CARE: Shifting Social Norms to Achieve Gender Equality

CARE Ethiopia Decade of Learning: Social Analysis and Action

CARE Ethiopia has implemented the SAA approach across different types of programming as a key approach to driving gender transformation...

CARE Ethiopia Decade of Learning: Measuring Change in Social Norms and Gender Transformation

Over the past decade CARE Ethiopia has invested significant time, resources, and energy to build an Impact Measurement and Knowledge...

CARE Ethiopia Decade of Learning: Gender in Emergencies

CARE Ethiopia knows that the impact of crises on people's lives, experiences and material conditions differ based on their gender and...

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-...

Bringing Gender Equality to Women’s Economic Empowerment

50-page detailed learning and reflection product intended to provide practical learning and present selected existing tools being applied by CARE Country Offices in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to bring gender equality closer to women's economic empowerment and livelihood programming.

Unlocking Access, Unleashing Potential

Launched in 2018, the VSLA Scaling strategy is a bold initiative to scale CARE’s VSLAs to reach 50 Million women and girls by 2030.

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...

Tackling the Taboo (English)

Tackling the Taboo highlights gender-transformative programs from organizations working at the intersection of child marriage and...

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.

Women on the Move: Annual Impact Report FY 18

This report highlights the impact of the Women on the Move project, which theorizes that if a critical mass of women’s groups, in particular savings groups, are part of an interconnected social movement, and if women and girls have greater power to influence unequal social and economic norms, then women and girls will experience positive change in their socio-economic status and be able to influence change at all levels.

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.

Approaches to Gender and Resilient Markets

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

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.

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.

GRAD Gender Outcome Mapping

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

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,...

Measuring gender-transformative change: A review of literature and promising practices

This 58 page paper discusses promising practices for measuring gender-transformative change. Recognizing that the impact we hope for in development practice will not happen through business as usual, WorldFish and CARE are deliberately committed to bringing about more equitable social transformation through their gender-transformative approaches to agriculture research and development practice in agriculture and aquaculture.

Groups Change the World: How Collectives Empower Women

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CARE Int Tufaidike Wote Project Brief

A Safer Zambia (ASAZA)

Tackling gender based violence in Zambia by expanding access to quality comprehensive services and promoting gender equality

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.

Women and Girls Lead Global: Advancing Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment

Combining world-class documentary films and local engagement campaigns, Women and Girls Lead Global (WGLG) advances gender equality and women’s empowerment by engaging with communities through media. WGLG is a public-private partnership between USAID, the Ford Foundation, and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) working in collaboration with CARE. WGLG also works with television partners and social movement actors such as NGOs, community-based organizations, mission-aligned businesses and public agencies to achieve its goal.

Addressing Child Marriage in Nepal through Behavior Change Communication and Social Mobilization

The goal of the Chunauti (which means “challenge” in Nepali) project, which was supported by USAID and implemented by CARE, was to...

Beer Selling Industry Cambodia

BSIC is improving the health, safety and working conditions of beer promoters by setting industry standards.

Guidance for GBV Monitoring and Mitigation in Non-GBV Sectoral Programming

This document aims to address the increasing demand for clear guidance on how to practically and ethically monitor and mitigate gender-based violence (GBV) within non-emergency, international development programming, in which GBV is not a specific programmatic component. Specifically, it draws on existing GBV-related guidance, as well as input from a group of experts, to provide recommendations for preventing and/or responding to unintentional risk, threat, or violence against individuals related to programmatic interventions. These recommendations describe ways to take stock of the programmatic environment with regard to GBV in general, as well as targeted suggestions on how to track GBV-related incidents and issues throughout the program cycle.

Journeys of Transformation: A Training Manual

This 88-page manual describes CARE's work in Rwanda on engaging men as allies in women's economic empowerment.

SHOUHARDO: Women’s Empowerment, The Journey so Far

This 54 page document describes the SHOUHARDO food security program in Bangladesh and how it uses a women's empowerment model to...

Brief: Intergenerational Transmission of GBV in Education

This 5 page brief discusses what we know about GBV in education and how childhood exposure to GBV impacts behavior later in life.  It...

Report: Intergenerational Transmission of GBV

This 28 page report describes a literature review of what we know about preventing GBV in educational settings, as well as key...

Strengthening Women’s Voice

Outlines the major findings of the Great Lakes Advocacy Initiative in Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and the DRC from 2009 to 2013.

Challenging Gender-based Violence Worldwide: CARE’s Program Evidence

This report reviews CARE’s work to tackle gender-based violence (GBV) based on program evaluations carried from July 2011-June 2013. Some of CARE’s most successful programs were in sub-Saharan Africa, where staff worked in countries like Burundi and Uganda to address violence at home, to engage men and boys as champions of change and to mobilize community action against GBV. In fiscal year 2013, our programs tackling this abuse reached more than 1.1 million people.

Strong Women, Strong Communities

CARE’s Holistic Approach to Empowering Women and Girls in the Fight Against Poverty

One-Stop Model of Support for Survivors of Gender-Based Violence

Lessons From CARE Zambia