Development Blog
Ending workplace violence and harassment – significant progress but no time to rest on our laurels
By Hester Le Roux 12th Mar 2020
On International Women’s Day, 8 March 2020, advocates for better labour rights, especially for women workers, have been celebrating a major achievement: there is now a new international labour standard that recognises everyone’s right to work free from violence and…
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Alicia Lanchimba experienced workplace abuse as a domestic worker; now she is an activist for women's rights
I have been part of rapid response teams deploying to typhoons, cyclones and floods in Asia and droughts in East and Southern Africa and worked on emergency responses for 15 years. Each time, I’ve seen first-hand how around the world,…
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Enia Joao with her youngest child after Cyclone Idai hit the coast of Mozambique in March 2019
What we’ve learned about adaptive management from our Somalia education programming
By Charlotte Heales 28th Feb 2020
Adaptive management in its various incarnations has long been a focus of a development community that is more and more frequently bumping up against the barriers of complexity, and looking for ways to overcome its challenges. In a field where…
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Girls in a school in Somalia supported by the DFID-funded Girls’ Education Challenge
The UK government is at risk of failing our first 100 day tests on equality, climate and development
By Carolyn Clarke 18th Feb 2020
When this new government was elected, CARE International UK and our supporters called for four actions in their first 100 days that would demonstrate their commitment to gender equality, tackling climate change and spearheading international development.
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Women on the frontlines of the climate emergency queue for supplies following Cyclone Idai in Mozambique.
Josh Estey 2019.
Transforming the future of work for gender equality: What’s happening in Asia?
By Joe Sutcliffe 11th Dec 2019
The Asia Pacific region has both the world’s largest proportion of workers in the working-age population and the world’s lowest unemployment rate. However, only 44.5 per cent of women are employed and for those who are working, access to dignified…
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Jannatun, General Manager of HR & Compliance at a factory in Bangladesh, wants to get more women into leadership roles
Sexual harassment in the garment industry: What happens when you bring people together to look at solutions rather than problems?
By Jenny Conrad 23rd Nov 2019
“I’ve been doing this work for 30 years, so to come to a space like this and have everyone in the room start from a place of ‘we have a problem’ is powerful.” - Robin Runge, Senior Gender Specialist, Solidarity…
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The Business of Women at Work event was held 17-18 October 2019 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
