Ethical Governance
CARE upholds the highest standards of International Humanitarian Law. We ensure strict ethical oversight through background checks, financial audits, and legal compliance with anti-terrorism laws. A 24/7 whistleblower hotline allows staff to report misconduct, including fraud, discrimination, and harassment. CARE believes that any stakeholder has the right to raise a complaint, have that complaint addressed and receive a response.
Localized Leadership and Efficiency
CARE builds long-term local partnerships to understand the most pressing needs and opportunities to create real change. We maintain a consistent presence in the countries where we work to keep costs low. 95% of CARE staff come from the communities they serve. We invest in local staff, partners and people that have a vested interest in building a future for their own communities, and we support them to build their own self-sufficiency to operate without us.
Financial Stewardship
Over 90% of funds go directly to poverty-fighting programs. CARE maintains one of the highest cost-efficiency ratios among NGOs. Overhead is kept low by leveraging economies of scale, shared services, and consistent country presence, with costs distributed fairly across our diversified donor base. CARE receives financial support from taxpayers through governmental funding, and we ensure that investment has a positive impact on lives and on global prosperity, health, and security.
Transparent Costing
Rather than bundling costs into opaque agreements, CARE itemizes and discloses all program-related expenses. This transparency gives donors clarity and control over what they’re funding and ensures equitable cost-sharing across funding sources.
Rigorous Impact Measurement
CARE invests up to 10% of project budgets in data systems and independent evaluations. We use digital tools, surveys, and third-party assessments to validate results and inform decision-making. We track a variety of key measurements such as Services Delivered, Target Reach Accuracy, Life Change Outcomes, Return on Investment, Value for Money, and Sustainability.
Public Accountability
Being accountable to our partners, communities, and supporters’ means that we share information in a transparent way or, where we are unable to satisfy an information request, providing an explanation. CARE publishes results, evaluations and impact data, cost, advocacy policy reports, program reports, research reports, and our services provided annually on its website, in global forums.
Currently CARE works in Asia, Middle East, Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean providing lifesaving work through federal government funded grant programs that receive funds from U.S. taxpayers. These programs follow our highest standards of transparency and accountability.
Somalia Integrated Emergency Response Program Project
Grant amount: $14.5 million
SIERP supports over 497,000 people with food and lifesaving treatment for acute malnutrition, including more than 143,000 mothers and children. It provides safe drinking water for 202,000 people and ensures local health centers provide essential supplies, medicines, and health services.
Emergency Food Security Program in Zimbabwe
Grant amount: $7.9 million
Tayambuka provides emergency food assistance to more than 114,000 people, using a combination of U.S.-grown commodities and training to help farmers increase their crop productivity in the face of droughts and floods. It uses a food-for-work model that pays community members with U.S. commodities to build infrastructure that improves water management and crop yields.
Takunda (We Have Overcome)
Grant amount: $80.3 million
Takunda supports over 227,000 people in Zimbabwe through farmer training, nutrition education, and private sector engagement to boost yields and incomes. The project works with the private sector to ensure farmers have access to markets to buy supplies and sell crops. It aims to help 19,000 farmers grow more food and over 38,000 people achieve food security.
Diversifying Resilience Approaches through Market Systems in Emergency (DREAMS)
Grant amount: $4 million
DREAMS provides emergency food assistance, cash for work, and emergency malnutrition treatment for over 481,000 people in Malawi. It focuses on private sector responses and rebuilding farm businesses to recover from disasters and improve long-term productivity.
Humanitarian Emergency Assistance, Recovery and Transition for Vulnerable Communities Across Northern Syria (HEARTS)
Grant amount: $25.2 million
HEARTS delivers emergency food, income, medicine, and health services to over 878,000 people, and clean water and sanitation to over 306,000 people. More than 580,000 people receive cash or direct food assistance, and female survivors of violence receive life-saving services.
Emergency and Recovery Response in Climate and Conflict Affected Areas of Somali, Amhara, Tigray, Afar, and Oromia Regions
Grant amount: $8.1 million
ERRSATAO provides emergency, life-saving support to more than 497,000 people in conflict-affected areas of Ethiopia. The project provides over 68,000 people with clean drinking water, and over 97,000 people with essential medicines and health services, also training health medical professionals. It also provides over 100,000 women and girls – especially survivors of violence – with hygiene kits, and over 497,000 people with seeds, livestock vaccines, and training.
Responding to Multi Sectoral Emergency and Protection Needs in Sudan
Grant amount: $11 million
RESPOND-SUD provides clean water and sanitation to over 613,000 people, and life-saving malnutrition treatment for over 600,000 mothers and children. It also builds health centers for over 613,000 people and provides prevention and response services to over 12,700 female survivors of violence.
Her Power, Her Future
Grant amount: $2.9 million
Her Power, Her Future empowers women to build small businesses and engage in cross-border trade in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. It builds skills for local organizations to support small businesses and regional trade and works with 1,950 people to build businesses that provide income, jobs, and stability for 170,000 community members.
Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program in Malawi
Grant amount: $27.5 million
Tiwoloka provides school meals for over 53,000 children using a combination of U.S.-grown commodities and locally purchased ingredients.
Titukulane program in Malawi
Grant amount: $75 million
Titukulane supports over 565,000 people in Malawi by training farmers to improve crop yields, increase incomes, and build savings. It provides immediate food or income to nearly 87,000 people.
