Development Blog
Can more gender equality boost the competitiveness of the PNG coffee industry?
By Gianluca Nardi 24th Mar 2015
When I arrived in Yasubi, a small and industrious village in the Okapa district of the Papua New Guinea highlands, I could see that most of the services we normally take for granted – like electricity, running water, accessible roads…
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A young woman in the PNG Highlands (photographed in 2011)
Empowering women in cocoa communities: Cocoa Life partners speak at EU women’s empowerment conference
By Cathy Pieters 20th Mar 2015
Promoting gender equality is a core belief of the Cocoa Life programme. For years we have been working with partners including humanitarian organisations like CARE International to implement programmes that empower women in cocoa communities, writes Cathy Pieters, Global Director…
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The panel discussing ‘Empowering economics: Enabling an environment conducive to the full participation of women’. Cathy Pieters is second from right and Sofia Sprechmann is in the middle.
No women, no peace: Why the proposed SDG Peace Goal must not ignore gender
By Paul-André Wilton 17th Mar 2015
Goal 16 in the Sustainable Development Goals is one of the poor relations in the mix. Both more complex and contentious than many of the proposed 17, it seeks to secure peaceful and open societies as a global target, and…
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A woman queuing outside a camp for internally displaced people in South Sudan
Getting the voices of women from disaster-affected communities into the UN World Humanitarian Summit
By Howard Mollett 11th Mar 2015
Every 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…
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Fidan, a mother of 11 children, fled to Turkey from Kobane in northern Syria
This week, a major international donor conference took place in Brussels to plan the rebuilding of Ebola hit countries. Having just recently returned from Sierra Leone and Liberia, I was hoping to see a gender transformative approach informing donor commitment…
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Liberia: A woman washes her hands at a CARE handwashing station before going shopping
Post-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…
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Participants in the life skills training provided by CARE and Diageo
