catalystas' podcast

catalystas' podcast

Catalystas Consulting

Episodes 22
Avg. Duration 34m
Activity Highly Active
Since Oct 2018
Latest Episode Sep 2025

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About This Podcast

Catalystas Consulting is a women-led consulting firm that brings a bold, new, intersectional feminist perspective to international development, security, and policy practice. Follow along with us as we "talk shop" informally with our outstanding team of international development, humanitarian response, policy, and finance practitioners as well as experts across the field with amazing insights into various hot-button international topics and development related practices such as: impactful interventions in war-zones, attracting donors and hot trends for philanthropists, human-centered design, and applicable data-driven insights. Since our work is international and often in the far reaches of the world, we're bringing you stories from the field and our on-the-ground insights so that you can get a better picture of the realities flashing across your news feed every day.

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Recent Episodes

Episode 22: Walking the Talk - CSR and Social Good

Sep 16, 2025 52m

What does corporate investment have to do with feminism and climate change? How can we create a future where feminist organizations and climate action can align to access critical funding? How can…

S1E21 Episode 21: Syria's Civil Society: Then, Now, and the Future

Feb 18, 2025 1h 9m

How has civil activism in Syria evolved over the years, and what role will it play in shaping the country's future? In this episode, we explore the resilience and impact of Syrian civil society, from…

S1E20 Episode 20: Gender Mainstreaming - A Transformative Process, Not Just a Buzzword

Apr 22, 2024 15m

Catalystas Co-Founders Aviva and Beatrice sit down to discuss Gender Mainstreaming and how organizations can put their money where their mouths are to realize truly transformative change towards…

Episode 19: (Crossover) Conversations on Locally Led Innovation with the CLIP - Indonesia & The Philippines

Sep 19, 2023 46m

On behalf of our client Start Network, we sat down with Jessica Novia of Yakkum Emergency Unit (YEU) in Indonesia, Mayfourth Luneta of the Center for Disaster Preparedness (CDP) in the Philippines,…

Episode 18: How to Prepare for an Evaluation as an Organization?

Aug 01, 2023 30m

If the thought of having to go through an external evaluation fills your organization with dread, this is the podcast episode for you! Listen in as our founders pull back the curtain on the external…

S1E17 Episode 17: The Transformation of Evaluation: A process of engagement and inclusion, IDEAS 2022

Feb 14, 2023 40m

In this episode, Catalystas founders Beatrice Maneshi and Aviva Stein share the audio of their presentation on Breaking the Cycle: Donor Involvement, Evaluation, Accountability at the Online IDEAS…

S1E16 Episode 16: Green, Blue and ESG Bonds with Dr. Aneil Tripathy

May 25, 2022 28m

In this Episode we sit down with Dr. Aneil Tripathy, PhD, to talk green, blue, and other social sustainable bonds and their potential impacts on development and climate financing - especially in the…

S1E15 Episode 15: LGBT Africa: Claiming Space and Lifting Voices

Jun 30, 2021 34m

Catalystas Judith and Ambika sit down with Priscilla Philips, founder of the independent African queer lifestyle magazine LGBT Africa, and explore the experiences of being a queer woman in Africa,…

S1E14 Episode 14: Youth-Led Prevention of Violent Extremism and Community Response

Apr 18, 2021 36m

Catalystas sits down with Simon van Melick (SPARK), Peter Knoope (CVE/PVE Expert and former Dutch Diplomat), and Brandon Oelofse (Media Development Collective) to discuss lessons learned from their…

S1E13 Episode 13: Gender, Advocacy, and Doing No Harm in the time of Covid

Feb 02, 2021 33m

Catalystas Judith and Beatrice sat down with Ms. Anne Kwakkenbos CORDAID Netherlands Expert on Gender, Peace & Security to learn more about the impacts of COVID-19 on Sexual and Gender-Based…

S1E12 Episode 12: Sparks for Innovation: Finance, Governance, and COVID-19

May 01, 2020 36m

Catalysta Sofía Cossar sits down with Alessandra Sollberger, the founder of Top Tier Impact and author of Blockchain Mavericks, on a small island in Thailand to discuss innovation and the effects of…

S1E11 Episode 11: Agritech and the Start-Up Scene in Chad

Jan 23, 2020 20m

Catalysta Aviva Stein sat down with Ms. Safia Youssouf, a major influencer in the Chadian entrepreneurship scene, while on mission in Chad's capital, N'Djamena. Catalystas spoke with Safia about her…

S1E10 Episode 10: So Feminism in Iraq?

Nov 28, 2019 29m

In October, Catalystas Beatrice Maneshi was in Iraq and had a chance to sit down with our clients at the Center for Gender Development Studies (CDGS) at the American University of Iraq in…

S1E9 Episode 9: Lebanon's Forest Fires and the Revolutions Impact on Response Efforts

Nov 04, 2019 38m

17 days into the 2019 revolution in Lebanon and one-months since the devastating forest fires that swept through the country the world wait to see what happens to "Paris of the Middle East".…

S1E8 Episode 8: From Justice to Solutions: A HiiL Worth Climbing

Sep 23, 2019 43m

Catalystas Aviva and Sofia sat down with Gijs Verbossen and Grace Ellis from HiiL (The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law) for a gripping legal-tech talk. HiiL is a social enterprise devoted to…

S1E7 Episode 7: Where There's a WILL, There's a Way

Jul 22, 2019 41m

An in-depth interview with Ms. Fatou Baldeh, Founder and CEO of Women In Liberation and Leadership. WILL aims to address violence against women and girls in The Gambia, with a particular focus on…

S1E6 Episode 6: Combating Child Mortality and Maternal Health in East India

Mar 14, 2019 36m

Catalystas had the opportunity to interview Dr. Nirmala Nair, Founder of the child health, human trafficking and women's empowerment organisation Ekjut, that operates out of Panwar Jarkan Province.…

Episode 5: Better Aid, Not Band-Aids

Feb 11, 2019 42m

Catalystas Aviva and Sofia sit down with Arjan Hehenkamp, current Deputy Director of the Dutch organization Stichting Vluchteling (Refugee Foundation) and former operational director and general…

S1E4 Episode 4: The Human Rights of IDPs

Jan 09, 2019 32m

UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), Ms. Cecilia Jimenez-Damary, joins Catalysta Aviva to discuss the roles of the UN, the state, and NGOs when it comes…

Episode 3: South Sudan: Conflict, Camps, and Community Empowerment

Nov 07, 2018 36m

An interview with John Jal Dak and Matthew Lam Joar, two youth leaders from South Sudan, on conflict, community building, and youth empowerment at the One Young World Forum, presented by the Dutch…

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