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  • Unveiling the Impact of Climate Financing in African Agriculture

    Unveiling the Impact of Climate Financing in African Agriculture
    2024/04/18
    In this episode, we explore how bridging a climate financing gap of up to 90% in Africa has the potential to revolutionize agriculture on the continent. From enabling farmers to make climate-smart decisions through the delivery of climate information services, the limited climate finance flow of $30 billion is significantly enhancing the resilience of smallholder farmers to climate impacts, and an increase in climate finance flows is critical to achieving the continent's climate ambition. Join us as we hear from Gerald Forkuor, Climate Change Lead at USAID Feed The Future’s Policy LINK in Ghana, and Tracy Rashida, CEO of BOOD, an Ingrower Model School for Smallholder Farmers. Learn how these initiatives are empowering farming communities to thrive amidst climate change challenges.This episode has been made possible by the generous contribution of the American people through USAID’s Policy LINK.
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    21 分
  • A Sticky Situation: What's Happening to the Kenya Sugar Industry?

    A Sticky Situation: What's Happening to the Kenya Sugar Industry?
    2022/06/15

    Sources

    a. Kenya’s sugar history: https://www.kalro.org/sugar/?q=sugar-history
    b. Parliament report on sugar crisis Kenya: http://www.parliament.go.ke/sites/default/files/2019-08/Report%20on%20the%20Crisis%20Facing%20the%20Sugar%20Industry%20in%20Kenya%20%28%20Annexures%29.pdf
    c. Top sugar-producing countries: https://www.czarnikow.com/blog/the-sugar-series-the-top-10-sugar-producing-countries-in-the-world
    d. Problems facing the sugar industry https://allafrica.com/stories/202105240177.html and https://www.sucam.co.ke/sugar-policy/sucam-policy-position
    e. The story of sugar: https://www.sugar.org/blog/a-brief-history-of-real-sugar-the-story-of-sugar-cane/


    This episode has been made possible by the generous contribution of the American people through USAID’s Policy LINK.

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    14 分
  • ALL IN: End of Year Special

    ALL IN: End of Year Special
    2021/12/30
    Over the past few episodes, this podcast has become a place of conversation, learning, and of community that has been made possible by the guests who took the time to speak to us. And you, who took time to listen. This is our last reflection for 2021 and we wanted to make it a bit more special.This episode has been made possible by the generous contribution of the American people through USAID’s Policy LINK.
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    30 分
  • Running Operations in a Fragile Context. A personal reflection by Fredrick Matakidi

    Running Operations in a Fragile Context. A personal reflection by Fredrick Matakidi
    2021/12/24
    This episode of Reflections by LinkCast features Fredrick Matakidi the Finance & Operations Manager for the USAID Policy LINK South Sudan. He reflects on his country South Sudan as it evolves through its independence as a country and what that has meant for him over the years as operations manager and even more especially the last two years as Covid set in on his country that was ill-prepared for many more things let alone a pandemic. This episode has been made possible by the generous contribution of the American people through USAID’s Policy LINK.
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    16 分
  • The Practice of Facilitative Leadership. A personal reflection by Beatrice Tonui

    The Practice of Facilitative Leadership. A personal reflection by Beatrice Tonui
    2021/11/25
    This episode of Reflections by LINKCast features Beatrice Tonui who works with communities on agriculture as a civil servant. She argues that each leader has their preferred method of getting things done, and even when the style is borrowed, they tweak and adapt it to their own temperament. Beatrice tells us about her own preferred style- facilitative leadership, why she chose it and why it matters for those contexts. This episode has been made possible by the generous contribution of the American people through USAID’s Policy LINK.
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    30 分
  • Exploring Personal Leadership

    Exploring Personal Leadership
    2021/11/11

    Sources:

    1. John Maxwell: Leadership Styles

    John Maxwell. 4 Leadership Styles That Trigger Peak Performance. https://www.johnmaxwell.com/blog/4-leadership-styles-that-trigger-peak-performance/

    2. Fixed v. Growth Mindset

    Positive Psychology. Growth Mindset vs. Fixed + Key Takeaways From Dweck’s Book. Written by Courtney Ackerman.https://positivepsychology.com/growth-mindset-vs-fixed-mindset/

    3. Circle of Control and Circle of Influence

    Discovery in Action. Circle of concern v Circle of control. https://discoveryinaction.com.au/circle-of-concern-v-circle-of-control/

    This episode has been made possible by the generous contribution of the American people through USAID’s Policy LINK.

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    34 分
  • Navigating Gender and Culture in Leadership

    Navigating Gender and Culture in Leadership
    2021/10/28

    1. Source: Cultural Impact of Women and Leadership

    Ideas for Leaders. Promoting Women Leaders in Different Cultures. https://www.ideasforleaders.com/ideas/promoting-women-leaders-in-different-cultures

    2. Source: Gender Impact on Leadership Styles

    The Female Brain. Written by Louann Brizendine.

    3: Sources: Women in Government

    UN Women. Facts and figures: Women’s leadership and political participation. https://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/leadership-and-political-participation/facts-and-figures#_edn2

    The Conversation. From ‘Mädchen’ to ‘Mutti’: as Angela Merkel departs, she leaves a great legacy of leadership. Written by Gabriel Suder.https://theconversation.com/from-madchen-to-mutti-as-angela-merkel-departs-she-leaves-a-great-legacy-of-leadership-168187

    UN. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Bio. https://www.un.org/en/conf/migration/assets/pdf/Ellen-Sirleaf-Bio.pdf

    This episode has been made possible by the generous contribution of the American people through USAID’s Policy LINK.

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    33 分
  • Leading Collaboration for Uncommon Success

    Leading Collaboration for Uncommon Success
    2021/10/14

    Sources for this episode:

    New Scientist. What is Dunbar's Number? Written by Robin Dunbar. https://www.newscientist.com/definition/dunbars-number/

    Positive Psychology. The Theories of Emotional Intelligence Explained. Written by Heather Craig. https://positivepsychology.com/emotional-intelligence-theories/

    Quartz. Facebook and Google succeed because they’re governed as “benevolent dictatorships”. Written by Alice Truong. https://qz.com/743058/facebook-and-google-succeed-because-theyre-governed-as-benevolent-dictatorships/

    The Elephant. Democracy, Dictatorship and Development. Written by David Ndii. https://www.theelephant.info/op-eds/2018/06/09/democracy-dictatorship-and-development-lessons-from-malaysia-and-singapore/

    The University of Colorado Boulder. How’s That Open Source Governance Working for You? Written by Nathan Schneider. https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2020/04/29/hows-open-source-governance-working-you

    This episode has been made possible by the generous contribution of the American people through USAID’s Policy LINK.

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    30 分