Power in the Pandemic

"If we want to move away from systems of violence, we have to reimagine a world that centres care." - Meera Ghani

In this final episode of the Climate, Covid and Care series, we hear from Meera Ghani, a climate justice activist, anti-racist and anti-capitalist feminist, and abolitionist from Pakistan. Meera works to support community initiatives with Ecolise and co-founded the Moxie Consultancy Collective to help organisat...

"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. It means valuing the sustainability of all life." - Majandra Rodríguez Acha

This is the fourth episode of a  mini series, in collaboration with the Climate, Covid, and Care: Femin...

"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 Barkha

This is the third episode of a mini-series, in collaboration with the Climate, Covid, and Care: Feminist Journey's zine which launched on the 24th of August, 2020. This publication is a collection of journeys,...

"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

This is the second episode of a new mini-series, in collaboration with the Climate, Covid, and Care: Feminist Journeys zine which launched on the 24th of August, 2020. This publication i...

"You can't speak about us, without us" -  Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim

This is the first episode of a new mini-series, in collaboration with the Climate, Covid, and Care: Feminist Journeys zine which launched on the 24th of August, 2020. This publication is a collection of journeys, stories, and ideas from five feminist activists working at the intersection of gender and climate justice.

In this episode, we hear from Hindou ...

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 during lockdowns?

How does this virus exacerbate the ongoing economic crisis and rates of youth unemployment?

Young people's voices are often the last to be heard during a crisis. Young people are rarely deemed the experts...

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 discuss the impact COVID-19 has had on the communities they work with.

We hear from Obai Kurdali who works on peacebuilding and is based in Gaziantep in Turkey, and Loraine Mponela the Chairperson ...

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 as a racist construct. They discuss the 'decolonial turn', systems of power and decision-making that uphold racism, and Robtel asks us: how complicit are we all in upholding the notion that whiteness (often geographically equalled to 'north...

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 situation more complicated for internally displaced people and refugees? What is it like to live through this pandemic in a camp setting? And what are community members, organizations and governmen...

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 featured voice: Duoi Ampilan, from Mindanao island in the Philippines.
Duoi has been focusing his efforts on changing up food systems to ensure food security at the local level. This is done t...

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 introductory episode, we consider how the coronavirus has made us rethink power structures. We hear from David Mwambari about a Post-Corona, Pan-African vision and why now is the time to decolonis...

      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 the rapid spread of the Coronavirus. In this series, we're bringing together the unheard and often forgotten voices living through the pandemic, in order to get a glimpse into the world that’s being created in the crack...

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 improve our understanding of the lived realities of women and girls. 

So, how can we gather data from social media platforms and use it to understand our current reality? Join the REAL Geek t...

"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 insecurity? 

For World Water Day 2020, The Real Geek Series discusses how research, measurement and evaluation are essential tools in improving the impact of our work in water insecure areas. Jola Mizin...

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 about women’s rarely discussed roles in fisheries and how River Camps in Bangladesh offer supportive environments for women to meet with leaders and share local water governance issues. In Nepal,...

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 women’s participation in peace building and political life. The event took place in London on the 3rd of February 2020.

The event was introduced by Dr Fenella Porter Co-Director of Women’...

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 wealth, teaches skills and improves well-being.

But how effective is the intervention?

As part of our Real Geek Series, Franziska and Simone speak to Nour and Teshome at Oxfam J...

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 Going Digital report on GDPR, two of our regular "Real Geekers", Jaynie Vonk, Global Advisor on Impact Evaluations and Simone Lombardini, Impact and Evaluation lead, discuss the implementation, challenges and dilemmas of integrati...

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 and Alexia Pretari from Oxfam, share learning from our impact evaluations. For more details and a full list of references made in the podcast, visit this blog >> https://views-voices.o...