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  • Gordon Mumbo on Water and Livelihoods in the Mara River Basin

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    Friday Podcasts  //  Water Stories (Podcast Series)  //  November 15, 2019  //  By Benjamin Dills

    Gordon Mumbo image“If you live in the developed world or in some urban centers, then the supply of water is guaranteed,” said Gordon Mumbo, team leader for Sustainable Water for the Mara River Basin, a project of Winrock International and USAID’s Sustainable Water Partnership, in this week’s Water Stories podcast. When you wake up, you expect water to flow from your tap. “If you don’t find it flowing, you get upset and will probably call the utility company.” But people living in the Mara River Basin don’t have that luxury. “They have to walk to the river to get water and bring it home,” said Mumbo.

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  • David DeArmey on Engaging Communities to Increase Water Point Functionality

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    Friday Podcasts  //  Water Stories (Podcast Series)  //  September 6, 2019  //  By Benjamin Bosland

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    “Water point functionality goes beyond the mechanical structure of a pump,” says David DeArmey, Director of International Partnerships at Water for Good in this week’s Water Stories podcast. “Community dynamics play a role in how the water point is managed on a daily basis.”  

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  • With Knowledge Comes Responsibility: A Conversation with Sylvia Earle on the Ocean

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    Friday Podcasts  //  August 9, 2019  //  By Benjamin Bosland

    Sylvia Earle 235“Having a planet that is suitable for us has taken a very long time, like four and a half billion years,” said Sylvia Earle, Explorer in Residence at the National Geographic Society, in a podcast interview with Ambassador David Balton before a recent Wilson Center event on marine protected areas. “It’s taken us about four and a half decades to significantly unravel, deplete, [and] modify those precious systems that really have little margin of error.” 

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  • Partnerships, Politics, & Plastic Pollution: A Conversation with Rob Kaplan on Reducing Ocean Plastics

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    Friday Podcasts  //  June 21, 2019  //  By Benjamin Bosland

    Kaplan Podcast 235“I’ve never seen this kind of political and public sector engagement in an environmental topic happen so fast,” said Rob Kaplan, the Founder and CEO of Circulate Capital in an interview with Ambassador David Balton following a recent Wilson Center event on reducing marine plastic pollution. Interest in reducing ocean plastics has gone from a blip on the radar at ocean conferences to “now becoming a top priority,” said Kaplan.

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  • Healthy Women, Healthy Economies: Gender Parity in the Workplace

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    Dot-Mom  //  Friday Podcasts  //  May 31, 2019  //  By Amanda King & Sarah Barnes

    _MG_7353 Thumbnail“When you get to the power of voice, you have to be brave and you have to be that person that will speak up and say this isn’t right, but I want to be a part of the solution,” said Eileen Martin, the Global Director of Inclusion at EMD Serono, the U.S. division’s biopharmaceutical arm, of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. She spoke at a recent Wilson Center event on the intersections between women’s health, leadership, and economic prosperity. This edition of Friday Podcasts is led by Sarah B. Barnes, Project Director of the Maternal Health Initiative at the Wilson Center. 

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  • Africa in Transition: Highlights from a Conversation on Investing in Youth for Economic Prosperity

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    Friday Podcasts  //  May 24, 2019  //  By Benjamin Bosland
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    Africa in Transition, a new series hosted by the Wilson Center and the Population Institute, explores the role of population trends—migration, urbanization, fertility, maternal mortality—in shaping sub-Saharan Africa’s chances for prosperity, health, and security. In this podcast, we share highlights from the first Africa in Transition event. Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue, Professor at Cornell University, starts the conversation by reminding us that “African countries are in the middle of multiple transitions that have the potential to create opportunities for prosperity, growth, and increased human capital, but also to create greater inequality. The challenge, therefore, is to build prosperity, but to do it for all.”

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  • International Aid, Local Capacity Building: Improving Community Health Through Partnerships

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    Dot-Mom  //  Friday Podcasts  //  May 17, 2019  //  By Elizabeth Wang
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    Seeing the influx of international aid into Haiti following the 2010 earthquake, Dr. Florence Jean-Louis, Director of Human Development at Fonkoze, asked herself, “How can all this support, all this solidarity, stay in-country and have a real impact in the long-term?” She spoke at a recent Wilson Center event on the importance of community health systems to the sustainable development and stability of countries. The answer, she concluded, was to build the capacity of local organizations.

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  • Attitudes, Hotspots, and Role Models: Promoting Family Planning in Rural Communities

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    Dot-Mom  //  Friday Podcasts  //  May 17, 2019  //  By Elizabeth Wang
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    “Strengthening community health is critical to expanding voluntary family planning,” said A. Jean Affo, Chief of Party at Advancing Partners & Communities (APC) Benin at a recent Wilson Center event on the importance of community health systems to the sustainable development and stability of countries. In Benin, around half of the population lives in rural areas with a lack of access to quality healthcare services and information. Traditional attitudes and gender norms prevent women and couples from utilizing family planning methods, said Affo. Combined with early marriage, inadequate family planning leaves women and girls vulnerable to health issues associated with inadequate timing and spacing between pregnancies.

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