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Rural Savings and Credit Unions in Honduras: a model to promote more inclusive market systems and women’s economic empowerment

By 27th Feb 2017
Reyna Araceli Reyes Sorto, age 44, lives in Villanueva Cortes in Honduras. When she was a child she dreamed of being a doctor yet because of economic hardship and lack of access to higher education, she was unable fulfil her… Read more...
Reyna Araceli Reyes Sorto standing in a field of maize Reyna Araceli Reyes Sorto standing in a field of maize

Payment by results: How to deliver results-based financing through monitoring, evaluation and use of evidence

By 14th Feb 2017
Payment upon demonstrating a set of agreed results is an emerging contractual modality that many donors are choosing to pursue. DFID together with USAID are leading this discourse and applying this funding approach to an increasing number of thematic areas,… Read more...
CARE staff interviewing a recipient to ensure transparency in distributing cash payments to displaced people returning to Chad CARE staff interviewing a recipient to ensure transparency in distributing cash payments to displaced people returning to Chad

Doing Development Differently two years on: not just a fad, but real substance

By 27th Jan 2017
At the end of 2016 the Doing Development Differently community held a workshop to take stock. What have we learned over the past two years? Is anything actually different? Read more...
Young women in Mali: could Doing Development Differently improve food security for people in countries like Mali? Young women in Mali: could Doing Development Differently improve food security for people in countries like Mali?

New evidence supports the business case for factory owners investing in training female garment workers

By 24th Jan 2017
CARE’s programmes on dignified work have for a number of years included training sessions for women in factories. Recent research provides further evidence, backing up our own findings, that investing in training for women workers makes good business sense for… Read more...
Workers at a garment factory in Cambodia Workers at a garment factory in Cambodia

Let’s make technology the solution to poverty and gender inequality

By 23rd Jan 2017
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is upon us. Too much to be excited about, right? Or, like me, you may still be wrapping your head around what this revolution means... Read more...
Young women in Jordan who receive vocational and business skills training to help them set up microenterprises Young women in Jordan who receive vocational and business skills training to help them set up microenterprises

Monitoring, evaluation and learning: Adaptive management to achieve impact results

By 18th Jan 2017
One of the trendiest buzzwords in the development and humanitarian sector at the moment is “adaptive management”, which carries heavy weight in focusing on MEAL practices while remaining neutral to political forces and the increased commercial pressures on aid spending.… Read more...
An information point for recipients of cash transfers in Zimbabwe An information point for recipients of cash transfers in Zimbabwe

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