Development Blog
All over the world recently there have been outpourings of support and appreciation for frontline health workers (FHWs) and their heroic efforts fighting COVID-19. Of course, doctors, nurses, midwives, and other health providers have been performing vital and life-saving services…
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Health worker in Bangladesh wearing a mask in light of the coronavirus outbreak
5 minute inspiration: How to respond to epidemics with courage and hope
By Emily Janoch 27th Mar 2020
Everything about the news on COVID-19 is scary. We don’t know yet what the long-term impacts will be. We don’t know how long it will last. What we do know, from decades of responding to epidemics in some of the…
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Coronavirus Emergency: Help stop the spread
If you go to many schools in poor countries or refugee camps, you will see kids washing their hands like they are scrubbing in for surgery. They are much more thorough than most Americans, where apparently 69% of men don’t…
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Regular hand washing is key to halting the spread of the coronavirus
Holding back the flood: Using savings groups to relocate from risk in Malawi
By Crystal Whitaker 23rd Mar 2020
As the climate crisis makes natural disasters a daily reality for people around the world, communities and humanitarian organisations are looking for ways to mitigate risks and build resilience. In 2019, in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai – which ravaged…
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People queuing to receive water and hygiene items from CARE at a camp for flood-displaced people in Nsanje, Malawi
Tensions and learnings in research-program partnerships undertaking RCTs
By Cari Jo Clark 17th Mar 2020
By Cari Jo Clark, Sudhindra Sharma, and Kathryn M. Yount The recent Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty,” and on-going collaboration with CARE…
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Dhana Kurmari Chaudhary Tharu left an unhappy marriage and, after participating in the Tipping Point initiative, is now working for adolescent empowerment
Randomized control trials and the Tipping Point Initiative’s journey to align the gold standard with our mission
By Anne Sprinkel 17th Mar 2020
By Anne Sprinkel, Project Director, Tipping Point Initiative; and Dipendra Sharma, Team Lead, Tipping Point Nepal When we joined CARE’s Failing Forward podcast, we had little idea that we would discuss everything from logistical nightmares to ethical conundrums related to…
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Brindamati, pictured with her mother, was helped to stay in school by the Tipping Point initiative
