ODI Podcasts

In January's podcast experts discuss the rise in obesity in the developing world, explain what's going on in South Sudan and the UN's Helen Clark gives us the latest on the post 2015 agenda.

In chapter one of ODI's December podcast, Jonathan Tanner speaks to Rahaf - a 24 year old student living in Za'atari refugee camp and Killian Kleinschimdt - Za'atari camp manager, to take a look at life in one of the world's biggest refugee camps - Za'atari in Jordan

In chapter two of ODI's December podcast, Jonathan Tanner speaks to Ashley Jackson - Research Fellow, Humanitarian Policy Group and Abdi Aynte - Heritage Institute for Policy Studies, about reality of delivering aid in Somalia during the 2011 famine.

In chapter three of ODI's December podcast, Jonathan Tanner speaks to Marta Foresti - Head of ODI's Politics and Governance Programme and Catalina Uribe Burcher - International Idea - about the relationship between organised crime and democracy.

In the December podcast we take a look at life in one of the world's biggest refugee camps - Za'atari in Jordan - explore the reality of delivering aid in Somalia during the 2011 famine, and probe the relationship between organised crime and democracy.

The 19th UN Conference of all the Parties comprised the latest round of talks in the global effort to try and tackle the threat posed by dangerous climate change. Whilst in Warsaw, Jonathan Tanner spoke to former President of Ireland Mary Robinson, now leading the Mary Robinson Foundation for Climate Justice about her view on the negotiations and with the conference over I talked to Smita Nakhooda at ODI to get her view on what was achieved.

The business of budgeting brings to mind images of spreadsheets, calculators and civil servants locked away windowless rooms carrying out endless number crunching exercises. But does the way we think about the budgeting process damage our understanding of how important budgets are? In chapter three of ODI's November podcast, Jonathan Tanner speaks to Antoinette Sayeh - Africa Director, International Monetary Fund - and Philipp Krause - Budget Strengthening Initiative, ODI - about politics of budgeting in the real world.

In this month's podcast we explore the relationship between poverty and disasters, assess the place of development in UK politics and ask what we know for sure about structural transformation in low-income countries.

In the July edition of the ODI podcast, Jonathan Tanner interviews Lord Jack McConnell, Eva Svoboda - Research Fellow in ODI's Humanitarian Policy Group and Bryn Welham - Research Fellow in ODI's Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure - on the debate over whether we should be making more of the aid budget available to the military.

In the July edition of the ODI podcast, Jonathan Tanner speaks to ODI's Head of Research Andrew Norton about elections scheduled to take place in Mali.