CARE’s analysis shows that COVID-19 outbreaks in development or humanitarian contexts could disproportionately affect women and girls in a number of ways, including adverse effects on their education, food security and nutrition, health, livelihoods, and protection. Even after the COVID outbreak has been contained, women and girls may continue to suffer from ill-effects for years to come.
CARE has supported in recovering and enhancing livelihood options as well asimproved food security and resilience to climate change for some 54,780 participants, 52% of whom were women and girls.
CARE provides Philippine women and girls of reproductive age with comprehensive quality sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) services, addresses non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in internally displaced communities and strengthens public health sector capacities in SRHR health care and NCD management including in emergencies.
This exploratory action research looks at traditional religious and/or indigenous practices such as female circumcision and what impact these may have on women’s and girls’ sexual and reproductive health; and physical, psychological, and emotional well-being.
Rapid Gender Analysis (RGA) provides information about the different needs, capacities and coping strategies of women, men, boys and girls in a crisis. Rapid Gender Analysis is built up progressively: using a range of primary and secondary information to understand gender roles and relations and how they may change during a crisis.
In 2017, CARE Philippines won a World Habitat Award in recognition of its 2013 Typhoon Haiyan shelter self-recovery programme. The programme supported 16,000 families to reconstruct their houses and make a number of important improvements after the said typhoon hit Leyte.
In fiscal year 2019, CARE implemented 19 projects reaching 135,983 directly and 2.06 million indirectly. CARE works closely with local organizations, cooperatives, and the private sector in implementing both emergency & development projects in the Philippines.
In fiscal year 2019 CARE Philippines has reached 135,983 people directly and 2.06 million indirectly through 19 projects.
CARE is committed to being “cash ready” to achieve breakthroughs for women and girls in its cash and voucher assistance (CVA) and to convene other stakeholders on the gendered aspects of CVA. Building that commitment, CARE commissioned a study on gender-sensitive CVA from its own project participants.
Building on CARE’s commitment to be ‘cash ready’ to achieve breakthroughs with and for women and girl, CARE commissioned a study on gender-sensitive CVA that allowed actual CVA recipients to frame the discussion.
Founded in 1945, CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere) is a leading global humanitarian and international development organization dedicated to defending dignity and eradicating poverty. CARE enables lasting change by strengthening the capacity of communities and households through social, political and economic opportunities, delivering relief in emergencies, influencing policy decisions, and addressing discrimination. For 75 years, CARE has led the way to a better life for the world’s most vulnerable people across 100 countries and 70 million people, each year.
