Katherine Nightingale

Katherine Nightingale

Role: Head of Advocacy and Policy (Jobshare)

Team: Programmes and Policy team

Profile:

After 10+ years working in the development and humanitarian sector I remain passionate about putting disaster and conflict-affected people at the heart of humanitarian response, security and disaster risk governance.

I really enjoy what I do: the creative problem-solving, the people management, the relationship brokering both within and between agencies, government, communities, UN, media, etc. I enjoy the community-engagement and working together to deliver effective programmes on the ground. The true policy wonk within relishes researching technical and political innovations across the sector, and my West Wing side revels in developing and delivering the political strategies for change.

I am inspired by creative arts, continue to be involved in writing and film projects, and am honored to be on the board of Ice & Fire www.iceandfire.co.uk exploring human rights through theatre and performance.

Email: KNightingale@careinternational.org

Twitter: @kat_night


Blog posts

The UK’s integrated review of security, defence, development and foreign policy should be a real opportunity to reframe our country’s external engagement with the world in light of where we are in 2020. But as the UK government chooses a

South Africa has some of the highest rates of gender-based violence (GBV) in the world. But it is also at the forefront of global efforts to understand more about GBV and specifically how to prevent it, hosting the 2019 conference of the Sexual

When Theresa May welcomes Trump this week it seems like she won’t be short of conversation: there’s the World Cup, Brexit, and NATO before we even start. But with hundreds of thousands of people from all over the UK coming to join the

Cash programming has been under the cosh from certain sections of the media – so it will be interesting to see the response to the


Humanitarian team

CARE International UK’s humanitarian team supports CARE’s humanitarian work by accessing funding, and by providing project management and technical advice and capacity to CARE’s country offices and CARE’s emergency responses. CARE has a strong focus on ensuring that all our humanitarian programming responds meaningfully to the needs and capacities of different people, whatever their gender, identity or particular circumstances. CARE’s emergency shelter team is also based at CARE International UK.

Climate Change & Resilience Team Leader

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Head of Humanitarian

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Inclusive Governance team

Poverty and social injustice are caused and maintained by unequal power relations that result in the inequitable distribution of resources and opportunities – between women and men, between power-holders and marginalised communities, and between countries. CARE believes poor governance is a key cause of poverty and social injustice. Our Inclusive Governance team promotes inclusive and accountable governance systems so that poor and marginalised people have influence over decisions that affect their lives. We help communities get organised and get their priorities included in development planning. We work to increase women’s voice and leadership in public life. We support service users to hold service providers to account. We work with public authorities and service providers to help them become more transparent and responsive to poor and marginalised people.

Head of Governance

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Governance and Accountability Advisor, Africa

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Programmes and Policy team

The Programmes and Policy team is responsible for overseeing programme quality and multiplying the impact of our programming by encouraging governments, business and donors – based on the evidence we witness on the ground – to adopt policy reforms that support the world’s poorest people and communities. Working in partnership with our country programmes, women’s rights organisations and civil society, we put forward the views of the most marginalised to governments, including the UK government, multinational businesses and global institutions and press the case for change. In short, our goal is to change the rules of the game that keep people poor.

Head of Advocacy and Policy (Jobshare)

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Strategic Partnerships team

Strategic partnerships are a key way for CARE to increase and widen our impact. Our Private Sector Engagement team partners with national and multinational companies to co-create innovative 'inclusive business' approaches that drive new opportunities for poor people as producers, workers, entrepreneurs, and consumers. We – and our partners – believe this makes good business sense: helping to generate efficiency, securing supply chains, accessing new markets and products, and improving credibility with consumers who increasingly expect companies to behave responsibly. Our Institutional Partnerships team connects the vision and commitment of our funding partners with poverty-fighting programmes throughout the world.

Partnership Officer

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Head of Private Sector Engagement

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Women’s Economic Empowerment team

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Senior Advisor – Financial Inclusion

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Director Women’s Economic Empowerment

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CARE International alumni

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Rebecca was formerly a Policy & Advocacy Intern at CARE International UK, supporting the Policy and Advocacy team in research…