On this episode of The Global Exchange, Colin Robertson speak to CGAI Fellows Emily Gilfillan and Jeffrey Phillips about Canadian assistance in sub-saharan Africa during COVID-19.

Participants Bio:

Emily Gilfillan is an international development consultant with a decade of experience working in women and youth programming across Africa. She currently serves as Scholars Program Consultant at the Mastercard Foundation supporting its goal of empowering 30 million young people in Africa to gain dignified employment.

Jeffrey Phillips is Managing Director of Dawson Strategic, Ottawa-based consulting firm specializing in evidence-based research on international trade, clean transportation, and digital policy issues. Jeff helps a wide range of public, private, and not-for-profit sector clients understand and leverage the Canadian policy landscape. (https://www.cgai.ca/jeffrey_phillips)

Read the Policy Paper by Emily Gilfillan and Jeffrey Phillips: “Covid-19 and Canada’s Development Assistance in Sub-Saharan Africa,” https://www.cgai.ca/covid_19_and_canadas_development_assitance_in_sub_saharan_africa

What Jeffrey Phillips and Emily Gilfillan are reading:

Vanda Felbab-Brown, The Extinction Market: Wildlife Trafficking and How to Counter It, https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-extinction-market/

Caroline Criado-Perez, Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, https://www.penguin.com.au/books/invisible-women-9781784706289

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Recording Date: 21 December 2020.

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Produced by Charlotte Duval-Lantoine. Music credits to Drew Phillips.