Coady Radio - The Development Podcast

Citizenship as agency: The dynamic between political and economic citizenship.

Episode 044: Mallah Tabot of Cameroon

Mallah Tabot, a double-graduate of Coady Institute, has been recognized as one of Cameroon's most influential young women leaders. She has won a Queen's Young Leader's award, and most recently, won a United Nations World Summit award for digital innovation. Her team at United Vision developed a popular sex education app for smartphones called Ndolo360. Mallah credits her Coady education for helping her continue to progress as a leader in her country. Links: United Vision organization:ht...

043: Amanda Lindhout, graduate and best-selling author, returns to Coady and StFX University

2010 Diploma in Development Leadership graduate Amanda Lindhout talks about her kidnapping in Somalia, her award-winning book 'A House in the Sky', the value of International Women's Week, along with memories of her time at Coady Institute in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Ms. Lindhout was interviewed by Olga Gladkikh. Show notes: 01:00 The day she arrived for Coady's diploma program in 2010. 03:20 Why she started the Global Enrichment Foundation to educate women and children in Somalia. ...

Episode 042: Yogesh Ghore on Rockefeller Foundation poverty research project

Yogesh Ghore, senior program staff at Coady International Institute, talks about research into market-based solutions to combat extreme poverty, especially among the disabled. Ghore has teamed up with colleagues at the Institute of Development Studies (UK) and ADD International as part of a project funded by the Rockefeller Foundation's Inclusive Economies initiative. He recently returned from his second field trip in Uganda. The project was also the topic of a blog post on Oxfam's Fro...

Episode 041: Jaya Luintel and The Story Kitchen

Coady Research Fellow Jaya Luintel has been using community radio in Nepal to amplify the voices of women who have been victimized by conflict. Luintel was recently awarded the 2016 Tomorrow's Peacebuilders Award at a ceremony in London, England. Her Kitchen Story project was selected from among 244 applicants in 61 countries. She sat down with Coady Radio host Richard Perry as she was preparing to return to Nepal. 

Episode 040: Senator Murray Sinclair on Reconciliation

Senator Murray Sinclair, former chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, shares his hopes for the future with students, staff and faculty at St. Francis Xavier University and Coady Institute. Mr. Sinclair believes the federal and provincial governments need to catch up with the public when it comes to taking action for a stronger Canadian society. Recorded on November 8, 2016.

Episode 039: Alan Syliboy – Art for Social Change

Renowned Indigenous artist Alan Syliboy talks about using his art for social change. Syliboy is the 2016 Coady Chair in Social Justice at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. He is the first Indigenous person to hold the annual chair. Syliboy grew up in the Mi'kmaw community of Millbrook First Nation. This audio was recorded during his public presentation 'Art and Social Justice', on October 12, 2016.

Episode 038: Shared leadership – Dr. Myrna Kay Cunningham Kain of Nicaragua

Dr. Myrna Kay Cunningham Kain in conversation with Pamela Johnson of Coady International Institute and Amanda Meawasige, Coady graduate and senior health policy analyst with the Assembly of First Nations in Ottawa, Canada. They talk about the value of shared leadership, and whether technology makes it easier to move away from traditional, hierarchical forms of leadership. Also, are traditional Indigenous forms of healthcare becoming mainstream? Dr. Cunningham Kain is board chair of the Ass...

Episode 037: Association for Women's Rights in Development

Richard interviews two Coady graduates, who are joining fellow alumnae and Coady staff at the AWID forum in Brazil, Sept. 8-11, 2016. Amanda Meawasige took the 2011 Indigenous Women in Community Leadership program, and now works for the Assembly of First Nations in Ottawa, Canada. Raquel Helen Silva is a graduate of the 2015 Global Change Leaders program. She specializes in social entrepreneurship and works for Thomson Reuters in Brazil.

Episode 036: Advocating for disability rights; and transparency in Egypt.

Pamela Johnson interviews disability rights advocates Steven Estey and partner Anne MacRae. Richard Perry speaks with Naela Refaat of Egypt, who worked with Coady on the Transparency and Accountability in Governance project, funded by the Ford Foundation.

Episode 035: Eileen Alma, Int'l Centre for Women's Leadership

Show notes: 00:00 Introduction by Richard Perry 01:00 International Women's Day (Week) events in Antigonish 02:37 Indigenous reconciliation in Canada 03:30 Coady Connects alumni learning network pilot 07:01 Coady and the Assoc. for Women in Development conference in Brazil 10:16 Upcoming women's programs beginning in spring 2016 13:31 Growth of women's centre since it began in 2011 15:18 Announcements by Richard 16:22 Ends  

Episode 034: Guatemala's Adrian Adalberto Castillo returns to Coady

This month, the story of Adrian Adalberto Castillo, who graduated from Coady in 1963 and returned to build the co-op movement in Guatemala. His family was worried that he would return from Canada with blue eyes and would forget to speak Spanish.

Ep: 033 Book launch! – Alison Mathie and Gord Cunningham

In this episode, we discuss the release of Citizen-led Innovation for a New Economy. It contains eleven case studies of creative communities in Canada and the United States. In Canada and the USA, the book is available for purchase at http://brunswickbooks.ca/Citizen-Led-Innovation-for-a-New-Economy/   In other countries, it can be purchased online at http://developmentbookshop.com/citizen-led-innovation-for-a-new-economy This book is edited by Alison Mathie of Coady International Institute...

Episode 032: Nadjet Bouda, from poet to social activist; Magalie Dresse inspires leadership in Haiti.

Nadjet Bouda is a program officer with Equitas International, the human rights training organization. She recently graduated from the Re-thinking Partnership certificate at Coady Institute. Nadjet feels youth education is critical to fighting fundamentalism in the Middle East North Africa region. Read our online Q&A at http://coady.stfx.ca/alumni/nadget-bouda/. In part two, we hear Magalie Dresse of Haiti, also a Coady grad, deliver the keynote address at our annual fundraising gala in Hali...

Episode 031: Activist and author Wab Kinew talks leadership; Pamela Johnson on CBC Yukon

Wab Kinew is one of Canada's best-known Indigenous broadcasters. His father attended Coady Institute almost 50 years ago and went on to great success as a regional and national leader. Richard Perry spoke with Wab about his new book 'The Reason You Walk' and the time his father spent learning community activism at Coady. Also, staffer Pamela Johnson heads west and north to promote our Indigenous Women in Community Leadership program.

Episode 030: Yogesh Ghore's producer-led value chain analysis tool

Senior program staff Yogesh Ghore of Coady International Institute discusses his Occasional Paper: Producer-led value chain analysis: The missing link in value chain development - a tool for effective engagement of small producers. The project draws on Coady's ten-year partnership with Oxfam Canada on asset-based and citizen-led development (ABCD). The entire document is available online in .pdf format at http://www.coady.stfx.ca/knowledge/

Episode 29: Guatemalan graduate Adrian Adalberto Castillo (1962-63) returns to Coady.

Mr. Castillo is originally from Guatemala, Central America. Following his Coady studies in 1963, he returned to Guatemala where he worked diligently for 17 years establishing the vast majority of credit unions, until his family was forced to flee to the United States during the civil war. This trip to Coady was for their 60th wedding anniversary. Later that day we presented him with a copy of his diploma, which he was forced to leave behind when he fled Guatemala.  Richard MacKenzie of th...

Episode 28: Tsigie Haile, founder of WISE Ethiopia

Tsigie Haile is founder and managing director of Women in Self Employment (WISE) Ethiopia. WISE is Coady's Ethiopian partner in the Government of Canada-funded project: Women's Leadership for Economic Empowerment and Food Security. She talks about the early days, types of training offered to women and girls, and how WISE uses credit and savings networks to improve the lives of women and girls.

Episode 027: Canadian Women's Foundation Leadership Institute/OceanPath Fellowship

Host Richard Perry speaks with Coady program officer Pamela Johnson and CWFLI graduate Indu Krishnamurthy about this unique educational partnership that supports women leaders in the Canadian not-for-profit sector. And StFX University students Asia van Buuren and Aaron Thornell are more than a little excited about their upcoming one-year venture as new OceanPath Fellowship participants.

Episode 026: Anuj Jain on Coady/Oxfam collaboration in Palestine

Host Richard Perry talks with Anuj Jain, senior fellow, microfinance and development at Coady International Institute, StFX University. They discuss Coady's work with Oxfam's 'From Grove to Market' program in the olive sector and advances in the vegetable sector.

Episode 25: Shaiju Chacko in India; Deborah Barndt in Mexico.

Host Richard Perry talks with Coady '11 graduate Fr. Shaiju Chacko, who helps coordinate a massive job training program for youth in India. He also contributes to a relief program that followed the monsoon floods of 2014. Also, Deborah Barndt describes a spring certificate offered at Coady - Integrating Food Justice into Community Programs.

Episode 023: Colleen Cameron on Community Health Impact Assessment training

Colleen talks about providing training in India, Ghana and Sierra Leone. "Well the work in India was very exciting because it was the first time we had gone overseas with this. We worked with the staff, volunteers and board members of the Association for Social and Health Advancement. We worked for three days to help them create their own assessment tool. After that we went to a very remote rural area and worked with a group of semi-literate women. The ASHA staff and volunteers we had trained...

Episode 024: Colleen Cameron on using CHIA tool for community advocacy

Colleen describes how the the CHIA tool is used for advocacy. "Recently I worked with two small groups around Antigonish where there was talk of closing their local schools . And we went through the process to assess what the impact would be on the health of their community if their school closed. We didn’t look at the benefits, because this group wanted to keep their school open. They were very surprised to find all the different ways that the school benefited their community that they hadn’...

Episode 022: Pamela Johnson interview on CBC Radio

Pamela Johnson, program officer with the International Centre for Women's Leadership at Coady Institute, is interviewed by CBC Radio Cape Breton about her new role at the Institute, and about upcoming programs in the Women's Centre.

Episode 021: Kodwa Tyiso Reflects of the Death of Nelson Mandela

Kodwa Tyiso, a graduate of the 2013 Global Change Leaders program at Coady Institute, reflects on the passing of Nelson Mandela. Ms. Tyiso lives in Praetoria, South Africa.

Episode 020: Afi Yakubu, recipient of 2013 Katherine Fleming Award

Coady diploma participant Afi Yakubu talks about her advocacy work using film to promote the rights of girls and women in Ghana. She received the 2013 Katherine Fleming International Development award at a ceremony during the annual Coffee with Coady event at StFX University.

Episode 019: Coady Institute featured on CBC Radio

Antigonish Community Contact Janet Becigneul and Information Morning host Don Connolly discuss the arrival of 34 development practitioners to the Coady's 2013 diploma program and the positive impact their presence has in the local community.

Episode 018: Heartwarming reunion at Coady Institute this weekend

Regina Okafor came to St. FX University’s Coady International Institute from Nigeria when she was six months pregnant in 1972, and while studying here, she gave birth to her son. She and the Coady Institute staff weren't quite sure how to handle this, and luckily a local couple stepped up and took care of the boy named Luke `Coady.` The Coady International Institute’s Richard Perry says Regina and Luke are coming back to visit the Muise family for a special re-union over the Canada Day week...

Episode 017: Janis Brooks speaks at CWFLI Graduation

Participant Janis Brooks of Vancouver, BC speaks on behalf of the first cohort in the Canadian Women's Leadership Learning Institute at the Coady Institute. The graduation ceremony was held on June 13, 2013 at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. More information on the program at www.coady.stfx.ca/themes/women/cwfli/

Episode 016: Lorraine Desmarais speaks at CWFLI Graduation

Participant Lorraine Desmarais of Winnipeg, Manitoba speaks on behalf of the first cohort in the Canadian Women's Leadership Learning Institute at the Coady Institute. The graduation ceremony was held on June 13, 2013 at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. More information on the program at www.coady.stfx.ca/themes/women/cwfli/

Episode 015: Chanel Grenaway speaks at CWFLI Graduation

Chanel Grenaway, Director of Economic Development Programs with the Canadian Women's Foundation, pays tribute to the first graduating cohort of the Canadian Women's Foundation Leadership Institute offered at the Coady Institute. The graduation ceremony was held on June 13, 2013 at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. More information on the program at www.coady.stfx.ca/themes/women/cwfli/

Episode 014: Eileen Alma speaks at CWFLI Graduation

Eileen Alma, Manager of the International Centre for Women's Leadership at the Coady Institute, speaks about the special partnership between Coady and the Canadian Women's Foundation on a three-year pilot project. The graduation ceremony for the first cohort of 24 women was held on June 13, 2013 at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. More information on the program at http://www.coady.stfx.ca/themes/women/cwfli/

Episode 013: Dr. Margarita Guajardo on advocacy and citizen engagement in Mexico

Margarita Guajardo of Saltillo, Mexico teaches law at the Technologico de Monterrey. She has her PhD in International Law from Tulane University and a Masters in Economics. She decided to take the popular Advocacy and Citizen Engagement certificate program at Coady International Institute to support her advocacy work in her home country. She spoke in May 2013 with the Coady's Richard Perry just before leaving Canada.

Episode 012: Pat Flett, Mentor, Indigenous Women in Community Leadership

Pat Flett, a mentor in the 2011 Indigenous Women in Community Leadership program at Coady Institute, talks about the unique approach offered by this award-winning program. For more on her background, visit http://www.coady.stfx.ca/womens-leadership/mentors/Flett/

Episode 011: Anuj Jain & CS Reddy on Community-based microfinance

Anuj Jain of Coady International Institute and CS Reddy of APMAS India join host Richard Perry for a discussion of the merits of community-based microfinance.

Episode 010: Coady's Institute's Approach to Adult Education

Listen as David Fletcher, Manager of Educational Programs, and Olga Gladkikh, Coady facilitator talk about the Institute's approach to adult education. They also discuss the need for 'leadership capital' and what that means for community development. This audio recording runs 35:47.

Episode 009: Coady '07 grad Moussa Gadio of Mali on CBC Radio World at Six

CBC Radio News interviewed Moussa for a local perspective on recent unrest in his country. Moussa graduated from Coady's 19-week Diploma in Development Leadership program in 2007. He is program co-ordinator with the US African Development Foundation, and lives in Bamako, Mali in West Africa.

Episode 008: Coady '12 grad Akh Muzakki of Indonesia

Akh Muzakki recently completed the Mobilizing Assets for Community-Driven Development certificate at Coady International Institute. He is a lecturer with the State Islamic University at Sunan Ampel. In an interview with Richard Perry, Muzakki talks about taking lessons from two Nova Scotia communities - St. Andrews and Canso - back to Indonesia. He is excited about spreading what he calls the 'positive virus' of a Coady education.

Episode 007: Coady '88 grads Amy Ekdawi and Nader Tadros of Egypt

This husband-and-wife team took the six-month diploma program and went on to successful careers in international development. Ekdawi manages the Middle East/Africa program at the Bank Information Centre. Tadros is a senior facilitator and advocacy specialist with the International Budget Partnership. Both co-facilitated Coady's new Good Governance and Social Accountability Tools certificate course in May 2012.

Episode 006: Marie Delorme, CEO, The Imagination Group

Marie Delorme, CEO of The Imagination Group in Calgary, Alberta talks about why she became involved with the Indigenous Women in Community Leadership program at Coady International Institute. Ms. Delorme received the Metis Nation Entrepreneurial Leadership Award, and is also a mentor in the Coady program. Its first 12 participants graduated in August 2011.

Episode 005: Chief Candice Paul, St. Mary's First Nation, NB

Chief Candice Paul of the Saint Mary's First Nation in New Brunswick speaks about her role as a mentor in the Indigenous Women in Community Leadership program. Chief Paul is the first woman to be elected as Chief in her First Nation, and also sits on committees at the national level within the Assembly of First Nations.

Episode 004: Coady grad Lila Pavey of Stepping Stones International in Gaborone, Botswana

Lila Pavey talks about the work she does as program manager with Stepping Stones International in Botswana. The non-profit organization empowers at-risk youth, including orphans who lost their parents through HIV/AIDS. Lila was part of the Xtending Hope program at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia Canada, where she received her BSc in Biology. She was then selected for the Youth In Partnership program at the Coady International Institute at StFX. The youth program is f...