Development Blog
The UK government is at risk of failing our first 100 day tests on equality, climate and development
By Carolyn Clarke 18th Feb 2020
When this new government was elected, CARE International UK and our supporters called for four actions in their first 100 days that would demonstrate their commitment to gender equality, tackling climate change and spearheading international development.
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Women on the frontlines of the climate emergency queue for supplies following Cyclone Idai in Mozambique.
Josh Estey 2019.
Transforming the future of work for gender equality: What’s happening in Asia?
By Joe Sutcliffe 11th Dec 2019
The Asia Pacific region has both the world’s largest proportion of workers in the working-age population and the world’s lowest unemployment rate. However, only 44.5 per cent of women are employed and for those who are working, access to dignified…
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Jannatun, General Manager of HR & Compliance at a factory in Bangladesh, wants to get more women into leadership roles
Sexual harassment in the garment industry: What happens when you bring people together to look at solutions rather than problems?
By Jenny Conrad 23rd Nov 2019
“I’ve been doing this work for 30 years, so to come to a space like this and have everyone in the room start from a place of ‘we have a problem’ is powerful.” - Robin Runge, Senior Gender Specialist, Solidarity…
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The Business of Women at Work event was held 17-18 October 2019 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Sexual Violence Research Initiative: Top 5 trends to help make violence against women and girls preventable
By Katherine Nightingale 18th Nov 2019
South Africa has some of the highest rates of gender-based violence (GBV) in the world. But it is also at the forefront of global efforts to understand more about GBV and specifically how to prevent it, hosting the 2019 conference…
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Clementine took part in training on how to challenge attitudes to GBV through the Indashyikirwa project in Rwanda
We want the women employed in the supply chains of the companies which make your clothes to have access to decent jobs free from violence and harassment and to be able to voice their rights at work.
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CARE's Made by Women strategy is working towards positive change for women like Lipiya, a Senior Sewing Operator at a garment factory in Bangladesh
By Tom Aston and Jay Goulden Measuring the impact of advocacy may be difficult, but it’s not impossible. Yes advocacy is different, but it’s not necessarily more complex or ‘hard to measure’ than governance or market systems programming, let alone…
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CARE’s advocacy work in Peru contributed to a reduction in stunting in children under 5
