Nilufar Verjee
Role: Director Women’s Economic Empowerment
Team: Women's Economic Empowerment team
Profile:
I joined CARE International UK in September 2016 as global Director for Women’s Economic Empowerment. Women's Economic Empowerment is one of CARE's four global outcomes with the goal of economically empowering 30 million women by 2020. As a feminist, I am hugely motivated to work with colleagues throughout the CARE family to achieve this ambitious goal.
Before joining CARE, I worked on economic empowerment in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors. At Kraft Foods and Cadbury I helped promote ethically sourced products with their customers. As Commercial and Marketing Director for non-profit, Twin Trading, I developed the business case for empowering women coffee farmers with corporate partners. At the Fairtrade Foundation, I was responsible for partnerships with UK retailers and implementing Fairtrade’s multi-stakeholder campaign to unlock greater empowerment opportunities for women and men farmers, and workers, in global value chains.
Email: Verjee@careinternational.org
Twitter: @NilufarVerjee
Blog posts
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.
Helen Thompson
Head of Humanitarian
I joined CARE International UK in 2017 and currently head up our Humanitarian team. Before CARE, I worked for DFID…
Suzy Madigan
Senior Humanitarian Advisor specialising in Gender and Protection
Suzy Madigan is CARE International UK’s Senior Humanitarian Advisor specialising in Gender and Protection and regularly deploys to emergencies worldwide…
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.
Tam O'Neil
Senior Gender Advisor
My role is to provide technical advice to CARE International UK’s programme and operational teams to help meet our commitment…
Lindsay Alexander
Inclusive Governance Business Manager
I lead on business development for CARE's Inclusive Governance team. I lead the diversification and growth of inclusive governance across…
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.
Francesca Rhodes
Senior Advocacy and Policy Adviser
I work in CARE International UK’s Advocacy and Policy team. I focus on gender and climate change, women’s leadership in…
Victoria Wickenden
Head of Programmes
I am Head of Programmes for CARE International UK, overseeing our development and humanitarian programming in Africa, Asia and the…
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.
Verity O'Shaughnessy
Partnerships Manager
I am a Partnerships Manager in the Private Sector Engagement team. I oversee the team’s portfolio of partnerships with the…
Joanna Carson
Senior Corporate Partnerships Executive
I manage CARE’s Cocoa Life partnership with Mondelez in Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana, working to create a vibrant, strong cocoa…
Women’s Economic Empowerment team
Our Women’s Economic Empowerment team leads CARE’s work globally to ensure women have greater access to and control over economic resources, assets and opportunities. We focus on four inter-related pathways to economic empowerment, based on a combination of women’s core economic roles as producers, workers, entrepreneurs and consumers: financial inclusion, women and value chains, dignified work, and entrepreneurship. We also focus on supporting the involvement of women in creating resilient markets in fragile and humanitarian contexts.
Regine Skarubowiz
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Advisor
Regine is currently on leave. I lead CARE International’s Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning work for our Women’s Economic Empowerment programmes.…
Grace Majara
Senior Advisor – Financial Inclusion
Prior to joining CARE International UK as Senior Advisor – Financial Inclusion, I led the Women and Youth Financial Inclusion…
Laurie Lee
I joined CARE in August 2014, because I believe strongly in our focus on economic development, gender equality and people…
CARE International alumni
Many CARE staff who have written Insights blogs have since moved on to other roles. Your blogs are still part of the CARE story – and we welcome any future contributions you may make to Insights and to our shared learning on what works in humanitarian response and international development.
Svetlana Ancker
Svetlana Ancker was formerly a Senior Account Manager (Health), managing CARE's corporate partnership with GlaxoSmithKline which works to improve maternal…
Helen Lindley-Jones
Gender and Protection Researcher
At CARE I led a research project which aimed to strengthen collaboration between women-led civil society organisations (CSOs) and international…