Rebecca Wilton
Role: Knowledge Management & Communications Officer
Profile:
As Knowledge Management & Communications Officer at CARE International UK, I provide strategic communications support to CARE global technical teams, including Women’s Economic Justice, Inclusive Governance and Emergency Shelter. I focus on drawing out and sharing insights from CARE’s programming to improve impact. I have a particular interest in how we adapt our approaches in humanitarian settings.
Prior to joining CARE, I worked in creative communications agencies, managing advocacy and social behavioural change campaigns on issues including HIV, nutrition, family planning and tackling stigma and discrimination towards LGBT people and sex workers.
I hold a BA in Modern Languages from the University of Oxford.
One good thing I’ve read
In the wake of the #MeToo movement, How Change Happens by Cass Sunstein draws on behavioural economics, psychology and other fields to explore how social change happens – including the crucial role of social norms.
Email: Rwilton@careinternational.org
Twitter: @becky_wilton
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.
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…
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…
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.
Hayley Capp
Knowledge Management and Learning Officer
I lead on communicating the impacts of CARE's Inclusive Governance work globally, coordinating a community of practice for sharing learning…
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…
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.
Sascha Lavin
Policy and Advocacy Assistant
I see my role as a bridge between those who deserve change and those who have the power to make…
Howard Mollett
Senior Policy Advisor
I joined CARE in 2005, since then I’ve been lucky enough to work with our local teams and civil society…
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.
Laura Hawkesford
Head of Private Sector Engagement
Laura joined CARE International UK in May 2018 as Head of Private Sector Engagement. She previously worked as Ethical Trading…
Ha-Na Schultz
Partnership Officer
In my role at CARE I provide support across the team ranging from reporting for our partnership with GSK to…
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.
Nilufar Verjee
Director Women’s Economic Empowerment
I joined CARE International UK in September 2016 as global Director for Women’s Economic Empowerment. Women's Economic Empowerment is one…
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.
Gerry Boyle
Senior Policy Advisor – Women’s Economic Empowerment
Gerry led CARE International UK’s policy analysis and advocacy around value chains and dignified work. He originally joined CARE as…
Tom Aston
Governance Advisor
Tom was the monitoring, evaluation and research lead for the inclusive governance team. He particularly looked at the application of…