Development Blog
Integrating inclusive governance & gender equality: a case study illustrating the value of a combined approach
By Jenny Conrad 13th Nov 2018
Gender equality and inclusive governance are each acknowledged to be key cross-cutting issues vital for ensuring sustainable development. In two recent reports, CARE Australia examined the impacts and the lessons to be gained from considering how these two approaches intersect…
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Naomai, a teacher in Papua New Guinea.
Keep it female, innovative and local: Three recommendations from CARE International to President Macron’s Paris Peace and Governance Forum
By Caroline Kende-Robb 09th Nov 2018
French President Emmanuel Macron convenes a high-level conference in Paris from 11 to 13 November titled the ‘Peace and Governance Forum’, which he has described as the political sister to the annual World Economic Forum in Davos. Based on CARE’s…
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Vinancia Fikije, an internally displaced person at a camap in North Kivu Province, DRC
Promoting resilience through women’s economic empowerment programming in rural Africa
By Kathie Oginsky 02nd Nov 2018
This is the last in a series of blog posts marking Financial Inclusion Week and sharing valuable lessons from our POWER Africa (Promoting Opportunities for Women's Economic Empowerment in Rural Africa) project. As part of POWER Africa, CARE commissioned a…
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Rehana Ibro near her home in Oromia region, eastern Ethiopia
Today, on World Savings Day, we are celebrating the VSLA model by sharing learning from CARE’s POWER Africa (Promoting Opportunities for Women’s Economic Empowerment in Rural Africa) project. In our first blog in this series, we looked at VSLAs as…
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Daphrose, a participant in the POWER Africa project in Burundi
Getting financial inclusion right: Lessons from CARE’s POWER Africa project
By Kathie Oginsky 30th Oct 2018
To mark Financial Inclusion Week, we are shining a spotlight on CARE’s POWER Africa (Promoting Opportunities for Women’s Economic Empowerment in Rural Africa) project and the impact that savings-led financial inclusion has had on 750,000 people from poor households in…
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Member of Gikundiro VSLA in Rwanda, part of the POWER Africa project
Yemen: as the International Development Select Committee gathers, the voices of women and girls must not be dismissed
By Laurie Lee 30th Oct 2018
When it comes to Yemen, we are stuck in a waiting game, and expecting the worst. Two weeks ago, the UN announced that the country is on the brink of the world’s worst famine in 100 years, with 14 million…
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Rawa, 20, who lives in Aden, Yemen
