Impact Reports Strengthening social entrepreneurship in Burundi November 27, 2023 Through working with the local social entrepreneurship ecosystem, CARE worked with 26 social entrepreneurs by offering training in social entrepreneurship and design thinking in turn strengthening their capacity for sustainable, scalable, and inclusive impact. View resource
Impact Reports CARE10x: CARE as a Scaling Platform for Best-in-Class Social Innovations November 13, 2023 CARE10x builds partnerships with best-in-class social enterprises to tackle global challenges at scale. By transforming CARE into a scaling network, we are catalyzing ‘last mile’ communities' ability to access, own, and benefit from the innovations they want and need. View resource
Impact Reports The Digital CARE Package for Small Producers October 30, 2023 AUXFIN endeavors to make its financial solutions accessible to all, including CARE's VSLA members who are mainly vulnerable populations with low digital literacy and limited access to the internet. Through their platform, small producers gain access to basic financial services such as trading accounts, savings, microcredits, payments, and transfers. View resource
Impact Reports Collectivizing Village Land Use Planning for Women’s and Youth Participation in and Benefits from Tanzanian Watershed Management October 23, 2023 To address environmental challenges in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor (SAGCOT) region of Tanzania, the CARE-WWF Alliance designed a conservation and development program with a key focus on integrated land and water management (ILWM) through innovation related to the collectivization of the government of Tanzania’s Village Land Use Planning (VLUP) process. View resource
Impact Reports Protecting the livelihoods of smallholder pastoralists September 30, 2023 Leveraging CARE’s gender expertise, Pula co-designed a specialized insurance product designed to fit the unique needs of small-scale pastoralists in Northern Nigeria, thereby strengthening their incomes and resilience to climate-related disasters. View resource
Impact Reports Enhancing Agricultural Efficiency for Smallholder Farmers September 20, 2023 Hello Tractor's mobile app and agent model increases access to tractors among smallholder farmers, while their pay-as-you-go financing enables rural communities to own, manage, and earn additional income from their own tractors. View resource
Impact Reports Catalyzing Productivity for Smallholder Farmers September 15, 2023 MyAgro's mobile layaway platform increases ‘last mile’ farmers’ access to high-quality seeds and fertilizer, while also generating new, commission-based income for CARE’s network of community-based trainers. View resource
Tools Playbook: Using Social Media to Drive Public Health Outcomes August 29, 2023 In late 2020, Meta approached CARE USA with an intriguing question: What if social media could drive social and behavior change for positive public health outcomes? Download our playbook to learn how CARE tested methods and learn how to apply our learnings for your own campaign. View resource
Impact Reports Building Capital in Crisis: CARE’s VSLA in Emergencies increase savings and solidarity August 14, 2023 Since 2017, CARE has piloted and refined our VSLA in Emergencies model to reach people in need of humanitarian assistance and provide an approach that can reduce long term vulnerability while being more sustainable. In this second report on the VSLA in Emergencies (VSLAiE) pilot research, we provide insights from three pilots in Yemen, Syria, and Jordan. This includes the end of pilot findings from Syria and Jordan as well as the results from our Yemen sustainability study. As a result of funding from IDEAL Small Grants Program, CARE has been able to return to communities in Yemen, one year after the end of the first cycle and observe the sustainability of the gains from the pilot project. View resource
Evaluations/Research Integrating Local Knowledge in Humanitarian and Development Programming: Perspectives of Global Women Leaders August 9, 2023 This report examines local knowledge integration in the context of global development and humanitarian aid work. It builds upon a recently published report by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) called Integrating Local Knowledge in Development Programming. That report sought to “share knowledge of how development donors and implementing organizations leverage local knowledge to inform programming. This study aims to extend the original methods to better understand grassroots actors’ own interpretations of local knowledge and its integration into programming in their communities. It examines the perspectives of 29 grassroots leaders from women-led organizations around the world, looking deeply at the ways in which they conceptualize local knowledge and local knowledge stakeholders, their approaches to designing their own projects based on local knowledge, and their experiences sharing knowledge with international actors and donors. This builds the broader evidence base on integrating local knowledge to incorporate the perspectives of grassroots actors into the same conversation as the original study. View resource
