Development Blog
Why humanitarian ‘experts’ need to invite women from disaster-affected communities to our workshops and forums
By Lucila Carbonell 27th Sep 2019
As a researcher, I see that humanitarian practitioners listen to and involve local women and women’s groups when delivering programmes on the ground – or at least, if they don’t, they know that they should. But if we are really…
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Women leaders from Nepal speaking at the UK Shelter Forum workshop at Bath University
What’s the most effective way to promote change for women working in garment factories?
By Jenny Conrad 26th Sep 2019
CARE has spent more than 20 years engaging with women employed in garment factories. As with many organisations working with the garment industry, worker training is an important component of any factory engagement. However, our evidence increasingly suggests that for…
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An EKATA group at a garment factory in Bangladesh
By Jay Goulden and Sofia Sprechmann Virtually all international NGOs count how many people their programmes help: CARE does, and in 2018, our programmes reached nearly 56 million people. But while these numbers help give some sense of the scale…
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Members of a Village Savings and Loan Association in Guatemala
Women’s rights: Emmanuel Macron’s “great global cause” must become a reality at the G7
By CARE International 23rd Aug 2019
Published on behalf of the Women 7 movement: We are entering the final stretch before the G7 summit, which will open on 24 August in Biarritz. In September 2018, before the UN, the President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron…
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A young woman in Fada village, Niger
Patriarchy is personal: How development workers in Nepal are shifting harmful social norms
By Tirzah Brown 22nd Aug 2019
The example of Minakshi, a former child bride who has gone to become an activist and community-level facilitator for CARE’s Tipping Point project, is a reminder and inspiration for all development workers that real change is personal. We cannot work…
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Minakshi Neupane helping an adolescent girl during Photovoice – an innovative tool used for the evaluation of Tipping Point Phase 1
Gender-transformative adaptation to climate change: Let’s learn from evidence of what works
By Karl Deering 21st Aug 2019
Gender inequality is a major driver of poverty and a major obstacle to sustainable development. It’s also a key determinant of exposure to climate change risk: women and girls are more vulnerable to climate change impacts. So if we want…
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Maho, Armeline and Miza are part of a farmer field school teaching climate-smart agriculture in Madagascar
