CARE Overview

How We Do Our Work

CARE’S Program Approach

CARE’s Program Approach is how we fight poverty. Created in 2010, it moves CARE away from narrow, project-based methods and toward programs that create sustained, broad-scale impact in the communities where we work.

 

Communicating CARE’s Program Approach

Not every audience we encounter wants or needs to know about CARE’s Program Approach. But for those that do, we recommend using language that builds on the following foundation.

 

Features of CARE’s Program Approach

  • Focuses on specific marginalized groups, especially women and girls
  • Addresses underlying causes of poverty
  • Involves advocacy and addresses governance
  • Involves long-term engagement
  • Measures impact

 

Advantages of CARE’s Program Approach

  • Efficient
  • Empowering
  • Accountable

 

Benefits of CARE’s Program Approach

  • Sustainable
  • Broad impact

CARE Overview

Who We Are

What We Do

How We Do Our Work

A woman smiles at her shop, where she sells kapenta, small dry fish, spices, and more.

CARE’s Program Approach focuses on initiatives that are efficient, empowering and accountable and will achieve significant and long-lasting results on poverty and social injustice, especially for girls and women.

CARE Overview

How We Do Our Work

Who We Are  |  What We Do  |  How We Do Our Work

CARE’S Program Approach

CARE’s Program Approach is how we fight poverty. Created in 2010, it moves CARE away from narrow, project-based methods and toward programs that create sustained, broad-scale impact in the communities where we work.

 

Communicating CARE’s Program Approach

Not every audience we encounter wants or needs to know about CARE’s Program Approach. But for those that do, we recommend using language that builds on the following foundation.

 

Features of CARE’s Program Approach

  • Focuses on specific marginalized groups, especially women and girls
  • Addresses underlying causes of poverty
  • Involves advocacy and addresses governance
  • Involves long-term engagement
  • Measures impact

 

Advantages of CARE’s Program Approach

  • Efficient
  • Empowering
  • Accountable

 

Benefits of CARE’s Program Approach

  • Sustainable
  • Broad impact
A woman smiles at her shop, where she sells kapenta, small dry fish, spices, and more.

CARE’s Program Approach focuses on initiatives that are efficient, empowering and accountable and will achieve significant and long-lasting results on poverty and social injustice, especially for girls and women.