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Studying development and humanitarian aid
The best podcasts from world class universities
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Development and Humanitarian Action
Oxford University (Department of International Development)
http://www.forcedmigration.org/podcasts
Forced Migration Online offers a collection of audio podcasts that can be downloaded for free. The podcast series includes lectures from forced migration events and discussions between experts on forced migration issues from academia, practitioner organizations and international agencies. Also increasingly the series features interviews with refugees and other displaced people.
United Nations University (UNU)
http://ocw.unu.edu/ocw/Courses_listing
The main idea behind UNU free courses is to make the materials produced and used by UNU Research and Training Centres and Programs available free of charge to anybody. You will find a good list of topics, including government, technology, water, health and the environment. Please note that the courses do no provide credits or certificates.
Johns Hopkins University
http://www.jhu.edu/news/podcasts
Great Ideas is a monthly podcast featuring Johns Hopkins University researchers and scholars in lively conversations about the most interesting ideas in science and technology, the humanities and the social sciences. A lot of interesting and stimulating topics – ranging from political sciences to communication, technology to health. Not strictly related to non-profit though, but still inspiring.
AlertNet
Reuters AlertNet is a humanitarian news network based around a popular website. It aims to keep relief professionals and the wider public up-to-date on humanitarian crises around the globe. You will find an interesting and useful set of tools and services designed to make life easier for reporters, fact-checkers and editors when covering humanitarian emergencies. Their suite of online tutorials – designed to give journalists the edge when covering humanitarian emergencies – is also well worth checking out.
Panos International
Panos promotes the participation of poor and marginalised people in national and international development debates through media and communication projects. On their website you will not find lectures by acclaimed academics, rather, you will find informative articles, podcasts and videos shot by affected communities; a good alternative by those who could be seen as ‘experts in their own right’.
Youth Action for Change (YAC)
YAC is a global, youth-led organisation inspiring and empowering young people to become active agents of change in their own communities. It offers youth-led courses periodically on several issues, including Sustainable Development, Human Rights and Project Management among others.
