How do you translate research findings into a robust, pro-poor national program?

This episode features IFPRI’s Senior Research Fellow and Bangladesh Country Representative Akhter Ahmed ( https://www.ifpri.org/profile/akhter-ahmed ), who in a conversation with Sivan Yosef ( https://www.ifpri.org/profile/sivan-yosef ), shares the inspiring story of ANGeL, an intervention that used agriculture, nutrition, and gender trainings to directly help and empower poor people. The government of Bangladesh is now implementing ANGeL nationwide.

Read more about the ANGel Project : https://www.ifpri.org/project/agriculture-nutrition-and-gender-linkages-angel

Donors & Partners: Government of Bangladesh, BIDS, USAID, BMGF, A4NH, PIM, DFID, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and CGIAR

Interviewee: Akhter Ahmed

Interviewer: Sivan Yosef

Editor: Sivan Yosef and Jennifer Weingart

Promotions: Smita Aggarwal

Sivan Yosef interviews IFPRI’s Ruth Meinzen-Dick & FES’s Jagdeesh Rao to understand their novel approach to forge cooperation among communities to conserve a shared resource, such as water.

How do you get people to cooperate in conserving shared resources like water? IFPRI (https://www.ifpri.org/) partnered with an Indian non-profit organization called the Foundation for Ecological Security ( http://fes.org.in/) and they decided to use something that is just as fun as it sounds—experimental games.

Interviewee: Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Jagdeesh Rao

Interviewer: Sivan Yosef

Producer: Sivan Yosef

Editor: Sivan Yosef