Gerry Boyle
Role: Senior Policy Advisor – Women’s Economic Empowerment
Team: Programmes and Policy team
Profile:
Gerry led CARE International UK’s policy analysis and advocacy around value chains and dignified work. He originally joined CARE as the Senior Policy Adviser on Private Sector Engagement. With the advent of our new Global Programme Strategy which put a particular emphasis on women’s economic empowerment, his focus changed a little.
Gerry co-chaired the Bond Private Sector Working Group. Immediately before he joined CARE he worked for Oxfam as Head of Business Relations for about three years, but the vast majority of his career was spent as a management consultant including being a consulting Partner at Deloitte, where for a time he led Deloitte UK’s Consumer Business consulting practice, serving many major multinationals. Gerry's original degree was in Law from Oxford University, and in 2008 when he left Deloitte he did an MSc in Philosophy and Public Policy at LSE.
One good thing I've read
Amartya Sen’s Development as Freedom. It provides a framework for many people’s modern understanding of what is development, based on a profoundly human-centred approach rather than anything instrumental. And to check whether one personally is doing enough to fight poverty, I recommend Peter Singer’s The life you can save: Acting now to end world poverty – it’s very clear and easy to read but very challenging! Finally, Ha-Joon Chang’s Bad Samaritans: Rich nations, poor policies, and the threat to the developing world is a very readable guide to economic development which argues strongly against many of the prevailing orthodoxies.
Twitter: @gerryboyle10
Blog posts
How VSLAs help ensure that financial inclusion is gender transformative
Wednesday, 26 September 2018 08:55Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) have been a cornerstone of CARE International’s programmes for over 25 years, and we have plenty of
Is DFID rowing back from the centrality of the Asia model of economic development?
Monday, 30 July 2018 10:52As previously noted, the House of Commons
Four good reasons for engaging with DFID’s Work and Opportunities for Women programme
Wednesday, 25 July 2018 13:34The DFID-flagship Work and Opportunities for Women programme (WOW) has recently completed its inception phase and is now beginning
IDC report on DFID’s Economic Development Strategy: lacking punch, misunderstanding gender but with some positives
Wednesday, 18 July 2018 14:24The House of Commons Select Committee on International Development (the
Four things the International Labour Conference must do on the global convention on GBV
Thursday, 29 March 2018 12:25The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has recently published its
World Day for Decent Work – Why we need an ILO Convention on gender-based violence in the workplace
Thursday, 05 October 2017 09:34Saturday 7 October is World Day for Decent Work, an annual event sponsored by the International Trade Union Confederation (
Why tackling violence at work will empower more women and help deliver the SDGs
Thursday, 31 August 2017 15:09There is currently a great opportunity for everyone who is interested in women’s economic empowerment to push forward a key initiative to tackle the gender-based violence which plays a key role in the workplace in continuing oppressive working
CARE’s policy asks on the ILO Convention on violence and harassment at work
Thursday, 31 August 2017 14:31The suggested ILO Convention on ending violence and harassment at work, while positive, still has some way to go on some key issues, including the role of women in developing and implementing the Convention, who are identified as workers, what is
ICAI report on DFID’s approach to inclusive growth in Africa: Where’s the impact?
Friday, 01 September 2017 14:00The Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) has recently published a report on
