Howard Mollett
Role: Senior Policy Advisor
Team: Programmes and Policy team
Profile:
I joined CARE in 2005, since then I’ve been lucky enough to work with our local teams and civil society partners in countries as diverse as Afghanistan, Sudan, DRC, Kosovo and most recently on the Syria regional response team. My current responsibilities include co-chairing our global network of policy specialists on gender in emergencies, with a colleague in Pakistan, and leading CARE’s advocacy in the UK on the Syrian conflict.
Over the years, I have also worked on innovative research and advocacy with country teams on conflict analysis, civil-military relations and humanitarian access. What has kept me with CARE is the organisation’s support to grassroots activists and its commitment to addressing gender in a serious way.
Prior to joining CARE, previous roles included research on human security and development at the Centre for Defence Studies; the facilitation of a network monitoring human rights implications of the ‘Global War on Terror’; support to European coordination of the Make Poverty History campaign; global coalition-building with the Our World Is Not For Sale coalition; research on trade policy; and support to a network of environmental and human rights CSOs in the Balkans.
One good thing I’ve read
Drown by Junot Diaz - short stories that offer a brilliant fictional lens on gender, class and migrant experiences in the USA.
Email: Mollett@careinternational.org
Twitter @HowardMollett
Blog posts
Getting the voices of women from disaster-affected communities into the UN World Humanitarian Summit
Wednesday, 11 March 2015 11:54Every year, hundreds of women’s rights activists come to New York to lobby governments in the United Nations on gender equality during the annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). This year, CARE International has partnered with UN Women
A call to action on gender and humanitarian reform: What happened at the high-level review at the UN General Assembly of the Call to Action?
Tuesday, 23 September 2014 14:14
What happens next? – An initial assessment of the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence
Friday, 13 June 2014 10:58Four days; over 120 states represented at senior levels from ministries of foreign affairs, defence, gender, education, justice and health; over 1,000 civil society activists; unscheduled demos from neglected conflicts and the movement against
Red herring or ripe for attention? – Putting men and boys on the agenda at the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict
Tuesday, 10 June 2014 15:31CARE International is calling for increased attention to engaging men and boys on gender-based violence at the Global
Women must have a voice in the post-2015 MDGs
Monday, 17 March 2014 09:42As diplomats from around the world converge in New York for the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UN CSW), CARE is bringing a delegation of women activists to the talks from Asia, Africa and Latin America to encourage states to
A review of Kuwait II, or the Second International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria
Wednesday, 15 January 2014 14:51As Conflict Policy Advisor for CARE International UK, I'm currently in Amman, Jordan, responding to the crisis in Syria. Now, as Kuwait II or the Second International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria comes to a close
Syria conflict: the consequences of inadequate funding
Monday, 16 December 2013 17:10Today, the United Nations and aid agencies like CARE launched a new regional response plan and funding appeal for the Syrian crisis. The needs are vast. Over one third of the population in Syria has been forced to leave their homes. One in three
CARE report reveals pitiful spending on gender in emergencies globally
Thursday, 14 November 2013 11:36According to the latest UN statistics, of the total population affected by Typhoon Haiyan, an estimated 47,600 women are at risk of sexual violence. In the evacuation centres, an estimated 2,250 women are also at risk.
We know that
Over 110 states agree to tackle sexual violence in conflict – perhaps international solidarity isn’t dead after all?
Wednesday, 25 September 2013 09:55As world leaders gathered yesterday in New York for the high-powered UN General Assembly, the governments of Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Senegal, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, the United
