Development Blog
Today, on World Savings Day, we are celebrating the VSLA model by sharing learning from CARE’s POWER Africa (Promoting Opportunities for Women’s Economic Empowerment in Rural Africa) project. In our first blog in this series, we looked at VSLAs as…
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Daphrose, a participant in the POWER Africa project in Burundi
Getting financial inclusion right: Lessons from CARE’s POWER Africa project
By Kathie Oginsky 30th Oct 2018
To mark Financial Inclusion Week, we are shining a spotlight on CARE’s POWER Africa (Promoting Opportunities for Women’s Economic Empowerment in Rural Africa) project and the impact that savings-led financial inclusion has had on 750,000 people from poor households in…
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Member of Gikundiro VSLA in Rwanda, part of the POWER Africa project
Yemen: as the International Development Select Committee gathers, the voices of women and girls must not be dismissed
By Laurie Lee 30th Oct 2018
When it comes to Yemen, we are stuck in a waiting game, and expecting the worst. Two weeks ago, the UN announced that the country is on the brink of the world’s worst famine in 100 years, with 14 million…
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Rawa, 20, who lives in Aden, Yemen
Why the Conservatives can and should own the agenda to end violence in the workplace
By Sascha Lavin 23rd Oct 2018
CARE’s advocacy team travelled to the party conferences this year with one goal: to build support for our #ThisIsNotWorking campaign. How many MPs could we get on board to push for a new global law to tackle workplace violence and…
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Policy and Advocacy Intern, Sascha's party conference pass
What follows today’s Safeguarding Summit? Ways forward on gender and safeguarding in humanitarian action
By Howard Mollett 18th Oct 2018
Co-authored by Ros MacVean, Safeguarding Coordinator, CARE International, and Howard Mollett, Senior Policy Advisor, CARE International UK: Today’s Summit on Safeguarding provides an important moment for international donors, UN agencies and humanitarian agencies working on the ground to outline their…
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“We as women will be able to break stereotypes around women’s roles and responsibilities” – Asma Abdullah, a humanitarian worker in Azraq camp, Jordan
#MeToo one year on, and seven myths that stand in the way of ending abuse
By Laurie Lee 17th Oct 2018
This week marks the one year anniversary of #MeToo, and the subsequent #AidToo movement. This transformed the global conversation, and put this critical issue high on the public agenda. I for one hope it stays there until we as a…
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A placard at CARE’s #March4Women event on International Women’s Day 2018
