Development Blog
A Perfect Storm: How CARE campaigned for reproductive health results in Pakistan
By Alice Allan 31st Jul 2013
A recent WHO study re-confirmed that Pakistan has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world (nearly 300 women die for every 100,000 births) and many of them are under 20 years old. Despite the challenging political, economic…
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A Pakistani woman. © CARE
This week American stakeholders announced the formation of the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety and signatories to the European Fire and Building Safety Accord released their Implementation Plan. While both agreements represent steps in the right direction, to address the…
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Women working in the garment industry in Bangladesh. © CARE/Josh Estey
Debate on the possibilities at the base of the pyramid (BOP) is ubiquitous; nonetheless, too often regulated to a post-script is that frequently when we refer to the BOP what we actually mean is women at the BOP. It’s time…
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In Poverty and Out of Profit: the business case for engaging with poor farmers in Bangladesh's dairy sector
What did the Nutrition for Growth compact deliver for smallholder women farmers?
By Larissa Pelham 31st Jul 2013
The leaders of the G8 came to the UK over a month ago and David Cameron hosted a ‘Hunger Summit’. While the summit did pledge up to $4.15bn (USD) to tackle malnutrition did it take the opportunity to boost public…
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Supporting women smallholder farmers like this one is one of the most effective ways to tip the balance away from under-nutrition and poverty. © CARE
Can financial incentives increase good governance in the Democratic Republic of Congo?
By Paul-André Wilton 31st Jul 2013
The Department for International Development’s (DFID’s) largest community reconstruction programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is rewarding the four best performing councils in the region of Maniema more than $100,000 of investment to part fund their own development…
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CARE DRC Food Security Manager, Joseph Kakuru, talks with displaced people in Rubaya Camp, DRC. © CARE / Jake Lyell 2013
Recent research from the World Bank and the LSE (don’t roll your eyeballs) shows that blogging about an academic article can lead to hundreds of new readers, when before there were only a handful. CARE has 60 years of experience…
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