Using Mobile Health Technology to Improve Nutrition and Early Childhood Development
Many of the health services delivered to poor rural families come from community health volunteers or extension agents.
India
Country Info
CARE has been working in India for more than 60 years, focusing on ending poverty and social injustice. We do this through well-planned and comprehensive programs in health, education, livelihoods and disaster preparedness and response. Our overall goal is the empowerment of women and girls from poor and marginalized communities leading to improvement in their lives and livelihoods. By collaborating with community groups, government departments, and professional bodies, CARE India ensures that the most vulnerable can effect and sustain equitable change.
CARE works with the poorest of the poor in more than 100 districts, in a total of 11 states across India. In 2008, CARE became nationally registered in India, which allows CARE an even greater opportunity to work with national partners and ensure that the poor benefit from India’s new wealth. In 2013, CARE India transitioned from an affliate to a full member of CARE International, a global confederation of member organizations – Austria, Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany-Luxemburg, India, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Thailand, United Kingdom and United States – working together to end poverty.
For more information or to contact us, please visit the CARE India website.
Our Work in India
Child Poverty
Half of all children live in poverty, spending their formative years struggling to survive.
Market Access
More inclusive markets and access can help poor people improve their lives.
Microfinance
There’s a “savings revolution” taking place in many developing countries.
Youth Empowerment
Addressing the needs of the 1.8 billion young people in the world is critical to ending poverty.
Girls' Education
The majority of the 57 million children out of school are girls — their future is at risk.
Family Planning
Family planning is a proven strategy in reducing maternal mortality.
HIV & AIDS
Poverty is both a cause and consequence of HIV and AIDS.
Child Survival
This year, more than 7 million children will die before their 5th birthday.
Clean Water
Access to clean water and decent toilets saves lives and helps families and communities prosper.
Poverty & Social Justice
Everyone in the world has the right to a life free from poverty, violence and discrimination.
Maternal Health
Hundreds of thousands of women die in pregnancy and childbirth, mostly from preventable causes.
Agriculture
By failing to close the gender gap in agriculture, the world is paying dearly.
Child Nutrition
Malnutrition affects 200 million children and the consequences can last a lifetime.
Child Marriage
Child marriage is a gross human rights violation that puts young girls at great risk.
Violence Against Women
Gender-based violence is one of the most pervasive and yet least-recognized human rights abuses.
Why Women & Girls?
Why does CARE fight global poverty by focusing on women and girls? Because we have to.
Sangita's Second Chance to Go to School
Up until two months ago, 13-year-old Sangita Devi had never set foot in a school.
Family Planning: Keeping Child and Mother Healthy
With support from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, CARE's Family Health Initiative promotes the health of mothers and children in Bihar, the poorest state in India.
Resources
Stategies, Results and Impacts of Evaluations 2011 - 2013
Findings from the CARE Learning Tour to India
Making a Difference: Empowering Girls, Expanding Knowledge, Addressing Poverty
Results of a baseline assessment from six countries in Africa and Asia
This report is an analytical review of CARE’s programs and projects undertaken with partners and allies in 16 countries over the period ...
Empowering Women in Agriculture
A Pathways Programming Approach
Results of a Baseline Assessment From Six Countries in Africa and Asia
An educated girl is more likely to delay marriage and childbirth, enjoy greater income and productivity, and raise fewer, healthier and...
Feb 2012 Girls Leadership Program Brief
The aim of this document is to provide an introduction to the potential contribution that Social Enterprise (SE) can make to CARE’s...
CARE Enterprises bridges the supply/demand gap that exists between formal markets and many of the world's poorest communities.
Push, Pull and Cross-Cutting Strategies
Migrant experiences between India, Nepal and Bangladesh.
A look at CARE interventions in Bihar, India where poor nutrition and health lead to early death and lost potential.
Integrating Gender and Sexuality into Maternal and Newborn Health Programming through the Inner Spaces, Outer Faces Initiative.
CARE works with communities to improve the quality and accessibility of local health services for women and newborns.
Tools for learning and action on gender and sexuality.
An 8-country study to understand rainfall, food security and human mobility.
Proven approaches for empowering women smallholders and achieving food security
An International Framework to Address ‘Loss And Damage’ from Climate Change Impacts
September 2012 Issue of CARE's Poverty Environment & Climate Change Network Newsletter
Mapping the Effects of Climate Change on Human Migration and Displacement
Mapping Emerging Trends and Risk Hotspots
Many of the health services delivered to poor rural families come from community health volunteers or extension agents.
We believe that the greatest obstacle to girls’ education is the low social status in which girls are held.
The right to education is fundamental to the attainment and exercise of all human rights.
The world’s future will be largely shaped by today’s girls and tomorrow’s women.
In 2008, CARE launched an ambitious Market Engagement Strategy that aims to empower 10 million women and girls to transition from...
CARE’s programs in Economic Development work to improve the economic security and income opportunities of the poor.
CARE’s HIV & AIDS programming and policy advocacy has highlighted the centrality of women’s empowerment.
We know that empowering women is fundamental to ending poverty and protecting human rights and dignity.
CARE recognizes the need for analysis into ways in which our HIV prevention programs affect women’s vulnerability to HIV.
CARE's Pathways program empowers women to more fully engage in equitable agriculture systems.
Empowering women to ensure family planning coverage, quality and equity
CARE's 2013 HIV and AIDS Capacity Statement
CARE’s Approach to Sexual, Reproductive, and Maternal Health
Girls’ Leadership Development in Action: CARE’s Experience from the Field
We believe that the greatest obstacle to girls’ education is the low social status in which girls are held.
Girls Empowered
The right to education is fundamental to the attainment and exercise of all human rights. From global movements such as Education for All (EFA) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), to community-level declarations regarding equitable and free education, real and positive change is opening up educational opportunities previously not available to many of today’s children and youth.
Education Plus: A Policy Agenda to Unlock the Power of Girls
The world’s future will be largely shaped by today’s girls and tomorrow’s women. A growing body of evidence indicates that girls’ well-being is critical to progress on a range of developmental outcomes: an educated girl is more likely to delay marriage and childbirth, enjoy greater income and productivity and raise fewer, healthier and better-educated children.1 Indeed, investments in girls’ education may go further than any other spending in global development.
Market Engagement: Progress Report 2010
In 2008, CARE launched an ambitious Market Engagement Strategy that aims to empower 10 million women and girls to transition from poverty to prosperity by 2015 by improving their ability to access and benefit from markets and employment. This report represents a first assessment of how we are doing.
Economic Development Overview
CARE’s programs in Economic Development work to improve the economic security and income opportunities of the poor. Currently, CARE is implementing 74 economic development projects in 43 countries throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. In addition, CARE maintains ties with independent microfinance institutions (MFI) that have grown out of CARE’s economic development programming.
Standing Together, Reducing Risk: The Power of Groups
CARE’s HIV & AIDS programming and policy advocacy has highlighted the centrality of women’s empowerment.
Gender, Sex and the Power of Solidarity: The Implications of Empowering Women at Risk of HIV and AIDS
We know that empowering women is fundamental to ending poverty and protecting human rights and dignity. But as program implementers and advocates, we want to better understand how increasing women’s empowerment influences women’s vulnerabilities to HIV so that we can strengthen this work and scale it up. With this in mind, CARE set out on a global journey to explore this relationship between women’s empowerment and vulnerability to HIV through a multi-country, comparative research study in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Gender, Sex and the Power to Survive: The Impact and Implications of Empowering Women at Risk of HIV and AIDS
CARE recognizes the need for analysis into ways in which our HIV prevention programs affect women’s vulnerability to HIV.
