Development Blog
Three key reasons for bringing the private sector into peacebuilding efforts
By Paul-André Wilton 12th Oct 2016
There is an irony to current thinking on the private sector and peacebuilding.
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A meeting of the community development committee at Sikabatou Village, Cote d'Ivoire, organised under the Cocoa Life program
Does the Prime Minister’s UN pledge to end modern slavery extend to girl refugees?
By Eloise Di Gianni 11th Oct 2016
During her maiden speech at the United Nations General Assembly last month, Prime Minister Theresa May launched a global campaign to end modern slavery (which she previously described as “the great human rights issue of our time”) and called upon…
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A girl holds her head at a refugee camp in Serbia, July 2016 (note: image for illustrative purposes, not necessarily an unaccompanied minor)
UN report on women’s economic empowerment: The right thing – and the smart thing – to do
By Fiona Jarden 04th Oct 2016
Thursday 22nd September at the United Nations General Assembly was a tremendous moment for the global women’s economic empowerment agenda. Not only did Ban Ki Moon become the first Secretary General to declare himself a feminist (for which he received…
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Young women members of a Village Savings and Loan Association group in Jordan, supported by CARE in a programme in partnership with the H&M Foundation
Unless women have more empowerment, autonomy, and access to resources, we are not going to achieve change. Those are the words of Luis Guillermo Solís, President of Costa Rica and women’s economic empowerment advocate, speaking at an event on financial…
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Mary Ellen Iskenderian, President and CEO of Women’s World Banking; Luis Guillermo Solís, President of Costa Rica; and Michelle Nunn, President and CEO of CARE USA
Growing Together report: Guidance to businesses to support them in helping micro-enterprises in their value chains to thrive
By Gerry Boyle 29th Sep 2016
Growing Together, a new report launched on 29 September by CARE, SABMiller, the Harvard Kennedy Corporate Responsibility Initiative and Business Fights Poverty, sets out why businesses should take a much more proactive and collaborative approach to supporting the micro-enterprises in…
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UN High-Level Panel on Women's Economic Empowerment: Don't leave the hardest-to-reach women behind
By Fiona Jarden 23rd Sep 2016
CARE has welcomed the first report from the UN High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment, Leave no-one behind - particularly since it draws on a lot of CARE’s work as a model for the way forward for accelerating women’s economic…
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Josee Ntabahungu, Head of Gender and Women’s Economic Empowerment at CARE Burundi, at the United Nations
