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Podcasts are a stimulating, hands-free way to engage with new ideas, learn about people and places you’d otherwise never encounter, and do it all at your own pace! Check out these 13 podcasts we think are well worth a listen (then let us know what you thought of them!).
1. The Ending Poverty Together Podcast!
2. Poverty Unpacked
Wondering where to start? Try Episode #21: A fair chance in life for everyone – UN Special Rapporteur Olivier de Schutter
3. Rethinking Development
This podcast is dedicated to the art of conversation and facilitating long-form, personal discussions on the problematic ethical issues that practitioners confront in their daily work. They promote the practice of "passing the mic" and taking the time to really listen to what others have to say. You can listen, too, right here.
4. Business Fights Poverty
With a focus on equitability and resilience, Business Fights Poverty, like FH Canada, “believes in the power of business to help improve the lives, livelihoods, and learning opportunities of the most vulnerable people and communities.” By bringing companies into purposeful collaboration, they help their partners unlock new opportunities for business and social impact. If you’re passionate about business and entrepreneurship as well as ending poverty, you’re sure to be inspired by this podcast.
Try this interview about regenerative agriculture or explore what it means to decelerate in order to get ahead of the climate crisis.
5. Healthy Cities in the SDG Era
Did you know that over half of the world’s population lives in cities, and that number is expected to double by 2050? In fact, here in Canada and the United States, 80 per cent of the population live in urban centres. Learn more about the application of the Sustainable Development Goals to cities in the Canadian context with this relevant podcast. With research coming out of our very own University of Toronto, this 10-episode series interacts with experts to break down cutting-edge research into understandable conversations.
6. Refugee Realities
From students at the London School of Economics, this 11 episode podcast series explores the complex realities refugees face, from national and international refugee policy to the personal experiences and stories of refugees themselves.
According to the UN Refugee Agency, 82.4 million people across the globe have been forcibly displaced by persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations, or events seriously disturbing public order. Over 20 million of those displaced are refugees—people who have fled war, violence, conflict, or persecution and have crossed an international border to find safety in another country. Without the protections of their homes and communities, these families are often thrust into poverty.
7. Global Development Podcast: Gender Equality
8. World in Progress
Technically a radio show, this journalistic style podcast touches on topics from around the world, honing in on regional stories and issues. The many interviews and soundbytes they offer from real people living in the scenarios they explore brings it home. Tune in for half an hour to broaden your global perspective while learning something new. Listen here for easy access.
9. Beyond the Blue Badge
This group of Microsoft “alumni” are out to change the world! In the episode Ending Poverty through Entrepreneurship, you’ll hear about Dianne Calvi’s work with Village Enterprise, a nonprofit working in sub-Saharan Africa that aims to alleviate poverty through entrepreneurship and innovation. Dianne worked across multiple sectors—including an 11-year stint at Microsoft—before joining Village Enterprise in 2010. Host Paul Shoemaker talks with Dianne about how she’s scaling Village Enterprise and why she’s rooted in empathy. They also dive into how tech, data, and partnerships are crucial in the fight to alleviate poverty.
10. Transforming the World for Girls
This three-part podcast series comes to us from the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and explores how harmful gendered norms affect the lives of girls in developing countries. Two of the four countries—Uganda and Ethiopia—focused on in this series are FH Canada partner countries!
11. From Poverty to Power
12. Smart Women, Smart Power
A podcast of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, the Smart Women, Smart Power biweekly podcast features powerful, in-depth conversations with women leaders from around the globe who are experts in foreign policy, national security, international business, and international development. It ranks among the top non-profit and government podcasts.
Check out this episode on gender equality featuring a diverse panel discussion that looks at progress being made toward achieving gender equality in developing countries and the challenges women and girls still face.
13. Development Unplugged