Development Blog
Village savings and loan associations (VSLAs) have been a powerful tool for enabling millions of women to access loans, set up small businesses and improve their quality of life. But as an evaluation of a CARE VSLA programme in the…
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Participants in a gender gap analysis as part of the VSLA initiative in Maniema Province, DRC
Women’s rights are human rights: Marking 20 years of struggle to reduce Violence Against Women and Girls
By Sonia Martins 02nd Sep 2015
20 years after the Beijing conference the incidence of Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) remains outrageously high with one in three women in the world condemned to experience physical or sexual violence in her lifetime. Nevertheless we should recognise…
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Photo used for illustrative purposes only: Ongoing conflict in South Sudan puts women and girls at increased risk of sexual and gender-based violence
CARE, GSK and ODI event, 18 September: Strengthening maternal and child health in Asia
By CARE International 25th Aug 2015
We are delighted to announce a joint event between CARE, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Overseas Development Institute on Strengthening maternal and child health in Asia: Innovative partnerships and approaches in the SDGs era. This is a public event and you can…
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Ganga Devi (left), a community health worker, at a maternal health meeting in a village near Dhangadhi, Nepal (photo taken June, 2010)
We at CARE International are excited by some recent research by McKinsey, the leading global strategy consultancy, which highlights that “a bigger deposit base routinely results in a higher valuation [of a bank]. The data show that this is a…
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Unlocking the potential of savings groups: A member of the Yesu Amala VSLA group locks the group's shared safe during a meeting of the group's members in Busia District, Eastern Uganda
The last consultation... Closing the input stage of the World Humanitarian Summit
By Gareth Price-Jones 31st Jul 2015
I’ve been privileged to join the final World Humanitarian Summit Regional Consultation in South and Central Asia this week in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, and all in all it has been a mixed bag.
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An internally displaced woman receives a kit of non-food items from CARE staff in northern Cameroon, July 2015
CARE International’s submission to the World Bank Gender Strategy consultation
By Gerry Boyle 31st Jul 2015
The World Bank Group has been consulting on its plan to update its Gender Strategy. We decided to focus our response to the consultation largely on women’s economic empowerment as a critical component of women’s empowerment and gender equality, and…
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Record-keeping at the weekly meeting of the Village Savings and Loan group in Kawete, Uganda
