
Alastair Whitson
Blog posts
Localization in operational practice: CARE’s experience in Sulawesi and beyond
Sunday, 15 March 2020 12:23CARE is committed to working with partners in emergency response and furthering the global humanitarian localization agenda. This study, drawing on CARE’s response to the 2018 earthquake and tsunami in Sulawesi, Indonesia, aimed to explore what
Gender and the COVID-19 response
Wednesday, 01 April 2020 10:44Read our paper on gender implications of COVID-19 outbreaks in development and humanitarian
Global Rapid Gender Analysis for COVID-19
Wednesday, 01 April 2020 10:20This Rapid Gender Analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic, based on secondary data analysis undertaken between 12-20 March 2020, explores the current and potential gendered dimensions of COVID-19 and highlights the ways in which women, girls and other
CARE Emergency Shelter Team Annual Review 2019
Thursday, 20 February 2020 18:36CARE’s Emergency Shelter Team provides technical expertise in emergency shelter and reconstruction. In the financial year July 2018 - June 2019, CARE implemented 73 projects around the world with a shelter and housing component and two projects
Gender implications of COVID-19 outbreaks in development and humanitarian settings
Tuesday, 17 March 2020 15:00This paper, based on lessons learned and analysis of prior public health crises in the developing world and humanitarian settings, aims to help ensure COVID-19 mitigation and response efforts take gender into account in appropriate and meaningful
Why Climate Justice is a Gender Justice issue
Wednesday, 04 March 2020 17:58Read why women must be a central part of the response to the climate
Why Climate Justice is a Gender Justice issue
Wednesday, 04 March 2020 17:32This policy briefing from CARE International UK outlines why women must be a central part of the response to the climate crisis, and argues that the UK Government, as host of the COP26 UN climate talks in November 2020 in Glasgow, has an
Women on the Move Annual Report 2019
Tuesday, 25 February 2020 16:44When women are able to come together in safe spaces, they can use their collective power and voice to bring about change for a more equitable world. Women on the Move (WOM) is a CARE regional strategy launched in 2016 that mobilises savings
Listen carefully. Tread lightly. Adapt quickly. – Approaching Adaptive Management: Examples from our Somalia education programming
Friday, 28 February 2020 16:21Adaptive management approaches potentially offer us opportunities to deliver high quality results in circumstances where change is complex, including in fragile, unstable or conflict affected places. However, building adaptive programming
Supporting resilience in Syria – Women's experience of the conflict and the 'new normal'
Wednesday, 26 February 2020 15:00This policy brief analyses how Syrian women have adopted new livelihood strategies, new ways of accessing education, and new gender roles; and makes recommendations for how donors, as well as humanitarian and development agencies, should promote