Power in the Pandemic
How is the COVID-19 pandemic affecting the people we don't usually hear from? What solutions and leadership are emerging from the crisis? In each episode, we get a glimpse into the world that’s being created in the cracks of this crisis. We will hear from a range of individuals and social leaders, from migrant labourers to trans youth mobilizing in their communities, to humanitarian workers. Join us as we hear the experiences and responses of those living through this pandemic who are already facing inequalities and injustices daily.Follow Power Shifts on Instagram and check out the blogs: https://www.instagram.com/powershiftsproject | https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/category/power-shifts/
Episodes
49 episodes
How can we create Feminist Futures?
This episode hosts a conversation recorded last September 2020 during a virtual encounter around Creating Feminist Futures. María Faciolince, our host and moderator, is joined by three visionary feminists from around the world:
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Meera's Journey: Climate, Covid and Care
"If we want to move away from systems of violence, we have to reimagine a world that centres care." - Meera GhaniIn this final episode of the Climate, Covid and Care series, we hear from Meera Ghani...
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Majandra's Journey: Climate, Covid and Care
"From an ecofeminist perspective, we understand that the sustainability of life should be at the front and centre of our economic system, instead of profit and competition. That means valuing care work. It means valuing low-carbon jobs. ...
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Betty's journey: Climate, Covid and Care
"Just because the entire world was on lockdown, doesn’t mean that climate change or the patriarchy was on lockdown. The patriarchy is not on lockdown. Climate change cannot be contained" - Betty BarkhaThis is the third e...
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Maggie's Journey: Climate, Covid and Care
"The climate crisis is real for so many communities. Sometimes we don't have the language for it, we can't explain it. But we can feel it in our bodies. We feel it in our land. We see it in the water" - Maggie Mapondera
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Hindou's Journey: Climate, Covid and Care
"You can't speak about us, without us" - Hindou Oumarou IbrahimThis is the first episode of a new mini-series, in collaboration with the
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"Imagine something out of the box" How are young people responding to the pandemic?
How are young people responding to the coronavirus crisis?What's it like to manage a soap factory during the pandemic?How are young people using the internet to build bridges between generations durin...
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Breaking Borders, Refugees Imagining a Post-COVID World
How do we imagine a fairer, kinder post-COVID world for refugees and asylum seekers?It's Refugee Week! To celebrate, we bring you an episode which cuts across borders and hands the mic to two refugee activists who discus...
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Featured voice: Robtel Neajai Pailey on racism in development
Let’s talk about racism and development.Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey is a Liberian academic, activist and author.In this conversation, Maria and Robtel talk about development ...
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Living on a Resettlement Camp During a Pandemic
Coronavirus has brought up new challenges locally and globally, how do these challenges affect refugees and internally displaced people living on resettlement camps?How has the Coronavirus made a difficult and precarious living situatio...
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Featured Voice: Duoi talks to farmers about Coronavirus in the Philippines
Duoi takes us out to visit farmers on the Midpulo Unified Agriculture Cooperative to explore how the coronavirus pandemic has affected food systems and farming in the Philippines.Power in the Pandemic brings you this week's fea...
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Where is the power in the pandemic?
You’re listening to the first episode of Power in the Pandemic. Before we share the voices we are capturing from across the world about their experiences of the coronavirus, we explore the role power plays during this crisis. In this introd...
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The trailer - Power in the Pandemic
Something that threatens to separate us, is highlighting our deep interconnection. Welcome to Power in the Pandemic podcast. Right now, the world is going through massive shifts, triggered by t...
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Podcast: Coronavirus and Web Data Analysis
Social media has the potential to profoundly influence the way society works. Social media has been used for understanding crowd sizes from Instagram posts and to analyse hate speech and to understand presidential elections. Or more recently to...
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The journey and challenges in measuring sustainable water in Oxfam’s impact evaluations with the HWISE Network
"It’s easy to see that water is an issue the world over. Either too much, too little or unsafe”How can we effectively measure sustainable water? How can we understand the impact and effectiveness of our work in relation to water...
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Ripple Effects: women in Nepal and Bangladesh forge their own paths in water governance
In honour of International Women’s Day (March 8th) and World Water Day (March 22nd), we explore how water systems and water governance are deeply intertwined with women’s lives in riverine communities in Bangladesh and Nepal. We learn ...
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Feminist leadership in the hardest places to be a woman
As part of Oxfam’s Breaking New Ground Series, we host a panel of inspiring female leaders from the world of politics and civil society. The panel discuss their perspectives on what feminist leadership means to them and the importance of ...
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Real Geek: Highlights of Oxfam's Impact Evaluation of Cash for Work activities in the Za’atari camp in Jordan
For people living in the Za'atari refugee camp in Jordan there are few legally accessible work opportunities in and outside the camp. The Cash for Work activities currently being carried out in Za'atari provides income, increases household weal...
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Real Geek: GDPR and the right to privacy in practice for impact evaluations
What is GDPR and Oxfam's Responsible Data Policy? How does GDPR affect the way we collect data when carrying out monitoring and evaluations?Following the recent publication of the
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Real Geek: How to measure resilience capacities
Oxfam defines resilience as ‘the ability of women and men to realize their rights and improve their well-being despite shocks, stresses and uncertainty’. So… Can resilience be “measured”?! As part of our Real Geek series, Ania Gaboune a...
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Book Banter: The politics of counting, review of "The Uncounted" with Alex Cobham
We speak to the Tax Justice Network's Alex Cobham about his upcoming book "The Uncounted", which gives an insight into the politics of counting. Franziska Mager from Oxfam GB, also joins us to give her perspective as a researcher on inequality....
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Real Geek: The challenges of measuring women’s empowerment
In this episode we share Oxfam's journey in measuring women's empowerment in our impact evaluations. Our Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Lead, Marina Torre, speaks to Simone Lombardini, Oxfam's Impact Evaluation Lead, who has been working i...
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How smart technology can ensure a continuous water supply
Providing accessible, safe, sustainable water and sanitation services to everyone on the planet is one of the most critical development challenges we face. This podcast focuses on how smart technology is being used in Kenya and the work that Ox...
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Improving the sustainability of water supply schemes in Nepal
This podcast focuses on the alternative models we used to boost the profitability and sustainability of rural water supply schemes in Nepal. We speak to Anjil Adhikari who is an Innovation Advisor working for Oxfam on water sanitation and hygie...
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