Development Blog
How to increase investment in micro-enterprises (and get your money back)
By Gerry Boyle 08th Dec 2014
Today CARE has submitted written evidence to the International Development Committee (IDC) of the House of Commons on our peer-to-peer lending network, Lendwithcare. (For a snappier and more entertaining overview of Lendwithcare, see our new Christmas animation.) The IDC is…
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A scene from Lendwithcare's new Christmas animation
The Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan: Exposing ‘middle-income’ country realities
By Tim Bishop 05th Dec 2014
The Philippines has been classified by the World Bank as a ‘lower-middle income’ economy. On the surface of things, the Philippines’ economic gains in recent years, and its growing numbers of new middle-class citizens, represent an optimistic narrative. But as…
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CARE's shelter team with local communities in rural Tacloban
Modernisation and development: How the private sector can help bring them together for inclusive growth
By Tim Bishop 03rd Dec 2014
Sri 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…
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Workers on a tea plantation near Kandy, Sri Lanka
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The Trust Women conference (on 18-19 November) was fundamentally about women’s rights. You can’t talk of rights without talking of financial services because this encompasses so much else. Why are women not accessing education? Why do women not have access…
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Young women at a savings group meeting in Kenya
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It’s official: UK Action Plan on business and human rights still needs some legal teeth
By Gerry Boyle 28th Nov 2014
As a Policy Adviser, it is always gratifying to learn when some individual or group with a bit more power than you basically agrees with you and is pushing your viewpoint.
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A woman in Kenya working on a plastics recycling initiative
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16 Days of Activism against GBV: Engaging men to challenge the attitudes that keep violence going
By Paul-André Wilton 27th Nov 2014
From 25 November to 10 December #16DaysofActivism, CARE country offices around the world will be joining with their partners and communities to raise voices to challenge gender-based violence. In a number of countries, men will be both a target group…
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Women in Wau Shilluk in South Sudan demonstrating their opposition to conflict and GBV
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