Development Blog
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
“We know that when emergencies hit, women and girls come last,” says CARE’s Humanitarian Policy Director, Susannah Friedman. CARE has been thinking about how COVID is going to impact gender based violence since early March, when we released the first…
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A woman talks to a facilitator regarding gender based violence (GBV) services in Rwanda
Cash support in times of crisis can keep markets functioning, keep money flowing to small businesses that desperately need it, and save lives and livelihoods at the same time – because it means people can get what they need, when…
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CARE’s COVID-19 response includes cash support to households in Grand Anse, Haiti
