Development with Vlad

Vlad Doperuk
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A podcast about how development works on the ground. Behind every policy, programme and project are people: farmers organising into cooperatives, officials building institutions, donors and partners trying to make support count. In each episode I sit down with one of them to understand what succeeds, what fails, and why. Topics include cooperatives and rural livelihoods, water governance, agriculture, aid effectiveness and public policy. Made for anyone curious about how communities and institutions create change.

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  1. Oct 12

    Cooperatives and Water: How Eswatini (Swaziland) Organises Its Farmers | Sindy Mthimkhulu, Former CEO of JRBA

    Cooperatives and Water: How Eswatini Organises Its Farmers Why do some cooperatives lift families out of poverty while others collapse? In this first episode of Development with Vlad, I speak with Sindy Mthimkhulu, former CEO of the Joint River Basin Authority (JRBA) and now Executive Secretary of the Incomati and Maputo Watercourse Commission, about how cooperatives really work on the ground in Eswatini (Swaziland). We talk about how water policy shapes which farmers can organise, why boards struggle with money and power, why chickens often outperform sugarcane, and how a simple twinning partnership with Dutch water boards grew into the Blue Deal programme across Eswatini, South Africa and Mozambique. This episode is part of my MA research on cooperative development in Eswatini. Guest: Sindy Mthimkhulu – LinkedIn Host: Vlad Doperuk – LinkedIn

    Cooperatives and Water: How Eswatini (Swaziland) Organises Its Farmers | Sindy Mthimkhulu, Former CEO of JRBA
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A podcast about how development works on the ground. Behind every policy, programme and project are people: farmers organising into cooperatives, officials building institutions, donors and partners trying to make support count. In each episode I sit down with one of them to understand what succeeds, what fails, and why. Topics include cooperatives and rural livelihoods, water governance, agriculture, aid effectiveness and public policy. Made for anyone curious about how communities and institutions create change.

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