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The Learning Post: insights from UK Aid Direct and UK Aid Match
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A short podcast highlighting key insights from across both the UK Aid Direct and UK Aid Match funds.
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The power of tech to connect remote communities: an interview with Hello World
03-05-2022
15 mins
The power of tech to connect remote communities: an interview with Hello World
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.
03-05-2022
15 mins
Tailoring project interventions to a target community
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.
13-04-2022
7 mins
Safeguarding: top tips and best practice
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.
23-03-2022
10 mins
Business cases and targets: successful sustainable wealth creation interventions
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.
21-02-2022
5 mins
Play-based learning interventions: an interview with Seenaryo
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.
24-01-2022
14 mins
Messaging and publicity: easy wins for smaller organisations to improve their communications output and outreach
Communicating the impact from the work of civil society to support the most vulnerable and marginalised is important for all charities. In this podcast we hear from Communications Specialist for UK Aid Direct, Laura Else, on why it is especially important small charities consider their role in contributing to the broader narrative around international development and efficacy. We also hear top tips for securing publicity from local media outlets.
12-01-2022
8 mins
The critical role men and boys play in the road to women's empowerment
Continuing the conversation around women's empowerment and the work of the Jo Cox Memorial Grant holders in this area, we speak with Julia Rosell Jackson, Performance and Risk Manager for UK Aid Direct and explore the critical role men and boys play on the road to empowerment.
23-11-2021
10 mins
Team build and market research: successful sustainable wealth creation interventions
Continuing our series on successful sustainable wealth creation interventions in projects, we focus on the importance of the make up of teams and conducting market research.
28-10-2021
6 mins
An introduction to sustainable wealth creation
The first in a new series focused entirely on sustainable wealth creation interventions in projects and how to overcome some of the common challenges with Rick Magill, an expert in this field. In this episode, we introduce some of the basic concepts of sustainable wealth creation and some of the common challenges that arise.
21-10-2021
8 mins
Engaging local communities through radio with the Lorna Young Foundation
In this episode, we discuss using radio programming as a tool to build engagement with local communities with Hannah Davis and Hannah Clark from Small Charities Challenge Fund grant holders Lorna Young Foundation.
09-09-2021
15 mins
Reflections on women's empowerment
In March 2018, the former Department for International Development, now the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, paid tribute to murdered MP Jo Cox and launched the Jo Cox Memorial Grants in her name. In this episode we speak with Alethea Osborne, Technical Specialist for MannionDaniels on Gender and Social Development about women's empowerment and a new framework on this subject.
06-08-2021
6 mins
Which factors influenced successful adaptation to COVID-19?
In this episode, we speak to Performance and Risk Manager Patrick Douglas who summarises his recent assessment of factors that influenced the success of COVID-19 adaptations within UK Aid Match projects.
03-08-2021
5 mins
What makes an effective education project?
Read Lorna's full assessment of education projects
22-07-2021
9 mins
