Reports & Resources

Tools

WASH Infrastructure: Assessing Safety and Accessibility for all

By CARE Kenya · November 25, 2024

This tool was used in Kenya in 2022 to assess the accessibility of WASH infrastructure.

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Lessons Learned

World Toilet Day 2024: Annual Innovation in Sanitation Award

November 18, 2024

For 2024 the Water+ team presents the Annual Innovation in Sanitation award to the CARE Zimbabwe Takunda team. The team has worked tirelessly to study and pilot innovative ways, through Human Centered Design, to increase access to toilets among the poorest and most vulnerable people in Zimbabwe. The Takunda team works with Latrine Builders, who are experienced masons, to promote sanitation and increase latrine coverage in the community, while also earning an income. Read more about the sanitation approach of Takunda in the brief below.

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Impact Reports

Synergy For the Resilience Of Vulnerable Communities in Guidan Roumdji Department, Niger

November 18, 2024

A storybook capturing the transformative impact of Hamzari on the lives of its participants.

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Tools

Safety Audit of WASH Infrastructure

By James Labadia and Kelly Alexander · November 4, 2024

Besides the Rapid Gender Analysis, some CARE projects also conduct a Safety Audit before constructing or rehabilitating a water point to ensure accessibility for all. Below is a version of a tool used in South Sudan in 2023 (also provided here in Spanish and French).

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Impact Reports

Sugu Yiriwa: Multi-Stakeholder Platforms Learning Brief

July 31, 2024

This learning brief explores Multi-Stakeholder Platforms (MSPs) as a potential solution to sustainably address existing organizational and institutional challenges in agro-sylvopastoral value chains in the delta area (Mopti-Tombouctou). The brief highlights how these platforms are increasingly at the forefront of all marketing events to foster sustainable markets linkages between different value chain actors, negotiate contracts, and access financial services to create inclusive and profitable market opportunities for small-scale farmers and businesses.

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Evaluations/Research

Insights from women at the forefront of crises in Burundi

July 31, 2024

The government of Burundi has declared a humanitarian crisis you may not have seen in the midst of all the crises in the world. Double-digit food price inflation, 1.23 million people facing food insecurity, conflict in DRC impacting trade, and more than 200,000 people displaced: the crises in Burundi barely get enough attention globally. In fact, Burundi is the third in the list of most under-reported crises. If you haven’t been following the situation in Burundi, here are 4 things women in Burundi want you to know.

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Evaluations/Research

Digital Livestock FFBS Innovation Brief

July 29, 2024

CARE, Shouhardo III program of Bangladesh and Kuza, have collaborated to digitize the FFBS content with support from SUFFBS technical teams, enhancing learner engagement, sustainability, and outreach to vulnerable farmers, including women and youth. This partnership has been instrumental in creating digital tools that ensure broader access to training resources and support the practical application of improved livestock practices to foster long-term livestock productivity and gender equity, driving sustainable agricultural development and community empowerment through a more inclusive and effective learning environment. The digital livestock FFBS is piloted in 6 districts of Shouhardo program in Bangladesh with 10 Local Service Providers facilitating the sessions to 200 Farmers.

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Evaluations/Research

How Can Approaches that Achieve Gender Equality Help Advance all the SDGs: Impact Evaluations Evidence from CARE Programs

July 26, 2024

Approaches that achieve gender equality, that move beyond the individual level to address greater interpersonal, socio-cultural, and community factors that influence gender attitudes and behaviors, have been shown by rigorous impact evaluations to be impactful in promoting gender-equitable attitudes (e.g., SASA! Program in Uganda), reducing gender-based violence (e.g., Stepping Stones and Creating Futures program in South Africa), and decreasing social acceptance of intimate partner violence (e.g., RESPECT program in Tanzania). Read the report to find out more.

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Policy Papers

Women are the Early Warning: Food Insecurity and Gender in the Dry Corridor of Honduras

July 23, 2024

It’s often said that women eat last and least. But all too often we lack the timely and actionable data we need to close the gender hunger gap. To remedy this, CARE in Honduras combined the global standards of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) and our Rapid Gender Analysis toolkit to demonstrate the potential of a gender-responsive early warning system.

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Evaluations/Research

Starving for Equality

July 22, 2024

Two numbers set the frame for the food security situation in the world today. 282 million people are very hungry in the world (acutely food insecure). 84.2 million more women and girls are hungry than men and boys. Food insecurity is a huge global problem, and it’s highly unequal. The Starving for Equality research shows how gender inequality isn’t just a woman’s problem; it’s also bad for men and boys. The research also shows that inequality makes men and boys hungrier, too.

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