Transcript
A (0:04)
My name is David Ainsworth, and you're listening to this Week in Global Development, hosted by myself, Dimitri Kamba and Adva Saldingham. For this special episode, devex teamed up with Radio Davos on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum's Humanitarian and Resilience Investing Initiatives Frontier Markets impact meeting in Geneva. Co hosts Raj Kumar and Roman Pomeroy sit down with experts to discuss a seismic financial shockwave that has hit the aid sector and explore the bold new business models needed to unlock private capital and sustain development progress.
B (0:35)
Hello, I'm Robin Pomeroy, host of Radio Davos from the World Economic Forum.
C (0:39)
And I'm Rajkumar, president and Editor in Chief at devex.
B (0:43)
Hi, Raj. Great to meet you. We're here making a podcast together. Me for Radio Davos, you for the devex podcast weekly podcast, which is called this Week in Global Development. We're meeting here at the World Economic Forum's office in Geneva, where the Forum has been hosting the humanitarian and resilience Investing Initiatives Frontier Markets impact meeting, which has brought together more than 80 leaders from governments, humanitarian development agencies, private investors, and others looking to unlock catalytic capital for frontier markets. And we're lucky enough to have brought a couple of the people from that meeting, including Raj, to have a conversation about development. Raj, can you tell me something before we introduce the guests? What is devex?
C (1:30)
Sure. We're a news organization and we cover global development. So we're widely read at the un, in the NGO community, at places like the Gates foundation, and at places like, well, what used to be usaid. So it has not been a boring year for what we cover. This is one of the most tumultuous years in global development. And that's what we do at devex.
B (1:49)
Absolutely. Well, the World Economic Forum, if any of your listeners aren't aware of us, it's the International Organization for Private Public Partnership. And hosting events like today's is the kind of thing the World Economic Forum specializes in bringing different stakeholders to talk about important issues. And Radio Davos is a weekly podcast in which every week it's a different big issue that we're looking at, usually looking for solutions to some of the world's biggest problems. With that, let's get on to the big issue today. As you say, it's been a tumultuous year in your area. Tell us who our two guests are.
C (2:27)
So we've got two fantastic guests to tell us about the year that we've had and what's coming. Carla Haddad Martini, who's the director of Private fundraising and partnerships at unicef. Hey, Carla. And Julianne Euler, who's the co founder and CEO of IncomeCo. Great to be with you both.
