COVID-19 vaccinations are quickly becoming a story of inequality. Gender inequality is a critical part of this story. In 16 countries where CARE has data, women are less likely to be vaccinated, and less likely to feel vaccines are safe.
CARE partnered with Womena and Oxfam to pilot Ruby cups with refugee women using ECHO funding. What did we learn? It really works.
Strengthening Access to Livelihoods and Basic Services (SALI Base) ran in Niger from 2017-2018 with $1.5 million in support from USAID’s Office of Disaster Assistance, and reached 14,450 people. We partnered with local NGOs DEMI-E and Action for the Vulnerable (AVF).
The Social Entrepreneurship: A Step Towards Independence (SESTI) project ran from 2016-2018 in Montenegro with support from the EU and the Austrian Development Agency. It had a budget of $200,000, and reached 450 people directly and 6,000 people indirectly. Our local partners were Bona Fide and the Center for Roma Initiatives.
Phase one of the Tipping Point project ran in Nepal from 2014-2018 with $1.5 million. It’s currently in a second phase that will run until 2020. Phase 1 reached 1,391 people. CARE partnered with Dalit Social Development Committee (DSDC) and Siddhartha Samudayik Samaj (SSS).
The Voice and Rights for Ethnic Minority Women ran from 2015-2018 with $400,000 in support from the European Union. The project was in partnership with the Vietnam Women’s Union, and reached 105 people directly and 22,000 indirectly.
This pulls from 8 projects in different countries to show off the economic power of women in CARE programs.
This story started well before 2016—it starts with the Tuungane project—the first time CARE used VSLAs in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Tuungane was a $114 million DFID-funded project that CARE ran from 2007-2014 in collaboration with IRC. It reached 1.8 million people and added the VSLA component in 2012. Working with women in those VSLAs created the foundation that CARE is using to build conflict-resilient VSLAs.
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.
In FY2023, CARE worked around the world, contributing to saving lives, fighting poverty, and increasing social justice.
