Reports & Resources

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.

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Lessons Learned

Risk Mitigation and Management for Girl-Led Programming

August 4, 2023

This brief shares learning on the additional risks girls may face when leading change in their communities and actions taken ensure their safety. It draws on learning from CARE’s girl-led activism model, developed in partnership with EMPower under the Tipping point Initiative and implemented in five countries across three regions.

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Lessons Learned

Nigeria Advocacy Brief: Better Protections from Gender-Based Violence

July 26, 2023

This brief details the collaborative advocacy process undertaken by CARE and our campaign partners in support of passage of the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) Act in Yobe State in Nigeria. Women in Northeast Nigeria will be better protected from gender-based violence as a result of this new law.

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Lessons Learned

Women & Girls’ Safe Spaces: A Promising Practices Guide

June 22, 2023

Women and Girls’ Safe Spaces are a key strategy for the protection and empowerment of diverse women and girls affected by humanitarian crisis. This Promising Practices Guide outlines why WGSS are an important part of CARE’s GBViE programming and what teams need to know about establishing and managing WGSS.

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Lessons Learned

Creating Lasting Change: Learning from projects working across CARE’s Gender Equality Framework

June 9, 2023

Projects reporting impact across all areas of CARE’s Gender Equality Framework are more likely to create lasting change in people’s power and choices. This Learning Behind the Numbers brief showcases some of our top-performing projects and highlights what we can learn from these.

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Why Agency? Analyzing impact across CARE’s Gender Equality Framework

June 8, 2023

Two years into CARE’s Vision 2030, trends in how we report the gender equality impact of our programming are starting to emerge. This Learning Behind the Numbers brief reflects specifically on how projects are reporting impact against CARE’s Gender Equality Framework and how we can better capture impact in the future.

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Lessons Learned

How CARE Strengthens Systems: Learning from CARE’s Service Systems Strengthening and Social Accountability Programs

June 6, 2023

This learning review of CARE’s Service Systems Strengthening and Social Accountability (4SA) programming for the period 2015-2022 brings together and seeks to unpack the most comprehensive collection of evidence that CARE has thus far reviewed relating to our 4SA work.

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Annual Reports

Water+ 2022 Retrospective Report

By CARE Water Team · March 23, 2023

CARE’s Water+ 2022 Retrospective Report highlights a selection of lessons learned from programs demonstrating WASH systems approaches – and CARE’s work to strengthen conditions and capacities for governance, accountability, investment, monitoring and learning that are essential to successfully sustaining WASH services. This report includes five briefs which represent a small fraction of the work CARE did in water+ in 2022, but that we hope provide useful learning for our CARE programs and partners, in the WASH sector and beyond.

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Impact Reports

Reducing Child, Early and Forced Marriage (CEFM): Findings from Bangladesh, Benin, Ethiopia, Honduras, Mali, and Somalia

March 14, 2023

Child marriage and its life-long consequences reflect and reinforce gender and age discrimination, including limiting girls' access to education. This brief explores the many ways in which addressing the root causes of early marriage has led to ongoing benefits for girls' education, health, economic situation and risk of violence.

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Lessons Learned

Gender Equality through Savings Groups

March 1, 2023

Traditional savings groups can be an effective economic tool, but when we invest in them to truly focus on gender equality they can be a powerful engine for social change. Drawing on more than 30 years of supporting community savings groups, CARE’s program experience highlights some of the key ways to ensure these promote gender equality.

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