Development Blog
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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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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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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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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We have a new ILO Violence and Harassment Convention. What happens next?
By Hester Le Roux 29th Jul 2019
On 21 June 2019, the International Labour Conference voted to adopt a new ILO Convention and Recommendation to end violence and harassment in the world of work. What does the adoption of this treaty mean, and what happens next?
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Many of us start working in humanitarian, development or human rights work because we want to change the world or make our country a fairer, better place to live. But in a world where that work is mostly carved up…
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