Development Blog
New year, new job share: Walking the talk on gender equality and flexible working
By Alice Allan 05th Jan 2017
In my line of work we all feel passionately about creating greater gender equality globally, and for CARE and many others, achieving greater women’s economic empowerment is a major goal. But how good are we at keeping our own houses…
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Job share: where two minds are better than one… Two women share a task in Niger.
Since starting an internship at CARE International UK in the Policy and Advocacy team, I’ve had the chance to support research on women’s economic empowerment programmes, with a specific focus on the ready-made garment sector in South East Asia. CARE’s…
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A garment worker in Cambodia
From Bad to Extreme – the deteriorating situation for women and girls in South Sudan's war
By Danielle Spencer 14th Dec 2016
Three years on from the start of the conflict in South Sudan, I returned to the country to help ensure that CARE’s life-saving work reaches the most vulnerable women and girls. The conflict has caused almost 1 in 4 to…
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Residents of Torit, Eastern Equatoria, South Sudan, wait in line to receive an emergency aid distribution from CARE (November 2016)
Human Rights Day happens 10 December every year to commemorate the day in 1948 that governments of the world adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the United Nations. Human Rights Day also marks the end of the yearly…
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Refugee women giving their testimonies at an event organised by CARE and Women for Refugee Women in London in September 2016
This week CARE launches its newest paper on women’s economic empowerment in fragile settings and I’ll be laying out the key points in a presentation online and in person (Thursday 8 December, 12-2pm). Here is a preview of what I’ll…
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A CARE-supported savings group in East Hararghe, Ethiopia
Cocoa Life: Can complex development be explained on a bar of chocolate?
By Shabnam Amini 25th Nov 2016
How can Mondelēz International – the world’s biggest chocolate company – show their consumers that their chocolate is produced in a sustainable way?
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Cocoa Life Ambassador Krystyna Kilmczak meeting with potential future cocoa farmers at a school club set up under the Cocoa Life programme, Ghana
