The severe impact of prolonged El-Nino rains in Burundi has caused extensive flooding and displaced over 239,000 people. The crisis has particularly affected women and girls, who face heightened health risks, loss of income, and increased vulnerability to gender-based violence.
While millions of women around the world continue to have no access to menstrual protection, putting hteir health at sever risk, menstrual taboo and certain false beliefs further prevents them from living their periods with dignity.
Our understanding of how women experience war and respond in highly complex crises is often clouded by narratives that frame them as, at worst, invisible, or at best, victims. But women are the active first responders and recovery leaders in regions wracked by conflict.
The unsung heroes of crisis, women are grossly overlooked when it comes to dialogue and decision-making. This report by CARE, based on a survey conducted since 2020, highlights women’s experiences in conflict and how their leadership is critical for surviving a crisis.
Addressing women’s digital exclusion in a digitally advanced yet divided world, CARE implemented a comprehensive strategy, focusing on providing digital tools and skills to VSLA members.
The focus of this Rapid Gender Analysis is to better understand the experiences of women, men, girls and boys in Rafah, and to identify how CARE and the local and international humanitarian community can best respond and provide support amidst the crisis.
This report, by CARE International and the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, demonstrates how and why governments and decision-makers should invest in building caring economies to achieve gender and economic justice globally.
Since 1991, CARE has helped 19.4 million women, men and youth form VSLAs around the world. We have now created a manual to guide Community-Based Trainers (CBT) and others as they mobilize communities to attain their financial, personal, and social goals.
Midwives play an essential role as Frontline Health Workers in providing access to sexual and reproductive health and rights and how they act as agents of change. However, their situation in the crisis and post-conflict contexts of Iraq and Côte d'Ivoire shows how they often compensate for the shortcomings of resource-poor and sometimes dysfunctional health systems through high level of personal commitment.
In FY2023, CARE worked around the world, contributing to saving lives, fighting poverty, and increasing social justice.
