DevelopmentAid Dialogues
Each episode features insightful conversations with experts and practitioners, offering valuable perspectives on the challenges and opportunities shaping our world. DevelopmentAid is a platform where we share knowledge and fostering collaboration within the development community. We believe that by sparking meaningful conversations, we can contribute to finding innovative solutions for a more just and sustainable future.
DevelopmentAid Dialogues
Latest Episodes
Seven Liters a Day: Inside Taiz's Water Emergency with Ali Alqubati
A city that once piped 25,000 cubic meters of water a day now leaves most of its families living on less than 7.5 liters per person. In this episode of DevelopmentAid Dialogues podcast, host Hisham Allam speaks with Ali Alqubati, WASH sub-natio...
Can Public Procurement Contracts Predict the Future? Analyzing Procurement Data with Malcolm Duff
Every day, governments publish thousands of notices announcing who won a public procurement contract, for how much and for how long. These notices are an underused source of economic intelligence. One man has spent years exploring how they can ...
Is the era of EVs really green? A dialogue with Peter Bryant.
The world produces around 25 million metric tons of copper a year and needs to almost double that within a decade to meet the growing demand of various industries, including the one producing electric vehicles (EVs). It will not. By 2035, the s...
Placebo or cure? Assessing the Net Zero reality of carbon credits with Paolo Vaggi
As carbon credits swell into a multi-billion-dollar global market, a persistent illusion keeps fueling it: that buying a credit erases the pollution a company - or a traveler - leaves behind. In this episode of
Cheap cures, fragile systems: Inside the ongoing fight to end neglected tropical diseases. A conversation with Dr. Wendy Harrison.
Neglected tropical diseases affect more than 1.5 billion people, close to one in six worldwide, yet they remain among the least visible and mediatized health problems on the planet. The medicines to treat most of them already exist, often for l...
