Impact stories

Since 2018 CARE has been working with partners to address gaps which undermine women’s meaningful participation in decision-making in humanitarian contexts.

"I can go to the Health Center to ask for services without someone's permission" – Female PROJEUNES Project Participant

If women and girls are more hungry than men and boys, the solution is more food, right? Actually, no. Gender inequality means men and women experience food insecurity in different ways.

Community members in Ethiopia are coming together to challenge existing social norms and traditions through discussions of topics such as early marriages, female genital mutilation, and division of domestic labor.

Members of collective savings groups set up with CARE's assistance are now hosting participants displaced by the conflict.

CARE Bangladesh’s SHOUHARDO III program prioritized the Local Service Provider (LSP) model to ensure sustainability with the aim that the program can leave behind a system that functions on its own without program interventions.

Ethiopia is facing the worst drought in the last 40 years. As a result, girls are dropping out of school because they have to walk the whole day to fetch water for their families.

A CARE project in Ethiopian communities establishes community-led Social Analysis and Action groups which reflect on traditions and social norms and challenges them.

The Project PROSAM which ran from 2015 to 2022 worked to increase agricultural production for women and men in selected urban and peri-urban municipalities in Cuba.