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Laurie Lee

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I joined CARE in August 2014, because I believe strongly in our focus on economic development, gender equality and people holding governments accountable. My focus at CARE is on ensuring we have the best people to do the job we do, to support our teams on the ground in over 70 developing countries, and to ensure we continuously improve our ability to monitor the impact of our work, and learn how to do it even better.

Prior to CARE I worked for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for seven years, advising them on development policy issues in Europe and Africa. Before that I worked for the British government. I managed British development programmes in South Africa and Afghanistan. He worked in 10 Downing Street to prepare the G8 Gleneagles Summit on Africa in 2005. And I ran the DFID Trade Policy Unit until 2008.

One good thing I've read

One of CARE’s goals is to help the 2 billion people – including 1.1 billion women – without access to financial services, to get them. This great and easy book, Portfolios of the poor: How the world's poor live on $2 a day, by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford and Orlanda Ruthven, explains why there’s no such thing as living 'hand to mouth'. The poorer you are, the more you need financial management tools.

Email: Lee@careinternational.org

Twitter: @lauriejlee

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Crowds at #March4Women 2018, CARE International UK's annual International Women's Day event to campaign for gender equality

CARE's response to the parliamentary inquiry into sexual exploitation and abuse in the aid sector

Tuesday, 10 April 2018 14:09

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

A girl and her sister wait for food supplements at a CARE-run health centre in Chad

Suffering in silence: The 70 million people you might have never heard of

Tuesday, 23 January 2018 15:07

2017 has no question been a year of harrowing humanitarian crises, a deadly year of natural disasters. According to the UN, never in our lifetimes have so many people been in need of humanitarian assistance as in 2017. What might surprise

A woman refugee talking to a CARE staff member at an ECHO-funded advice and information project in Greece

Maintaining UK responsibilities towards refugees post-Brexit

Thursday, 14 December 2017 15:38

This week (14-15 December 2017) Theresa May is in Brussels for a crunch time EU Heads of State Council meeting. The terms of Brexit, including the status of European citizens, the Irish border and future trading relations, are top of the

Tackling policy failures on #WorldRefugeeDay and beyond

Monday, 20 June 2016 08:12

CARE International UK's CEO Laurie Lee and Senior Policy Advisor Howard Mollett outline recommendations from CARE towards the Global Summits on Refugees launched on World Refugee

Tribute to Jo Cox: A passionate campaigner for justice and a better world

Friday, 17 June 2016 11:35

CARE staff in the UK and across the world are devastated at the news of the murder of Jo Cox (formerly Jo

People waiting outside a mobile health clinic set up by CARE and local partner organisation Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) at a primary school in Gaza city, August 2014

World Humanitarian Summit: Local civil society is an effective humanitarian actor

Thursday, 19 May 2016 11:19

Currently an average of only 0.2% of global humanitarian aid goes directly to local or national NGOs and civil society organisations. Multiple studies have shown that local capacity is often significantly underutilised, undervalued and overlooked

Syrian refugees being transferred from the Syrian-Jordanian border

Hoping for the best in Syria – and making the most of a ceasefire

Wednesday, 03 February 2016 14:24

I met several Syrians in Jordan and Turkey during a recent visit (mid-January). All of them said they just

Syrian refugee women and local Jordanian women from the town of Azraq meet at a CARE-run community centre at Azraq camp, Jordan, for vocational training in jewellery-making and soap-making

Syria Conference: Making markets work for refugees

Wednesday, 20 January 2016 15:51

Ahead of the Syria conference in London in early February, donors and governments in the region are working closely to agree a new plan for

Skilled birth attendants like Salma are trained in maternal and child care and managing home deliveries in rural regions such as Sunamganj in Bangladesh

Training midwives doesn’t just protect mothers – it gives women a livelihood too

Friday, 30 October 2015 11:07

Blog by Laurie Lee and Ramil Burden (Vice President, Africa and developing countries, GSK):

In the north eastern corner of Bangladesh lies Sunamganj district. A remote area that is underwater for almost half of the year,

Training midwives doesn’t just protect mothers – it gives women a livelihood too

Friday, 30 October 2015 10:54

In the north eastern corner of Bangladesh lies Sunamganj district. A remote area that is underwater for almost half of the year, it is one of the hardest places in the country to be a mother. In 2012, only 11% of births were assisted by a

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