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The Sector Debrief brings you inside the real conversations that shape the humanitarian and development world. No polished lines. No scripted answers. Just honest discussions about politics, funding, power, localization, pressure, and the future of crisis response.
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E11: The Joy of Collaboration Over Control (opens the original)
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"Not having the control is actually quite liberating." In this episode, Kim Kucinskas, Thomas Jepson-Lay, and Ali Al Mokdad are joined by Susan le Jeune d'Allegeershecque, Secretary General of St John International, to talk about leadership and localisation inside an organisation that has been locally rooted from the start, with a long investment in local leadership. Today it is a federation of 44 independent charities and nearly 200,000 volunteers drawn from the communities they serve. Susan me
E10: Inside the Impact Alliance (opens the original)
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"We are practising our way into what the future will look like." In this episode, Kim Kucinskas, Thomas Jepson-Lay, and Ali Al Mokdad are joined by Vanessa Self, Project Director of the Impact Alliance, the collaboration between CARE, Mercy Corps, and Save the Children, created when three CEOs, Michelle Nunn, Tjada D'Oyen McKenna, and Janti Soeripto, came together aiming for deeper collaboration and efficiency. Vanessa Self is honest about the initiative: collaboration is slower, harder, and les
E9: What Do You Tell the Next Generation? (opens the original)
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"As educators, we need to start thinking about what we're educating people on." In this episode, Kim Kucinskas, Thomas Jepson-Lay, and Ali Al Mokdad work through a question all three keep getting asked. What do you tell a student, an emerging leader, or a colleague who just lost their job, about a career in humanitarian and development work, when the old pathway into it no longer exists the way it used to? The conversation moves between the personal and the structural. Ali Al Mokdad shares what
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