Reports & Resources

CARE’s Localization ScORE Framework

September 11, 2024

CARE seeks to contribute to the sustainable transition of leadership and ownership of development and humanitarian assistance to a range of public, private, and civil society partners. CARE’s Localization efforts support diverse local actors in over 100 countries to define priorities, design solutions, drive implementation, and sustain efforts tailored to their unique development and/or humanitarian context. CARE does this while aiming to maximize impact across six priorities – Gender Equality, Humanitarian Response, Food Security, Water and Nutrition, Economic Justice for Women, Right to Health, and Climate Justice. In line with CARE’s SCoRE Framework for Localization, CARE fosters conditions and approaches that shift power to local actors by: Strengthening Capacity: Enhancing the systems and capacity of local partners to implement and sustain programs and the change they enable, while supporting local leaders, amplifying marginalized voices, facilitating capacity sharing, and ensuring effective, inclusive, and accountable governance with and for their communities; Co-creating: Bringing together the perspectives, needs, local knowledge and thought leadership of local partners, communities, impact populations, and other stakeholders to ensure that development and humanitarian responses are fit for the local context, demand-driven, and tailored to the unique needs of diverse communities, engaging them throughout the project cycle we support Resourcing Local Actors: Channeling resources and strengthening systems to sustain and scale community level work, supporting local partners to absorb, grow, diversify, leverage, and manage their resource base; supporting the transition of key partners to direct donor funding and; Enhancing Networks: Developing, strengthening and amplifying local networks that enable coordination, inclusive programming, capacity sharing, and collective action

CARE’S Localization Approach: Technical Capacity Statement

April 30, 2024

CARE’s localization model blends principles of both locally-led development and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) with an emphasis on shifting power to the local level. We intentionally center women, girls, and marginalized communities in everything that we do to ensure that the voices of underrepresented, underserved, and vulnerable populations lead and shape development solutions and humanitarian response. In line with CARE’s SCoRE Framework for Localization (see below) CARE fosters conditions and approaches that shift power to local actors.

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.

Towards a Gender Just Future: Gender Equality Annual Report 2023

July 26, 2023

CARE's Gender Equality Annual Report 2023 reflects on collective progress towards our gender equality goals under Vision 2030. It highlights the global challenges we face, our impact to date and how CARE is leading change as we look towards the future.

Women’s leadership & social movements

July 25, 2023

This brief provides an overview of common models and approaches for supporting women's leadership in grassroots social change. Commissioned by the CARE-WWF Alliance, it explore ways different organizations are specifically supporting women’s leadership in collective action and movement work.

Climate & Gender Capacity Statement

July 10, 2023

Women and girls are agents of change in global climate mitigation and adaptation. This capacity statement outlines how CARE centers gender equality in our climate change programming.

CARE’S Global Gender Cohort Overview

May 19, 2023

Gender Equality Framework Overview

May 19, 2023

CARE's Gender Equality Framework guides how we approach gender equality across all our programming. This is based on our experience that achieving lasting change in the power and choices women have over their own lives requires transformative change.

CARE and the Sustainable Development Goals 2023

April 11, 2023

Since 2015, CARE has been tracking impact metrics in line with the Sustainable Development Goals. In 2021, CARE shifted to 30 impact indicators for CARE’s Vision 2030, still aligned with the SDGs. The SDGs represent a collective, global commitment to a transformed world. It is only right that an organization like CARE also be accountable to demonstrating how its work contributes to these shared goals toward this collective vision. Between 2015 and 2022 CARE and our partners have contributed to global change for 180 million people in 82 countries. We use the word “contributions” deliberately: in all our work, change happens through the combined efforts of many different actors, including civil society and movements, governments, and the private sector. Our programs are just some of the contributing factors that lead to these impacts and outcomes.

Localization Capacity Statement

November 22, 2019

In the context of CARE’s focus on impact at scale and USAID’s Journey to Self-Reliance, a critical component of reaching the most number of people with the most impact is working with local partners, civil society organizations, and social movements. By working collectively, we can impact more people more sustainably, with solutions that are designed, owned, and driven by the people and communities most in need.