Women’s rights - Overview

Increasing women’s influence and rights

Despite improvements in policy and funding, the international community is still failing to effectively support women’s participation political processes. Global research on women’s participation CARE believes that engaging women into…

The world needs to work for women

Financial inclusion has been on the agenda of CARE for many years. In that context we participated in the Power of Partnerships event organised by Dutch Development Bank FMO, Better Future and the Royal…

Women’s political participation & influence

Recent years have seen a growing recognition in the international development community of the importance of supporting women’s political participation and influence in fragile and conflict affected settings. However, despite…

Gender and the Grand Bargain

Ambitious plans to reform the humanitarian sector are still failing to reach grassroots women’s rights organisations or be felt by women affected by crises. For individual aid agencies and the…

Capital growth: Financial grounding

Most low-income women don’t know where to go for loans, how to save or simply have limited understanding about the benefits of saving. Through Village Savings &…

Interviewing Henok Laike (DOT)

Hemok Laike works for Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT), CARE’s training partner for the ‘Women for Women’ project in Ethiopia. DOT delivered three levels of training for the women, ranging from…

Responding to intimate partner violence

This paper reviews adaptation processes of the Indashyikirwa programme in Rwanda. Indashyikirwa is a four-year programme to prevent intimate partner violence, implemented by CARE Rwanda, Rwanda Men’s Resource…

Participation & leadership of women responders

Recent years have seen increasing discourse on how the aid community can transform the humanitarian system and shift towards humanitarian responses that are driven by local actors. © © Cynthia…

The community score card approach

The Community Score Card (CSC) is a powerful tool for the participation of communities in decision-making processes. It has shown its potential for incorporation into formal local planning processes through…

Access to finance for women entrepreneurs

In the world’s poorest communities, lack of access to finance is one of many barriers that prevent women from participating as equals with men in society. Lack of credit or…

Access to finance for female entrepreneurs

Kick-off event pushes agenda on access to finance for female entrepreneurs in emerging markets Access to finance is one of the major barriers for female entrepreneurs in emerging markets. The…

Women’s access to finance: no collateral

Using a basic bank account is beyond the reach of almost one billion women worldwide. In Jordan recently I met Sawsan, who runs her own sewing workshop with four…