Development Blog
Social accountability for better education in Malawi: How community score cards helped turn a school around
By Matthew Pickard 27th Jun 2018
There is no classroom so you are teaching outside. The children are hungry and distracted. Most of them can’t read. There are no books, pens, paper. And you haven’t been paid this month. Unfortunately, this is too often the reality…
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Aid, including humanitarian aid, is increasingly being related to, and justified by, a goal to limit migration from poor and fragile countries to wealthier countries [1]. This is a problematic approach for several reasons, so how should humanitarian and development…
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Dana (name changed) and her sons Mohammad (aged 4) and Abdulsalam (aged 2) in a park near the bus station in Belgrade, Serbia
How to maintain your enthusiasm for the Grand Bargain (yes, really!)
By Gareth Price-Jones 15th Jun 2018
Next week (18 June) brings the second annual review meeting of the ‘Grand Bargain’, which will review an annual report building on individual submissions of the signatories, which spans donor governments, UN agencies and NGOs (including CARE). So how should…
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Jeanette Vumulia works as a volunteer on CARE's SRH programme in the DRC
How we got a step nearer to ending violence and harassment at work worldwide – and what’s next
By Alice Allan 14th Jun 2018
CARE is adamant that the #MeToo movement should not go down in history as a flash in the pan, but that we must harness the moment to make it a significant milestone on the path towards gender equality. The agreement…
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A garment factory worker in Cambodia - one of the faces of CARE's #ThisIsNotWorking campaign
5 Minute Inspiration: How does a savings account promote men's engagement?
By Emily Janoch 12th Jun 2018
Women in Malawi say that being able to open their own bank account or save with a VSLA has caused their husbands to be more engaged.
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Makulata, a member of the local VSLA, with her family in their home in Lilongwe District, Malawi.
We’ve just published a study of six agencies’ ‘support to shelter self-recovery’ programmes after the devastating Typhoon Haiyan, which hit the Philippines in late 2013. But what do we mean by self-recovery, and what does support to self-recovery look like?
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An information meeting as part of a Support for Shelter Self-Recovery (SSSR) programme
