Rebecca Haines
Role: Senior Governance Advisor – Asia and MENA
Team: Inclusive Governance team
Profile:
As a member of CARE International’s global Inclusive Governance technical team, currently based in Myanmar, I provide technical assistance to CARE country offices in the Asia and MENA regions, as well as contributing to CARE’s global thinking, learning and practice related to Inclusive Governance. Since joining CARE in 2015, I’ve been supporting CARE’s country offices to work with local governments, citizens, and civil society to strengthen local planning, budgeting, service delivery, and accountability. While our strengths are in applying these approaches to rural community contexts, we’re now developing approaches that apply to new settings and new populations that reflect our changing realities: urban local governments, refugee populations, female factory workers, social enterprises, and more.
Before CARE, I worked for several other multi-mandate INGOs and for the World Bank, and have a background in governance, community development, and gender. Previously, I’ve lived in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and hold an MSc in Development and Gender Studies from the London School of Economics.
One good thing I’ve read
Women in politics: Gender, power, and development by Mariz Tadros.
Email: Haines@careinternational.org
Twitter: @RebeccaLHaines
Blog posts
Putting gender into political economy analysis: Why it matters and how to do it
Friday, 16 November 2018 15:48Co-authored by Rebecca Haines, CARE Senior Governance Advisor; Tam O’Neil, CARE Senior Gender Advisor; and Emily Brown, Oxfam Gender and Governance Adviser.
For many development professionals, political economy has become the
Who are ‘the people’? – Making citizen participation models work for poor and marginalised groups
Monday, 17 September 2018 11:50In the first blog in this series, we showed how participatory power
Beyond the tools: Participatory power analysis as the missing ingredient in local governance programming
Wednesday, 01 August 2018 11:13Last week CARE Bangladesh hosted a week-long study tour for 25 participants from 10 countries in Asia, in partnership with the
The politics of citizen voice: What to do when citizen participation is used for political ends
Thursday, 01 June 2017 10:49In the development community, we typically interpret a government pushing for greater decentralisation as a positive step for governance reform and an opening for greater citizen participation and voice. Donors invest considerable funds in
Modelling social accountability in the Global Goals: Citizen-led measurement in Bangladesh
Tuesday, 20 October 2015 14:28Bangladesh has been quite successful in working towards the Millennium Development Goals, even receiving a Millennium Development Goal Award in 2010 for its notable progress toward reducing child mortality (MDG 4). But how far did this progress
