Topic: Economic Justice

Women For Women: Opportunities for Women in Enterprise Development in Ethiopia worked from 2015-2018 with $1.7 million in support from the H&M Conscious Foundation. The partnered with the Mission for Community Development Program to reach 8,656 people.

Celestine is one of the 3.2 million women in West Africa who are benefiting from VSLA. Her passion and vision capture the unique spark of VSLA, the centerpiece of CARE’s work in West Africa. Women on the Move is a CARE regional strategy for West Africa that runs from 2016-2020, and aims to help 8 million women and girls become economically empowered.

Indicators point to the erosion of gains made for girls' and women's rights in Somalia as the drought worsens.

CARE, MARS, and the women of Cote d’Ivoire partnered to change that Women for Change ran in Cote d’Ivoire from 2015-2018 with the generous support of MARS chocolate. With $711,000 we reached 4,900 people directly and 24,500 people indirectly.

The PROFIT Financial Graduation project ran from 2016-2019 with $1.8 million in funding from the government of Kenya. CARE reached more than 1,000 families in the Kitui district of Kenya.

The Masvingo El Niño Recovery project ran in Zimbabwe from 2017-2018, with $2.9 million in support from USAID’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA). It reached more than 32,000 people directly.

68 people from CARE teams in 14 countries around the world joined in the process to read 48 project evaluations and pull out evidence about the social and empowerment changes VSLAs can bring. Here’s what women have to say about the changes VSLA mean in their lives.

Communities in Ethiopia and Somalia say, “If we had not received aid when the cyclone hit us, we would not have survived.” How did we do it? By listening to what they had to say.

The Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment II (GEWEP II) project ran in Mali from 2016 to 2019 with $6.3 million in support from Norway. Partnering with the Malian organization Ya-g-tu, it reached 96,466 people.