...
5 Dec 202147min
34. A Lonely Place
The Global Executive Leadership Initiative (GELI) is a new flagship initiative from the UN to promote leadership throughout the development and humanitarian sector. GELI is led by Assistant Secretary ...
12 Nov 202147min
33. Un-Musked
The weirdest humanitarian twitter conversation has just taken place between WFPs Executive Director David Beasley and the world's richest man Elon Musk. WFP is trying to get some money, Musk is not su...
4 Nov 202139min
