Coady Radio - The Development Podcast

Mallah Tabot, a double-graduate of Coady Institute, has been recognized as one of Cameroon's most influential young women leaders. She has won a Queen's Young Leader's award, and most recently, won a United Nations World Summit award for digital innovation. Her team at United Vision developed a popular sex education app for smartphones called Ndolo360. Mallah credits her Coady education for helping her continue to progress as a leader in her country. Links: United Vision organization:http://uvcameroon.org/index.php/about/team/mallah-tabot Ndolo360 app website: http://www.ndolo360.com/ Coady Institute Certificate in Advocacy: Increasing Citizen Voice and Agency, October 26 - Nov 10, 2017:  http://coady.stfx.ca/education/certificates/increasing_citizen_voice/  

2010 Diploma in Development Leadership graduate Amanda Lindhout talks about her kidnapping in Somalia, her award-winning book 'A House in the Sky', the value of International Women's Week, along with memories of her time at Coady Institute in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Ms. Lindhout was interviewed by Olga Gladkikh. Show notes: 01:00 The day she arrived for Coady's diploma program in 2010. 03:20 Why she started the Global Enrichment Foundation to educate women and children in Somalia. 05:46 Coady as "the best in Canada" for leadership education. 06:47 Her memoir: A House in the Sky. 10:30 The value of International Women's Week. 12:50 Who inspires her? 14:19 What we can do to address challenges in today's world. 15:45 What's next? Upcoming courses As mentioned in the podcast, here are the seven certificate courses being offered on campus this fall. Click on the course name to go to our website. The application deadline is March 31st. Community-Based Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding (October 10 - October 25) Community-Driven Impact Assessment  (October 10 - October 25) Facilitation and Training Approaches for Community Change (October 10 - October 25) Learning Organizations and Change (October 10 - October 25) Action Research for Citizen-Led Change (October 26 - November 10) Advocacy: Increasing Citizen Voice and Agency  (October 26 - November 10) Asset-Based and Citizen-Led Development (October 26 - November 10)

Yogesh Ghore, senior program staff at Coady International Institute, talks about research into market-based solutions to combat extreme poverty, especially among the disabled. Ghore has teamed up with colleagues at the Institute of Development Studies (UK) and ADD International as part of a project funded by the Rockefeller Foundation's Inclusive Economies initiative. He recently returned from his second field trip in Uganda. The project was also the topic of a blog post on Oxfam's From Poverty to Power site at https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/why-davos-should-be-talking-about-disability/    

Coady Research Fellow Jaya Luintel has been using community radio in Nepal to amplify the voices of women who have been victimized by conflict. Luintel was recently awarded the 2016 Tomorrow's Peacebuilders Award at a ceremony in London, England. Her Kitchen Story project was selected from among 244 applicants in 61 countries. She sat down with Coady Radio host Richard Perry as she was preparing to return to Nepal. 

Senator Murray Sinclair, former chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, shares his hopes for the future with students, staff and faculty at St. Francis Xavier University and Coady Institute. Mr. Sinclair believes the federal and provincial governments need to catch up with the public when it comes to taking action for a stronger Canadian society. Recorded on November 8, 2016.

Renowned Indigenous artist Alan Syliboy talks about using his art for social change. Syliboy is the 2016 Coady Chair in Social Justice at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. He is the first Indigenous person to hold the annual chair. Syliboy grew up in the Mi'kmaw community of Millbrook First Nation. This audio was recorded during his public presentation 'Art and Social Justice', on October 12, 2016.

Dr. Myrna Kay Cunningham Kain in conversation with Pamela Johnson of Coady International Institute and Amanda Meawasige, Coady graduate and senior health policy analyst with the Assembly of First Nations in Ottawa, Canada. They talk about the value of shared leadership, and whether technology makes it easier to move away from traditional, hierarchical forms of leadership. Also, are traditional Indigenous forms of healthcare becoming mainstream? Dr. Cunningham Kain is board chair of the Association for Women's Rights in Development, and former chair of the United Nations permanent forum on Indigenous Issues. Host Richard Perry also promotes the upcoming Coady Celebrates fundraising event in Halifax and the December 5th application deadline for spring certificates and 2017 Diploma in Development Leadership. Podcast length: 18:13

Richard interviews two Coady graduates, who are joining fellow alumnae and Coady staff at the AWID forum in Brazil, Sept. 8-11, 2016. Amanda Meawasige took the 2011 Indigenous Women in Community Leadership program, and now works for the Assembly of First Nations in Ottawa, Canada. Raquel Helen Silva is a graduate of the 2015 Global Change Leaders program. She specializes in social entrepreneurship and works for Thomson Reuters in Brazil.

Pamela Johnson interviews disability rights advocates Steven Estey and partner Anne MacRae. Richard Perry speaks with Naela Refaat of Egypt, who worked with Coady on the Transparency and Accountability in Governance project, funded by the Ford Foundation.

Show notes: 00:00 Introduction by Richard Perry01:00 International Women's Day (Week) events in Antigonish02:37 Indigenous reconciliation in Canada03:30 Coady Connects alumni learning network pilot07:01 Coady and the Assoc. for Women in Development conference in Brazil10:16 Upcoming women's programs beginning in spring 201613:31 Growth of women's centre since it began in 201115:18 Announcements by Richard16:22 Ends  

This month, the story of Adrian Adalberto Castillo, who graduated from Coady in 1963 and returned to build the co-op movement in Guatemala. His family was worried that he would return from Canada with blue eyes and would forget to speak Spanish.

In this episode, we discuss the release of Citizen-led Innovation for a New Economy. It contains eleven case studies of creative communities in Canada and the United States. In Canada and the USA, the book is available for purchase at http://brunswickbooks.ca/Citizen-Led-Innovation-for-a-New-Economy/ In other countries, it can be purchased online at http://developmentbookshop.com/citizen-led-innovation-for-a-new-economy This book is edited by Alison Mathie of Coady International Institute and John Gaventa of the Institute of Development Studies (UK). It features 11 case studies from ethnically diverse settings in Canada and the United States. More information: http://coady.stfx.ca/coady/media/news_releases/citizen-led-book/  

Nadjet Bouda is a program officer with Equitas International, the human rights training organization. She recently graduated from the Re-thinking Partnership certificate at Coady Institute. Nadjet feels youth education is critical to fighting fundamentalism in the Middle East North Africa region. Read our online Q&A at http://coady.stfx.ca/alumni/nadget-bouda/. In part two, we hear Magalie Dresse of Haiti, also a Coady grad, deliver the keynote address at our annual fundraising gala in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The dinner raised funds that can be matched by the Government of Canada, for a total of $80,000 for future scholarships.

Wab Kinew is one of Canada's best-known Indigenous broadcasters. His father attended Coady Institute almost 50 years ago and went on to great success as a regional and national leader. Richard Perry spoke with Wab about his new book 'The Reason You Walk' and the time his father spent learning community activism at Coady. Also, staffer Pamela Johnson heads west and north to promote our Indigenous Women in Community Leadership program.

Senior program staff Yogesh Ghore of Coady International Institute discusses his Occasional Paper: Producer-led value chain analysis: The missing link in value chain development - a tool for effective engagement of small producers. The project draws on Coady's ten-year partnership with Oxfam Canada on asset-based and citizen-led development (ABCD). The entire document is available online in .pdf format at http://www.coady.stfx.ca/knowledge/

Mr. Castillo is originally from Guatemala, Central America. Following his Coady studies in 1963, he returned to Guatemala where he worked diligently for 17 years establishing the vast majority of credit unions, until his family was forced to flee to the United States during the civil war. This trip to Coady was for their 60th wedding anniversary. Later that day we presented him with a copy of his diploma, which he was forced to leave behind when he fled Guatemala.  Richard MacKenzie of the Antigonish Casket newspaper and Coady's Richard Perry speak with Adrian Adalberto Castillo and Magda de Castillo. Translation courtesy of their daughter Pilar Castillo-Meier.

Tsigie Haile is founder and managing director of Women in Self Employment (WISE) Ethiopia. WISE is Coady's Ethiopian partner in the Government of Canada-funded project: Women's Leadership for Economic Empowerment and Food Security. She talks about the early days, types of training offered to women and girls, and how WISE uses credit and savings networks to improve the lives of women and girls.

Host Richard Perry speaks with Coady program officer Pamela Johnson and CWFLI graduate Indu Krishnamurthy about this unique educational partnership that supports women leaders in the Canadian not-for-profit sector. And StFX University students Asia van Buuren and Aaron Thornell are more than a little excited about their upcoming one-year venture as new OceanPath Fellowship participants.

Host Richard Perry talks with Anuj Jain, senior fellow, microfinance and development at Coady International Institute, StFX University. They discuss Coady's work with Oxfam's 'From Grove to Market' program in the olive sector and advances in the vegetable sector.

Host Richard Perry talks with Coady '11 graduate Fr. Shaiju Chacko, who helps coordinate a massive job training program for youth in India. He also contributes to a relief program that followed the monsoon floods of 2014. Also, Deborah Barndt describes a spring certificate offered at Coady - Integrating Food Justice into Community Programs.

Colleen talks about providing training in India, Ghana and Sierra Leone. "Well the work in India was very exciting because it was the first time we had gone overseas with this. We worked with the staff, volunteers and board members of the Association for Social and Health Advancement. We worked for three days to help them create their own assessment tool. After that we went to a very remote rural area and worked with a group of semi-literate women. The ASHA staff and volunteers we had trained did the process and it was phenomenal."

Colleen describes how the the CHIA tool is used for advocacy. "Recently I worked with two small groups around Antigonish where there was talk of closing their local schools . And we went through the process to assess what the impact would be on the health of their community if their school closed. We didn’t look at the benefits, because this group wanted to keep their school open. They were very surprised to find all the different ways that the school benefited their community that they hadn’t even thought about. It was a very systematic way of helping them. So they can use that information to go ahead and advocate."

Pamela Johnson, program officer with the International Centre for Women's Leadership at Coady Institute, is interviewed by CBC Radio Cape Breton about her new role at the Institute, and about upcoming programs in the Women's Centre.

Kodwa Tyiso, a graduate of the 2013 Global Change Leaders program at Coady Institute, reflects on the passing of Nelson Mandela. Ms. Tyiso lives in Praetoria, South Africa.

Coady diploma participant Afi Yakubu talks about her advocacy work using film to promote the rights of girls and women in Ghana. She received the 2013 Katherine Fleming International Development award at a ceremony during the annual Coffee with Coady event at StFX University.

Antigonish Community Contact Janet Becigneul and Information Morning host Don Connolly discuss the arrival of 34 development practitioners to the Coady's 2013 diploma program and the positive impact their presence has in the local community.

Regina Okafor came to St. FX University’s Coady International Institute from Nigeria when she was six months pregnant in 1972, and while studying here, she gave birth to her son. She and the Coady Institute staff weren't quite sure how to handle this, and luckily a local couple stepped up and took care of the boy named Luke `Coady.` The Coady International Institute’s Richard Perry says Regina and Luke are coming back to visit the Muise family for a special re-union over the Canada Day weekend. https://soundcloud.com/coady-international/heartwarming-reunion-at-stfx Luke, since he was born here, is a Canadian citizen who has been in Toronto for about ten years.

Participant Janis Brooks of Vancouver, BC speaks on behalf of the first cohort in the Canadian Women's Leadership Learning Institute at the Coady Institute. The graduation ceremony was held on June 13, 2013 at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. More information on the program at www.coady.stfx.ca/themes/women/cwfli/

Participant Lorraine Desmarais of Winnipeg, Manitoba speaks on behalf of the first cohort in the Canadian Women's Leadership Learning Institute at the Coady Institute. The graduation ceremony was held on June 13, 2013 at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. More information on the program at www.coady.stfx.ca/themes/women/cwfli/

Chanel Grenaway, Director of Economic Development Programs with the Canadian Women's Foundation, pays tribute to the first graduating cohort of the Canadian Women's Foundation Leadership Institute offered at the Coady Institute. The graduation ceremony was held on June 13, 2013 at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. More information on the program at www.coady.stfx.ca/themes/women/cwfli/

Eileen Alma, Manager of the International Centre for Women's Leadership at the Coady Institute, speaks about the special partnership between Coady and the Canadian Women's Foundation on a three-year pilot project. The graduation ceremony for the first cohort of 24 women was held on June 13, 2013 at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. More information on the program at http://www.coady.stfx.ca/themes/women/cwfli/

Margarita Guajardo of Saltillo, Mexico teaches law at the Technologico de Monterrey. She has her PhD in International Law from Tulane University and a Masters in Economics. She decided to take the popular Advocacy and Citizen Engagement certificate program at Coady International Institute to support her advocacy work in her home country. She spoke in May 2013 with the Coady's Richard Perry just before leaving Canada.

Pat Flett, a mentor in the 2011 Indigenous Women in Community Leadership program at Coady Institute, talks about the unique approach offered by this award-winning program. For more on her background, visit http://www.coady.stfx.ca/womens-leadership/mentors/Flett/

Anuj Jain of Coady International Institute and CS Reddy of APMAS India join host Richard Perry for a discussion of the merits of community-based microfinance.

Listen as David Fletcher, Manager of Educational Programs, and Olga Gladkikh, Coady facilitator talk about the Institute's approach to adult education. They also discuss the need for 'leadership capital' and what that means for community development. This audio recording runs 35:47.

CBC Radio News interviewed Moussa for a local perspective on recent unrest in his country. Moussa graduated from Coady's 19-week Diploma in Development Leadership program in 2007. He is program co-ordinator with the US African Development Foundation, and lives in Bamako, Mali in West Africa.

Akh Muzakki recently completed the Mobilizing Assets for Community-Driven Development certificate at Coady International Institute. He is a lecturer with the State Islamic University at Sunan Ampel. In an interview with Richard Perry, Muzakki talks about taking lessons from two Nova Scotia communities - St. Andrews and Canso - back to Indonesia. He is excited about spreading what he calls the 'positive virus' of a Coady education.

This husband-and-wife team took the six-month diploma program and went on to successful careers in international development. Ekdawi manages the Middle East/Africa program at the Bank Information Centre. Tadros is a senior facilitator and advocacy specialist with the International Budget Partnership. Both co-facilitated Coady's new Good Governance and Social Accountability Tools certificate course in May 2012.

Marie Delorme, CEO of The Imagination Group in Calgary, Alberta talks about why she became involved with the Indigenous Women in Community Leadership program at Coady International Institute. Ms. Delorme received the Metis Nation Entrepreneurial Leadership Award, and is also a mentor in the Coady program. Its first 12 participants graduated in August 2011.

Chief Candice Paul of the Saint Mary's First Nation in New Brunswick speaks about her role as a mentor in the Indigenous Women in Community Leadership program. Chief Paul is the first woman to be elected as Chief in her First Nation, and also sits on committees at the national level within the Assembly of First Nations.

Lila Pavey talks about the work she does as program manager with Stepping Stones International in Botswana. The non-profit organization empowers at-risk youth, including orphans who lost their parents through HIV/AIDS. Lila was part of the Xtending Hope program at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia Canada, where she received her BSc in Biology. She was then selected for the Youth In Partnership program at the Coady International Institute at StFX. The youth program is funded by the Canadian International Development Agency. She returned to Canada in mid-November 2011 to receive an award for her humanitarian work. During a visit to the Coady Institute, she sat down with host Richard Perry to talk about her Coady experience and her current work in Botswana. Episode length: 10:19 Follow the Coady Institute on Twitter (@CoadyStFX) and on Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.