Tim Bishop
Role: Director of Innovation Services
Profile:
Tim was formerly the Private Sector and Women’s Economic Empowerment Specialist in the Women’s Economic Empowerment team. He initially joined CARE International UK in London in September 2006 to set up the Private Sector Engagement team, which established a range of global partnerships and sustainable development initiatives for CARE. He then moved to Vietnam in 2011 where he led several internal initiatives aimed at improving CARE’s programme quality and global connectivity. This included the establishment of a new area of programming called Resilient Market Systems, analysing how to improve CARE’s women’s economic empowerment work within the context of humanitarian crises.
Still based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, he now works in the CARE USA Innovations Team and leads their global work to develop more systematic ways of delivering poverty and social injustice interventions by focusing on design systems, new operating models, and turning learning from across the CARE network into best practice. Examples include: working with CARE Philippines to design new humanitarian relief programmes with local communities; with CARE Egypt on social accountability; and with CARE West Bank Gaza on resilient market systems.
Prior to joining CARE, Tim spent 10 years in London, working in public, private and non-profit sector roles, largely specialising in corporate communications, fundraising and marketing functions.
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Email: tim.bishop@care.org
Blog posts
Innovations in resilience
Thursday, 03 January 2019 10:00
Maternal health care in Bihar: One born every two seconds
Wednesday, 19 April 2017 09:14Her first four children each died of asphyxiation during delivery. The 30-year-old’s fifth – a baby girl – was born safely at home, and against all odds. When the same expectant mother entered Bihar’s district hospital to deliver her
Dignified work: Tackling stigma in Cambodia’s beer industry
Tuesday, 10 May 2016 10:19In Cambodia, employing women to promote and sell beer in entertainment venues has long been a common way to market beer brands (both regional and international). CARE International in Cambodia sought to address the stigma and safety issues facing
Resilience and market systems: What we can learn from resilient markets in Ethiopia
Tuesday, 12 April 2016 12:15Last month I visited Tigray, Northern Ethiopia, to interview farmers and livestock traders faced with the drought effects of one of the most devastating El Niños in 50 years. What are their coping strategies in the face of extreme weather
Scale, impact and partnerships – getting beyond the buzz-words to real action
Tuesday, 19 January 2016 09:40Out on the conference circuit last year, I heard a lot about using a partnership approach (combining resources and efforts with others to reach some kind of mutually beneficial outcome) in order to reach more people (the most common definition of
Private sector partnerships: getting to the heart of the matter
Wednesday, 22 July 2015 13:38In September, the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be launched by the United Nations. And as with the previous Millennium Development Goals, the SDGs
Women’s empowerment in the hospitality and tourism sector
Monday, 02 March 2015 18:07Post-war Sri Lanka (since 2009) has much to offer tourists, and the country is relying on the hospitality and tourism sector to drive up economic gains and create a positive ripple effect on related social factors – such as meeting the
Frontier healthcare in a frontier market: Why social investment is good for business, too
Thursday, 18 December 2014 14:14For some of the world’s frontier markets, such as in Myanmar (formerly Burma), the risks of accelerated growth are that many of the country’s poorest get left behind. But as CARE’s experience creating ‘frontier healthcare’ in
The Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan: Exposing ‘middle-income’ country realities
Friday, 05 December 2014 15:27The Philippines has been classified by the World Bank as a ‘lower-middle income’ economy. On the surface of things, the Philippines’
Modernisation and development: How the private sector can help bring them together for inclusive growth
Wednesday, 03 December 2014 11:40Sri Lanka is still only five years free from a long-standing and debilitating civil war, and 10 years since the Tsunami in which 35,000 people lost their lives. But huge changes are taking place in the quest for ‘modernisation’. How will Sri
