Development Blog
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
Build bridges not walls: We can only solve the refugee crisis by changing our approach to humanity
By Wolfgang Jamann 19th Sep 2016
We all agree that the numbers are staggering: according to the UNHCR, on average, 24 people were forced to flee each minute in 2015, four times more than a decade earlier. At the last count, Greece alone was home to…
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CARE staff member Basheer Alzaalan, originally from Syria, now works for CARE's KIWI refugee integration project in Germany
Will the UN Refugee and Migrant Summits make things better for refugee women and girls?
By Howard Mollett 16th Sep 2016
Over 40 grassroots women-led civil society organisations, human rights and humanitarian agencies have today launched a new Joint Statement on Women and Girls outlining 10 recommendations for next week’s global refugee and migrant Summits – and beyond. So what do…
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Refugees from Iraq photographed in Serbia, July 2016
The current UN High Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment is highlighting the major attention being paid by governments, the development community and others to the importance of women’s economic empowerment to tackling poverty and ensuring women achieve the target…
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A member of a village savings and loan group in Côte d’Ivoire
