Development Unplugged – Détails, épisodes et analyse

In this episode, host Nic Moyer is joined by David Coletto, CEO of Abacus Data, a public opinion polling firm. They discuss Canadian public opinion about international development and explore how to refine arguments to gain public support for ODA. They also review results from a public opinion survey done by Abacus Data that CCIC commissioned for International Development Week 2020.

Don't miss the end of the episode, where Moyer and Coletto discuss COVID-19 and its implications on engaging communities today and in a post-COVID world.

In this episode, Nicolas Moyer, president and CEO of CCIC, leads a discussion focusing on the 25-year anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995.

Joining Nicolas to discuss what we can expect to see taking place in preparation for Beijing +25 and explain what the major priorities and issues are Vicky Smallman, the national director of Women’s and Human Rights for the Canadian Labour Congress and Katherine Scott, senior researcher at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

 In this episode of our series on Innovative Development Finance we will talk about gender-lens investing.

Our guests are: Ryan Clark (Global Issues and Development Branch, Global Affairs Canada), Joy Anderson (Criterion Institute) and Jessica Villanueva (MEDA) 

 Qu’est-ce qu’un financement « novateur » ? Pour tenter de répondre à cette question, le CCCI a organisé un événement de deux jours sur le financement du développement novateur en juin 2019, à Ottawa, au cours duquel nous avons enregistré une série d’entrevues sur le sujet.

Écoutez Nicolas Moyer, PDG du CCCI, discuté avec nos invités Marisol Quirion (Développement International Desjardins) et Alain Plouffe (SOCODEVI) de leurs expériences en matière de de financement novateur pour le développement.

 In this episode of our series on innovative development finance, we are exploring performance-based financing. Our guests share different models of applications and considerations when using performance-based financing.

Our guests are Emily Measures (Nutrition international) and David O’Leary (World Vision Canada).

In this second episode of our series on innovative development finance we will talk about some ways that non-profit organizations and the private sector can partner through innovative finance. We will also discuss the principles for effective private sector engagement in development cooperation.

Our guests are: Christian Novak (FMA – Frontier Market Advisors) and Janet Longmore (Digital Opportunity Trust).

What is “innovative” financing really? To try to answer this question, CCIC held a two-day event on Innovative Development Finance in June 2019, in Ottawa. During this event, we recorded interviews with key speakers on this topic and we are presenting them in a new series of podcasts.

Listen to Nicolas Moyer, President and CEO of CCIC, and Shannon Kindornay, Director of Research, Policy and Practice, as they discuss about the importance of innovative financing and give us a glimpse of the new podcast series on this topic. The next episode in this series will be available here. 

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues facing the world. In order to tackle this, the world, and Canada, is increasing its financial commitments to climate mitigation and adaptation.

In this episode, Nicolas Moyer, president and CEO of CCIC, talks with Brian Tomlinson, the executive director of AidWatch Canada and author of the 2019 Climate Finance Report developed for the Canadian Coalition on Climate Change and Development (C4D).

Since 2017, Brian Tomlinson has reported on the status of Canada’s climate financing initiatives. We wanted to learn more about what the issues are, what Canada is doing to address them and what more needs to be done.

In this fourth episode in a series of four podcasts related to the Summit on Canada’s Global Leadership, produced with the support of Crestview Strategy, our guest host, Jason Clark, a senior consultant with Crestview Strategy, leads a discussion on using digital campaigns within the development sector and how new tools and technologies can be effectively used to drive winning outcomes.

Jason is joined by Julia Anderson, the Chief Operations Officer with CanWaCH; Prateek Awasthi, the Director of Policy and Advocacy with Engineers Without Borders; and Jennifer Li, a Campaign Strategist with Crestview Strategy.

In this third episode in a series of four podcasts related to the Summit on Canada’s Global Leadership, produced with the support of Crestview Strategy, we’re talking about the new shared reality climate change is bringing with respect to international development.

Joining Nicolas Moyer, president and CEO of CCIC, to explore current trends and shifting global landscapes, address Canada’s internal tensions, and introduce some ideas for a path forward to deal with climate change are Catherine Abreu, the executive director of the Climate Action Network, and Stephen Cornish, the president and CEO of the David Suzuki Foundation.