Women’s rights - Overview

Investing in Women Entrepreneurs

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…

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How Campaigning Can Shift Social Norms

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. These…

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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…

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Women Entrepreneurs in Global Supply Chains

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 supply…

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Role models: Who inspires you?

This 12-minute film shows the importance of role models and mutual inspiration for women empowerment & enterprise development.

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Gender Transformative Adaptation

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…

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The Community Score Card Toolkit

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…

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Fair opportunities for women entrepreneurs

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 month their annual conference…

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Gender, peace and conflict manual

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…

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Community score card approach in Rwanda

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…

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Tackling power imbalances & promoting equalities

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…

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The ‘Women for Women’ project

‘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: Michael…

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From Necessity to Opportunity

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 to empower women…

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Responding to gender-based violence

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…

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Getting inspired in Ivory Coast

s soon as I arrived in Ivory Coast, the warmth in the air warmed my heart. On my first day I travelled from the buzzing city of Abidjan to a…

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