What does real change look like?
For CARE, it’s a mother who survives childbirth. A family with enough food on the table. A woman earning her own income and having a say in how it’s spent.
We don’t just count the number of people who participate in our programs. We track whether their lives actually got better. That means measuring results like improved nutrition, safer births, higher and more sustainable incomes, and greater power and ability to make decisions. And it means being honest about what the evidence shows.
CARE’s investments in research and data are designed to answer the question: in this context, will this deliver more long-term impact per dollar than the next best option? Here’s how we do that.
- Cost effectiveness: tracking the value of dollars spent, in real time.
- Data systems that can track results for individual participants.
- Community feedback about works and doesn’t for the people we serve.
- Global benchmarking: designing with best-in-class evidence.
- A sharply prioritized pipeline of rigorous research with credible independent evaluators.
- Smart rigor: using the most efficient method to answer the question.
