Development Blog
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
How incorporating labour standards in trade agreements helps women get more jobs and better pay
By Gerry Boyle 02nd Aug 2016
A new ILO report on trade agreements which incorporate labour standards points to rising women’s participation in the labour force and a reduced gender wage gap in the countries participating in those trade agreements – without any adverse effect on…
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Workers in a garment factory in Cambodia
IMF provides more support to the economic argument for improving gender equality
By Gerry Boyle 22nd Jul 2016
CARE’s focus on women’s economic empowerment is based on our belief in women’s rights and the key role that economic empowerment plays in the achievement of those rights, some of them inherent in economic empowerment itself and others to which…
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Samia (name changed), a Syrian refugee living in Jordan, is learning laptop and computer repair through a CARE vocational training programme
Financial inclusion in emerging economies: Follow the conversations that count
By Gerry Boyle 21st Jul 2016
Are financial institutions in emerging economies adapting their business models fast enough to tap into the market of the currently unbanked? And if not, why not?
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The discussion on financial inclusion co-hosted by CARE and Accenture Development Partners
