Development Blog
In some parts of the world people used to think it was too difficult to bank the poor. Findings from last week’s webinar launch of the new State of Linkage Report have dispelled that myth.
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An extract from the State of Linkage Report
It’s aid, but not as you know it: The changing rules of what counts as aid money
By Paul-André Wilton 26th Feb 2016
Last week leading donors gathered in Paris to redraw the rules of Overseas Aid, and some of the changes, including more categories of military and police assistance, are raising concerns.
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People wait for a distribution of food rations at Munungi refugee camp in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, November 2012
CARE has been working in India for over 65 years, and over that time a large part of its work has been responding to and supporting recovery from disasters. Many of these humanitarian projects have involved emergency shelter and housing…
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Women take stock of the damage done to their home by the cyclone that struck Odisha in October 2013
New linkage product for savings groups in Tanzania shows potential of this growing financial services market
By Nathan Randall 24th Feb 2016
This February has marked a key step in CARE’s efforts to promote universal financial inclusion in Tanzania as the National Microfinance Bank (NMB) and CARE announced the official launch on 17 February of a new financial product tailored to the…
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VSLA members, NMB and CARE staff pose for the press at the Pamoja Account launch in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
#SupportingSyrians or #FailingSyrians? – What next after the London Conference on Syria
By Howard Mollett 12th Feb 2016
This week, days on from the #SupportingSyrians Conference, and like everyone else, I watched the news to see the devastation caused as Syrian regime and Russian airstrikes rained down on civilians in the Aleppo region and 35,000 people fled to…
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Syrians waiting for their initial interviews to register for assistance from CARE (photo taken in Jordan, February 2014)
I met several Syrians in Jordan and Turkey during a recent visit (mid-January). All of them said they just wanted the war and the violence to stop so they could go home. Some were more hopeful than others that this…
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Syrian refugees being transferred from the Syrian-Jordanian border
