Development Blog
Together with a colleague, Professor Malcolm Harper, I recently spent 18 months researching and editing a book on Islamic microfinance – which is defined as Shari’ah compliant financial services for poor people. Here are some of the key findings.
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Participants in a Lendwithcare-supported women's empowerment project in Pakistan
CARE's response to the parliamentary inquiry into sexual exploitation and abuse in the aid sector
By Laurie Lee 10th Apr 2018
On Friday, CARE International UK submitted a response to UK Parliament’s International Development Committee’s Inquiry into sexual exploitation and abuse in the aid sector.
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Crowds at #March4Women 2018, CARE International UK's annual International Women's Day event to campaign for gender equality
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Four things the International Labour Conference must do on the global convention on GBV
By Gerry Boyle 29th Mar 2018
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has recently published its ‘Yellow Report’ on the input from states, employers, unions and civil society to the proposed new Convention on ending violence and harassment in the world of work. The Yellow Report’s wide-ranging…
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A female construction worker on a building site in Cambodia
Four suggestions on how Doing Development Differently can better listen to and engage Southern civil society
By Rebecca Haines 28th Mar 2018
Gilbert Muyumbu’s recent blog set out a challenge to the Doing Development Differently (DDD) narrative: does DDD risk reproducing or strengthening the unequal power relations between state and citizen, elite and poor, that cause poverty, insecurity and injustice for so…
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A meeting at CARE's offices in Kabul, Afghanistan
In June 2017 the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, announced that “the UN has to change” and shift to a new way of working. Amongst other action points, and building upon commitments made at the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit,…
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Bridging the humanitarian/development divide: South Sudanese refugees in Uganda
Celebrating 1918 – #StillMarching in 2018: International Women’s Day Keynote Speech at the Commonwealth Secretariat
By Helen Pankhurst 16th Mar 2018
The International Women’s Day Keynote Speech delivered by Helen Pankhurst at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London on 8 March 2018.
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Helen Pankhurst delivering the International Women’s Day Keynote Speech at the Commonwealth Secretariat
