Episode 3.3: How to turn an idea into reality? 3 Ps: Policies, processes, and partnerships
This episode features insights from:
- Anna Kondakhchyan: Head of Cash and Markets at NORCAP/Norwegian Refugee Council
- Dr. Kathryn Taetzsch: World Vision International’s Senior Director, Global Humanitarian and Development Capacity and Capabilities
- Sindhy Obias: Executive Director of the Assistance and Cooperation for Community Resilience and Development (ACCORD)
Key themes explored in this episode:
- The importance of translating policy commitments into tangible actions that permeate the entire organization.
- The need to recognize that changes in policy then involve numerous practical changes across an organization, which can present challenges related to adapting to new systems and processes.
- The importance of investing in evidence building and learning during the process of scaling up the use of cash.
- The value of engaging stakeholders in the change process, addressing concerns, and ensuring that everyone is onboard.
- The need to recognize that cash assistance may not be immediately feasible in every context and to adapt accordingly.
- The value of fostering robust partnerships, particularly with local governments, to facilitate sustainability and maximize impact in communities.
Listen to this episode to understand how these key elements can effectively drive the transition from the vision of change to practical action.
Tune in and let’s find out!
CashCast is an occasional podcast from the CALP Network that looks in depth at the critical debates in humanitarian cash and voucher assistance (CVA).
Host
Karen Peachey
Karen worked with CALP from early 2017 through to August 2024. She has worked in both development and humanitarian contexts since the 1990s. Among many other things, Karen has a keen interest in networks, the power of collective action, and how systems change happens. She recorded this series before leaving CALP.
Featured Guests
Anna Kondakhchyan
She is a senior leader, experienced in change management for humanitarian aid organisations and networks; expertise and interests include design and implementation of digital cash in humanitarian and social protection settings, responsible data and (digital) risk management. With extensive management experience leading high performing multicultural teams, managing complex stakeholder relationships and developing partnerships to effect change. I am a qualified career coach, facilitator, action learning practitioner and a member of a growing cohort of digital financial services professionals. With broad international experience. She is currently the Head of Cash & Markets at NORCAP.
Sindhy Obias
She is a humanitarian and development worker who currently serves as the Executive Director of the Assistance and Cooperation for Community Resilience and Development (ACCORD), a Philippine non-government organization. She has 21 years of experience in community-based humanitarian and development work, with extensive involvement in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of both Integrated Risk Management programs and humanitarian response actions in the Philippines. Throughout her career, Ms. Obias has collaborated closely with communities, educational institutions, local and national government agencies, and civil society organizations.
Dr. Kathryn Taetzsch
Kathryn has over 25 years of strategic and operational humanitarian response and academic research experience in fragile, conflict- and natural disaster-affected contexts in Africa, Asia, and Middle East, Eastern Europe (Ukraine Crisis, Iraq Response), and Latin America (e.g. West Africa Ebola response, South Sudan/ Uganda Refugees, Iraq IDPs and Syrian Refugees, Darfur crisis response, Indonesia IDPs, Hurricane response in central America, El-Nino disaster preparedness & response, etc). She is currently World Vision International’s Snr. Director, Global Humanitarian and Development Capacity and Capabilities.
