CARE Leads Effort to Recommit $1B to Global Nutrition Programming from 2018-2020

Solutions to Keep Agricultural Inputs Flowing During Crisis

This brief focuses on CARE's approach to agricultural inputs during crisis and how programs can be adapted to respond to COVID-19.

Gender, Youth & Livelihood Programs in Food & Water Systems: COVID-19 Guidance

The operating environment for food and water system programs that focus on gender, youth, and livelihoods has changed significantly with the onset of the coronavirus. This document lays out implications and response strategies for these programs in response to COVID-19. 

Cash Transfers – Livelihoods for Resilience 2020

This learning brief explores Livelihoods for Resilience's experience with cash transfers for households affected by conflict in Ethiopia...

Perma-gardening – Livelihoods for Resilence 2020

This learning brief explores Livelihoods for Resilience's experience promoting perma-gardening including, changes, successes and...

Agro-Source Brief 2020 (CARE Ghana)

CARE Ghana's Agro-Source Project is proving women smallholder farmers with the agricultural inputs they need.

SPIR Learning Brief – Sustainability of PSNP Household Graduation

The paper explores the perspectives of Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) graduates' perspectives on issues that are fundamental to...

SPIR Learning Brief – Sustainability of Participatory Scenario Planning

This learning brief shares some of the experiences with Participatory Scenario Planning from the SPIR DFSA in Ethiopia.

Inspiring Stories – Livelihoods for Resilience

These inspiring stories come from CARE Ethiopia's Livelihoods for Resilience program.

Final Evaluation Brief – Prosperous Cocoa Farming Communites in Cote d’Ivoire

Prosperous Cocoa-Farming Communities (PROCOCO) in Cote d'Ivoire sought to promote more prosperous, sustainable and resilient cocoa-...

Kore Lavi Overview, Oct 2019

Victory Over Poverty

A Village Economic and Savings Association discusses finance, borrowing and saving in Ethiopia.

UptakePreneur

UptakePreneur: A Model for Uncovering & Accelerating Social Enterprises & Social Market Solutions in Fragile Settings

Kore Lavi Brief – School Feeding Program

Kore Lavi piloted a school feeding program that is now a national model in Haiti.

Kore Lavi Brief – Building Local Markets

Kore Lavi used integrated programming to multiply impact and build local markets.

Kore Lavi Brief – Building Knowledge & Access at Scale (CARE Haiti)

Kore Lavi Brief - Building Knowledge & Access at Scale (CARE Haiti)

CARE’s SDG Impact

CARE’s 2020 program strategy aims to help tackle the underlying causes of poverty and social injustice, as part of global efforts to...

GRAD2: Irrigation Success Story

Micro-irrigation reduces independence on rain-fed agriculture, diversifies production, decreases risk, and generates income.

GRAD2: Participatory Scenario Planning Success Story

Participatory Scenario Planning: A tool to help households prepare for weather shocks.

GRAD2: Poultry Success Story

Poultry Value Chain: Killing four 'birds' with one stone.

GRAD2: Youth Unemployment Success Story

This brief covers strategies to increase youth employment.

GRAD2: Video Based Extension Success Story

This brief demonstrates video enhanced extension as a technology solution. 

SPIR: VESA Learning Brief

SPIR: Youth Businesses

This 4 page brief shows how young people are using loans from VESAs to start their own businesses.

SPIR: Participatory Scenario Planning

This 4 page brief highlights how SPIR supports communities to prepare for climate change impacts using participatory scenario planning...

SPIR: Perma Gardens

This 4 page summary highlights how the USAID-funded SPIR project supports families to grow more vegetables at homes so they can have...

SPIR: Potato Seed Multiplication

SPIR: Agro dealers and access to inputs

This 4 page project brief highlights how the USAID-funded SPIR project is supporting local businesses to help farmers access...

SPIR: Access to MFIs

Access to finance is a major barrier for farmers in Ethiopia, especially PSNP4 beneficiaries who are part of the USAID-funded SPIR...

Good Practices for Integrating Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Climate-Smart Agriculture Programmes

This paper focuses on a set of agricultural practices implemented by small-scale food producers in developing countries. The expected results of this document are that FAO staff members and agriculture development practitioners globally will be provided with guidance, tools, and examples of the successful integration of gender equality and women’s empowerment into climate-smart agriculture work.

SPIR Public Works Learning Brief

3 page brief showcasing the collaboration between the Government of Ethiopia and SPIR on public works.

SPIR Youth Skill Development Toolkit

This 114 page manual highlights the SPIR project's approach to youth skill building and employability

SPIR Youth VESA Learning Brief

The “Youth” VESA is a new program piloted by SPIR which brings together the children of PSNP4 households as a self-selected group of...

SPIR VESA Brief

VESAs are groups of 15-25 households, brought together as a foundation for all economic and social activities.

SPIR Nutrition Brief

This 4 page brief highlights SPIR's approaches to improving nutrition.

SPIR project brief

2 page summary highlighting the USAID/Food For Peace funded SPIR program.

Social Analysis and Action in Food and Nutrition Security Programming

A manual for addressing gender and social norm barriers to promote gender transformative changes in Food and Nutrition Security...

Her Harvest Our Future: Southern Africa Annual Impact Report 2018 Building Better Nutrition

Her Harvest, Our Future is an ambitious, radical initiative that tackles the crisis of poverty by improving nutrition and food security across borders and partners in Southern Africa. Our goal is to stimulate lasting changes in 10 million people’s lives by 2020. So far we have achieved 3.6 million towards this target. In this, our second annual report, we will present our achievements across six impact areas. We will explain how we are achieving this change by supporting learning, improving quality and influencing donors and governments to ensure that women small scale farmers benefit from all our investments.

Doing Nexus Differently

How can Humanitarian and Development Actors link or integrate humanitarian action, development, and peace?

She Feeds the World

This 42-page document showcases She Feeds the World, CARE's strategic program framework for Food and Nutrition Security.

Livelihoods for Resilience Brief

Three page summary of Ethiopia's Livelihoods for Resilience Activity with USAID Feed the Future funding.

The Graduate April 2018

This 2 page summary highlights sustainability in the USAID Feed the Future-funded Livelihoods for Resilience Activity as of April 2018...

GRAD learning brief: Linking Community Savings Groups to Microfinance

This 2 page brief highlights lessons learned on connecting Village Economic and Social Associations to Microfinance institutions in...

National Scale Up for Impact: Strengthening the Multi-Sectoral Approach to Nutrition

2 page summary on the national scale up of the multi-sector approach to nutrition strengthening.

Crop Production Management

4 page brief. Around the world, CARE invests in a multitude of projects and programs to help build the resilience of vulnerable...

Reducing Post-Harvest Loss

4 page brief.

Approaches to Gender and Resilient Markets

4 page brief. CARE has decades of experience in working with marginal and vulnerable farmers and their communities.

CARE’s work in Seed Systems

A 6 page brief on CARE's work in seeds.

CARE’s work in Coffee and Tea Value Chains

This 3 page breif highlights projects around the world in coffee and tea value chains.

Social Cost Benefit Analysis for Pathways

This 4-page brief highlights the findings of the report that demonstrates how CARE's Pathways program provided an average $31 in benefits for every $1 invested in the Pathways program.

Livelihoods for Resilience Activity Resilience Strategy

This 28-page report describes the Livelihoods for Resilience strategy for building resilience of its 97,900 targeted households.

Ensuring Sustainability Executive Summary

Executive summary of the Ensuring Sustainability Report

Ensuring Sustainability: Designing Food Programs for Results that Last

This 24 page report highlights the results of CARE's projects using Food For Peace's Sustainability Framework.  It draws from 193...

Diffused light storage

This 2 page innovation brief highlights the improved storage techniques for potato crops and seeds.

Orange Sweet Potatoes

This 2 page learning brief highlights using orange fleshed sweet potatoes to improve nutrition.

Livestock marketing collectives

This 2 page summary highlights the GRAD project's work on livestock marketing collectives in Ethiopia.

12 Recommendations for Nutrition Programming

CARE's 12 recommendations for how to do effective nutrition programming in nutrition-sensitive arenas.

Socio Economic Empowerment in SDVC

4 page brief highlighting how market access interventions in Bangladesh change families' socio-economic status

GIS Mapping to Improve Agricultural Services

The project has collected GPS data to visualize its operations and coverage and to find out the scope of improvement, identifying how scattered way the services are placed and connected with each other.

How Feeding Cows Helps Families Respond to Crisis

Dairy producers in Bangladesh are seeing an impressive result of having stronger market access.

Impacts from Digital Fat Testers

4 page learning brief highlighting impacts from the Digital Fat testing process.

Private Sector Partnerships in Dairy Value Chains

A 4-page learning brief from the perspective of BRAC, the private sector company partnering with CARE Bangladesh's SDVC project.

GRAD Learning Brief: Multi-Stakeholder Platforms

GRAD Learning Brief: Financial Products

This 6 page breif highlights GRAD's experiences with helping families accees formal financing from Micro-Finance Institutions (MFIs) in...

GRAD Learning Brief: Climate Change Awareness to Action

This 2 page brief highlights how the GRAD program was able to use Climate Vulnerablity and Capacity Analysis (CVCA) to help communities...

GRAD Learning Brief: Outstanding Loans

This 2 page brief highlights the experience of the GRAD program working to get households in rural Ethiopia who have outstanding loans...

GRAD Innovation Brief: Livestock Marketing Collectives

This 2 page breif highlights the findings from Livestock Marketing Collectives that allow families better access to markets and ways to...

GRAD Innovation Brief: Orange Flesh Sweet Potatoes

This 2 page brief highlights learning from collaboration between CARE's GRAD project and the International Potato Centre (CIP) and...

GRAD Innovation Brief: Microfranchise

This 2 page brief highlights lessons learned and impacts from the microfranchise approach that Ethiopia piloted in the USAID-funded Feed...

GRAD Learning Brief: Diffused Light Storage

This 4-page brief highlights the practice of Diffused Light Storage for potato seed propagation.

GRAD Gender Outcome Mapping

This 3 page document is one of a series in the Feed the Future-funded GRAD program's learning breifs.

GRAD Learning Brief: Agro-Dealers

This 2 page brief highlights learning from the USAID-funded GRAD program that works to graduate families out of poverty.

GRAD Infographic

This 1 page infographic highlights the results of CARE's GRAD program in Ethiopia, which works to help the poorest families graduate out...

GRAD Results 2016

This 4 page summary highlights the 2016 findings of CARE's GRAD program in Ethiopia, funded by USAID's Feed the Future.

Pathways Social Cost Benefit Analysis

This 49 page independent report highlights the fact that for every $1 invested in the CARE FFBS model that focuses on women farmers,...

Beyond Productivity

This 25 page documents highlights how CARE delivers on its goal to impact 50 million people by 2020 with improved food and nutrition...

CARE’s Vision for Just and Sustainable Food Systems

This 8-page document highlights CARE's 2020 Food and Nutrition Security strategy, including our approaches: governance, gender equality, and resilience.

PPT Innovation Brief

This 3 page brief highlights CARE's work in Bangladesh that focuses on community participation through Participatory Performance...

Women’s Participation in Dairy Value Chains

This 6-page brief highlights women's participation in Dairy Value Chains and the research that IFPRI conducted on how working with women in non-traditional roles in the value chain led to increased income, confidence, and respect among women workers.

Krishi Utso: The Building of an Agro-Input Microfranchise Network in Rural Bangladesh

This 4-page brief highlights the Krishi Utsho approach—using social enterprises to sustainably solve the problem farmers have in rural Bangladesh.

Digital Fat Tester Business Case

This 4-page brief makes the business case for how Digital Fat Testing Machines are revolutionizing the dairy value chain in Bangladesh.

Women’s engagement contributing to women’s empowerment in the Dairy Value Chain in Rural Bangladesh

This 6-page brief from the Sustainable Dairy Value Chain project highlights the impacts the project was able to have on women's economic empowerment.

Empowering Women Through Strengthened Dairy Value Chains

This 6-page brief highlights the impact that working with value chains and women has had on women's empowerment.

Digital Fat Testing Innovation Brief

This 4-page brief highlights the successes of using the Digital Fat Tester, a machine that allows producers to get a premium for selling high-quality milk.

E-vouchers fact sheet

This 2 page brief highlights how CARE uses e-vouchers to improve food security and markets in Haiti.

GRAD Learning Brief: Loan Guarantee Funds

This two page brief highlights learning from the USAID-funded GRAD programs experiences with Loan Guarantee funds to get financial...

Pathways to Resilient Livelihoods 2016

This 2 page brief highlights the accomplishments of the Margaret A.

Pathways Overview 2016

This 2 page document shows the progress of CARE's Pathways program as of January 2016.

SHOUHARDO II

Innovative USAID-funded program that links food aid with building long-term food and nutrition security 

Livelihood & Food Security Technical Assistance (LIFT) II

There are an estimated 1.5 million people living with HIV in Malawi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with prevalence rates of nearly 11% and 1%, respectively. Through the Livelihoods and Food Security Technical Assistance II (LIFT II) project, CARE works to expand access to economic opportunities for people living with HIV and their families, and in doing so helps to improve food security and financial status, so that they are able to obtain life-saving healthcare.

SuPER Food Systems

This 2 page brief highlights key evidence on CARE's SuPER approach and explains the 4 principles that CARE uses to design interventions to fix broken food systems.

SuPER Food Systems: 4 Principles to End Hunger

This 14-page brief presents evidence from 10 programs in 16 countries that using SuPER principles delivers food and nutrition security and climate resilience for the poorest of the poor.

GRAD Learning Brief: VESA

This 2 page brief highlights how CARE's GRAD program in Ethiopia is expanding on the concept of a traditional VSLA to improve impact.

Issue Brief: Food and Nutrition Security for All

Putting Evaluations Into Practice: 20 Years of Food For Peace

This 34 page brief shows us lessons learned from 20 years of Food For Peace Programming.

CFS 42 Policy Brief

Learning Tours Trip Report: Djibouti & Mozambique

Findings from the CARE Learning Tour to Djibouti and Mozambique. From August 17-23, 2015, a delegation of U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee staffers, the Administrator from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a technical expert from Global Child Nutrition Foundation, traveled to Djibouti and Mozambique to see how U.S. investments in food and nutrition security are providing short-term food assistance to those in need, while also building the capacity of smallholder farmers to sustainably produce enough nutritious food to feed their families and lift their communities out of poverty.

A Recipe for Alleviating Chronic Malnutrition in Mozambique

Findings from the CARE Chefs’ Learning Tour to Mozambique

Water-Smart Agriculture in East Africa

This 356-page sourcebook was produced under the Global Water Initiative program and is a starting point for thinking and inspiring efforts.

Nutrition and Food Security Overview (July 2015)

This two-page overview provides a look at CARE's approach to the nutritional aspects of CARE's Food and Nutrition Security programs.

April 2015 Project Portfolio

This 12 page summary provides selected highlights from some of CARE's ongoing food and nutrition security work.

SHOUHARDO II Evaluation

This 70 page report documents the findings of the SHOUHARDO II program, a Food For Peace program in Bangladesh that aims to reduce...

LIFTing HIV Patients Into Services

This 2 page summary describes CARE's work in Malawi and the Democratic Republic of Congo under the LIFT II program.

FFBS Seasonal Calendar

A sample seasonal calendar used in the Farmers' Field and Business Schools, a product of the CARE Pathways program, and that focus on a learning by doing approach.

FFBS Monitoring Tools

This exercise helps farmers of a producer group to discuss which practices they are adopting and the benefits they may be experiencing from such new adoptions.

FFBS Nutrition Tools

This tool can be adapted for any specific problem that arises from undernutrition. Undernutrition is a multifaceted condition, with a variety of factors that surround agriculture, women’s empowerment, and access to food.

FFBS Gender Tools

This tool covers how to introduce spouses to the program and be sure that they understand the program and how they will be encouraged to be involved and to support their spouses.

FFBS Marketing Tools

This tool is to introduce the marketing of farmers produce and to come up with a common marketing vision for the group. The idea is to set the scene for farmer engagement with different market actors.

FFBS Agricultural Tools

This session provides an overview of scope and format of FFBS activities to be completed for the agricultural season. This will serve as a basis for incorporating modules for other Pathways components (markets, nutrition, gender, and group empowerment) in the farmer workgroup meetings.

Farmers Field and Business Schools (FFBS) Facilitation Tools

This tool helps build practical skills and helps Farmers Field and Business Schools (FFBS) facilitators feel informed and confident about their role and ability to facilitate a participatory learning session.

Kore Lavi: A New Way to Do Food Aid

Kore Lavi is implementing a safety net program that improves access to locally produced foods among vulnerable households.

GRAD: Graduating Out of Social Assistance And Into Long-Term Food Security

GRAD is a five-year USAID-funded project designed to build on the Government of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program Plus (PSNP)...