How bridging a climate financing gap of up to 90% in Africa has the potential to revolutionize agriculture on the continent.

The LINKCast team talks to farmers and processors about the challenges facing Kenya’s sugar industry and explores what the Kenyan government is doing to address these challenges.

This episode of Reflections by LINKCast features Fredrick Matakidi the Finance & Operations Manager for the USAID Policy LINK South Sudan.

Over the past few episodes, this podcast has become a place of conversation, learning, and of community that has been made possible by the guests who took the time to speak to us. And you, who took time to listen.

This episode of Reflections by LinkCast features the wise and thoughtful Beatrice Tanui. As she reflects on the styles of leadership that are as diverse as the personalities that elect them.

Personal leadership has been defined as the capacity to crystallise a vision for your life and then commit to taking the necessary actions to achieve it. While marked as a quality desired in most, if not all, leaders, its attainment remains elusive and ways to nurture it sometimes feel vague.

On this episode we speak to Tanmya Tajbina Jahan, a leader with 12 years of experience in a variety of industries. Her working experience is from a nice blend of private sector and not for profit originations with the focus on Gender issues.

In today’s episode, we have the pleasure of hosting Kazi Rahman. Kazi has a world of experience in the development sector having worked in operations and project management for the better part of a decade.

On this episode, Dominic Omare, a Finance Manager with an 18-year track record of leading finance teams, takes us through his reflection on the idea of ego, how it manifests in team settings, and how to effectively respond to it.

In this thoughtful personal essay, Policy LINK Knowledge Management Coordinator Emily Andre reflects on The Art of Gathering, a book she read as part of an internal program that encourages staff to develop themselves by reading books and listening to podcasts that relate to Policy LINK’s principles and goals.

The second episode of our Road to #UNFSS series features an exciting conversation with a young Motswana agripreneur on her journey to becoming a food systems hero.

Three young agribusiness advocates and climate activists from Ghana and Kenya discuss their hopes for the UN Food Systems Summit.