Policy statement
CARE International’s Humanitarian Mandate is to meet immediate needs of disaster-affected populations in the poorest communities in the world in a way that also addresses the underlying causes of people’s vulnerability. Our mandate calls on CARE staff to demonstrate the highest standards of quality and accountability.
This Humanitarian Accountability Framework (HAF) is a statement of CARE’s commitment to accountability at all stages of emergency preparedness and response.
CARE defines accountability as the means by which we fulfill our responsibilities to our stakeholders and the ways in which they may hold us to account for our decisions, actions and impacts. We commit to hold ourselves accountable to all of our stakeholders, but first and foremost we hold ourselves accountable to disaster affected women, men, boys and girls.