The Learning Post: insights from UK Aid Match

In this episode we speak to mdsustain, a sustainability consultancy who partner with businesses to invest in a green future, and Ripple Effect, a past UK Aid Match grant holder who specialise in sustainable agriculture. Listen in to hear about Ripple Effect's sustainability journey with mdsustain, how this helped shape their sustainability vision for the future, and tips for other organisation’s looking to become a greener, more environmentally conscious organisation.

Trigger Warning: Please note this podcast episode addresses themes of sexual and gender-based violence, which may be upsetting or triggering for listeners. During this episode UK Aid Match grant holder SCIAF and their downstream partner Centre Olame share how they have been supporting survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in the DRC with medical care, trauma counselling and legal support, as well as looking at ways to prevent sexual and gender-based violence in the future.

In this podcast episode MannionDaniels, Fund Manager for UK Aid Match, share how they have been supporting disability inclusion at an organisational level. Listen in for practical advice on inclusive recruitment, accessible communications and how to manage reasonable adjustments.

In our latest podcast episode, we speak to Dorota Kachniarz, Programme Manager at CBM UK, part of CBM Global Disability Inclusion, to learn how they improved and supported disability inclusion through their eye health programme in rural Rwanda.

In this Podcast, UK Aid Match team members Emma and Gem reflect on their visit to Malawi to visit four UK Aid Match grant holders. Listen in to hear how the recent ‘poly-crisis’ is affecting grant holders delivering projects in Malawi, how they have been responding, and the importance of adaptability and flexibility within project design.

Every day in Bangladesh 40 children under the age of ten drown, with 30 of those children under the age of five. To highlight World Drowning Prevention Day we spoke to RNLI and their partner CIPRB about their work setting up Anchals - community-based creches - to provide young children a safe space away from open water. Listen in to hear about the success of the project and how this has led to a national scale-up programme with the government of Bangladesh.

In this podcast Gem Clark (Funds Portfolio Manager, UK Aid Match) and Noeleen Advani (Senior Learning, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, UK Aid Match) discuss the current global economic crisis and inflation challenges facing civil society organisations and share learnings from the UK Aid Match portfolio with our grant holders and civil society.

Running a successful fundraising appeal during a busy external environment and a cost-of-living crisis, is a challenge that many charities are facing. So, what makes for a successful appeal? Listen in to hear UK Aid Match charity Trocaire's top tips.

In this episode, we hear from Lydia Baffour Awuah for UK Aid Match grant holder, Opportunity International, on breaking down cultural and structural gender barriers in their livelihoods for rural women farmers project in Ghana.

Speaking to Morven Loh, Communications Manager for The Social Change Agency, Gillian McMahon from Right To Play, talks about their charity's incredibly successful, UK Aid Match 'Save Her Seat' appeal.

In this episode, we hear from Aamer Naeem and Zahid Rehman from READ Foundation on their successful UK Aid Match, ‘Because She Can’ (Empower Her) appeal earlier this year.

To mark World Humanitarian Day this year, we were joined by Su Moore, CEO of the Jo Cox Foundation to talk about Jo Cox and the legacies that the projects funded with Jo Cox Memorial Grants will leave behind.

Continuing our series on successful sustainable wealth creation interventions in projects, this episode focuses on some of the common challenges when setting up a Village Savings and Loans Association (VSLA) and ways to overcome them.

In this episode, we speak to Itfaq Khaliq Khan, Senior Programme Manager at Sightsavers Pakistan, about the successes of the organisation's Right to Health project in Pakistan and Bangladesh and what steps were put in place to make the project inclusive to marginalised communities. To find out more about the Right to Health project, head over to: sightsavers.org/programmes/right-to-health/

In this episode, we speak to Sarah Jane Dowling, Safeguarding Lead at Sense International, about some of the key safeguarding challenges when working with people with deafblindness and multi-sensory disabilities and how the organisation has been able to mitigate them

In this episode, we speak with Angharad Jones and Katrin McMillan of Hello World about their work creating Hello Hubs, outdoor solar powered internet Hubs in rural mountainous Nepal. We discuss the set-up of the Hubs, how important it is to develop projects where the whole community is at the heart of it and learn how they are bridging the digital divide.

This is the fourth episode in a series focused entirely on sustainable wealth creation projects and how to overcome some of the common challenges they present. We are joined by Rick Magill, an expert in this field, who provides some of his insights and experience. In this episode, Rick discusses identifying how much money is needed to ensure a new occupation is viable and how to choose the right job that will successfully embed in the target community.

In this episode, we speak to Laura Spilsbury, Operations Manager and Safeguarding Lead for UK Aid Match and UK Aid Direct, about some key learnings and good examples of safeguarding practice from across the UK Aid Match and UK Aid Direct portfolio.

Continuing our series on successful sustainable wealth creation interventions in projects, this episode focuses on the components required to build a good business case and the importance of realistic targets.

In this episode, we speak to Seenaryo's Chief Operating Officer Naqiya Ebrahim about the organisation's play-based learning project in Lebanon. We discuss the progress of the project so far, the merits of play-based learning and how the project overcame the challenge of operating during COVID-19.