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We make all of CARE’s evaluation and research reports available for public access in accordance with our Accountability Policy. These are available at our Evaluation Library.

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Household Dialogues for Financial Empowerment of Women

January 31, 2023

Household Dialogues for Financial Empowerment of Women (HH Dialogue manual) is a training course and manual designed for implementing the “Digital Sub Wallet for Increased Financial Empowerment of Women” Project. The Project’s main goal is: For women to have equitable influence over household financial decisions and to use mobile financial technology to improve their own and their family’s opportunities and lives. The interventions include dialogues that provide a platform for women to engage in household decision-making.

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Evaluations/Research

VSLA by the Numbers

November 1, 2022

Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLAs) have been a foundational programmatic approach at CARE since 1991. Since then, CARE has helped over 13.7 million people join savings groups. The savings group model has been adopted and adapted by a variety of organizations globally. This brief gives an overview of the social and financial effects and returns of savings groups as well as how groups affected members’ resilience to COVID-19. The results gave an overview of the financial return on investment (ROI), group economic outcomes, savings groups costs, and individual and household effects for savings groups both inside and outside of CARE.

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Lessons Learned

Patsy Collins Trust Fund Initiative: Leadership & Life Skills

October 21, 2022

Since 2003, CARE has implemented the Patsy Collins Trust Fund Initiative (PCTFI) to improve access to and quality of education for marginalized girls across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In 2015, CARE expanded PCTFI to a third cohort of countries reaching marginalized adolescents, particularly girls, (aged 10-19) in seven countries: Cambodia, Kenya, Mali, Nepal, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, and India. This report outlines learning from this multi-country initiative from the leadership and life skills related activities.

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Patsy Collins Trust Fund Initiative: Gender Integration, Gender-based Violence (GBV) Prevention, and Social Norms Change

October 21, 2022

Since 2003, CARE has implemented the Patsy Collins Trust Fund Initiative (PCTFI) to improve access to and quality of education for marginalized girls across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In 2015, CARE expanded PCTFI to a third cohort of countries reaching marginalized adolescents, particularly girls, (aged 10-19) in seven countries: Cambodia, Kenya, Mali, Nepal, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, and India. This report outlines learning from this multi-country initiative activities relating to Gender Integration, Gender-based Violence (GBV) prevention, and social norms change

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Patsy Collins Trust Fund Initiative – Adolescent Led Advocacy

October 21, 2022

Since 2003, CARE has implemented the Patsy Collins Trust Fund Initiative (PCTFI) to improve access to and quality of education for marginalized girls across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In 2015, CARE expanded PCTFI to a third cohort of countries reaching marginalized adolescents, particularly girls, (aged 10-19) in seven countries: Cambodia, Kenya, Mali, Nepal, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, and India. This report outlines learning from this multi-country initiative regarding the adolescent-led advocacy activities.

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