Development Blog
The main objective of CARE’s microfinance programme Lendwithcare is to improve the lives of poor people. So how do we measure whether we are achieving this or not? In Pakistan, with our partner organisation Akhuwat, our household survey of loan…
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Allah Rakhi, a seamstress from Pakistan and recipient of a Lendwithcare loan
This week (14-15 December 2017) Theresa May is in Brussels for a crunch time EU Heads of State Council meeting. The terms of Brexit, including the status of European citizens, the Irish border and future trading relations, are top of…
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A woman refugee talking to a CARE staff member at an ECHO-funded advice and information project in Greece
Will the UN Global Compact on Refugees leave women and girls behind?
By Howard Mollett 11th Dec 2017
This week (12-13 December 2017) diplomats meet in Geneva to take stock in negotiations towards a new UN ‘Global Compact on Refugees’ at the UNHCR High Commissioner’s Dialogue on Protection Challenges. To coincide with the Dialogue, CARE is publishing new…
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Berivan, from Aleppo, Syria, with her daughter in front of her tent in Vasilika refugee camp, Greece
Working with couples to address intimate partner violence: Lessons from Rwanda
By Sonia Martins 07th Dec 2017
Research shows that addressing intimate partner violence (IPV) requires working at society, community, household and individual levels to promote relationships built on respect, equality and peace. This blog shares the emerging learnings of working specifically with couples to address IPV…
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Jean Felix Havumiragira and Kristina Uwamahoro, who participated in the couples curriculum in Rwanda
10 key principles for private sector impact towards the Sustainable Development Goals
By Gerry Boyle 28th Nov 2017
A new report from CONCORD highlights 10 key principles which European political and financial institutions and companies need to follow to ensure that the private sector delivers positive development impacts as part of the drive towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
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The Living Blue cooperative supported by CARE in Bangladesh (Principle 1: focus on micro, small and medium enterprises and social economy enterprises)
Under the Fiji presidency of COP23 in Bonn, Germany, we have heard many stories of the devastation faced by the Pacific islands during Typhoon Haiyan, Cyclone Winston and Cyclone Pam. We have heard how Fiji is already having to relocate…
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CARE supporters at a march at the COP23 meeting in Bonn
