Development Blog
How Community Score Cards are helping police in Nepal tackle gender-based violence
By Ayush Joshi 08th Nov 2019
“Even as a child, we were always told to fear the police. But seldom were we taught that the police is there for us. We need to work together to change this narrative, and one of the approaches is participating…
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Inspector Ram Chandra Ghimire (centre) and police officers in Jaubari, Nepal
“Other young people discouraged me from joining the savings group, because this was not our culture. My peers laughed at me. But I was strong and I knew what I wanted, so I joined anyway.” These are the words of…
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In 2018, the government of Burundi formally adopted the VSLA model for the economic, social and political empowerment of women
Improving identification of sexual harassment in factories: How CARE and Better Factories Cambodia worked in partnership
By Jenny Conrad 15th Oct 2019
CARE International and Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) are working together to improve how factories prevent and respond to sexual harassment. This collaboration illustrates the benefits of partnership between organisations who share similar goals.
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Workers leaving a garment factory in Cambodia at the end of their shift
Why bother? The case for building alliances with Social Movements
By CARE International 10th Oct 2019
By Reshma Aziz Khan and Sébastien Fornerod CARE seeks to tackle the underlying causes of poverty and social injustice to bring lasting change to the lives of poor and vulnerable people (CARE 2020 Program Strategy). But how many of us…
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Maria Faustina, Maria de los Angeles, Fidelia Castellanos, Eloida Ortiz and Floridalma Cartrera, members of a domestic workers group in Guatemala
Advocacy and influencing is at the heart of CARE’s program strategy – otherwise we couldn’t achieve our aims of tackling the structural causes of poverty and inequality, and scaling up our impact far beyond the communities where CARE and our…
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CARE staff, refugees and school children in Berlin with a street painting created to highlight the Syria crisis
“He always came home late and drunk and he often kicked the door open while hurling insults at me and the children. I became such a miserable person.... After a number of curriculum sessions, I started to notice a change…
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Erik and Olive received couples’ training as part of the Indashyikirwa project
