Alice Allan
Profile:
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
Welcome to... not another development blog?!
Wednesday, 31 July 2013 11:47Recent research from the World Bank and the
A Perfect Storm: How CARE campaigned for reproductive health results in Pakistan
Monday, 29 July 2013 13:33A recent WHO study re-confirmed that Pakistan has
Progress and poverty in Peru
Thursday, 11 October 2012 15:22Along with a delegation from CARE International UK, I recently visited colleagues at CARE Peru (or Cah-Rey Peru as its pronounced in Spanish!) to witness how they are reaping real results in tackling the challenges of poverty and inequality in a
Local to global advocacy at CARE
Thursday, 11 October 2012 15:19As NGOs gathered in London last week to begin discussing ‘Make Poverty History Mark 2’, an Indian colleague neatly summed up what he felt CARE needs to focus on if we are to make significantly more progress towards poverty
