The CARE International Strategic Plan reaffirms our collective commitment to CARE’s Vision and Mission and will guide the work of the entire confederation for the years to come. It looks at what CI members can do better together than individually to achieve greater impact.

After extensive external and internal consultation, the CARE International General assembly endorsed the following six strategic directions at its meeting in Chennai, India (2006):

1. Build capacity to respond to disasters
Goal: to respond more effectively and comprehensively to humanitarian emergencies worldwide and thereby to increase the scope and impact of CI’s emergency programmes, as well as to strengthen donor funding and CI’s profile.

2. Global advocacy
Goal: to become more effective in joint advocacy around policy-related causes of poverty and humanitarian suffering.

3. Organisational evolution
Goal: to allow CI to achieve greater impact and legitimacy by causing it to become more diverse, relevant and accountable to the people it serves.

4. Information and knowledge management
Goal: to become more effective in knowledge and information management, thus allowing CI to leverage its scale in ways that increase organisational accountability, learning and relevance and, ultimately, programme impact.

5. Build shared expertise in key areas of competence
Goal: to build shared expertise in selected programme areas, in order to strengthen CI member and country office operations, and thereby their impact on the causes and consequences of poverty.

6. Strengthen governance & decision-making processes
Goal: to strengthen further CI’s governance and management in a way that will help to create the organizational conditions needed to ensure success in strategic directions 1 to 5.

As a result, by 2012, CARE International will have become more global, diverse and internally connected. We will have strengthened our organizational accountability, relevance and legitimacy, which are the preconditions for effective action through high quality programming, effective advocacy, and strong partnership.

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