Through our Women Mean Business campaign, we highlight the multiple reasons why more investment in women entrepreneurs is needed. We also share our specific recommendations. As we navigate through the…
To shift these harmful social norms, CARE Nederland partnered with RNW/RNTC to train and coach country teams in Burundi, Rwanda, Somalia, and Sudan on traditional and digital media campaigning.
The importance of telecommunications for women entrepreneurs
On World Telecommunication Day (17th May 2019) we are raising awareness about the importance of telecommunications for women entrepreneurs. Telecoms has a strong connection with CARE’s current Access Approved campaign which…
This publication on Integrating Women Entrepreneurs in Global Supply Chains – Creating Shared Value maps the benefits for companies with overseas operations, of including more women entrepreneurs throughout the…
Women tend to be relatively more dependent on the products of their local production systems for their food security, fuel and other products and services, and thus more vulnerable to…
CARE Malawi developed the Community Score Card (CSC) in 2002 as part of a project aimed at developing innovative, and sustainable models to improve health services. This is the original…
According to the World Economic Forum’s annual Global Gender Gap Report, it will take 257 years before there is economic equality between men and women. This…
Violence and conflict are deeply gendered. This means that people’s ideas and attitudes towards violent conflict and how they experience it depends on gender relations, roles and norms. In many societies, the ability…
As part of the five-year (2016-2020) programme ‘Every Voice Counts’, CARE International in Rwanda and its partner organization Pro-Femmes are using a citizen-driven social accountability measure, called the Community Score…
In a session at the European Development Days (EDD), development professionals took a look at how inclusive governance can play a role in minimising power imbalances with an eye toward…
‘Transformational. Collaborative. Inspirational. These are some of the words used to describe the ‘Women for Women’ project that we ran from 2015-2018, generously funded by H&M Foundation.’ Photo credit:…
The Global report offers a conclusive overview of the first phase of Women in Enterprise, an initiative by CARE and the H&M Foundation. The program was implemented…
Gender-based violence (GBV) still happens frequently in countries like Rwanda and Burundi. Their governments have acted upon the alarming number of GBV cases and adopted several policies and laws to…
