
Grace Majara
Role: Senior Advisor – Financial Inclusion
Team: Women's Economic Empowerment team
Profile:
Prior to joining CARE International UK as Senior Advisor – Financial Inclusion, I led the Women and Youth Financial Inclusion programme for CARE International in Uganda where I provided strategic direction and leadership for a number of financial inclusion, enterprise development and market access programmes.
I championed the Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA) methodology and took it to scale for CARE Uganda and across the region. I have over 18 years experience in developing and implementing financial inclusion and innovative solutions that includes VSLA programming, digital technology, financial literacy and linkages, enterprise development and value chain programming.
Through my work, I have partnered with banks, microfinance institutions, mobile network operators and others in the private sector to adapt financial services to meet the needs of poor and marginalised people, especially women and youth, and have been involved in creating and co-creating innovative solutions, including digital solutions, to bring financial inclusion to previously unreached communities.
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.
Toral Pattni
Senior Humanitarian Advisor (Gender and Protection)
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Helen Thompson
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.
Rebecca Haines
Senior Governance Advisor – Asia and MENA
As a member of CARE International’s global Inclusive Governance technical team, currently based in Myanmar, I provide technical assistance to…
Gaia Gozzo
Head of Governance
I joined CARE International UK in 2006, with 15 years experience working in the NGO development sector. I have extensive…
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.
Kirsten McWilliams
Senior Corporate Partnerships Executive
Within my role, I manage corporate partner funding and the relationship with corporate partners, as well as working with teams…
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…
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.
Joe Sutcliffe
Advisor – Dignified Work
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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
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CARE International alumni
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Helene D. Gayle
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Muhamed Bizimana
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