Development Blog
Just as in the UK, trust, speed and scale is needed to meaningfully limit the impact of COVID-19 in communities already living in poverty. Unlike the UK, countries like Chad, Mali and Niger already had 12.8 million people in need…
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A women carries a VSLA safe, Mali
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Women and girls at the centre: Integrating health and gender-based violence programs in Cox’s Bazar
By Shegufta Shefa Sikder 15th May 2020
Our experience shows that integrating sexual reproductive health (SRH) and gender-based violence (GBV) services into community-led outreach programmes, which prioritise feedback and interaction, are key if we are to meet the needs of women and girls during a crisis. In…
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Women and Girls Safe Space, Camp 12. CARE GBV staff pictured Left to Right: Ayesha Siddika (GBV Case Worker), Fouzia Akter (GBV Case Worker), Shefa Sikder (Technical Advisor), Tamanna Akter (GBV Response Officer)
Motherhood too soon? Child, early, and forced marriage and adolescent pregnancy in COVID-19
By April Houston 11th May 2020
May 10th was Mother’s Day in many parts of the world – a day when families celebrate motherhood and honour mothers’ contributions to their children, the community, and the world. It takes a lot of love, effort, and dedication to be…
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Syrian sisters Haneen, 14, (left) and Sidra, 13, (right) join friend Reem, 14, (centre) in a peer to peer support group for Syrian and Jordanian teens at a CARE community centre in Irbid, Jordan.
COVID-19 could drive millions of women into poverty, when they are agents of recovery
By Mareen Buschmann 04th May 2020
COVID-19 has become an unprecedented global crisis, affecting everyone - but not equally so. CARE International UK’s new study on COVID-19 and women’s economic justice and rights shows that women and girls are disproportionately affected by the economic effects of…
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In the COVID-19 crisis, some commentators have noted that governments with women leaders have responded more effectively. For the most effective response and recovery, women’s leadership must go far beyond the top role, to be supported at all levels, in…
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Empowering women workers in Bangladesh
What we must do to ensure development-focused microfinance organisations survive the COVID-19 pandemic
By Nancy Thomas 28th Apr 2020
Microfinance organisations serve approximately 140 million low-income people around the world. And the vast majority of these are women (roughly 80%), who live in rural areas (roughly 65%) . At the end of March when the world was starting to…
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People stand in line at Umutanghua Lending Bank, Rwanda
