The TWP Community Podcast

Nov 26 2024 14 ep. 30 mins 2
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The TWP Community Podcast features TWP CoP Director, Alina Rocha Menocal, interviewing experts on a variety of topics to do with thinking and working politically. If you’re interested in TWP, politically aware approaches to development, adaptive programming, and political economy analysis, then this is the podcast for you!

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Episode 13: Interview with Marta Ruedas - UN

Nov 26 2024 43 mins  
In our featured interview, we speak to Marta Ruedas, who served over 30 years in the United Nations, gaining extensive experience in coordinating United Nations development and humanitarian work in conflict and post-conflict countries, as well as supporting peacebuilding transitions. Marta shares her experiences in thinking and working politically over the years.

Episode 13: Interview with Marta Ruedas

Nov 22 2024 43 mins  
In our featured interview, we speak to Marta Ruedas, who served over 30 years in the United Nations, gaining extensive experience in coordinating United Nations development and humanitarian work in conflict and post-conflict countries, as well as supporting peacebuilding transitions. Marta shares her experiences in thinking and working politically over the years.

Episode 12: A conversation with Judith Kent and Kate Whyte

Sep 29 2024 39 mins  
Judith Kent and Kate Whyte, who were both at FCDO until very recently, share their insights and wisdom as fellow travellers in the TWP journey, drawing on their 5+ decades of collective experience working on foreign affairs, conflict and international development.

Episode 11: A conversation with Dr Ashely Jackson from the Centre on Armed Groups

Jun 25 2024 24 mins  
Ashley is the co-founder and co-director of the Centre on Armed Groups, an organisation that supports research on and engagement with armed groups. In this conversation, she tells us about her experiences and challenges in working in contexts under the control of armed groups. Ashley highlights how the Centre finds politically smart pathways to engagement in order to understand the

Episode 10: Interview with Greg Power on his new book, Inside The Political Mind: The Human Side of Politics and How it Shapes Development

Apr 23 2024 21 mins  
In this conversation, Alina chats to Greg Power’s about his recent book, Inside the Political Mind: The Human side of Politics, and How it Shapes Development which explores how social norms, public expectations and the personal interests of Members of Parliament influence the path of political development. The book draws on Greg’s experience of working with political leaders in

Episode 9: A conversation with Martha Maya and Maria José Daza Bohórquez from the Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT), Colombia.

Feb 20 2024 51 mins  
Alina Rocha Menocal has a conversation with Martha Maya and Maria José Daza Bohórquez from the Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT), about their work on encouraging dialogue and collaboration in the Colombian Congress across party lines within a highly polarised political context.

Episode 8: Interview with Dr Nicola Nixon, Sumaya Saluja and Mohammad Sadat Sadruddin Shibli, The Asia Foundation

Nov 30 2023 42 mins  
Alina Rocha Menocal interviews Dr Nicola Nixon, Sumaya Saluja and Sadat Shibli on The Asia Foundation’s experience fostering coalition-building, featuring examples from Bangladesh, Nepal, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Timor-Leste

Episode 7: Gareth Williams interviews Dr. Suwaiba Ahmad and Sunny Kulutuye on their experience of applying a TWP approach to policy and programming in Nigeria

Mar 24 2023 25 mins  
This interview recorded on the eve of Nigeria’s Presidential election in February 2023 discusses the importance of a TWP approach for understanding Nigeria’s political economy context and designing/implementing effective development projects. The interview with two Associates of The Policy Practice, Dr Suwaiba Ahmad and Sunny Kulutuye, reflects on the two speakers’ profession

Episode 6: Conversation with CAFOD’s Dadirai Chikwengo on her TWP journey

Jan 30 2023 32 mins  
Dadirai is the Lead Governance Advisor for CAFOD. In the last 7 years Dadirai has been at the forefront of advocating for robust context analysis (PEA) to anchor programming decisions - developing an internal guidance and providing ongoing accompaniment of staff through the analysis. In this podcast, she tells us how she arrived to TWP, how she developed her context analysis guidan

Episode 5: Heather Marquette on TWP and findings from the Serious Organised Crime & Anti-Corruption Evidence Programme

Nov 28 2022 24 mins  
In this interview, Professor Heather Marquette tells us what lessons are emerging for 'Thinking and Working Politically' from research from the SOCACE programme. She talks about how SOCACE research offers new insights on what it means to TWP, how we can find different ways to work on SOC, illicit finance and corruption that are better able to meet the needs that emerge when working