Over 20 organizations welcome EU decision to extend temporary protection for refugees fleeing Ukraine
The decision is a positive step to continue to provide a lifeline for those displaced by the war as well as an opportunity to rebuild their lives.
Through a global and coordinated advocacy strategy, we believe that we can multiply the scope of our impact beyond program funding and technical support to influence national and international policies.
At CARE International, we advocate to advance the rights and priorities of women, girls, and marginalized communities in all their diversity.
We work with partners – at grassroots, national, regional, and global levels – to influence change in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and CARE’s Vision 2030. CARE’s advocacy enables greater impact and increased accountability for commitments to fight poverty and inequality.
Gender equality is at the center of all we do, so our advocacy focuses on tackling deeply entrenched inequalities which impact marginalized communities, particularly women and girls. Enabling women and girls to be heard is core to our vision.
Protracted humanitarian crises, the climate emergency, and COVID-19 have only exacerbated gender inequality and thus made our focus on women and girls even more critical.
CARE works across humanitarian, development, and peace-building contexts to advance social justice and promote human rights for people of all genders.
CARE advocates for change across six Impact Areas – our areas of focus to drive change towards Vision 2030, these are Climate Justice; Gender Equality; Crisis Response; Right to Health; Right to Food, Water, and Nutrition; and Women’s Economic Justice.
Over the next couple of years, we will be working with our many partners to achieve much-needed breakthroughs in two key areas:
Through advocacy we aim to:
Read our Global Advocacy Roadmap
Active collaboration is at the heart of CARE International's Advocacy. Through constant communication, cooperation and guidance from activists women across the globe, we are better equipped to help advance women’s and girls’ rights across sectors.
The Women’s Action for Better Advocacy (WABA) is an independent body that holds an important seat in our global cooperation efforts. It brings together feminist leaders and activists from around the world, including leaders on advocacy, policy-making and programme delivery in crises and complex emergencies, as well as leading women and youth activists in the field of women’s rights.
By fostering connections between members and CARE, WABA furthers the work of members’ respective organizations, networks, and movements, and informs the advocacy work of CARE.
The Global Advocacy Handbook is a toolkit of approaches, techniques, and additional resources to help CARE staff think about how to integrate advocacy into their work.
ReadThe decision is a positive step to continue to provide a lifeline for those displaced by the war as well as an opportunity to rebuild their lives.
The decision should facilitate faster delivery of humanitarian aid to millions of people in a time of unprecedented need
CARE International launches its report, "The Most Under-Reported Humanitarian Crises of 2021," highlighting, for the sixth year in a row, the 10 crises that received little media attention in the year before. According to the United Nations, around 235 million people worldwide needed humanitarian aid last year – this number is predicted to rise to 274 million people in 2022.
As we start 2024 with our new impact data, let’s take a minute to see what progress CARE and our partners have been a part of in the world.
Today marks six years since the start of the Rohingya refugee crisis. Unfortunately, the environment is particularly difficult for women and girls, who face increased risks of violence and harmful social norms.
Kelle is training other Ugandans to use climate smart farming, so they can recover from the shocks of climate change and conflict.
One year into the Sudan conflict, women and girls have borne the brunt of hunger, displacement and violence. CARE and partners analyzed the devastating impacts they have suffered, urging more international support.
Addressing the unprecedented and overwhelming humanitarian crisis requires response and recovery efforts to listen to and address the needs of those affected the most, especially women and girls.
CARE has been tracking impact metrics in line with the Sustainable Development Goals since 2015. In 2021, CARE shifted to 30 impact indicators for CARE’s Vision 2030, continuing to be aligned with the SDGs.
In FY2023, CARE worked around the world, contributing to saving lives, fighting poverty, and increasing social justice.