CARE’s figures show that every day 100,000 people move into a slum in the developing world – that’s equivalent to one person every second. In this report CARE argues that current approaches to aid overlook this crucial aspect of global poverty which must be addressed if we are to achieve fundamental and lasting change for poor people worldwide.

Latest Publications

Counting the cost: Twenty years of war in Northern Uganda

  • Co-authors: Civil Society Organisations for Peace in Northern Uganda
  • Published: March 2006

Where to Now? Implications of changing relations between DFID, recipient governments and NGOs in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda (2006)

  • Countries: Malawi, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda
  • Co-authors: Action Aid
  • Published: January 2006

Resolution 1325: From rhetoric to practice, a report on the role of women in reconcilliation processes in the Great Lakes in Africa

  • Countries: Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Co-authors: CARE Norway, International Peace Research Institute Oslo.
  • Published: January 2005

Paddy, fish and vegetable marketing systems in northwest Bangladesh: Current situation and opportunities for intervention

  • Countries: Bangladesh
  • Co-authors: Tiago Sequeira Wandschneider Natural Resources Institute
  • Published: August 2001

Strengthening urban livelihoods, Zambia

  • Co-authors: Darren Hedley and David Sanderson
  • Published: August 2000