Development Blog
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
Global value chains can be a powerful lever for empowering women, but companies must identify where women work, must develop a clear gender strategy and must articulate the business case for supporting women.
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Cocoa farmers in Cote d'Ivoire participating in the Cocoa Life partnership
“The power to decide”: How transformative gender dialogues enable women farmers in Ghana to access land
By Gianluca Nardi 30th Jun 2016
By Gianluca Nardi and Katherine Carr (CARE International UK, Programme Officer - Africa) When we arrive in Kariyata, a rural community in the Upper Eastern region of Ghana, close to Garu, most of the women in the community are waiting…
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People gathering for the gender dialogue
Refugees: A spiralling politics of fear and the imperative for compassion
By Chloe Day 22nd Jun 2016
Chloe Day, Programme Manager for CARE International’s refugee response in Turkey, explains how a language and environment of fear around the refugee crisis is undermining our humanity. When I read the news about Jo Cox last week, something inside me…
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A five-year-old Syrian refugee child at a camp in Croatia
CARE International UK's CEO Laurie Lee and Senior Policy Advisor Howard Mollett outline recommendations from CARE towards the Global Summits on Refugees launched on World Refugee Day.
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Hanaa, from Lebanon
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