This blog explores CARE’s work to address the root causes of poverty and inequality—the underlying reasons why women are unable to show up, have their voices heard, or influence the changes they need so they can secure a better future. To do this, CARE is letting women and girls’ set priorities, centering gender in all projects, integrating gender in policy and process decisions, and providing funding and resources to grassroots women-led organizations.

This blog spotlights MCGL’s Choices, Voices, Promises program, a gender-focused curriculum for very young adolescents (VYAs) between the ages of 10-14 years, as well as parents and communities. The intervention aims to help VYAs discover alternatives to conventional gender roles and behaviors using a curriculum of age and developmentally appropriate activities designed to stimulate discussion and reflection among VYA girls and boys.

Many healthcare professionals lack adequate training on the specific needs of LGBTQ+ patients, who may have unique concerns due to social stress, stigmatization, and rejection from friends and families. This article provides strategies that healthcare professionals can utilize to create more accepting and supportive environments for LGBTQ+ patients and to provide high-quality care.

In late 2020, Meta approached CARE USA with an intriguing question: What if social media could drive social and behavior change for positive public health outcomes? Download this playbook to learn how CARE tested these methods and learn how to use social and behavior change communication tactics to increase awareness about public health, gender-based violence, economic resilience, food security, climate change, and education.

Local women-led and women’s rights organizations still face significant barriers to participation in the formal humanitarian architecture. They often report feeling looked down upon by larger organizations, unheard in decision-making spaces, and forced to defend their expertise. In this interview, Ms. Theresia Ngoe discusses the discrimination that local women-led and women’s rights organizations are facing in the humanitarian space and how to tackle the barriers that keep them from accessing funding and resources.

Migrants and women are among the groups that are at greater risk for and disproportionately affected by disasters. However, despite the large body of evidence that analyzes their vulnerability separately, disaster research that targets migrant women is scant. This scoping review aims to analyze the published scientific literature related to the vulnerability of migrant women and the consequent negative impact they experience during disasters.