35 Best International Development Podcasts

1. Devex

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News, analysis and business insights from Devex, the media platform for the global development community.
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2. ODI live events

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Live recordings of events from the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), an independent, global think tank, working for a sustainable and peaceful world in which every person thrives. Our events cover everything from climate change and migration to gender and the Sustainable Development Goals. Join the global discussion of international development and humanitarian issues.MORE Producer/Network Overseas Development Institute
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Apple Rating 5/5Facebook 78.8KTwitter 142.5K Avg Length 82 min Since Feb 2015 Get Email Contact

3. World Bank - The Development Podcast

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The Development Podcast brings together the latest data, research and cutting-edge solutions that can pave the way to a sustainable future everything from poverty to climate change, education to nutrition, and a whole lot more. We'll take you on a journey around the world of international development in this World Bank's flagship monthly podcast. More information: http://wrld.bg/f2SX50MJyZBMORE Host Sarah Treanor
Producer/Network World Bank
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Facebook 2.8MTwitter 3.8MInstagram 1.1M Avg Length 27 min Since Jan 2020 Get Email Contact

4. VoxDev Development Economics

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Hear about the cutting edge of development economics from research to practice.
Producer/Network VoxDev.org
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Apple Rating 5/5Facebook 10.2KTwitter 16.4K Avg Length 30 min Get Email Contact

5. Small Changes

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Small Changes is a podcast series of one-on-one interviews with people who've seen a problem in the world and set out to change it -often in small and unexpected ways
Producer/Network The Guardian
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Apple Rating 4.4/5Facebook 8.9MTwitter 10.7MInstagram 5.9M Avg Length 27 min Since Jan 2011 Get Email Contact

6. Harvard Center for International Development

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The Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University is a university-wide center that works to advance the understanding of development challenges and offer viable solutions to problems of global poverty. CID is Harvard's leading research hub focusing on resolving the dilemmas of public policy associated with generating stable, shared, and sustainable prosperity in developing countries.MORE Hosts Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Fatema Z. Sumar
Producer/Network Harvard Center for International Development
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Facebook 17.3KTwitter 17.3K Avg Length 37 min Since Sep 2016 Get Email Contact

7. Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice

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The Cutting Edge series provides students and guests with fascinating insights into the practical world of international development. Renowned guest lecturers share their expertise and invite discussion on an exciting range of issues, from climate change policy, to pressing humanitarian crises. In 2020, the series took place online, enabling us to host fantastic speakers from around the world and to stream the lectures on YouTube, opening them up to a global audience. Now we are back in person but still recording the sessions to share with our global audience.MORE Host Dr Laura Mann
Producer/Network LSE Department of International Development
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Apple Rating 5/5Twitter 13.7KInstagram 5.1K Avg Length 111 min Get Email Contact

8. In Pursuit Of Development

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If you are interested in democracy, governance, poverty eradication, and climate change, this is your go-to podcast development. This podcast will enable you to examine development interventions critically. It will also help you better understand how 'promising' policies, programs, and practices can be deployed in a range of international contexts.MORE Producer/Network Dan Banik
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Apple Rating 5/5Facebook 888Twitter 2.9K Avg Length 49 min Since Jun 2020 Get Email Contact

9. Africa Science Focus

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Africa Science Focus offers weekly insight into the impact that science is having on health, technology and agriculture in Africa. Produced by SciDev.Net, the world's leading source of news, views and analysis about science and technology for global development.MORE Producer/Network SciDev.Net
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Apple Rating 5/5Facebook 69.8KTwitter 27.2KInstagram 765 Avg Length 31 min Get Email Contact

10. InAsia

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What does international development really mean? Hosts John Rieger and Tracie Yang take us on a journey to meet the people on the ground shaping Asia's future.
Hosts Tracie Yang, John Reiger
Producer/Network The Asia Foundation
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Apple Rating 5/5Facebook 127.9KTwitter 32.2KInstagram 18.7K Avg Length 21 min Get Email Contact

11. Growth Lab Podcast

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Led by Ricardo Hausmann, the Growth Lab at Harvard's Center for International Development works to understand the dynamics of growth and to translate those insights into more effective policymaking in developing countries. The Growth Lab places increased economic diversity and complexity at the center of the development story and uncovers how countries move into industries that offer increased productivity.MORE Producer/Network Harvard's Growth Lab
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Apple Rating 5/5Facebook 17.3KTwitter 9.6K Avg Length 30 min Since Nov 2016 Get Email Contact

12. This Week in Global Development

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Every week we break down the big headlines in global development and bring in top experts to help us do it. Hosted by Raj Kumar, President and Editor-in-Chief of Devex. Episodes are streamed live on Twitter Spaces on Fridays and published here on Mondays.MORE Producer/Network Devex
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Apple Rating 3.9/5Facebook 164.8KTwitter 114.9KInstagram 11.3K Avg Length 32 min Get Email Contact

13. The Blue Continent Podcast

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Veteran journalist and international development expert Brennan Pürtzer hosts interviews with global innovators addressing issues the world over.
Producer/Network Brennan Pürtzer
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Apple Rating 5/5Facebook 46Twitter 46 Avg Length 22 min Since May 2020 Get Email Contact

14. Good Will Hunters

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Join us as Rachel Mason Nunn explores the nuanced world of international development by talking to experts and game-changers whose voices and work are critical to radically transforming the sector and our communities for the better. Listen in and be prepared to hear from incredible people who push us to rethink international development, and how we can create meaningful and long-lasting change.MORE Producer/Network Good Will Hunters
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Apple Rating 5/5Facebook 847Twitter 5 Avg Length 44 min Since Jun 2018 Get Email Contact

15. DevDispatch Podcast

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The DevDispatch Podcast is your gateway into the latest and most relevant knowledge and information in the global development and social change sector. With each podcast, DevDispatch aspires to deliver to its listeners carefully curated information and important insight from development publications to advance social change on the continent.MORE Producer/Network DevDispatch Podcast
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Apple Rating 5/5Twitter 784Instagram 396 Avg Length 34 min Since Jan 2020 Get Email Contact

16. Rethinking Development Podcast

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Long-form, personal conversations with international development and humanitarian aid practitioners, thinkers, activists, academics, and more. Conversations center on lived experiences and reflections on ethical issues, power dynamics, systemic challenges, and lessons learned. Common themes: redistributing power, working with diverse stakeholders, negotiating partnerships, measuring impact, learning from mistakes, doing no harm, building trust, ensuring accountability, rejecting savior complexes, racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination, and much moreMORE Producer/Network Rethinking Development Podcast
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Apple Rating 5/5Facebook 1KTwitter 621Instagram 1.1K Since May 2019 Get Email Contact

17. History of Global Development

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The Center for the History of Global Development is a research focus established at the College of Liberal Arts at Shanghai University. Through conferences, workshops, publications, and discussion panels, the Center seeks to contribute to interdisciplinary scholarly debates on the repercussions of development as a phenomenon that has shaped much of recent global history while remaining conceptually vague or contradictory.MORE Producer/Network Lee Allen
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18. Studies in National and International Development Podcast

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Studies in National and International Development (SNID) is the longest-running weekly, interdisciplinary seminar series at Queen's University. Since 1983, SNID has proudly hosted prominent Canadian and international scholars who bring fresh perspectives to issues of local, national, and global development. Here, this podcast series features audio footage of lectures from the SNID seminars.MORE Producer/Network CFRC Podcast Network
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Avg Length 77 min Since Oct 2019 Get Email Contact

19. Global Development Review Podcast

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The purpose of this podcast is to engage with global development issues and to understand how the development of policies, practices and politics contributes or challenges social justice delivery. The idea of this show is to have a dialogue with marginalized groups, experts, activists, researchers, among others, and to critically reflect and discuss the wide range of challenges that our world is facing today. This includes political, social, economic, and environmental justice issues.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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20. Diaspora in Development

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The Diaspora and Development Podcast is a place where men and women of the African, Asian, Caribbean, and Latin American diaspora working in international development can discuss issues that impact the developing world and their careers.MORE Host Soraya Senosier
Producer/Network Host: Soraya Senosier | S1 Edit/Music: Rukyato & Soile Tolu | S3: APodcastgeek
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21. Candid Conversations

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Welcome to Catalyst McGill's International Development podcast. We speak to students and faculty in the world of international development studies, gaining perspective on global events.
Host Chrysalis McGill
Producer/Network Catalyst McGill
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22. International Development, Where Now?

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23. Development Unboxed

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A show provides rich conversations around the journeys of young people thriving in the international development space. With a focus on the Global South, stories will be curated through guest interviews to inspire, educate, and give insights on the to-do for living purposeful, intentional and fulfilment.MORE Producer/Network Development Unboxed
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24. D-Views

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Welcome to D-Views, a podcast series brought to you by the Glocal International Development program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Glocal translates academic research into a practical understanding of community development - an approach empowering communities in need across the world to prosper and succeed.MORE Hosts Hagit Krakov Cherni, Maria Erhard, Mickey Noam Alon, Maayan Frenkel
Producer/Network Glocal International Development Studies
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25. The IPDA Podcast

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The podcast of the International Development Association. For discussion around research and practice on professional learning.
Producer/Network International Development Association
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Apple Rating 5/5Twitter 2.8K Avg Length 16 min Since Nov 2020 Get Email Contact

26. Improving Development Evaluation

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Join Dr. David Wand as he takes you on a provocative, investigative journey challenging international development organizations to improve their performance measurement frameworks (PMFs). In part 1 of the episode, Dr. Wand will introduce you to an international development organization and one of its projects where flaws in their PMF will be identified. In part 2, the international development organization and evaluation experts will be invited to discuss Dr. Wand's critique and offer solutions to improving the evaluation of the project.MORE Producer/Network David Wand
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27. The Development Dilemma

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Lets talk about the elephant in the room: the world of international development is run by two actors, expats and nationals, who don't seem to talk. They work in the same organisations with similar goals but expats fly in and out carrying a sense of superiority and nationals become disgruntled and disillusioned with their work.MORE Producer/Network Arnav
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Apple Rating 5/5Facebook 2.7KTwitter 3.1KInstagram 5K Avg Length 42 min Get Email Contact

28. The new IDeal

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Hello everyone! The new IDeal is a podcast created by four International Relations academics so we could bring International Development analysis to everyone! Hope you enjoy it!
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29. Global Pursuit Podcast

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This podcast is to inspire young people to contribute to tackling global challenges!
Producer/Network UM International Development Studies
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30. International Development Practices

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This podcast channel is a platform for sharing actual practices in the field of international development. Highly qualified practitioners share their experience with Julien Hautier, the founder of Value4Dev. Recognizing that most discussions in the field of development focus on policies at the macro-level, this podcast digs into what is happening at meso-level. How are policies translated to practice and what we can learn from those who implement these national and international policies?MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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31. PlanetWorka - A World in Development

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Insight into the international development world by an experienced development and humanitarian professional. Episodes include diary vignettes of a variety of locations, reflections on development topics, and analysis of trends and issues. For those interested in development, humanitarianism or the world at large. A PlanetWorka podcast series - see other PlanetWorka podcast series: Agency & Development - Do Individuals Matter?; and, Culture & Development - Context Matters! for deeper analysis of development.MORE Producer/Network PlanetWorka
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32. Oxford Society for International Development

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The official Oxford Society for International Development podcast. We interview leaders and key thinkers in the field of international development to generate discussion around some of the biggest challenges facing today's global society.MORE Producer/Network Oxford Society for International Development
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