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Alice Allan

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Alice led CARE’s policy and advocacy on women’s economic empowerment which included influencing the private sector. She is passionate about the social and economic benefits of savings-led financial inclusion.

Alice worked with CARE International UK from 2011 to 2018. She spent a big chunk of that time working with Barclays and other banks to responsibly link savers to their services. Before CARE Alice spent nearly 20 years working both ‘inside’ government – as a Human Rights Advisor at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and as a researcher in the UK parliament – and ‘outside’ at supporter-led organisations, Amnesty International UK and Saferworld where she helped push for the Arms Trade Treaty. Before that she was a journalist in Colombia and Mexico.

One good thing I've read

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958). An all-time favourite book that sums up how change can go so wrong. Generally, however, I am an eternal optimist.

Twitter: @aliceallan3

Blog posts

A garment factory worker in Cambodia - one of the faces of CARE's #ThisIsNotWorking campaign

How we got a step nearer to ending violence and harassment at work worldwide – and what’s next

Thursday, 14 June 2018 14:10

CARE is adamant that the #MeToo movement should not go down in history as a flash in the pan, but that we must harness the moment to make it a significant milestone on the path towards gender equality. The agreement at the

Women in Somaliland during the 2017 drought

2018 development prediction: 4 ways to make sure the future is feminist – from London to Yemen

Wednesday, 03 January 2018 12:15

As we launch into 2018 it is worth reflecting that 2017 has not only seen some political upheavals in the UK and the US but also some fundamental social shifts. Whilst the revelations of sexual harassment and abuse of power from Hollywood to

A CARE project in Cambodia advocated for equal labour rights for women construction workers

It’s not just the economy: Decent work for women means focusing on rights and equality too

Tuesday, 29 August 2017 16:39

The only good thing about the recent revelations over the yawningly wide gender pay gap at the BBC was the outrage. People felt it was morally corrupt and utterly unequal that women were paid less than men for doing the same job in the UK in

Young women in India discussing family planning methods at a CARE project

Family Planning Summit: The verdict

Tuesday, 18 July 2017 12:19

By Alice Allan and Christina Wegs:

The Family Planning Summit, held in London on 11 July 2017, was a chance to re-energise

Job share: where two minds are better than one… Two women share a task in Niger.

New year, new job share: Walking the talk on gender equality and flexible working

Thursday, 05 January 2017 10:34

In my line of work we all feel passionately about creating greater gender equality globally, and for CARE and many others, achieving greater women’s economic empowerment is a major goal. But how good are we at keeping our own houses in order

Members of the Yesu Amala VSLA group open the group’s shared safe during a meeting of the group’s members in Busia District, Eastern Uganda

Could women’s access to finance solve global poverty?

Friday, 27 February 2015 12:48

The global negotiations to agree a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to eradicate global poverty by 2030 will come to a conclusion this September. Many supporters of women’s economic empowerment have backed a

The World Bank Group building in Washington DC

IMF World Bank Annual Meeting: Taking the Linking for Change message to the big players in global finance

Wednesday, 15 October 2014 16:01

The IMF World Bank Annual meetings set the big picture on global finance – this year talk was how to cope with slowing growth rates in emerging economies. CARE went to