Development Blog
Recently I had the honour of presenting at the PowerShift Conference on Women in the World Economy, hosted by the Oxford University Saïd Business School. PowerShift was hands down the most inspiring conference I have ever attended, largely because it…
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Women members of a village savings and loans association in Tanzania
© CARE/Nicky Lewin
Football teams are a system and markets are systems too... I am a market systems practitioner who lives and works in Brazil. After the emotions from Brazil’s semi-final failure calmed down, I started to draw a few analogies from the…
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Syrian refugees watching the World Cup in CARE’s Community Centre in Azraq Camp, Jordan
© CARE/Johanna Mitscherlich
Ending sexual violence: A safe toilet is only one, small piece of the jigsaw
By Danielle Spencer 15th Jul 2014
Syrian refugees fleeing the now 3-year-old conflict have faced rape during raids by security forces, and rape and sexual assault is so prevalent that women and girl refugees cited it as the main reason they left their country. Yet when…
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Toilets at Azraq camp, a purpose-built camp in Jordan for Syrian refugees
© CARE/Johanna Mitscherlich
Putting the EMPHASIS on migration: What do you think are the priorities for the women, migration and development agenda?
By EMPHASIS 10th Jul 2014
Migration is a critical, yet underexplored, dimension of the post-2015 development agenda. On 17-18 July, CARE and ODI are hosting the Women, migration and development conference. We want to know what you think on some of the key issues the…
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Nargis Pavin, who worked in a factory in India, with two of her children in Botospur, Bangladesh
© CARE/Jon Spaull
Women, migration and development: Five reasons why migration is a development issue
By EMPHASIS 10th Jul 2014
Earlier this year, I spent a few months in a village in Accham district in far-west Nepal in an effort to understand what motivates people to leave their homes and migrate to the towns and cities of India, writes Tahseen…
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Women in Sanfebagar, Nepal, where the EMPHASIS project runs a drop-in centre
© CARE
It’s not just about the money: 5 ways that savings and loan groups change minds and lives too
By Ella Moffat 10th Jul 2014
There are 2.5bn people who are financially excluded – who have no access to basic financial products, like savings, credit or insurance. I’ve just been to Kenya to visit Banking on Change, a programme which is changing that. I met…
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The Young Corner women savings and loans group
© CARE Kenya/Awino Nyamolo
