Development Blog
What happens when cocoa-producing communities decide their own criteria for sustainability and success?
By Gianluca Nardi 27th May 2015
How can we make sure that in a developing country that is economically and socially dependent on a single commodity, this becomes a development driver rather than a curse?
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A cocoa farmer from Sikaboutou community
The global food system has failed. Almost two billion people are malnourished. In 2014, 161 million children were stunted because they did not get proper nutrition. At the same time, enormous amounts of food are lost post-harvest, or go to…
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Maka Ali, a widow in Niger, holding sorghum. During her life, four of her children have died at an early age. "I was alone taking care of them, so I cannot say their deaths weren't related to lack of food," she says.
A ground-breaking piece of development progress was marked last month when the World Bank updated its financial inclusion database and revealed that in the last three years alone, the number of people worldwide who have an account grew by 700…
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A mobile transaction during a savings group meeting in Kenya
Banking the bottom billions – new research and discussion at the European Development Days on 3 June
By Gerry Boyle 14th May 2015
2015 is the European Year for Development, and European Development Days (EDD 15) will be its flagship event. CARE International will be there discussing the role of banks in financial inclusion in developing countries.
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A customer at a Barclays bank in Uganda
This year, world leaders are set to renegotiate global commitments on poverty, climate change and development financing. At the same time, the United Nations has commissioned major reviews of UN efforts on humanitarian coordination, peacebuilding and peacekeeping operations. It is…
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Young women who fled violence in their home area to take refuge in a camp for internally displaced people in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq
Female garment factory workers in Laos: Meeting critical sexual and reproductive health needs
By Svetlana Ancker 23rd Apr 2015
How much does the average high street shopper pay attention to where their clothes come from? If asked, most people wouldn’t think of Laos – but according to a 2012 World Bank report, even though Laos’ production of garments is…
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A member of the Vientiane Youth Centre team (right) talks to a garment worker during a mobile health clinic visit to the factory
