© 2010 CARE USA. All rights reserved. CARE’s Program Approach.

© 2010 CARE USA. All rights reserved.

CARE’s Program Approach

CARE’s Program Approach

2 • 2 CARE’s Program Approach


• A world of hope• Tolerance and social justice• Poverty overcome • People live in dignity and

security• Global force• Partner of choice• Worldwide movement • Unshakable commitment

to the dignity of people.

CARE’s Vision: Guiding document



Our mission is to serve individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world. Drawing strength from our global diversity, resources and experience, we promote innovative solutions and are advocates for global responsibility. We facilitate lasting change by:

•Strengthening capacity for self-help

•Providing economic opportunity

•Delivering relief in emergencies

•Influencing policy decisions at all levels

•Addressing discrimination in all its forms

Guided by the aspirations of local communities, we pursue our mission with both excellence and compassion because the people whom we serve deserve nothing less.

CARE’s Mission: Guiding Document



1. Build capacity to respond to disasters

2. Global advocacy

3. Organizational evolution

4. Information and knowledge management

5. Shared expertise in key areas of competence

6. Stronger governance and decision-making processes



CI Programming Principles

• Promote empowerment

• Work with partners

• Ensure accountability & Promote responsibility

• Address discrimination

• Promote the non-violent resolutin of conflict

• Seek sustainable results



A rights-based approach forces us to look at underlying causes of:

•Poverty

•Issues of power and gender

•Issues around poor governance

We must address these issues if we are to achieve a lasting impact



Social Social PositionPosition

For Poverty Eradication and Social JusticeFor Poverty Eradication and Social Justice

EnablingEnablingEnvironmentEnvironment

HumanHumanConditionCondition



• To connect with our strategic direction, we need:

– Long-term interventions

– Measurable results

– Continuous learning and improvement

• Studies show that short-term projects are a disconnect with our mission

• They do not have a sustainable impact on the underlying causes of poverty and injustice



The AID Effectiveness Debate

The Paris Declaration

Accra Agenda for Action

•Ownership•Alignment•Harmonization•Results•Mutual Accountability

•Predictability•Country Systems•Conditionality•Untying

Busan 2011?

•Program Based Approaches•Accountability to Effectiveness• What else?



A coherent set of initiatives by CARE and our

allies that involves a long-term commitment to

specific marginalized and vulnerable groups to

achieve lasting impact at broad scale on

underlying causes of poverty and social justice



• Clearly defined goal

• Thorough analysis of underlying causes

• Explicit theory of change

• Coherent set of initiatives

• Organizational and social learning

• Contribution to broad movements for social change

• Leverage of influence of financial and other resources

• Accountability systems

CharacteristicsCharacteristics


Discussion

The Water+ Theory of Change and the Program Approach

Malaika Wright, Water Team, CAREOctober 4, 2010

Our New Goal

Poor women and school-aged girls improve their lives

Our Old Goal

To enhance the livelihood security of rural and urban poor communities through equitable

access, efficient use, and sustainable management of limited and dwindling water

resources.

The Theory of Change

Health

Environment/

Climate Change

Livelihood/

Food Security

Education

More secure access to WATER+

services

Gender-sensitive WATER+ policies,

institutions, & social norms

Gender-equitable control over

WATER+ services

Poor women & school-aged girls improve

their lives

WASH access for household use

Access to WASH services including

menstrual management in

schools

Gender-sensitive maintenance of water

resources & adaptation to climate

change

Access to Water for productive uses with a

focus on women’s livelihoods

Gender-sensitive WASH health policies, institutions, & social

norms

Policies, institutions, & social norms

support gender-sensitive school WASH

provision

Policies, institutions, & social norms that

support ecologically sustainable water

resources & resilience to climate change

Policies, institutions, & social norms that support women’s water dependent

livelihoods

Girl’s & women's health needs are

voiced with impact on policy & services

Building confidence and leadership in

schools

Gender-equitable control of

maintenance of water resources

Girls & women's livelihood needs & interests heard &

addressed

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Theory of Change

Goal: Pastoralist school-aged girls, particularly the most vulnerable, exercise their rights and have an

improved sustained quality of life

Pastoral communities protect and enhance theirlivelihoods and asset base

Girls - including the most mobile - access services

Women and girls exercise their rights

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Effective girl’s empowerment support structures within communities and schools influencing customary and formal institutions

Availability and use of quality, girl friendly services: educationhealthwater & sanitation

Improved natural resource and livestock management through adaptation to drought, and preparedness and resilience to emergencies through key, strategic interventions

Economic security and mutual support through women and girl’s income and savings groups and through their diversified engagement in the pastoral economy and natural product based activities

Harmonisation of customary, religious and formal constitutional and other laws to protect and enforce girls’ and women’s rights

Harmful traditional practices abandoned

Accountable and influential pastoralist customary institutions, and fora.Strengthen land use policy and practice

Thank You



WARMU PQF: Segou, Mali

• Program Approach:Bold steps in People Management, limit distractions, and promote

constant reflection and problem solving

• Impact Measurement :MDI+ means applying MDI to our specific impact populations.

• Partnerships:The CARE-Partners image of scale and power has to change, starting

with our strategic partners. Ex: budgeting, planning joint journey,

new types of sharing, learning & visibility.



ALLISON BURDEN’s VIEW:

“A CARE that has fully embraced and humbly reflects the PA implications (of coherence and change) will become a credible herald of social change for the partners we work with, and thus making an irreplaceable contribution to the promotion of social change and end of poverty in societies we work in/for.”



WARMU PQF:Monrovia, Liberia

THEORY OF CHANGE CONSULTANCY OBJECTIVES:

– Analyze Liberian context and development policies– Define impact population and develop TOC for the CO– Refine FISP TOC– Advise CARE Liberia on next steps



Impact Goal:

• Consolidated peace through a more productive, fairer and cohesive society, and ensured food security and quality of life for vulnerable women, youth and adolescents



THEORY OF CHANGE: (a+b) cd

Inclusive community groups mobilized, networked and empowered to build social cohesion and leverage voice

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Specialized groups of women and youth engaged with decision makers and service providers at multiple levels to improve access to critical resources and services

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Social Cohesion

Capacities Governance

Appropriate technical and management capacities and systems of government institutions, civil society, private sector are strengthened to act upon poverty and social justice issues effectively

Stronger platforms, mechanisms and voice have achieved transparent and accountable government institutions that ensure pro-poor policies and rights protection

)

Access to Resources and Services



Impact Population: Rural, Chronically Food Insecure WomenGoal: Consolidate Peace, Ensure Increase Food Security and Quality of Life

Social Cohesion

Access Capacity Governance

Groups support social cohesionRights and accountable governance

Increase HH incomesBuild Technical Capacity

Gender norm

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Health servicesIncomeWater

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Value Chains

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