5 Min Inspiration: Getting water faster in Sudan
The Integrated Humanitarian Assistance Project worked with $5 million in funding to help 309,416 people directly reduce the impacts they were facing from COVID-19 in Sudan.
Topic: COVID-19
5 Min Inspiration: Shorter hours, fish heads, and equality at work
Here’s something that some would have never considered: eating a fish head proves equality at home.
5 Min Inspiration: Reaching 93% of East Timorese children for over 20 years
What’s the first thing you remember reading? A children’s book? A magazine? A sign in a classroom? In Timor Leste, for people under the age of 20, the first thing they remember reading is probably something CARE produced. If you have anything in your house to read in rural Timor Leste, it’s going to include Lafaek—a suite of magazines that CARE has been producing since 2001
5 Min Inspiration: Great treatment, TV ads, and listening to needs in Jordan
You know CARE teams are up to something cool when a national TV station says we’re being innovative and surprising them with how much engagement we can drive. Not only that, program participants say, “My daughter is washing her hands and wearing a facemask all the time.”
5 Min Inspiration: Trust, Ingenuity, and Vaccines at the Last mile
You know what inspires me most about CARE’s COVID-19 vaccine work? The number of times I’ve heard someone say that one of the key ways to convince people to get COVID-19 vaccines is to have CARE staff share the message.
5 Min Inspiration: Eating more food and making more decisions
If you need health care, who makes the decisions about where you go, when you can visit a health center, and what treatment you can get? Do you have to ask permission from someone in your house? In Somalia, at the start of the project, 79% of women couldn’t make decisions themselves about when they or their kids got health care. 85% said they needed a husband’s permission to visit a clinic. By the end of the project, only 17% of women said they couldn’t make decisions about health care.
5 Min Inspiration: Equality Keeps Health Systems Running in COVID5 Min Inspiration: Equality Keeps Health Systems Running in COVID
“Before COVID, the community didn’t really pay attention to us. Now we have a lot of power to make change – when we talk, people listen. It’s completely changed how we are perceived and treated.” - Female health worker, Uganda
How youth provide real-time data in crisis
The Community Score Card amplifies voices of young people and other marginalized groups, elevating real-time data from local to national levels to inform reproductive health policy and planning during COVID-19.
WOMEN AT THE LAST MILE: How investments in gender equality have kept health systems running during COVID-19
This report highlights case studies and lessons learned from 20 countries during COVID-19. The evidence shows that we must invest in gender equality in health systems to prepare for and respond to the next pandemic.