Development Blog
“I felt like life will go on, and we are able to find new ways to live a better life.” Nidal is one of more than 150,000 people who worked with CARE’s Food For Peace project to improve food security…
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Bread making in Syria
By Dina Hanania, Katherine Mercer, and Andrew Wells-Dang CARE’s impact data over the last five years has shown that nearly half of our total impact comes from advocacy and influencing that stretches beyond the direct implementation of programs. This striking…
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Women on the frontlines of advocacy in Niger (CARE #March4Women campaign, 2019)
“Initially, we opposed and resisted the [displaced people] from being settled in our community land. [These] are people who came in with nothing and wanted to use and enjoy our local resources at the expense of our community. But with…
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A woman talking in a classroom at an IDP camp in Somalia
Opening open government: How women’s rights organisations strengthen government commitments to transparency, accountability and participation in the Philippines
By Tam O'Neil 14th Dec 2020
How can governments around the world become more transparent, improve accountability and empower citizens through meaningful participation? One answer is to proactively engage women’s rights organisations in open government processes, finds action research by Rebecca Haines, Kara Medina and Tam…
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Workshop on Gender and the Open Government Partnership in the Philippines, July 2019
How does an INGO like CARE contribute to sustainable, systemic change at scale, far beyond the direct work we and our partners carry out with communities? That is the challenge we’ve put at the heart of our new 10-year strategy.…
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CARE's six pathways to achieving Impact at Scale
CARE and others have written about the increase of gender-based violence (GBV) in COVID-19, and how that has incredibly damaging impacts around the world. One of the successes of the COVID-19 response globally has been the attention global actors –…
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In the majority of countries with available data, less than 40% of women who experience violence seek help (source: UN Women)
