Women’s rights - Overview

Understanding and Measuring Women’s Psychosocial Agency

Why we need to measure women’s psychosocial agency: Comprehensive gender data related to agency are crucial for tracking progress in promoting gender equality, yet reliable measurements are still a challenge…

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Transforming Lives Through Education: The EESDAC Project in Somalia

Welcome to the heartwarming story of the Expanded Education in Emergency for Disaster Affected Children (EESDAC) project, a beacon of hope in the challenging educational landscape of Somalia. In this…

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CARE’s PEGESMAS project continues despite conflict in Sudan

Sudan, a country marred by conflict and economic challenges, is facing a deepening crisis with devastating consequences for its civilian population. The fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and…

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CARE’s work with adolescents and youth

CARE works around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty and achieve social justice. As adolescents and youth are the leaders of the future, we promote a focus on girls,…

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CARE’s Approach to Women’s Entrepreneurship

Enterprise development in low-income communities provides an important pathway to ending poverty, advances gender equality and helps achieve women’s economic justice and rights. CARE is committed to supporting women entrepreneurs…

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CARE’s Partnerships with Financial Service Providers

Stimulating women’s access to and use of financial services is vital to poverty reduction. The gender gap in financial inclusion is one of the main barriers to women’s economic participation…

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Women’s Voice and Leadership

CARE promotes leadership and collective strength of women to increase their influence within decision-making processes. We help create the right conditions for women to have an equal voice and act…

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Spaces for Dialogue

The impact of the Community Score Card approach The  Community Score Card (CSC) proved to be highly relevant in four of the six EVC countries, opening up constructive dialogue between citizens and…

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Empowered Women and Youth

Sylvie Twagirayezu The impact of women’s empowerment Capacity strengthening  activities implemented by EVC for women and youth varied by country and by group though they often included training and information on…

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Women’s Participation and Savings Groups

Women are often excluded from public decision-making processes, yet their voice and leadership are essential components of gender equality. Economic empowerment affects participation A recent study by CARE shows that…

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International day of MSMEs

June 27th is the international day of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises. Women-led MSMEs CARE Nederland would like to take this opportunity to celebrate the contribution of women-led micro-, small-…

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Social inclusion in fragile contexts

There has been growing recognition of the connections between social inclusion, governance and building more peaceful and stable societies, with specific emphasis on gender equality. This policy brief makes recommendations…

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How VSLAs were central to success

A global success – In 1991, CARE harnessed the ancient practice of group savings in a new concept called the Village Savings & Loans Associations (VSLA). This programme particularly focused…

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It takes all of us to put an end to GBV

Gender-based violence (GBV) is an epidemic worldwide. Anyone can experience GBV – young, old, rich, poor, men, women – but women and girls are disproportionately affected. Estimating the prevalence of…

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Social norms affecting public authorities

Social norms are key determinants of the success or failure of Inclusive Governance initiatives. Inclusive Governance Inclusive Governance (IG) can be understood as a means to reducing poverty, empowering poor…

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