“Who decided that they needed high-tech equipment 
over basic healthcare and medical facilities?”



Join Crystal Simeoni & Wangari Kinoti, Kenyan feminist authors as they discuss the nefarious influence of corporate power in their country’s public health system. 

They are interviewed by DAWN’s feminist economist Corina Rodríguez Enríquez and project associate, Sue Godt, in this special episode about public-private partnerships in Africa. 

The specialists delve into the case study “Medical Equipment Leasing in Kenya: Neocolonial Global Finance & Misplaced Health Priorities”. The conversation sheds light on what amounts to a neocolonial approach to development that has resulted in a dangerous lack of resources to address the most basic healthcare needs of the Kenyan population.

The episode offers paths to reimagining a truly public Africa rising, where African states can define and chart their policy agenda based on public well-being rather than corporate greed. 

This podcast is part of a series of animated and live-action films produced under the project "Old Dog, New Tricks: Neocolonialism & Public-Private Partnerships in the Global South" that highlights the effects of PPPs on women's lives.

Visit our website to learn more about this project: 
https://dawnnet.org/analysis/public-private-partnerships/

Download for free the case study that originated the film:  
https://bit.ly/3WS1zBq

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Crystal Simeoni is a Kenyan feminist that works with intersectional Pan-African feminist narratives and macroeconomic policy processes and spaces. She is currently an Atlantic Fellow on Social and Economic Inequality at the London School of Economics. 

Wangari Kinoti is a Kenyan feminist activist currently engaged in global policy advocacy on women’s economic justice and structural-based violence. Over the last 16 years, she has campaigned and implemented programmes through civil society and social justice organisations covering women’s political participation, women’s land and natural resource rights, corporate accountability, women’s paid and unpaid labour, gender-responsive public services and violence against women. She is also currently working with other African feminist activists to document histories of feminist organizing in the content.
					
Sue Godt has been engaged with development work, development education and solidarity activism since the 1970s. She has lived in sub-Saharan Africa for over 30 years working at community, national and regional levels. As Senior Programme Specialist for the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), she worked with partners to strengthen health policy and systems research programmes, mainly in West Africa, and to draw out lessons from IDRC’s health programme. Sue has a PhD from the University of Bath and continues to collaborate with colleagues and partner organisations. She is currently DAWN’s Senior Researcher & Script Supervisor for the PPP multimedia project. 	
								
Corina Rodríguez Enríquez is a renowned international Feminist economist. She earned her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Buenos Aires, her MA in Public Policy from the Institute of Social Studies (The Hague), and her PhD in Social Sciences from Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO). She works as a researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Conicet) [National Council of Scientific and Technical Research] and at the Centro Interdisciplinario para el Estudio de Políticas Públicas (Ciepp, Interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Public Policy) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Corina is a member of Gem-Lac (Latin American Gender and Macroeconomic Group), and a Board member of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE). Her working areas include Social and Fiscal Policy, Care Economy, Labour Market, Poverty and Income Distribution. Corina is a member of the DAWN Executive Committee.

Old Dog, New Tricks: Neocolonialism & PPPs in the Global South - Episode 3: The Case of Kenya

Join us in this new episode from the podcast series of the project "Old Dog, New Tricks: Neocolonialism & Public-Private Partnerships in the Global South", as we delve into the complex landscape of PPPs in Ghana. 

Our hosts, feminist economist Corina Rodríguez Enríquez and international development expert Sue Godt will guide us through an in-depth conversation with feminist researchers Gertrude Dzifa Torvikey and Sylvia Ohene Marfo. They are the authors of the case study about public-private partnerships in Dome Market in Ghana’s capital, Accra. Their article inspired the film “The Women’s Market”, launched by DAWN this March and now streaming on YouTube. 

In this engaging conversation, Dzifa Torvikey, a research fellow at the Institute for Statistical, Social and Economic Research at the University of Ghana and Program Officer for the Feminist Africa Journal, and Sylvia Ohene Marfo, a food studies researcher and Research and Program Manager for the Union for African Population Studies, provide a nuanced exploration of Ghana's PPP experiences. They shed light on the historical context, the impact of PPPs on market women traders, and the broader implications for national development.

"Most of the PPP shops are occupied by people who were not part of the market at the beginning. And women who are displaced as a result of the PPP shops—very few of them are still in the market, most of them work selling in sheds or under umbrellas or whatever space they could find in front of other people's shops. So it has really impacted the livelihood of the women who are displaced as a result of the PPP," says Sylvia Ohene Marfo. 

Through the lens of feminism, the dialogue touches upon the challenges faced by market women's associations, the growing class differentiation within the market, and the need for alternative gender frameworks to address socio-economic inequalities exacerbated by neoliberal policies.

Tune in to this thought-provoking episode to deepen your understanding of PPP dynamics in Ghana and explore pathways towards transformative change through the power of grassroots activism.

This episode was produced by DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era), with editing by Alice Furtado and engineering by Ernesto Sena. 

Join us for more insightful discussions on our website and social media platforms. www.dawnfeminist.com

Old Dog, New Tricks: Neocolonialism & PPPs in the Global South - Episode 9: The Case of Ghana

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