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In conflict settings, ensuring that social protection is responsive, durable, and conflict-sensitive is critical, yet often underexplored. In this episode, we delve into the intersections between humanitarian assistance, development cooperation, and peacebuilding – the so-called "Triple Nexus" – and how social protection fits within it. We examine how social protection actors, humanitarian agencies and peacebuilding specialists can work together to strengthen resilience, foster stability, and avoid exacerbating conflict. Our guests explore lessons from contexts like Ethiopia and Ukraine, the complexities of targeting and accountability, and the political dimensions of social protection in fragile and conflict-affected settings. This marks the third and final episode of the "Social Protection in Conflict and Protracted Crisis" series, produced by socialprotection.org, organised by STAAR Facility and BASIC Research and in partnership with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, FCDO, which has funded the series and provided invaluable support in shaping the episodes and connecting us with guests. Meet our guests: Ric Goodman – Director, Social Protection and Resilience, DAI Global UK Rachel Goldwyn – Senior Conflict Sensitivity and Social Safeguards Advisor, WFP Sudan Lukáš Voborský – Team Leader, Technical Assistance Facility of the PeReHID Initiative For our Quick Wins segment, we welcome Hassan-Alattar Satti, independent researcher and consultant, who shares key resources on maintaining social protection in conflict settings, focusing on lessons from Sudan. Resources: Publication | Maintaining and strengthening social assistance systems in conflict settings: Sudan case study Publication | Effective Social Protection in Conflict: Findings from Sudan Blog | Towards a conflict-sensitive role for grassroot organisations in social protection in Sudan

A version of this essay was published by firstpost.com at https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/shadow-warrior-britains-outsized-malign-role-in-global-chaos-13872084.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialBeing a keen observer of the United Kingdom, I have lately noticed a few apparently unconnected events with dismay. If I were to connect the dots, it begins to appear that Britain has had an outsize influence on international affairs. Maybe the James Bond meme isn't the total fantasy I had assumed it was: a juvenile wet dream about nubile maidens and irresistible heroes bumping off sundry villains.The reality appears to be quite impressive. This tiny, rainy island off Northwest Asia has been running quite a number of worldwide schemes. Its administrative center, Whitehall, manages a global web of intrigue and narrative-building, and has created a number of ‘imperial fortresses', thus punching above its weight-classOne of their principal assets in gaslighting others is the BBC (not to mention their plummy accents that, for example, make Americans just melt). The BBC has a sterling reputation which does not seem well-deserved. There have been many instances of motivated bias (eg. in their Brexit or India coverage), lack of integrity (eg. sexual transgressions by senior staff) and so on. In reality, it is about as unabashed at pushing its agenda as Al Jazeera is about its own.Admittedly, Britain has made one major blunder along the way, though: Brexit, which left them in trisanku mode, sort of adrift mid-Atlantic. They were distancing themselves from the European Union, counting on their so-called ‘special relationship' with the US to sustain them, away from what they perceived, correctly, as a declining and disunited Europe. They also thought they could dominate their former colonies again (see the frantic pursuit of a Free Trade Agreement with India?) without onerous EU rules. Sadly, none of this quite worked out.The reason is a fundamental problem: there is not much of a market for British goods any more. Indians once coveted British products as status symbols, but today, with the possible exceptions of Rolls Royce cars and single-malt whiskey, there's very little anybody wants from them. They still do good R&D, make aircraft engines (India could use that technology), and their apparently for-hire journalism is well-known, but that's about it.On the other hand, they have managed to stay entrenched in the international financial system, starting with colonial loot, especially the $45 trillion they are believed to have taken from India. It is rumored that they used stolen Indian gold to buy distressed assets in the US after the Civil War. It is possible they had the same game plan for Ukraine: acquire rich agricultural land and mineral deposits at distressed prices. Some point to the port of Odessa as another targetUkraine: bad faith actor?It is remarkable how Boris Johnson, then PM of UK, is alleged to have single-handedly ruined the chance of a ceasefire in April 2022 during his visit to Kiev in the early days of the Ukraine war, when there was a chance of a negotiated cessation of hostilities with all parties adhering to the Minsk 1 and 2 agreements.In January, just before President Trump took office, UK PM Starmer signed a minerals agreement with Ukraine as part of a “100-Year Partnership” that appears to pre-emptively undercut Trump's proposed $500-billion US deal. That lends credence to allegations about the UK's coveting minerals, as well as its not being interested in ending the tragic war.Gold: is it all there?The UK does have a thing for tangible assets, including gold. A lot of the world's gold (5000 metric tons) is supposedly held in secure custody in London. But there are fears that this may not physically be there in the vaults of the Bank of England any more. They may have indulged in ‘gold leasing', where the actual gold ends up being replaced by paper promises after it is lent out to bullion banks, from where it may be moved around and be inaccessibleExtraordinary delays in gold deliveries in 2025 (on withdrawals to New York triggered by tariff fears) increase this concern. There is a lack of transparency in transactions in the metal in the UK. Spooked, many countries are taking their gold back. India repatriated 200+ tons of its own gold from London in 2024. Venezuela is fighting a court battle to get its gold back.Then there are concerns raised by the arguably unfair freezing of Russian assets held abroad as part of Ukraine-war sanctions: Starmer recently promised to give Ukraine $2 billion, basically the interest generated by those assets. This doesn't sound quite right, and has dented the image of London as a reliable financial hub. Brexit was a blow; the rise of Dubai, Singapore, Shanghai and Zurich all threaten the City of London, but it is second only to New York, still.Imperial Fortresses galoreAnother win for the British was the selection of Mark Carney, a former Bank of England governor, as the Prime Minister of Canada. The Anglosphere continues to be dominated by the UK, although the Commonwealth is a club that serves no particular purpose any more, except as a curious relic of the British empire.This highlights the concept of ‘imperial fortresses': far-flung outposts that have helped sustain British military power and diplomatic clout despite the loss of empire. Traditionally, these were naval bases/garrisons such as those in Malta, Gibraltar, Bermuda, etc. that allowed Britain to keep an eye on the ‘restless natives'. However, I contend that the entire Anglosphere has been treated as imperial fortresses by them.Canada, Australia and New Zealand still continue to have the British King as their Head of State, which is astonishing for supposedly sovereign nations. But it's far more interesting that, in effect, the US has been treated as another vassal by the Brits, pillow-talked into doing things that are generally only in the interests of Britain. All that pomp and circumstance has beguiled poor Americans. Whitehall, I assert, have been Svengalis to Foggy Bottom.Master Blaster blowback?The other metaphor is from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), where "Master Blaster" is a literal duo: Master, a cunning dwarf, and Blaster, his brawny, enforcer bodyguard. The Americans unwittingly have provided the muscle to the calculating dwarf's machinations, which generally end up mostly benefiting the latterBut there is yet another imperial fortress that we should consider: Pakistan. It was created expressly to be a geographically well-placed client state for the Brits to continue their 19th century Great Game from afar to checkmate Russia, and incidentally to contain India. From that point of view, Pakistan has been a successful imperial outpost, notwithstanding the fact that it, despite decades of US largesse, is a failing state (see the Baloch train hijack recently).This is part of the reason why Americans have a hard time explaining why they get involved in Pakistan and Afghanistan again and again to their ultimate regret, with painful exits. They have been induced to do this by the clever Brits, who, quite evidently, sided with Muslims against Hindus in the sub-continent, for instance in the British-led merger of Gilgit-Baltistan into Pakistan, contrary to the Instrument of Accession.There is considerable irony in all this, because one could argue that Pakistani-origin Brits have now done a ‘reverse master-blaster' to the Brits. That sounds eerily like the ‘reverse-Kissinger' that Trump is supposed to be doing. Or maybe it is a ‘recursive master-blaster', although the mind boggles at that.Consider the facts: UK rape-gangs are almost entirely of Pakistani origin; several current mayors (including Sadiq Khan in London) and past mayors are of that ethnicity, indicating a powerful vote-bank; they have at least 15 MPs and a large number of councillors.There's Pakistani-origin Sir Mufti Hamid Patel, the chair of the Office of Standards in Education; Shabana Mahmood, the Justice Secretary; Humza Yusuf, the former First Minister of Scotland. This imperial fortress is fighting back, indeed, and winning. The UK may not have quite anticipated this outcome.The American vassal-state is also beginning to rebel. Trump was personally incensed by the fact that Starmer sent 50 Labor operatives to work against him in the 2024 US elections: their interactions have been a little frosty.Khalil, an embedded asset?Then there is the case of a current cause celebre in the US, Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian-born Algerian citizen of Palestinian descent. He has been accused of leading violent anti-Israel protests at Columbia University, and detained on that count. Interestingly, he had a security clearance from the UK, and was part of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, living in Beirut and leading a scholarship program for Syrians. Yes, Syria.And then Khalil suddenly showed up with a green card (not a student visa), got married to a US citizen named Noor Abdalla, finished his program at Columbia, and so on. To me, all this sounds like it was facilitated, and that he has certain powerful foreign friends. No prizes for guessing who they were.Iraq, Libya and Syria: Humanitarian crisesSpeaking of Syria, Whitehall spent at least 350 million pounds sterling between 2011 and 2024 in regime-change activities targeting the Assad government, according to Declassified UK.The UK's meddling in the Middle East, going back to the Sykes-Picot carving up of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, and mandates in Palestine and Iraq, and even earlier to the antics of T E Lawrence, was clearly intended to advance and sustain British interests in, and influence on, the region. Which is not unreasonable.The sad fact, though, is that it appears the British have actively fomented, or been deeply involved in, a lot of the military misadventures that have turned the region into a mess of human misery. To take relatively recent history, the invasions of Iraq, Libya, and now of Syria were arguably dreamt up or at least actively supported by Britain.The invasion of Iraq was certainly endorsed by Tony Blair's infamous September 2002 dossier about Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMD), which turned out to be imaginary, but then, lo! Saddam Hussein was overthrown and killed.The invasion of Libya saw Britain take on an even more active role. David Cameron and France's Nicolas Sarkozy in effect prodded a somewhat reluctant Barack Obama to invade, even co-drafting the UN Security Council Resolution 1973 in 2011 that was the formal permission for the war. The net result was the killing of Muammar Gaddafi.In the case of Syria, Britain began covert operations in 2012, with MI6 allegedly organizing arms shipments, training and coordination of groups opposed to the Assad regime. The sudden fall of Assad in December 2024, driven by groups like Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) that Britain indirectly supported, underscores the successful outcomes of this policy.In all three cases, a secular dictatorship was overthrown and religious extremists took over. Earlier, civilians had reasonably prosperous lives; women were generally educated and present in the workforce. After the regime changes, all three are bombed-out hellholes, with no rights for women or religious minorities. In particular, the latter have been consistently subjected to massacres, as in the recent large-scale executions of Alawites in Syria.Even though Americans were the principal players in all these cases, the impression is that British Whitehall's gaslighting of their US counterparts in Foggy Bottom could well have tipped the scales and turned skirmishes into outright war and disaster.Thus it is clear that Britain is still a formidable player in the world of international relations, despite the loss of empire and relative decline. It is unfortunate, however, that the net result of its actions is to add to entropy and chaos and the loss of human lives and rights. Perfidious Albion it still is.1950 words, Mar 16, 2025AI-generated podcast from NotebookLM.google.com: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com/subscribe

In times of conflict and protracted crises, social protection systems are often strained, yet they remain vital in supporting the most vulnerable populations. In this episode, we examine how gender-responsive social protection can mitigate the impact of crises on women, children, and other marginalised groups. This episode examines the specific vulnerabilities of women and marginalised groups in these settings, the ways social protection programs are adapting to complex and evolving challenges, and key lessons for sustaining and expanding social protection in fragile contexts. We also explore the case of Lebanon, a country facing a multifaceted socio-economic crisis, compounded by political instability, refugee influx, and conflict. This marks the first episode of our new three-part series on "Social Protection in Conflict and Protracted Crisis", produced by socialprotection.org in partnership with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, FCDO, which has funded the series and provided invaluable support in shaping the episodes and connecting us with guests. Meet our guests: Rachel Sabates-Wheeler – Professorial Research Fellow & Director of the Centre for Social Protection at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Rima Al-Mokdad – Technical Specialist on Social Protection, Data & Research at UN Women in Lebanon For our Quick Wins segment, we welcome Buumba Chityaba, a Human Rights Governance Specialist, to discuss the key takeaways from the recent Roadmap for the Use of Social Protection to Tackle Child Marriage in Zambia report.

Should Metro Vancouver Board cut its economic development office to save money? GUEST: Linda Buchanan, Chair of Invest Vancouver and Mayor of City of North Vancouver How hard will Trump's tariffs hit housing in B.C? GUEST: Brendon Ogmundson, Chief Economist, BC Real Estate Association Tighter rules and Trump's threats: The state of immigration in Canada  GUEST: Marc Miller, Federal Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rabbi Daniel Swartz, Spiritual Leader of Temple Hesed in Scranton, and Executive Director of the Coalition on the Environment & Jewish Life, speaking about the recent interfaith, climate-focused gathering in Italy under the aegis of Wilton Park, an Executive Agency of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, and the efforts to establish a lasting network to further work on behalf of the climate and environmental justice. www.coejl.org/

Author Christine Coulson spent twenty-five years writing for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her final project was to write wall labels for the museum's new British Galleries. During that time, she dreamt of using The Met's strict label format to describe people as intricate works of art. The result is this "jewel box of a novel" (Kirkus Reviews) that imagines a privileged 20th-century woman as an artifact--an object prized, collected, and critiqued. One Woman Show (Avid Reader Press, 2023) revolves around the life of Kitty Whitaker as she is defined by her potential for display and moved from collection to collection through multiple marriages. Coulson precisely distills each stage of this sprawling life, every brief snapshot in time a wry reflection on womanhood, ownership, value, and power. "A moving story of privilege, womanhood, and the sweep of the 20th century told through a single American life" (Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind), Kitty is an eccentric heroine who disrupts her porcelain life with both major force and minor transgressions. Described with poignancy and humor, Coulson's playful reversal on our interaction with art ultimately questions who really gets to tell our stories. Christine Coulson spent 25 years writing for The Metropolitan Museum of Art and left the museum as Senior Writer in 2019. She started at The Met in 1991 as a summer intern in the European Paintings Department and returned in 1994 to start her first job at the museum after graduate school. During her tenure, she rose through the ranks of the museum, working in the Development Office, the Director's Office, and the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts. In 2017, The Met gave Coulson a yearlong sabbatical to write Metropolitan Stories, her bestselling 2019 novel about the museum. Recommended Books: Katheryn Scanlan, Kick the Latch J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country Myra Coleman, Women Holding Things Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author Christine Coulson spent twenty-five years writing for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her final project was to write wall labels for the museum's new British Galleries. During that time, she dreamt of using The Met's strict label format to describe people as intricate works of art. The result is this "jewel box of a novel" (Kirkus Reviews) that imagines a privileged 20th-century woman as an artifact--an object prized, collected, and critiqued. One Woman Show (Avid Reader Press, 2023) revolves around the life of Kitty Whitaker as she is defined by her potential for display and moved from collection to collection through multiple marriages. Coulson precisely distills each stage of this sprawling life, every brief snapshot in time a wry reflection on womanhood, ownership, value, and power. "A moving story of privilege, womanhood, and the sweep of the 20th century told through a single American life" (Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind), Kitty is an eccentric heroine who disrupts her porcelain life with both major force and minor transgressions. Described with poignancy and humor, Coulson's playful reversal on our interaction with art ultimately questions who really gets to tell our stories. Christine Coulson spent 25 years writing for The Metropolitan Museum of Art and left the museum as Senior Writer in 2019. She started at The Met in 1991 as a summer intern in the European Paintings Department and returned in 1994 to start her first job at the museum after graduate school. During her tenure, she rose through the ranks of the museum, working in the Development Office, the Director's Office, and the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts. In 2017, The Met gave Coulson a yearlong sabbatical to write Metropolitan Stories, her bestselling 2019 novel about the museum. Recommended Books: Katheryn Scanlan, Kick the Latch J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country Myra Coleman, Women Holding Things Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Author Christine Coulson spent twenty-five years writing for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her final project was to write wall labels for the museum's new British Galleries. During that time, she dreamt of using The Met's strict label format to describe people as intricate works of art. The result is this "jewel box of a novel" (Kirkus Reviews) that imagines a privileged 20th-century woman as an artifact--an object prized, collected, and critiqued. One Woman Show (Avid Reader Press, 2023) revolves around the life of Kitty Whitaker as she is defined by her potential for display and moved from collection to collection through multiple marriages. Coulson precisely distills each stage of this sprawling life, every brief snapshot in time a wry reflection on womanhood, ownership, value, and power. "A moving story of privilege, womanhood, and the sweep of the 20th century told through a single American life" (Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind), Kitty is an eccentric heroine who disrupts her porcelain life with both major force and minor transgressions. Described with poignancy and humor, Coulson's playful reversal on our interaction with art ultimately questions who really gets to tell our stories. Christine Coulson spent 25 years writing for The Metropolitan Museum of Art and left the museum as Senior Writer in 2019. She started at The Met in 1991 as a summer intern in the European Paintings Department and returned in 1994 to start her first job at the museum after graduate school. During her tenure, she rose through the ranks of the museum, working in the Development Office, the Director's Office, and the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts. In 2017, The Met gave Coulson a yearlong sabbatical to write Metropolitan Stories, her bestselling 2019 novel about the museum. Recommended Books: Katheryn Scanlan, Kick the Latch J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country Myra Coleman, Women Holding Things Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Author Christine Coulson spent twenty-five years writing for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her final project was to write wall labels for the museum's new British Galleries. During that time, she dreamt of using The Met's strict label format to describe people as intricate works of art. The result is this "jewel box of a novel" (Kirkus Reviews) that imagines a privileged 20th-century woman as an artifact--an object prized, collected, and critiqued. One Woman Show (Avid Reader Press, 2023) revolves around the life of Kitty Whitaker as she is defined by her potential for display and moved from collection to collection through multiple marriages. Coulson precisely distills each stage of this sprawling life, every brief snapshot in time a wry reflection on womanhood, ownership, value, and power. "A moving story of privilege, womanhood, and the sweep of the 20th century told through a single American life" (Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind), Kitty is an eccentric heroine who disrupts her porcelain life with both major force and minor transgressions. Described with poignancy and humor, Coulson's playful reversal on our interaction with art ultimately questions who really gets to tell our stories. Christine Coulson spent 25 years writing for The Metropolitan Museum of Art and left the museum as Senior Writer in 2019. She started at The Met in 1991 as a summer intern in the European Paintings Department and returned in 1994 to start her first job at the museum after graduate school. During her tenure, she rose through the ranks of the museum, working in the Development Office, the Director's Office, and the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts. In 2017, The Met gave Coulson a yearlong sabbatical to write Metropolitan Stories, her bestselling 2019 novel about the museum. Recommended Books: Katheryn Scanlan, Kick the Latch J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country Myra Coleman, Women Holding Things Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/art

In this episode Ari sits down with Seth Wilks, Executive Director for the Office of Digital Assets Initiative at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to discuss Seth's path from guitar riffs to crypto tax policy. Seth talks about his journey from TaxBit to leading the IRS' work on digital assets including his partnership with TRM Talks alum Raj Mukherjee, their work on the recently published broker regulations and what comes next for non-custodial services. This TRM Talks totally rocked! Today's Guest Seth Wilks, Executive Director, Strategy & Development — Office of Digital Asset Initiative, IRS Host: Ari Redbord, Global Head of Policy, TRM Labs

In this revealing conversation with Alicia Kearns, Conservative MP for Rutland and Stamford and currently Shadow Minister for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Alicia shares insights from her journey into politics, discusses her work as an MP and provides an in-depth analysis of several pressing national and international issues.   Alicia discusses the ongoing learning process within the Conservative Party following their recent electoral defeat and the importance of returning to core values like ethics and competence.   Coming from a politically active, left-wing family, she explains her journey from being deeply influenced by Labour ideals to becoming a Conservative MP. She reflects on her background in the civil service, working in crisis communication, counter-terrorism, and national security before transitioning to politics.   Alicia provides a candid account of the demanding and often misunderstood role of an MP, including her weekly routine, the challenges of maintaining a work-life balance, and the impact of dealing with abuse and threats.We hear about local concerns such as the A1 road safety improvements and the controversial Mallard Pass solar farm proposal. She explains her stance on prioritising food security over using prime agricultural land for solar farms and the ethical implications involving companies accused of using forced labour.We learn about her perspective on current national issues including immigration, waterways and sewage and healthcare system reforms particularly in regard to her efforts to improve local healthcare services. With her background as Chair of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee up until the election, we explore the critical role of parliamentary scrutiny in shaping foreign policy in regard to China, war in Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war.We wind up with Alicia emphasising the need for public engagement and critical thinking, especially regarding national security, foreign policy, and complex international conflicts. She advocates for more open debate and education on these issues at all levels.Alicia Kearns provides an insightful look into her life as an MP, the challenges facing the Conservative Party, and the complex issues shaping the future of the UK and its global relationships. Her dedication to her constituents, commitment to ethical governance, and passion for robust foreign policy shine throughout the episode.Links:https://www.aliciakearns.com/about-alicia-kearnsCall to Action:If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform and share it with friends. Don't forget to subscribe to *Undercurrent Stories* for more insightful conversations with fascinating guests.Intro and outro music, 'Time for a Coffee'  Bob Wells © 2020Question or comment? Send us a text message.www.undercurrentstories.com

Luke Tunnecliffe is the Chief Content & Development Office at Jam TV and has co-created, produced and been a part of some incredible sport documentaries including 'Making Their Mark', 'The Recruit', 'Fearless' and 'Show me the Money'. He also spent eight years at Channel 9 producing live sport and has produced the beloved 'Rub' on Triple M for 21 years.  This episode is full of insight into a life in television, radio and overall sport broadcasting.  Luke's story is incredible. From walking into the Collingwood Football Club's Coaching box at just 17 years old, he was poached by Channel 9, Triple M and Jam TV...all without a university degree!  Throughout his career, he has produced some Australia's biggest sporting moments both on TV and radio and has led the way in creating behind the scenes sports documentaries that have been rarely created in this country.  We laugh at some of Triple M's funniest moments (including the famous Danny Frawley makeup scandal) as Luke gives us a behind the scenes glimpse of how the magic is brought to the airwaves.  He shares how these massive documentary productions are conceived, pitched and ultimately brought to our screens...you won't believe what is involved in some of them.  He shares his memories of "The Recruit" as well as "Making Their Mark" and the hurdles they had to overcome right in the thick of Covid.   But overall, this episode is a testament to why hard work pretty much trumps all else and why that without world class producers, we don't get world class product!  So get ready to peel back the curtain with the great, Luke Tunnecliffe!    This episode is brought to you by Fleet Plant Hire Solutions. Head to www.fph.com.au for all your earth moving needs!  Shop at Australia's number one golf superstore at www.golfbox.com.au    Follow us on Instagram @dosandd_ Follow us on TikTok @dosandd  Watch & Subscribe to our YouTube Channel here - Dos and D - YouTube Follow us on Facebook here - The Dos & D Show | Facebook  Questions & Enquiries - thedosanddshow@gmail.com  It would mean the world to us if you could follow, subscribe and leave a 5-star review on Spotify & Apple Podcasts. 

How is law understood and used by different actors during political transitions to achieve peace? In this episode, we speak with Professor Louise Mallinder, a Professor in the School of Law at Queen's University Belfast and Faculty Affiliate of the Pearson Institute. She has a longstanding and internationally recognized expertise in amnesty laws through extensive writing and the creation of the Amnesties, Conflict and Peace Database. She works as part of the Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform, led by the University of Edinburgh, and funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Professor Mallinder's teaching focuses on international human rights law, human rights practice, constitutional law, and transitional justice. We discuss how amnesties can be granted without compromising justice, the intersection of law with other disciplines in academia, and Professor Mallinder's perspectives at large on the field of transitional justice.This podcast is produced in partnership with the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts. For more information, please visit their website at ThePearsonInstitute.org Should you encounter any challenges with the audio quality, we invite you to follow along with the transcript provided for a seamless experience. You can access the transcript here. Podcast Production Credits:Interviewing: Isabella Pestana de Andrade do Nascimento, Natalia Zorrilla Ramos, and Hannah BalikciEditing: Nishita KarunProduction: Hannah Balikci

In this episode, Ceasar Cordon,  who heads the Outside Business Development Team for Fifth Gear Automotive, talks about why collaborating with dealerships and competing shops has boosted their new business revenue by nearly 50% ... and how it can do the same for your shop.

Hello, and welcome to episode 119 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I'm Chris Kirkbride. There has been an unusual uptick, certainly for the summer months, in financial crime news this week. On sanctions this week, the NCA secures its first sanctions-related forfeiture, and the EU and US have added to their designations. On bribery and corruption, the SFO in the UK has announced charges against five former executives of Glencore, and the High Court has some tough words regarding the behaviour of professionals and institutions in the ‘tuna bond' action brought by Mozambique. On fraud news, there's more Covid-19 recovery fund abuse from the US, and the imprisonment of a tech scammer. There is also a decent amount of market abuse news from the SEC in the US, and the Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong, and in other news, the NCA in the UK has announced a new data sharing scheme and the SFO has published its annual report and accounts. There is also a round-up of the cyber-attack news this week. As usual, I have linked the main stories flagged in the podcast in the description. These are: Cayman Islands, Beneficial Ownership Transparency Act 2023.Commodities and Futures Trading Commission's Office of Customer Education and Outreach, CFTC Warns Customers to Watch for Follow-on Frauds.Council of the European Union, Sanctions against terrorism: Council renews the EU Terrorist List and designates a new entity.Department of Justice, Caledonia man sentenced for COVID loan fraud.Department of Justice, KC Woman Pleads Guilty to $900,000 Covid Fraud Scheme.Department of Justice, United States v. Andrew Left.Department of Justice, Leader Of Tech Support Fraud Scheme Sentenced To Seven Years In Prison.Department of Justice, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco Delivers Remarks on New Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program.FinCEN, FinCEN Issues Notice to Financial Institution Customers on Beneficial Ownership Information Requirements.FinCEN, Notice to Customers: Beneficial Ownership Information Reference Guide.Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, The UK Sanctions List: Search Function.Information Commissioner's Office, Reprimand: The Electoral Commission.National Crime Agency, NCA recovers £780,000 in the first UK forfeiture of sanctioned funds.National Crime Agency, Ground breaking public private partnership launched to identify criminality using banking data.National Crime Agency, Cross-System Professional Enablers Strategy 2024-2026.National Crime Agency, NCA shuts down major fraud platform responsible for 1.8 million scam calls.Ocorian, Cayman Islands modernises beneficial ownership regime to align with global standards.Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, General Licence – Continuation of Business of Evraz Plc's North American Subsidiaries: INT/2022/1710676.Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Financial Sanctions Notice: Yemen.Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Guidance: OFSI General licence INT/2024/4919848.Office of Foreign Assets Control, Treasury Targets Iranian Missile and UAV Procurement Facilitators.Office of Foreign Assets Control, Treasury Targets Houthi Weapons Procurement Networks.Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC Charges Andrew Left and Citron Capital for $20 Million Fraud Scheme.Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC Charges Founder of Social Media Company “IRL” with $170 Million Fraud.Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong, Former banker ordered to disgorge $3 million illegal gains from insider dealing.Serious Fraud Office, Annual Report & Accounts 2023-24 (press release).Serious Fraud Office, Annual Report and Accounts 2023-2024.Serious Fraud Office, SFO charges five former Glencore employees.Spotlight on Corruption, New report finds UK's enforcement of sanctions is “all bark and no bite” (press release).Spotlight on Corruption, All Bark and No Bite: Taking Stock of the UK's Enforcement of Sanctions.UK government, National Crime Agency main estimate memorandum 2024 to 2025.UK judgments, The Republic of Mozambique v Credit Suisse International and Others [2024] EWHC 1957 (Comm).

The United Kingdom's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has informed all Overseas Territories Heads of Government that work on the UK/Overseas Territories strategy has been halted following the announcement of a general election in the UK, scheduled for 4 July 2024. The deferral of the strategy is pending the formation and direction of a new Government. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rcnews/message

Welcome to the daily304 – your window into Wonderful, Almost Heaven, West Virginia.   Today is Monday, May 6, 2024. Industry is thriving in Almost Heaven … Career opportunities are thriving at Jobcase WV … and Entrepreneurship Information Roundup is happening at the Development Office website. And now for the rest of the story on today's daily304… #1 – From WV DEVO – West Virginia's diverse economy has moved beyond our history of resource extraction to include a robust array of products and services. Learn about the key industries that have taken a foothold here, from aerospace to agriculture, and learn why leading companies make their home in the Mountain State. Learn more: https://westvirginia.gov/thriving-industries/   #2 – From JOBCASE WV – Learn more about the benefits of living and working in the Mountain State. You can also check out the awesome job opportunities available in the area in some of the hottest industries! Be sure to follow the Twitter hashtag #YesWV for even more trending information on jobs and growing industries in West Virginia. Explore all programs and resources here! Read more: https://www.jobcase.com/ru/West-Virginia   #3 – From WV.GOV – The West Virginia Entrepreneurship Ecosystem connects and identifies opportunities to help entrepreneurs across the state by fostering collaboration and sharing resources. Here in West Virginia, we are committed to helping entrepreneurs and small business owners reach their goals.  That's 150 service providers and 700 stakeholders working together to foster entrepreneurship in Almost Heaven, #YesWV. Learn more: https://westvirginia.gov/wv-entrepreneurship-ecosystem/ Find these stories and more at wv.gov/daily304. The daily304 curated news and information is brought to you by the West Virginia Department of Commerce: Sharing the wealth, beauty and opportunity in West Virginia with the world. Follow the daily304 on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @daily304. Or find us online at wv.gov and just click the daily304 logo.  That's all for now. Take care. Be safe. Get outside and enjoy all the opportunity West Virginia has to offer.

Mon, 06 May 2024 22:00:00 +0000 https://sustainable-forces-arup.podigee.io/12-new-episode e15aea090b63642a8a8dab444c792bfa Will clean transport work for everyone? In this episode of the Sustainable Forces Podcast, our host, Dr Michelle Dickinson, talks with Harriet Cooney and Maria Herdanti from the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, and Safiah Moore, our Cities, Planning, and Design Lead in Jakarta. They explore how to create a low-carbon and equitable transport future. Discussed in this episode: Indonesia UK-Pact: https://www.ukpact.co.uk/country-programme/indonesia https://www.ukpact.co.uk/arup-indonesia-project-description UK PACT Low Carbon Cities and Transport: Semarang, Indonesia https://www.arup.com/projects/uk-pact-low-carbon-cities-and-transport-indonesia Perceptions of Night-time Safety: Women and Girls: https://www.arup.com/projects/perceptions-of-night-time-safety-women-and-girls full no

‘We've got new legal powers which we will be using… but also the scale of how we're operating has, for OFSI at least, changed. Both in terms of the volume of self-disclosures and other intelligence we're getting from different sources… and secondly how capabilities at OFSI are changing and transforming.' -Giles Thomson on changes in the UK sanctions enforcement landscape In the latest episode of the Sanctions Space Podcast, Justine is joined by Giles Thomson, Director of the UK Office for Financial Sanctions Implementation. They discuss sanctions priorities for the UK government, the evolving enforcement landscape, and transatlantic cooperation between OFSI and OFAC Giles Thomson has been Director of the Office for Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) since November 2020. He is also the senior official in HM Treasury responsible for economic crime policy and is the UK's Head of Delegation to the Financial Action Task Force. He has been working on sanctions and economic crime within HM Treasury since 2016. Prior to that, Giles held a range of positions across HM Treasury and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

Welcome back to the Grey Dynamics Podcast! This week we are talking again to Gareth Westwood, Sibylline's head of global intelligence. Gareth is a highly experienced practitioner, having previously worked for the UK government in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, the Ministry of Defence and in the private sector with AstraZeneca. We talked about demystifying the private sector, implementing AI and machine learning into intelligence, what makes a great leader and much more.Find Gareth Westwood:LinkedInSibyllineWe Spoke About:0:35 - Response to the podcast2:07 - Gareth's background and demystifying the private sector5:20 - How Sibylline's team is set up and how private intelligence vendors and in-house teams work together13:53 - Data Analysis and AI, how Gareth's organisation implements it and what the future could look like24:02 - Strategies for fully understanding what the stakeholder wants to know and getting feedback37:31 - What makes a good intelligence and business leader?57:34 - What advice Gareth has for managers and leaders1:03:36 - The importance of one-to-ones with your staff1:08:23 - Is it healthy to create a competitive workplace with visible analytics based on performance?1:15:32 - Cultural recommendationsAdvance Your Intelligence Career Today!We are the first fully online intelligence school helping professionals to achieve their long term goals. Our school with tons of new material is currently under construction and will be out there very soon. Meanwhile, you can sign up and be the first to know when we launch, plus get exclusive tips and offers.Get access to exclusive Grey Dynamics ReportsWith security clearance, you can take a crucial role in our intelligence community. As a cleared member, you get access to secret & top secret grade publications. If you are a Top Secret holder, you also get access to our community area, where you can interact with other members and with our analysts! Subscribe today!The Grey Dynamics Podcast is available on all major platforms!Grey DynamicsYouTubeSpotifyApple Podcast Google PodcastAmazon Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we reported that at the Employees at the International Foundation for Electoral Systems — a 37-year-old pro-democracy organization based outside Washington, D.C. — employees formed a new staff union to confront their organization's president and CEO over labor rights. The issue is entangled within the wider debates of localization. While employees most certainly want to provide technical support to local partners, they do not believe that the process should undervalue the employees who provide it. At the end of last week, The Locally Led Development and Humanitarian Response Act was passed by the House Foreign Affairs Committee, legislation that would ease complexities in USAID's grantmaking process. While the bill still needs to clear the U.S. Senate, most seem hopeful it will do so. It is believed that the legislation would help USAID reach its localization targets, especially if it is passed before the U.S. general election in November. On the other side of the pond, a spending watchdog found that the creation of the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office has undermined the United Kingdom's ability to carry out aid work. The report also raises the alarm that "staff have experienced change fatigue and are unhappy that key issues such as terms and conditions and career pathways have yet to be resolved.” To dig into these stories, and others, Devex President and Editor-in-Chief Raj Kumar sits down with George Ingram and Fiona Zublin for the latest episode of the podcast series. Sign up to the Devex Newswire and our other newsletters: https://www.devex.com/account/newsletters

In this episode Nathan chats to Paul Eastwood, Head of Energy Systems Planning at OFGEM and the past Senior Climate and Energy Advisor at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Also joining the heat pump conversation is engineer Barry Sharpe from Renewable Heat  The discussion focuses on what an ideal customer journey is. Paul has had a heat pump system after Nathan recommended Barry to him. The episode questions if Paul's experience could have been better with the hope engineers may gain some useful insight. Topics covered are:Heat loss assessments and independent assessments.Securing quotes for heat pump installationsInstall optionsHeat pump controls and operationsHeat pump servicingWhy do heat pump installs cost more than boiler installationsThis was one of Nathan's favourite recordings and he would like to note that Paul is speaking in a personal capacity and not on behalf of any employer. Please enjoy the episode.Support the show

Welcome to the daily304 – your window into Wonderful, Almost Heaven, West Virginia.   Today is Thursday, March 14, 2024.  The WV School of Osteopathic Medicine graduates doctors in all specialities.. A $45,000 donation will bolster STEAM programming at the Ravenswood Innovation Center. And Berkeley County developers learn about the Build WV Act…on today's daily304. #1 – From BROOKEREVIEW – At its core, the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine has always been driven by one purpose — to educate students to pursue careers as primary care physicians in rural and underserved areas, especially in the Appalachian region.  That principle is part of the school's mission. But students who graduate from WVSOM are prepared for careers in all specialties. WVSOM's Class of 2023 had a 100 percent residency placement rate. While most of those graduates still sought primary care specialties — 59 percent of them chose family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics or internal medicine-pediatrics — non-primary care specialties such as emergency medicine and surgery also proved attractive to graduates. “Students come to WVSOM because they have a passion for the underserved, and they address underserved populations through various specialties,” said Abigail Frank, D.O., assistant dean for graduate medical education. “Many of our students are interested in primary care, and we also have students who are interested in surgery, anesthesia, radiology and emergency medicine. Then we have folks who go into internal medicine, which is primary care. Internal medicine also allows our alumni to go into fellowships like cardiology, nephrology or oncology.” Read more: https://www.brookereview.com/2024/03/03/primary-care-is-ingrained-in-wvsoms-mission-but-school-excels-at-preparing-students-for-any-specialty/  #2 – From WV PRESS – BHE Renewables Project has announced an investment in Jackson County's future. The foundation's $45,000 donation will bolster STEAM and technical programming through the district's new Ravenswood Innovation Center, according to Jackson County Schools Superintendent Will Hosaflook. “The BHE Foundation's generous investment in our Ravenswood Innovation Center echoes BHE Renewables' continued commitment and support of the communities in which they reside. This investment will help provide a path toward a better future for our students and in return will provide a better future for us all,” Hosaflook said. According to district officials, the Ravenswood Innovation Center will be the home of an engaging curriculum for students to harness their strengths of creativity, problem solving, and innovation while focusing on Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts/Agriculture, and Math.  Since launching the STEAM initiative this past year, Jackson County Schools has instructed over 400 students a week, grades second through eighth, in their current STEAM program. The program serves to provide a myriad of skills, including hands-on activities, that will prepare students for job-specific opportunities in our community, as well as the nation. Read more: https://wvpress.org/wvpa-sharing/bhe-foundation-invests-in-jackson-county-schools/   #3 – From MARTINSBURG JOURNAL-NEWS – A representative from the West Virginia Department of Economic Development shared information on the Build WV Act at the Berkeley County Development Authority's latest Lunch & Learn. Passed in 2022, the Build WV Act is geared to assist West Virginia's growing communities in attracting much-needed housing development projects, especially in the area of middle-income housing. The act offers a state sales and use tax exemption for building materials and a 10-year property value adjustment refundable tax credit to offset building costs. Meghan Smith, manager of business and industrial development for the Development Office, told the group gathered that a revision to the act allows up to $150 million in overall costs of projects in any given fiscal year. The state fiscal year runs from July to June, she clarified. Tax incentives for projects that get approval for the Build WV Act include sales tax exemptions for contractors, subcontractors and all others associated with the project; a property value adjustment credit against the individual and corporate income tax, set at one-tenth per year for 10 years; and a potential business and occupancy tax exemption where applicable. Read more: https://www.journal-news.net/journal-news/lunch-learn-provides-details-on-build-wv-act/article_91a19565-9c04-5d7f-8c84-675c832ead61.html   Find these stories and more at wv.gov/daily304. The daily304 curated news and information is brought to you by the West Virginia Department of Commerce: Sharing the wealth, beauty and opportunity in West Virginia with the world. Follow the daily304 on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @daily304. Or find us online at wv.gov and just click the daily304 logo.  That's all for now. Take care. Be safe. Get outside and enjoy all the opportunity West Virginia has to offer.  

În nici două luni de la resetarea calendarului s-au întâmplat deja atât de multe evenimente în tech cât pentru un an întreg. Fără îndoială că a fost un început de an agitat și nu credem că se va modifica ceva în această privință dat fiind mai ales profilul electoral pe care-l are 2024.  Dar pentru că s-au succedat atât de multe subiecte în primele 50 de zile ale anului - și aici amintim Apple Vision Pro, noul instrument A.I. al Open AI, SORA, care poate genera materiale video incredibile de realiste doar pe bază de text sau noua linie de dezvoltare de produse a Samsung care se bazează pe Inteligența Artificială - am decis că un subiect bun pentru această ediție ar fi să dezbatem trendurile tech - și nu numai - pentru 2024 care să merite atenția noastră.  La baza ediției de față, moderată de Marian Hurducaș, va sta studiul “trends for 2024” realizat de Social Innovation Solutions și care tratează arii precum: Viitorul societăților, și aici cred că vom sta puțin mai mult pentru că sunt două puncte de lucru care trebuie luate separat, și anume AI Risks Frameworks și De-Democratisation Robotică Business Mediu de lucru Treduri tech Agritech Healthcare Foodtech eSports Technology  Alături de Marian în studio se află Roxana Cojocaru, directorul executiv al Social Innovation Solutions.  Cine este Roxana Cojocaru Roxana construiește soluții educaționale de sustenabilitate. Are experiențe profesionale pe patru continente, în start-ups, mediul ONG, corporate și Organizația Europeană de Cercetare Nucleară.  A contribuit la înființarea departamentului Development Office al Organizației Europene pentru Cercetare Nucleară (CERN) și a avut roluri cheie în evenimente internaționale precum TEDxBucharest, TEDxCERN, IAA-Global Conference și Festivalul Awake. Este și Sustainability Manager pentru concertele Coldplay din România din iunie 2024 și Global Shapers Bucharest Hub Alumna, inițiativă a World Economic Forum. Social Innovation Solutions susține indivizi și organizații să înțeleagă transformările viitorului în România și Europa Centrală și de Est prin programe educaționale de sustenabilitate precum Academia de Sustenabilitate, Transformator, Climate Change Summit.   Ce este Social Innovation Solutions SIS organizează mai multe incubatoare și acceleratoare în România și Europa Centrală și de Est, lucrând cu câteva mii de IMM-uri și ONG-uri în fiecare an prin programe ca Academia de Sustenabilitate și Transformator. De asemenea, SIS dezvoltă mai multe platforme de conversații despre sustenabilite, trenduri de viitor și economie circulară ca Sustainable Futures sau Climate Change Summit și oferă consultanță și programe de executive education în foresight, inovație și sustenabilitate. SIS a câștigat marele premiu pentru promovarea spiritului antreprenorial din partea Comisiei Europene în cadrul evenimentului “Premiile pentru Promovarea Întreprinderilor Europene.  

Stefan Dercon is Professor of Economic Policy at Oxford University, where he also directs the Center for the Study of African Economics. The author of 5 books and many studies, Stefan has had a distinguished career as an academic and policy advisor on economic development. His accomplishments are many. To name just a few:  between 2011 and 2017, he was Chief Economist of the Department of International Development (DFID), the government department in charge with the UK's aid policy and spending; between 2020-2022, he was the Development Policy Advisor to successive Foreign Secretaries at the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Stefan is a virtuoso of development! His approach to our conversation was equal parts exciting and instructive, a style that also comes across in his writing, making his book very hard to put down. We start by learning about Stefan: his experience growing up in Belgium, being taught by Catholic priests about African socialism, Ujamaa and Julius Nyerere, and Marx and discovering his interest in economics as a means of pursuing development. His early career in Tanzania and Ethiopia highlighted the relationship between risk and poverty and the need to consider uncertainty when engaging in policy advice or research. We then shift to talking about the four propositions that compete as diagnoses of core problems of poverty and development that Stefan outlines in his book: poor initial endowments, market failures that trap the poor in poverty, market failures that are costly for poor countries, weak institutions. He gives us an overview and tells us why the propositions fall short on explaining the successes and failures of development. We also talk about the most important trends in development in recent decades: the dramatic decrease in poverty globally, the Africanization of poverty, and the increasing concentration of poverty in fragile states. The conversation then turns to the elites, what values drive them, and why would they gamble on a development bargain.  We talk about the role of natural resources, political systems, and how external actors can influence the emergence of development bargains. We also discuss the role of Western and Chinese elites in development bargains and what is good policy advice. ***** Stefan Dercon Website: https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/people/stefan-dercon X: https://twitter.com/gamblingondev LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/stefan-dercon-45927b104 ***** Mihaela Carstei, Paul M. Bisca, and Johan Bjurman Bergman co-host F-World: The Fragility Podcast.  X: https://twitter.com/fworldpodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fworldpodcast/ Website: https://f-world.org Music: "Tornado" by Wintergatan. This track can be downloaded for free at www.wintergatan.net. Video editing by: Alex Mitran - x.com/alexmmitran, linkedin.com/in/alexmmitran EPISODE RESOURCES Stefan Dercon, “Gambling on Development: Why some Countries Win and Others Lose,” Hurst, London, 2022. https://www.gamblingondevelopment.com TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:24 Stefan's background 00:02:49 Economics of poverty 00:04:16 Connection between risk & poverty 00:08:16 Brief overview of development thinking 00:14:57 Recent trends in development 00:19:55 The Africanization of poverty & What is fragility 00:25:39 The problem of fixed mental models of fragility 00:28:47 Who are the elites 00:41:11 The gambling in development bargains 00:47:24 What values drive the elites 00:54:25 Natural resource & political systems in dev. bargains 00:58:51 The role of Western & Chinese elites in dev. bargains 01:09:14 Are the elite bargains in the West still dev. bargains 01:19:09 Citizens' role in dev. bargains 01:29:22 External actors & the emergence of dev. bargains 01:41:28 “Peace is ugly” – can international institutions accept it 01:51:20 Development is 50% history & 50% agency 02:00:40 Private sector role in the dev. bargain 02:09:48 What is good policy advice 02:19:56 Wrap-up

Chris Rauh is a Professor of Economics and Data Science at the University of Cambridge. He works with complex datasets and applied methodologies, including machine learning and structural modelling. He co-founded conflictforecast.org and has conducted projects for Britain's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, the German Foreign Office, and the IMF. He's also listed amongst the top 1% of Economists in terms of research output in the last ten years. This episode's podcast covers: the hard problem of predicting conflicts, defining conflicts: wars, civil wars, terrorism, whether the theory of conflict match reality, and much more.    Follow us here for more amazing insights: https://macrohive.com/home-prime/ https://twitter.com/Macro_Hive https://www.linkedin.com/company/macro-hive

This episode of Global Dispatches was recorded as a live taping of the podcast, produced in partnership with CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food-secure future dedicated to transforming food, land, and water systems in a climate crisis. Global Dispatches and CGIAR are partnering on a series of episodes about the nexus between climate and security. In our conversation today expert panelists discuss the path to resilient societies in a polycrisis era and soft launch CGIAR's new Climate Security Sensitivity Tool to assess the peace potential of climate adaptation The episode kicks off with some opening remarks from, Peter Laderach, Co-lead CGIAR Climate Security, Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT  I then moderate a panel discussion featuring : Carolina Sarzana – Climate Security Specialist with CGIAR, the Alliance of Bioveristy and CIAT  Linda Ogallo – Climate Change Adaptation Expert at the Climate Prediction and Applications Centre, Intergovernmental Authority on Development Suzanna Huber -- Climate and Energy Advisor World Food Programme, Regional Bureau Eastern Africa Erick Mariga -- Regional Fragility and Resilience Coordinator, at the Africa Development Bank Group Mana Farooghi -- Climate and Environment Adviser at the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office  

Dr Kapila has extensive experience in global and public health,  international development, humanitarian affairs, conflict and security issues, human rights, diplomacy, and social entrepreneurship, with substantive leadership roles in government, United Nations system and multilateral agencies, International Red Cross and Red Crescent, civil society, and academia. His work has taken him to some 120 countries in all continents. Originally schooled in India and England, Dr Kapila graduated in medicine from the University of Oxford and received postgraduate qualifications in public health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.   Since 2012, Dr Kapila has been the Professor (now Emeritus) of Global Health & Humanitarian Affairs at the University of Manchester, UK, where he also founded and chaired the Manchester Global Foundation.  Since 2020, he is also Senior Adviser to the Parliamentary Assembly for the Mediterranean, the principal forum for 29 national parliaments of the Euro-Mediterranean region, deliberating on the creation of the best political, social, economic and cultural environment for fellow citizens of member states. He also serves as an adviser on several international bodies, including on the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Antimicrobial Resistance for the World Health Organization. After an initial clinical career (1980-1984) in hospitals and general practice in Cambridge,  and then in public health (1984-1990), including initiating and leading the first National UK HIV/AIDS Programme, Dr Kapila joined what is now called the UK Government's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in 1990 where he oversaw British aid health programmes in Asia and Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, followed by a spell based in Central and Southern Africa.   Dr Kapila was seconded by the UK Government to the United Nations in 2002-03, initially as Special Adviser to the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Afghanistan and then to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva.  He then became the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Co-ordinator for Sudan (2003-04), leading what was, at the time, the UN's biggest operation in the world. In 2004, he arrived at the headquarters of the World Health Organization in Geneva as Director of Emergency Response, handling major operations such as the Indian Ocean Tsunami.   In 2006, he joined the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies,  the world's largest humanitarian and development network serving in different roles such as Special Representative of the Secretary General, Director of Policy and Planning, and finally as Undersecretary General where he oversaw several transformations and strategic interventions to scale-up programming.   Dr Kapila has also served in many policy advisory roles, conducted strategic reviews and formulated new programmes with several other international agencies such as the World Bank, UNAIDS, International Labour Organization, UN OCHA and ISDR, as well as served on the Boards of the UN Institute for Training and Research, the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, and the International Peace Academy. He was an early member of the UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination System.    He returned to the United Nations in 2015-2016 to serve as Special Adviser for the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, and then in 2018-2019 to found and direct the innovative Defeat-NCD Partnership at the UN.     Additionally, he has been active in several civil society groups including chairing the Council of Minority Rights Group International, and chairing the Board of Nonviolent Peaceforce that was nominated for the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize. He has initiated new initiatives on sexual and gender based violence and, as Special Representative of the Aegis Trust,  on the prevention of genocide and other crimes against humanity.  These came out of his personal experiences in witnessing, at first hand, the genocidal atrocities in Rwanda, Srebrenica, and Darfur. Dr Kapila has been a public motivational  and keynote speaker at numerous events including at TedX, and delivered in Nairobi in 2013, the memorial lecture in honour of Nobel Prize winning environmental activist Wangari Maathai.  He has written extensively and served on editorial boards of several publications such as Global Governance and the International Journal of Humanitarian Studies. His memoir “Against a Tide of Evil” was nominated for the 2013 Best Non-Fiction Book award by the Crime Writers Association. His latest book (2019) is entitled “No Stranger to Kindness”.  Some of his other writings can be accessed on his website.   www.mukeshkapila.org Twitter @mukeshkapila

This episode is a recording of a panel conversation that took place at the University of Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government during the RISE Annual Conference in September 2023. For the purposes of clarity and length, this podcast is an edited version of the conversation.The panel featured Nompumelelo Mohohlwane from the Department of Basic Education in South Africa; Rachel Hinton from the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; and former RISE Research Director, Lant Pritchett. This conversation was moderated by Laura Savage from the International Education Funders Group.The panel looks back at the questions that existed at the start of RISE and whether enough has been learnt ten years later. They reflect on the difference between the motivating questions for RISE and the What Works Hub for Global Education. They go on to debate what commitment to learning really means and what cultural shifts are needed for it to materialise, and connected to this, what implementation science really means. The conversation ends with a reflection on the meaning of the thematic shift from systems to implementation. LinksNompumelelo Mohohlwane (webpage)Rachel Hinton (webpage)Lant Pritchett (webpage)Laura Savage (webpage)Contract teachers – Why do they work in an NGO setting but not with government? (journal article) South Africa Department of Basic Education Research Agenda, 2019 – 2023 (report)South Africa's 5-year NDP “Medium-Term Strategic Framework 2019 – 2024” (report)South Africa's Presidential Youth Employment Initiative (report)Rewriting the Grammar of the Education System: Delhi's Education Reform (A Tale of Creative Resistance and Creative Disruption) (book)State of education research (slide in video)Smart Buys Report 2023 (report)The RISE Podcast: Denis Mizne on Transforming Brazil's Education System to Deliver Learning (podcast)World Development Report 2018 (report)Applying

'Tis the season to give, and American India Foundation's NY-based CEO Nishant Pandey and Chief Development Officer Kalpana Kanthan are with That Desi Spark this week to discuss the outcomes for over 17 million people this non-profit has impacted, the social programs it innovates, women in non-profit leadership, and why we all have a stake in shaping the future of our homelands across South Asia!Learn more about the American India Foundation's programs, follow them on Instagram, and visit on LinkedIn! Want to donate to the Light a LAMP Campaign? Do it here!Follow TDS on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, and catch up with the hosts, Annika and Nehal, on their personals. Until next time, keep lighting that Desi spark!

Today I have got the honor of talking to Dr. Mukesh Kapila about the Israel-Hamas war and the wider situation within the Middle East.  Dr Kapila has extensive experience in global and public health,  international development, humanitarian affairs, conflict and security issues, human rights, diplomacy, and social entrepreneurship, with substantive leadership roles in government, United Nations system and multilateral agencies, International Red Cross and Red Crescent, civil society, and academia. His work has taken him to some 120 countries in all continents. Originally schooled in India and England, Dr Kapila graduated in medicine from the University of Oxford and received postgraduate qualifications  in public health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.   Since 2012, Dr Kapila has been the Professor (now Emeritus) of Global Health & Humanitarian Affairs at the University of Manchester, UK where he also founded and chaired the Manchester Global Foundation.  Since 2020, he is also Senior Adviser to the Parliamentary Assembly for the Mediterranean, the principal forum for 29 national parliaments of the Euro-Mediterranean region deliberating on the creation of the best political, social, economic and cultural environment for fellow citizens of member states. He also serves as adviser on several international bodies including on the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Antimicrobial Resistance for the World Health Organization. After an initial clinical career (1980-1984) in hospitals and general practice in Cambridge,  and then in public health (1984-1990) including initiating and leading the first National UK HIV/AIDS Programme, Dr Kapila joined what is now called the UK Government's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in 1990 where he oversaw British aid health programmes in Asia and Pacific, Latin America and Caribbean, followed by a spell based in Central and Southern Africa.   Dr Kapila was seconded by the UK Government to the United Nations in 2002-03 initially as Special Adviser to the UN Special Representative of the Secretary General in Afghanistan and then to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva.  He then became the United Nations' Resident and Humanitarian Co-ordinator for Sudan (2003-04) leading what was at the time, the UN's biggest operation in the world.  in 2004, he arrived at the headquarters of the World Health Organization in Geneva as Director for Emergency Response handling major operations such as for the Indian Ocean Tsunami.   In 2006, he joined the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies,  the world's largest humanitarian and development network serving in different roles such as Special Representative of the Secretary General, Director of Policy and Planning, and finally as Undersecretary General where he oversaw several transformations and strategic interventions to scale-up programming.   Dr Kapila has also served in many policy advisory roles, conducted strategic reviews and formulated new programmes with several other international agencies such as the World Bank, UNAIDS, International Labour Organization, UN OCHA and ISDR, as well as served on the Boards of the UN Institute for Training and Research, the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, and  the International Peace Academy. He was an early member of the UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination System.    He returned to the United Nations in 2015-2016 to serve as Special Adviser for the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, and then in 2018-2019 to found and direct the innovative Defeat-NCD Partnership at the UN.     Additionally, he has been active in several civil society groups including chairing the Council of Minority Rights Group International, and chairing the Board of Nonviolent Peaceforce that was nominated for the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize. He has initiated new initiatives on sexual and gender based violence and, as Special Representative of the Aegis Trust,  on the prevention of genocide and other crimes against humanity.  These came out of his personal experiences in witnessing, at first hand, the genocidal atrocities in Rwanda, Srebrenica, and Darfur. Dr Kapila has been a public motivational  and keynote speaker at numerous events including at TedX, and delivered in Nairobi in 2013, the memorial lecture in honour of Nobel Prize winning environmental activist Wangari Maathai.  He has written extensively and served on editorial boards of several publications such as Global Governance and the International Journal of Humanitarian Studies. His memoir “Against a Tide of Evil” was nominated for the 2013 Best Non-Fiction Book award by the Crime Writers Association. His latest book (2019) is entitled “No Stranger to Kindness”.  Some of his other writings can be accessed on his website.   www.mukeshkapila.org Twitter @mukeshkapila

Hannes Mueller is a tenured researcher at the Institute for Economic Analysis, a researcher center of the Spanish National Research Council. He also directs the master's program in Data Science for Decision Making at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. Most recently, his research focus has been on how conflict can be predicted using millions of newspaper articles – a project which drives the conflictforecast.org website. This research project has become a key resource for global work on conflict prevention and has led to collaborations with the Spanish Central Bank, the German Federal Foreign Office, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, the UN, World Bank, and many others. This conversation was a tour de force and covered a lot of topics: from taxes and trust, to fiscal capacity as a dimension of state capacity, to fragility and the macroeconomic implications of violent conflict, to forecasting conflict using machine learning and implications for policy makers. Hannes gives us a live demonstration of conflictforecast.org and if you're interested in how AI can help us forecast conflict then this is the conversation for you! ***** Hannes Mueller Website: https://www.hannesfelixmueller.com Conflict forecast: https://conflictforecast.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannes-mueller-research/ ***** Mihaela Carstei, Paul M. Bisca, and Johan Bjurman Bergman co-host F-World: The Fragility Podcast.  X: https://twitter.com/fworldpodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fworldpodcast/ Website: https://f-world.org Music: "Tornado" by Wintergatan. This track can be downloaded for free at www.wintergatan.net. Video editing by: Alex Mitran - find Alex on Facebook (facebook.com/alexmmitran), X (x.com/alexmmitran), or LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/alexmmitran) EPISODE RESOURCES Timothy Besley and Hannes Mueller. 2012. Estimating the Peace Dividend: The Impact of Violence on House Prices in Northern Ireland. American Economic Review. Timothy Besley, Hannes Mueller, Fiscal Capacity and State Fragility In: Macroeconomic Policy in Fragile States. Eds: Ralph Chami, Raphael Espinoza, and Peter Montiel, Oxford University Press (2021). International Monetary Fund. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198853091.003.0009 Hannes Mueller, Christopher Rauh, The Hard Problem of Prediction for Conflict Prevention, Journal of the European Economic Association, Volume 20, Issue 6, December 2022 Hannes Mueller, Christopher Rauh, & Alessandro Ruggieri. 2022. Dynamic Early Warning and Action Model, Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 2236. TIMESTAMPS (00:00:00) Introduction (00:01:17) Hannes's background (00:03:26) Shock therapy in Poland vs. Russia (00:05:42) How Hannes's interest in politics shapes his research (00:09:09) Institution formation, fragility, & fiscal capacity (00:16:05) Trust, taxation, & public services (00:22:06) What is fragility (00:29:32) Relationship between fragility & violent conflict (00:33:11) Macroeconomic implications of conflict (00:37:21) Does conflict always lead to fragility (00:41:21) Forecasting fragility vs causal understanding (00:43:42) Human factors & forecasting fragility (00:50:42) Prevention & forecasting (00:55:09) Why is conflict prediction a hard problem (00:58:19) Machine learning for conflict prevention (01:03:21) What is a good model for conflict prevention? (01:11:05) Text availability by language for training the model (01:15:54) Conflictforecast.org demo (01:25:31) What can you ask the model & what you shouldn't ask (01:37:47) How can the model inform policy action & prevention (01:44:36) How can conflictforecast.org augment human decision making (01:49:51) The role of stabilizing factors in cross country comparisons (01:54:22) Hannes's data wish list (02:01:26) Do LLMs like ChatGPT impact the model's performance (02:04:37) Is there a role for sentiment analysis (02:08:45) Future research goals (02:13:08) Institutional myopia (02:15:27) Should we bring back salons (02:19:15) Wrap-up

John Adams, former Deputy Director for Digital and Data Services with the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, speaks with Roderick Besseling, Head of the Data and Analytics Unit at the Norwegian Refugee Council, about open data sharing frameworks used by humanitarian and international development organizations and their importance in the AI age. John and Roderick discuss in detail why transparency and open data sharing matters to the humanitarian community, different open data sharing frameworks, John's involvement in helping lead and grow the the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) and IATI's emergence as a valuable source of information for artificial intelligent applications. John and Roderick also mention NetHope's upcoming Global Summit and the importance of data standards to work around climate change. Joining the discussion, Brent Phillips added insight on IATI and uses of IATI by AI applications.

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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Why we didn't get a malaria vaccine sooner, and what we can do better next time, published by salonium on September 7, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This is a long (>9000 word) essay written by myself (Saloni Dattani), Rachel Glennerster and Siddhartha Haria for Works in Progress. Over half a million people die from malaria each year, but it took 141 years to develop a vaccine for it. One fundamental reason for this was the scientific complexity of the pathogen - malaria is caused by a parasite, not a virus or bacteria. But another, repeated obstacle was a lack of financial incentive and urgency. In this piece, which includes a lot of data and charts, we tell the story of how the malaria vaccine was developed, why the financial market for the vaccine was missing, and how it could have been sped up with smarter incentives and market mechanisms, like Advance Market Commitments. About the authors: Saloni Dattani - I'm a researcher on global health at Our World in Data and a founding editor of Works in Progress Rachel Glennerster is associate professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. She was previously chief economist at the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office and the Department for International Development and a key figure behind 'Deworm the World'. Siddhartha Haria is policy lead at the Development Innovation Lab. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org

Published: November 03, 2019 Today we finish our coverage of the 2019 International Catholic Stewardship Conference with an interview with Msgr. John J. Bracken. Msgr. Bracken stopped by our booth at ICSC this year, and we had a terrific impromptu interview about his life as a priest and his career not only as the Vicar General for the Diocese of Brooklyn but also as the very first Director of Development. He has been a priest in the Diocese of Brooklyn for over 52 years. Msgr. Bracken is a bit of a legend because he literally created the job of a Development Director right at the time in history when the Bishop's pastoral document, Stewardship: A Disciples Response, was published. Monsignor talks about his career, his calling, and the nature of Stewardship. Please enjoy this interview with our host, Jim Friend. About Msgr. John J. Bracken A native of Richmond Hill, he attended St. Benedict Joseph School; Cathedral College, Brooklyn; St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore; and St. Louis University. He served as an assistant at St. Francis de Sales, Belle Harbor, 1967-77. Msgr. also served at St. Teresa, Woodside, 1977-80; and Our Lady Help of Christians, Midwood, 1980-84. He was the Episcopal Vicar for Queens North, 1984-91; and director of the diocesan Development Office, 1991-2009. He was named Vicar General for Temporalities in 2004. In addition, he has been the administrator of Holy Name parish, Windsor Terrace, 2009-10. Msgr. Bracken was the administrator of Our Lady Help of Christians and administrator of St. Mary Star of the Sea-St. Gertrude. He also served as a member of the Priests Senate and a member of the Diocesan Board of Consultors. He was on the board of directors for the Office of Pastoral Communications at St. Joseph's Hospital. Daily Spiritual Reflection and Prayers on “Kristin's Crosses” Join Jim and Kristin Friend and their family on Kristin's Crosses YouTube Channel for “Today's Catholic Prayers.” Jim and Kristin offer the daily Gospel and Reflection along with the Rosary and Catholic Prayers of the day. Click here to visit the YouTube Page and subscribe. If you would like to join the Kristin's Crosses prayer group on Facebook, click here to request to join.

In questo episodio parleremo di Smart cities e dell'esperienza dei comuni della città metropolitana di Milano insieme a WINDTRE nel percorso di evoluzione tecnologica delle città. Le innovazioni tecnologiche rappresentano uno dei principali fattori abilitanti per rendere una città “intelligente”. Il primo cardine su cui si fonda la realizzazione di una smart city e che abilita l'utilizzo di tutte le nuove tecnologie, sono le reti di telecomunicazioni. In particolare, nell'ottica dello sviluppo dei servizi innovativi giocheranno un ruolo di primaria importanza le reti mobili di quinta generazione. La città del futuro presente nell'immaginario comune è forse più vicina di quanto si pensi, e sta evolvendo fortemente, specie per i comuni di grandi dimensioni, in termini di sviluppo e fornitura di servizi digitali avanzati.Le città più avanguardistiche si stanno dotando di sensori per i parcheggi, telecamere per il people counting, sistemi di illuminazione intelligente.In alcuni Comuni italiani sono anche stati già avviati, o conclusi, progetti per la realizzazione delle smart control room che consentono di monitorare la presenza di persone sul territorio e i loro spostamenti, lo stato del traffico e dell'illuminazione, la qualità̀ dell'aria e altro ancora.Ma la creazione di un ecosistema smart city non può passare esclusivamente attraverso azioni operate dall'autorità pubblica: occorre uno spirito di collaborazione che possa coinvolgere organizzazioni private e cittadinanza. Sentiamo dalla voce di Stefania Matrone, Direttrice Transformation & Development Office di WINDTRE, come un operatore può assistere le amministrazioni locali.In questo episodio ascolterete i contributi di:Stefania Matrone, Direttrice Transformation & Development Office di WINDTRE, Luca Cardone, Responsabile 5G & Corporate Solutions di WINDTRE, Luca Nuvoli Vice Sindaco di Arese, Luca Mario Elia Sindaco di Baranzate, Francesco Vassallo Sindaco di Bollate e Andrea Orlandi Sindaco di Rho.

In the wake of a devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria, Andrew Mitchell, Minister of State in the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, joins Nick to explain exactly what aid is needed and how we can get it out there. PLUS ahead of the sentencing of former met police officer and serial rapist David Carrick, Nick asks: what would it take to restore your faith in the met.

More listener questions! Today, Bryan and Greg answer: How do you know if it's time to expand your development office? Is it time to hire an outside company or more personnel? What should you look for in an organization before entering into development with them?

What would it take to show and give your absolute best at work? Even having to ask the question suggests there's something amiss. Perhaps it's because we've been told what we're not good at that we've forgotten what we are good at. Or we've been wearing a mask for so long that it's all become part of a performance. Andy Woodfield has spent his career trying to figure out the uniqueness and the dreams of the people he works with. That curiosity leads to powerful human connection, and a conversation about what they can do together. The foundation of exceptional teamwork and performance.Building this culture of inclusion and belonging is not for the faint-hearted. It's really hard work. Even harder if you have to come out every week as a partner who happens to be gay. In this podcast, Andy shares his own story of coming out, figuring out his own uniqueness and his place. He describes his ways of discovering the best in other people, methods that have become movements.This episode is for anyone who is looking to take their performance to the next level, who may feel like they're not giving their best at work, or who wants to get the best out of their team.About Andy: Andy is the Global International Development Leader at PwC, Global Client Partner for the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office, Partner sponsor for the Alumni Network, the Leadership Exchange, and the Shine network (LGBTQ+), and the Founder of Liliput Gin.He undertook a two year cycle of experience as the Chief Sales and Marketing Officer for PwC UK, transforming the firm's sales, marketing and client experience capabilities to bring the firm's people closer to their clients. He was also a 2020 Finalist for the MCA Outstanding Achievement Award. Resources:Website: https://www.andywoodfield.com/ Book (This is your moment): andywoodfield.com/book My resources:Sign up to my Strategic Leader newsletter (http://bit.ly/36WRpri) for stimuli, ideas, guidance and tips on how to lead your team, organisation or self more effectively, delivered straight to your inbox:  If you're not subscribed already do subscribe to my youtube channel (http://bit.ly/3cFGk1k) where you can watch the conversation.Take the Extraordinary Essentials test (https://bit.ly/3EhSKY5) to identify your strengths and development areas.For more details about me:★Services (https://bit.ly/373jctk) to CEOs, entrepreneurs and professionals.★About me (https://bit.ly/3LFsfiO) - my background, experience and philosophy.★Examples of my writing (https://bit.ly/3O7jkc7).★Follow me and engage with me on LinkedIn (https://bit.ly/2Z2PexP)★Follow me and engage with me on Twitter (https://bit.ly/36XavNI).My equipment:★ Shure SM7B Vocal Dynamic Microphone: https://amzn.to/3AB9Xfz★ Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 3rd Gen USB Audio Interface : https://amzn.to/3AFeA8u★ 2M XLR Cable: https://amzn.to/3GGxkbf★ Logitech Brio Stream webcam. https://amzn.to/3EsWt6C★ Elgato Key Light: https://amzn.to/3Xhiqyh★ Elgato Light Strip: https://amzn.to/3gyZF8P★ Riverside.fm for recording podcasts. bit.ly/3AEQScl ★ Buzzsprout Podcasting Hosting gets (listing podcasts on every major podcast platform along with listening analytics. bit.ly/3EBPNTX[These are affiliate links so I receive a modest commission if you buy them.]

ANGELO ELLERBEE: From humble beginnings with a family of 7, raised by his mother in Newark, New Jersey, who had a strict work ethic, went to work at the age of 9, and by the age of 18 he became the Office Manager for the Mayor of Newark's Policy & Development Office. Angelo then worked as a model in Paris at the age of 19 for 2 years. Later, he launched his clothing line "De Angelo's" which hit major department stores nationally, from Bergdorfs to Macy's and as a multi-tasker, also hosted his show “Ellerbee's Eye on Fashion'. In 1985 Angelo founded Double XXposure Public Relations after his entry into the world of publicity relations and artist relations via his mentor JamesMtume, super producer and jazz impresario, who he soon managed and quickly afterward was working with legends such as: Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Dionne Warwick, Roberta Flack, reggae giants Shabba Ranks and Patra, while also shaping the careers of supermodels and burgeoning business titans and industry leaders, via his finishing school mode of operation, teaching education first, then entertainment, pulling attention to the business of show. Serving as Senior VP of Publicity for Island Def Jam Records, he brought Druhill, the R&B supergroup, Ronald Isley, of the legendary Isley Brothers, superstar Karen Clark Sheard and rap icon, DMX, to prominence. Angelo collected more than 22 million in global record sales for DMX, when he took the helm of DMX's career as President and General Manager of Bloodline Records. Always busy, he wrote 3 best-selling books, WHAT'S YOUR EXCUSE?; ASK ANGELO-45 Years of Industry Excellence and THE SENSE OF SUCCESS. Presently, Angelo is partnering with BET Networks to produce four shows: Harlem Hall of Fame, which will honor and celebrate Billy Dee Williams, Congressman Charles Rangell, Leslie Uggams, fashion maverick Audrey Smaltz and producer/recording artist/fashion mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs. Angelo's advocacy lies with the LGBTQ community, having served as Chairman of the Board of NYC's Gay Men of African Descent (GMAD), hosting fundraiser shows to combat the global issue of HIV/AIDS; working with Unity Felllowship Church Movement on their 35th Anniversary Gala under the leadership of Archbishop Carl Bean, who recorded “Born This Way” during his own stellar career at Motown Records. He has been called the Sultan of Swag; The Henry Higgins of Hip Hop, The Angel of Artist Development, The Public Relations Maverick, but he sees himself as simply a man who has a great work ethic, who has lived his life following his mother's mantra of growing from great to greatest, and helping others to realize theirs as well, staying steeped in his faith. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ozzie-stewart/support

On this episode of Catholic Forum, after a news update from The Dialog, we will talk with Andy Cooney, one of the famous New York Tenors, and Sheila McGirl, the Director of the Development Office of the Diocese of Wilmington, about the upcoming Magic of Christmas concert that the Tenors are giving in Wilmington on December 11, 2022 to benefit Catholic Charities. We will learn about the three talented men who make up the New York Tenors -  Andy Cooney, Daniel Rodriguez, and Christopher Macchio - sample some of their music, and find out how you can get tickets to this enjoyable event that will benefit the work of Catholic Charities. 

Suzanne and Ruth are joined by Julie and Joseph from Stars of Myanmar Friendship Club (SMFC). SMFC is run by a group of people in the UK with strong ties to Myanmar. The club focuses on supporting people in Myanmar through various means, including awareness campaigns, humanitarian aid, and providing financial assistance to those suffering under the illegal rule of the tyrannical military junta. Since the February 1st 2021 military coup, SMFC have carried out multiple fundraising campaigns which have sent money to those involved in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), for direct food assistance and for the purchasing of oxygen supplies when Covid-19 was at its worst in Myanmar. The group has also organised several photography exhibitions across the UK to raise money and increase the awareness of what is happening in Myanmar. At present SMFC have been leading the Four4Freedom Campaign in front of the British Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office to urge the UK government to immediately expel the Myanmar Military Attaché, in collaboration with Myanmar Unity Movement. Here Julie & Joseph talk about the Four4Freedom Campaign, their respective routes to joining Stars of Myanmar Friendship Club, and the ongoing struggle for those who support Myanmar, both in and outside of the country.The ah nah: Conversations with Myanmar podcast was born from a desire to bring into public consciousness the atrocities that are currently being committed in Myanmar (also known as Burma). Our goal is simply to keep the conversation going, and to let the people of Myanmar know that they have not been forgotten. You can continue to support the people of Myanmar by keeping this conversation going. You can subscribe to this podcast on all major podcasting apps, including Apple, Spotify and Acast. You can also follow us on all our social media pages, linked below. If you'd like to reach out, please email us or fill out this form to add your voice to the conversation (https://tinyurl.com/3ee7ssm9).Credits:Song: Kabar Makyay Bu (Until the End of the World), was written and recorded by Naing Myanmar, it became the revolutionary anthem of the 1988 pro-democracy movement and could be heard once again all over Myanmar during the 2021 Coup. Naing Myanmar maintains that the song is no longer his, since the '88 uprising “it belongs to everyone”.Graphics: SelinaXinSound Effects: https://mixkit.co*Special thanks to Julie & Joseph and the entire team behind Stars of Myanmar Friendship Club, who continue to dedicate their time and resources to fight for justice for the people of Myanmar. We are so grateful to Julie & Joseph for adding their voice to the conversation, you can find our more about Stars of Myanmar Friendship Club and the Four4Freedom Campaign on facebook: @starsofmyanmarfriendshpFollow ah nah:instagram.com/ahnahpodcastfacebook.com/ahnahpodcasttwitter.com/ahnahpodcastThanks for listening, and remember to #KeepTheConversationGoing! Myanmar, we have not forgotten you.Follow us at @ahnahpodcast on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The COVID-19 crisis forced school closures in 188 countries, disrupting the learning process of more than 1.7 billion children, youth, and their families. This had immediate short-term temporary learning loss effects. However, long-term impacts like curbed educational aspirations and disengagement from the school system may be irreversible. This podcast episode deep dives into these adverse consequences and mitigation strategies as schools re-open.  Our host Nikunj Agarwal is joined in this episode by two experts who share their insights on the impact of COVID-19 on education and what needs to be done to alleviate its impact. Dr. Rachel Hinton outlines the short-term and long-term impact on students, particularly from the marginalised backgrounds across low and lower-middle-income countries. She shares recommendations to keep children learning, including adjusting curriculum by governments. Dr. Rachel Hinton is a Senior Education and Social Development Adviser at Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office. She has over 15 years of research and international development experience in the UK, South Asia, Eastern Europe, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Rukmini Banerjee delves into how to encourage parental engagement, leverage existing technology, and support teachers better to overcome the learning loss due to the pandemic and the exacerbated Global Learning Poverty. She also shares her vision for education in a post-pandemic world. Dr. Rukmini Banerjee is the Chief Executive Officer of Pratham Education Foundation. She previously led Pratham's research and assessment efforts, including the Annual Status of Education Report (also known as ASER).  This episode is hosted by Nikunj Agarwal; produced by Livey Beha and Read Leask; and researched by Claddagh Nic Lochlainn, Allan Greicon, and Emma Dreyer. To keep up with our latest episodes, follow us on Twitter @oxfordpolicypod and on Instagram @oxfordpolicypod_. 

Barbara Bartolome had a life-changing near-death experience during a medical procedure in which her body floated up to the ceiling and she was able to witness the hospital staff frantically attempting to revive her when her heart stopped. In this episode we discussed the details of her near death experience, the concept of manifestation, synchronicities, her intuitive psychic gifts and communication with Spirit and more. She is the head of the Santa Barbara chapter of IANDS (International Association of Near-Death Studies). She has served as area director for the Santa Barbara Region of the AuPairCare host family cultural exchange program, program coordinator for the School of Psychology at Fielding Graduate University, executive assistant to the Directors of Marketing in Mentor Worldwide, LLC., and development team assistant in the Development Office, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education. Music Credits: Track: Wandering — JayJen [Audio Library Release] Music provided by Audio Library Plus Watch: https://youtu.be/1HJbXTXa5WU Free Download / Stream: https://alplus.io/wandering FOLLOW Magic Is Real (Host Shannon Torrence) on Instagram: @realmagicshannon If you'd like to support Magic Is Real by becoming a Patreon, here is the link: https://www.patreon.com/magicisreal111 To be added to the Magic Is Real mailing list, be considered as a guest or to offer suggestions and share ideas, e-mail me at: magicisrealshannon@gmail.com. TO BOOK A MEDIUMSHIP READING WITH ME: www.magicisrealservices.com PLEASE FOLLOW MAGIC IS REAL ON FACEBOOK! https://www.facebook.com/magicisrealshannon --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week on the podcast, Christopher is joined by Greg Conte, Director of the Texas Broadband Development Office, and ILSR Outreach Team Lead DeAnne Cuellar. The state of Texas finds itself in a common position these days: last year it created a small office that, today, is suddenly faced with dispersing more than a billion dollars … Continue reading "The Birth of the Texas State Broadband Development Office – Episode 515 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast"

Stefan Dercon is Professor of Economic Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and the Economics Department, and a Fellow of Jesus College. He is also Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies. He combines his academic career with work as a policy advisor, providing strategic economic and development advice, and promoting the use of evidence in decision making. Between 2011 and 2017, he was Chief Economist of the Department of International Development (DFID), the government department in charge with the UK's aid policy and spending. Between 2020-2022, he was the Development Policy Advisor to successive Foreign Secretaries at the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. His research interests concern what keeps some people and countries poor: the failures of markets, governments and politics, mainly in Africa, and how to achieve change. His latest book, Gambling on Development: Why some countries win and others lose was published in May 2022. It draws on his academic research as well as his policy experience across three decades and 40-odd countries, exploring why some countries have managed to settle on elite bargains favouring growth and development, and others did not. Previously, Dull Disasters? How Planning Ahead Will Make A Difference was published in 2016, and provides a blueprint for renewed application of science, improved decision making, better preparedness, and pre-arranged finance in the face of natural disasters.

Did you know there are 42 million individuals in the United States that do not have access to a high speed wired internet connection? If you believe, like I do, that the internet is now effectively a utility to participate in today's economy; this is a major problem. Closing the “digital divide” requires many functions, including marketing - to citizens, private companies and other government organizations. In this episode, I spoke with Veneeth Iyengar, Louisiana State Executive Director for Broadband Development and Connectivity, to hear how the State of Louisiana is tackling this issue. Join us as we discuss: How to market to an audience that may not have faith in government programs What marketing channels should you use when the population you're trying to reach doesn't have internet access? What do influencers look like in this space? Resources mentioned: www.broadbandnow.com  To make sure you never miss an episode of The High EQ Market podcast, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and the website. Listening on a desktop & can't see the links? Just search for The High EQ Marketer in your favorite podcast player.

Today's guest is Virginia Sentance, Chief of Staff for the UK COP26 Presidency.Virginia Sentance is the Chief of Staff for the UK COP26 Presidency team based in the UK Government. The UK hosted the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) - the UN's annual climate change summit - in Glasgow on 31 October to 13 November 2021. As Chief of Staff Virginia works closely with the COP President and COP CEO to oversee all aspects of the COP26 Presidency, including the political strategy, negotiations, diplomatic engagement, and operational delivery of the summit. Prior to this, Virginia was an International Economist for the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and HM Treasury - the UK's economic and finance ministry, focusing on a number of international finance issues including G7, G20 and the IMF, financial services, economic security, and trade. Virginia holds a BSc in Politics and Economics and MSc in Politics both from the London School of Economics.I was excited to have this conversation with Virginia and learn more about COP26. Virginia walks me through her climate journey, the role of COP in a clean future, and why we should pay attention to global carbon commitments. We also dive into the tensions between industry stakeholders and global leaders, COP26's goals and how this COP defined success, and the evolution of science since COP1. Virginia is a great guest with a unique insight into the climate crisis and collective global action. This is a fantastic episode if you want to learn more about the role COPs play in the clean transition.Enjoy the show!You can find me on twitter @jjacobs22 or @mcjpod and email at info@mcjcollective.com, where I encourage you to share your feedback on episodes and suggestions for future topics or guests.Episode recorded March 9th, 2022To learn more about the UK COP26 Presidency, visit: https://ukcop26.org/To learn more about this episode, visit: https://mcjcollective.com/my-climate-journey-podcast/virginia-sentance

With Keith Fishman, Therapy Dog Program Coordinator at Henry Ford West Bloomfield   Did you know that sometimes the very best medicine for a hospital patient is a visit from a therapy dog? Whether you're a patient or a visitor, the sights and sounds of medical emergencies along with overwrought individuals can create a very stressful environment. Sometimes even a routine doctor's visit can be nerve-wracking, so the thought of checking into a hospital may be an alarming prospect for many. That's why the Sally and Bob Goldman Therapy Dog Program at Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital is such a wonderful benefit for patients and hardworking staff. The calming presence of a trained therapy dog can work wonders in terms of reducing stress by providing a pleasant distraction from overwhelming fear and anxiety. Unlike service dogs that wear vests cautioning strangers not to pet or approach them while working, Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital therapy dogs wear vests that say, “PLEASE PET ME”! And the dog's entire day is focused upon encouraging contact and earning smiles from anxious or stressed-out individuals. If a chance meeting with one of the trained therapy dogs can put a smile on someone's face, even just for a moment, and distract them from their pain or anxiety, that dog has done its job.   My guest today, Keith Fishman, is the Therapy Dog Program Coordinator at Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital. He's here to tell us about these amazing dogs and how they benefit everyone they come in contact with at the hospital.   What You'll Hear on This Episode: How did Keith first get involved in training therapy dogs? What was Keith's previous career? What kind of dogs does Keith have at home? When did Keith realize he had a talent for training dogs? Does the hospital own the dogs or are they owner-handled? How often and how long do the dogs work? What's the difference between a therapy dog and a service dog? How long has Henry Ford West Bloomfield had the therapy dog program? Some examples of when a therapy dog has helped patients. When dogs weren't allowed during COVID-19, how was the program able to support the hospital staff? Where are dogs allowed in the hospital now? How long is the training for therapy dogs? How you can donate to the program.   Today's Takeaway: We tend to think of our beloved pet dogs as members of the family, but we might not think about all the different ways therapy dogs can provide help and healing. Having specifically trained therapy dogs present during a stressful situation has proven very effective in a variety of ways. The unconditional love and affection of a dog have been shown to benefit trauma victims who testify in court, help students heal in the aftermath of school shootings, and even calm autistic children. My dog calms me all of the time! So it makes sense to have therapy dogs in hospitals where they can support both patients and staff. Research shows therapy dogs can help lower blood pressure, reduce feelings of loneliness, and minimize stress. The Sally and Bob Goldman Therapy Dog Program relies 100% on public donations to cover the costs of training and operation. If you want to learn how your donation, no matter how big or small, can support the program, visit their website, call the Development Office at (313) 876-1031, or email Developmenthf@hfhs.org. Remember that today is a gift and you make it what it is! I'm Florine Mark and that's “Today's Takeaway.”   Quotes: “Most dogs really are quite easily trained; it's just a matter of knowing how to work with them.” — Keith “The dog's life is a great life; they love doing the therapy work which is really important.” — Keith “You see a child who hasn't smiled all day because they're sick that suddenly lights up because a dog walks into his room.” — Keith Brought to You By: Gardner White Furniture   Mentioned in This Episode: Sally and Bob Goldman Therapy Dog Program Click here to donate to the Sally and Bob Goldman Therapy Dog Program Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital