In the Philippines, CARE empowers vulnerable communities & local advocates to strengthen their resilience to various disasters. Thus, CARE is integrating disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation & ecosystems restoration and management across all our programs.
CARE’s resilience approach works not only in response to shocks and stresses but it is a permanent element of our programmatic thinking. It also goes hand in hand with integrating gender equality and inclusive governance as core elements of the pathway out of poverty and to a life with dignity.
CARE focuses on the following key capacities – called ‘the 3As and T for resilience’ – to help people better cope with shocks, stresses and uncertainty. They are relevant at all levels: individual, household, institutional, and the wider social system:
– Anticipate risks: foresee and reduce the impact of hazards that are likely to occur and be ready for unexpected events through prevention, preparedness and planning.
– Absorb shocks: accommodate the immediate impact that shock and stress have on lives, well-being and livelihoods, by making changes in usual practices and behaviors using available skills and resources, and by managing adverse conditions.
– Adapt to evolving conditions: adjust behaviors, practices, lifestyles and livelihood strategies in response to changed circumstances and conditions under multiple, complex and at times changing risks.
– Transform: influence the enabling environment and drivers of risks to create individual and systemic changes on behaviors, local governance and decision-making structures, market economics, policies and legislation.
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.