Development Blog
Time for a longer term plan to end sexual violence in conflict: The House of Lords PSVI inquiry reports on its findings
By Paul-André Wilton 27th Apr 2016
Last week the House of Lords inquiry into the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative published their conclusions and called for the initiative to be put on a much firmer footing within UK foreign policy and in the international calendar. CARE was…
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A view of the stage at the Ending Sexual Violence in Conflict summit held in London in June 2014
Remember one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes in recent history? 11 years ago, a Tsunami killed over 230,000 people in Asia and Africa, and devastated large parts of Indonesia, Thailand, India and Sri Lanka. The latter country was in the…
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CARE International General Secretary Wolfgang Jamann visiting a women's group in Sri Lanka
Resilience and market systems: What we can learn from resilient markets in Ethiopia
By Tim Bishop 12th Apr 2016
Last month I visited Tigray, Northern Ethiopia, to interview farmers and livestock traders faced with the drought effects of one of the most devastating El Niños in 50 years. What are their coping strategies in the face of extreme weather…
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Sindayo, a sheep farmer in Tigray, Ethiopia
IMF research shows the positive impact on poverty and inequality of improving access to financial services
By Gerry Boyle 23rd Mar 2016
A recent IMF ‘staff paper’ (i.e. this is not the official view of the organisation, but they’re not disagreeing with it either...) provides additional support to CARE’s fight for financial inclusion by showing that four of the dimensions of financial…
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Women in Jordan participate in a savings and loan group supported by CARE
Financial inclusion ‘Within Reach’: Collective investment by banks can pay dividends for all
By Gerry Boyle 21st Mar 2016
Banks have clear needs for support in bringing more people living in poverty into the formal financial sector, but the banks could push forward by working more cooperatively with one another in key areas.
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The panel at the Within Reach meeting in Bangladesh
By the numbers (Part 2): Estimating market sizes for informal group savings in Kenya, Malawi and Zimbabwe
By Nathan Randall 18th Mar 2016
As outlined in my previous blog, with so many people in all three countries preferring informal saving methods to banking, how large are these markets? How much total capital do they possess? And what can we learn from this?
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Members of the Tusoy Youth Group savings and loan association in Embu, Kenya
