The New Humanitarian

All contribute, all decide, all benefit: the three pillars of a bold idea to transform how global public goods are financed. Once laughed off as a pie-in-the-sky idea, Global Public Investment (GPI) has been gaining traction in recent years and is increasingly seen as a plausible paradigm shift for a traditional aid system beholden to the whims of wealthy countries and stuck in a failing donor-recipient binary. Host Heba Aly sits down with two people working to make GPI “technically sound” and “politically attractive”: Solange Baptiste, executive director of the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC), and Jonathan Glennie, co-founder of the Global Nation think tank and author of “The Future of Aid: Global Public Investment”. ————— If you’ve got thoughts on this episode, write to us or send us a voice note at podcast@thenewhumanitarian.org.  SHOW NOTES How to begin fixing the ‘nonsensical’ humanitarian financing system At the UN General Assembly, calls for fairer global governance grow louder Global Public Investment Network VIDEO | GPI Side Event UNGA 2022 - Transforming International Cooperation to Finance Common Needs

Soon after her interview with Degan Ali (Executive Director, Adeso) on whether decolonising aid is an oxymoron, our host, Heba Aly, moderated the launch of the Pledge for Change –  a new set of commitments spearheaded by Adeso and other INGOs to reimagine their role in the aid sector by 2030.

Is decolonising aid a call for reform, or a call to end aid altogether? Are these two approaches mutually exclusive, or can they co-exist? Is decolonised aid even achievable within our current global governance system? Host Heba Aly discusses these tensions with one of the leaders of the movement to decolonise aid, Degan Ali, executive director of Adeso.

Calls to reform the UN Security Council – and the UN system as a whole – were more forceful at this year’s UN General Assembly, but will anything come of them? 

This season, we’re proving a space to reimagine the global governance system  – one that is rooted in justice for the most marginalised and capable of addressing the challenges of our times.

In his last month on the job, Maurer sits down with host Heba Aly to reflect on his decade as ICRC president.

Nabil Alawzari is a Yemeni freelance photojournalist working on rights and freedoms. This discussion was about the current situation in Yemen and Nabil's lived experience there. 

Anthony Langat is a Kenya-based reporter covering environment, climate change, health, and security. Topics discussed included drought, climate change, conflict, impact on pastoralism in Kenya, and more. 

Megan Janetsky is a Colombia-based reporter and photographer covering migration, women's issues and human rights in Latin America. Topics discussed included crises and trends in Latin America, the COVID-19 hangover, social media, migration, political shifts, emerging crises, and more.

Thin Lei Win is an award-winning multimedia journalist specialising in food and climate issues for various international news media and also through her own newsletter Thin Ink.  Topics discussed included food security, climate issues, what's happening in Myanmar, social media’s hate problem, humanitarian challenges, and more.