Development Blog
How VSLAs help ensure that financial inclusion is gender transformative
By Gerry Boyle 26th Sep 2018
Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) have been a cornerstone of CARE International’s programmes for over 25 years, and we have plenty of evidence of their ability to impact women’s lives positively. However, we have also learned that gender norms…
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Members of a CARE-supported VSLA group in Kagadama village in Niger
Sounding clever or being smart? – How to do more with less in evaluating governance programmes
By Tom Aston 25th Sep 2018
About a decade ago, the development sector fell into the same trap the financial services industry did in the mid-1990s. We were all seduced by clever people selling clever methods we didn’t really understand. Only, we had a different acronym.…
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Women attending an open budget meeting under the JATRA project in Bangladesh
5 Minute Inspiration: How do ID cards help women in Nepal out of poverty?
By Emily Janoch 19th Sep 2018
A CARE Nepal project helped women find a way out of poverty using training and ID cards. One woman in the project got her first citizenship card at age 21 even though she had been married for 8 years already.…
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Women with the savings box in Syangja village, Nepal.
Who are ‘the people’? – Making citizen participation models work for poor and marginalised groups
By Rebecca Haines 17th Sep 2018
In the first blog in this series, we showed how participatory power analysis, by identifying the marginalisation of specific groups, can help ensure that participatory local governance does not simply enable those who already have privilege and access to gain…
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Woman speaking at a local open budget meeting, Bangladesh
Climate change resilience: adapting farming practices and enhancing food security in Mozambique
By Emily Janoch 11th Sep 2018
Families who participated in the Nampula Adaptation to Climate Change project in northern Mozambique were able to grow more food, better respond to crises, and save more money. Adopting many climate change conscious practices in their fields helped them achieve this. One…
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Maize field in Mozambique
In Zimbabwe, mothers and school management worked to improve girls’ academic achievement through the Improving Girls’ Access through Transforming Education programme (IGATE). When you ask girls what they liked best about the initiative, many of them will tell you about…
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Boys and girls at school in Zimbabwe learning how to sew reusable sanitary pads.
