Economic Development Unit

Objective: Help widows supplement their families' diets and earn income through animal husbandry.

Objective: Income generating activities for widows through poultry value chains.

Objective: help poor rural communities through cash-for-work, capacity building, and infrastructure projects that promote the health and well being of vulnerable residents. 

Objective: Implement activities to re-integrate and increase sustainable agriculture development of the 12,000 ex-Combatanta and their 4,000 dependents who have returned and created pressure on food security in the Andulo Municipality of Bie province.

The Objective of the program are:
1) Establish community water standpoints to increase access to clean water for peri-urban populations to more than 25 liters of water per person in two municipalities on the outskirts of Angola’s capital, Luanda (for approximately 6,500 families or 45,600 people, including 16-18,000 schoolchildren);
2) Promote good governance by using water-related activities to improve the capacity of municipal governments and the water utility for: (a) participatory planning, (b) quality service delivery; and, (c) engagement in constructive dialogue with consumers and civil society; and
3) Strengthen civil society by organizing water user associations to participate in improving service delivery and managing water resources.

Economic development objective/component:
1) Small businesses Training Small businesses to be
hired as (pre-paid card vendors in small neighborhood shops) the only ones directly dealing with cash, and will be responsible for depositing money into the community water board bank account.
2) Promotion of Gender Awareness and Empowerment of Women; Train Women’s savings groups in the  management of tap stands to forge greater representation for women in planning and management processes. 

Objective: Increase the participation of citizens in the process of decision making and problem solving at the local level through a series of activities aimed at strengthening the capacity of local government and traditional authorities to use inclusive participatory methodologies to prevent or mitigate conflict caused by social exclusion and land use. The project will build on the organizational capacity that CARE Angola has developed over the last two years in Bié province and will be piloted in the District of Andulo. The project will focus on the strengthening of local governance and the promotion of community land tenure.

Objective: Address the threat of HIV/AIDS to rural livelihoods by building on existing relations with communities and by  analyzing the risk of HIV/AIDS to household livelihood security.
A ‘learn-by-doing’ approach was implemented and primary focus was on existing community structures, CBOs and FBOs.

Access Africa, a CARE signature program, is a bold, 10-year investment whose returns will be dramatic: 30 million people in 39 sub-Saharan African countries will have the means to break the vicious cycle of poverty, and transform it into a virtuous cycle of rising income, improved health, better education and greater participation in their communities and nations.

The overall goal of the project is to sustainable reduce chronic and transitory food insecurity for  412,475 vulnerable households in 18 districts of Bangladesh. The program activities are framed around four specific objectives:

(a) improved availability and economic access to food for targeted vulnerable households through strengthening livelihoods, securing entitlements, and enhancing accountability of service providers;
(b) sustainable improvement in the health and nutrition of project participants;
(c) enhanced empowerment of 400,000 women and girls from targeted vulnerable households; and
(d) targeted communities and institutions are better able to prepare for, mitigate and respond to natural disasters.  

The program aims to cover 2209 villages and 137 urban slums including one city corporation.

Dairy farming represents a major source of employment and income for the poor in rural Bangladesh. According to a report by the Department of Livestock in Bangladesh, the sector generates approximately 20 percent of full-time employment. Furthermore, Bangladesh has the 3rd largest cattle population of any nation in Asia and the 12th largest in the world. In light of ever-increasing demand for dairy products nationally, the development of Bangladesh's dairy sector holds tremendous potential for enabling economic empowerment for the rural poor. The industry is plagued however by poor production quality and volumes, fragmentation of supply, a lack of access to quality inputs and animal health services and distrust between producers and buyers. To maximize the value of assets and support the evolution of a competitive national dairy industry that provides opportunities for poverty alleviation, these issues must be overcome. This project aims to double the income of 35,000 targeted smallholding and landless milk producer households from a current $18-$30. The project will also create employment opportunities for extremely poor households especially women through various activities along the value chain. In order to achieve this target the project not only focuses on the dairy producers, but also investigates the entire dairy value chain and actively facilitates an improved milk collection system; enhanced access to inputs, markets and services; and an ameliorated policy environment.

Objective: work with the private sector to improve the lives of factory workers in the Chittagong Export Processing Zone. Focus is placed on urban poverty alleviation and an emphasis is placed on improving urban health care, sanitation, and access to saving and credit. The project has a special focus on women empowerment through labor law, property law, and family law.

Objective: Recruit 100 rural women from villages in the Rangpur region of Northwest Bangladesh, and train them to market their skills of traditional handloom rug making. The rugs will then be shipped off to European markets.

CBI provides business services to their members such as access to price information, market research, new product innovation, and links to technical services. CBI is a group of self managed community people, capable of implementing collective initiatives for economic development using their own savings for investing in businesses and marketing.

PRISM strengthens Benin’s microfinance sector by improving its organizational and financial sustainability and increasing its outreach in rural areas.  CARE’s interventions include:

1) Strengthening the institutional capacity of Consortium Alafia, a group of microfinance institutions (MFIs) operating in Benin, to develop and implement a multi-year strategic plan and a management information system to track and MFIs’ performance, helping the group coordinate training for member MFIs, and improving its advocacy capabilities;
2) Providing technical assistance and support to MFIs operating in rural areas (including new product development targeted at rural poor and improved information exchange to reduce risks and improve client behaviors);
3) Strengthening private microfinance training institutions and consulting firms to improve MFIs’ access to these services while improving the long-term relationships between these organizations; and
4) Improving donor coordination under the Cellule de Microfinance by creating a database on donor programs, and facilitating regular meetings among donors and practitioners.

This project aims to contribute to the reduction of poverty through development of effective civil society/local government partnerships that stimulate economic development in 4 border cities in Bolivia. The targeted participants are recently arrived immigrants, single mothers, the unemployed, adolescents living on the streets, workers depending on the seasonal harvesting of Brazil nuts, local governments in the four border cities, and local civil society organizations.

The objective of this project is to generate business capacities in 3,500 women and youths in El Alto, La Paz, Bolivia by promoting self-employment and consolidating existing employment.

The programme is an initiative whose main objective is to target activities towards sustainable economic development efforts in Eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina aimed at impacting on the high levels of local unemployment. A more dynamic local economy would also assist the refugee return process by helping ensure that income generation was possible. The programme will introduce a number of sustainable economic development projects which build on opportunities identified in the Municipalities through a process of local consultations.

Objective: Help vulnerable households in northern Burundi diversify their food supply and increase their income by raising goats. CARE will train community-elected committee in each village to manage the resultant stock.

The goal of the project is to improve the livelihood of target beneficiaries through the promotion of participatory management of natural resources and the environment.

Focus is on livelihood security through the management of small economic activities (savings and credits), basic lifeskills such as literacy, sexual and reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, nutrition and hygiene as well as women rights.

Empower the women of Burundi who are tied supressed by the tradition and culture of the area. Empowerment in the form of  psycho social, judicial, and women's right skills.

Objective: Empower the women in Burundi by establishing credit and savings associations. Through the establishment of these associations women will gain both technical skills in organizational management and credit and savings mechanisms, and in addition they will be working together creating trust and confidence amongst each other and playing an increased role in decision making and conflict resolution in the household and the community. The central objective of the project is to improve livelihood security of 1,840 HHs through reinforcement of social networks and increasing economic security in Burundi. The project aims to increase the role of women in community level decision making and conflict resolution through improving their socio-economic conditions and access to credit and savings groups. The project will target 1,840 Household (12,880 persons) within the province of Gitega, in particular with 82 female credit and saving associations, (89% female or 1,640 persons) 10 mixed associations.

Objective: Improve education and health conditions of orphans and vulnerable children through improving capacities of schools and households with OVC to meet OVC daily needs in food, school materials, and health care.

This project focuses on increasing the production and appropriate preservation, processing, and marketing of agricultural crops that contribute to diversified nutrition and sustainable agro-business. Emphasis is also placed on improving awareness of healthy behaviors related to maternal and child nutrition, increasing access to micro-credit, and basic technical support for agriculture-related income-generation activities.  The project will also strengthen local NGO/CBO capacity to implement integrated activities for agricultural production and nutrition. The goal of this project is to enhance agricultural productivity and appropriate nutrition practices for household livelihood security through an integrated, community-focused project in the Vina, Mbéré, and Lom-et-Djerem departments in Cameroon.

Hope for African Initiative (HACI) is a pan-African partnership created to address the enormous challenges faced by millions of African children who have either been orphaned by AIDS or live with parents who are sick or dying from AIDS-related illnesses.  HACI is a partnership consortium that brings together 6 organizations that share an international focus whose purpose is to increase the capacity of African communities to provide prevention, care and support, and impact mitigation services to the millions of orphans and other children made vulnerable by the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

This project aims to strengthen local organization capacities and support national strategies and policies changes through pilot projects aimed at livelihood improvements of marginalized urban and rural populations.

The goal of this project is to contribute to the improvement of the quality of life of vulnerable sectors of the rural population in the Holguin province through the integration, participation, and leadership of communities and productive units through a process of strategic local economic development.

Offer a Selection Planning Management course that will enable community members to more effectively select, manage, and plan income generating activities.

The African Wildlife Foundation, CARE, and Conservation International, received a 3-year cooperative agreement under the USAID-Central African Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE) and for landscape level conservation in the Maringa/Lopori-Wamba landscape. The project aims to reduce the degradation of forests and biodiversity across this landscape by developing the application of sustainable natural resource management practices, strengthening resource governance, and institutionalizing resource monitoring. Their approach will be to implement landscape scale conservation management, strengthen the management of forest reserves and other protected areas, encourage sustainable local economic development, improve the management of existing forest concessions, increase the capacity of civil society stakeholders to engage in decision-making, and to foster policy dialogue.

As a part of ADB's national "Road Sector Improvement Project", CARE International Timor Leste is piloting a Community Empowerment Initiative Component (CEIC). This component aims to increase employment opportunities through capacity development and access to markets for rural communities by involving them in the construction and rehabilitation of rural feeder roads.
 
Head of households, widow, divorced, and youth both men and women are the target project participants. The project will operat in two villages in two sub-districts. A total of 15,516 meter rural access road will be rehabilitated throughout the year by the crew members. The crew members will work 6 days a week for 6 hours a day. Paymen will be in cash but there is a mandatory savings scheme. The daily rate is @US $ 4.00/day where they receives @US $ 3.00/day in a fortnightly basis from the Bank; the Bank transfers @US $ 1/day to the crew member’s individual savings accounts which will be used as start-up capital for the income generating activities after receiving business management training.

The project has a substantial training program, which will provide communities with skills in roads construction and maintenance, bio-engineering techniques to prevent landslides, and basic small scale business management. Particular focus is paid to increasing opportunities for women and youth. Health promotion including hygiene, disease, sanitation, and HIV/AIDS prevention will be built in as a part of community education. As a part of awareness program, a training package on human rights and gender equity will also be included.

This project aims to improve the social and economic condition of inhabitants along the southern border of Ecuador through 4 programmatic components:
1. Income Generation,
2. Social Services,
3. Natural Resource Management; and
4. Local Government Strengthening

The goal of this project is to strengthen the organizational capacity of the youths, to expand their participation in civil society, and to actively promote healthy behavior that will contribute to changes within the community and its fight against poverty.  There are four components of this project:
 
1. Form youth organizations whose purpose is to undertake activities of common development to be selected by members of the organization. 
2. Iidentify, explore, and implement alternative channels to generate and to maintain dialogue among the residents, including the young people. 
3. Prepare young leaders as counselors, who will then be able to offer to other youth culturally appropriate and clear information on reproductive and sexual health. 
4. CARE will encourage youth groups to administer the pilot development projects in the area of reproductive health or income generation.

The project will develop the rural financial market and create and strengthen local financial structures, such as VSLA. This project will improve agricultural, livestock, and fishery production in rural communities.  Helping communities learn to use local resources to help finance their productive activities, and providing them with training, technical assistance and other necessary services, will lead to greater sustainability of improvements to the rural economy..

CARE Egypt's Addressing Livelihood Security through Improved Village Environments (ALIVE) Project, will be implemented in Beni Suef Governorate, and aims to improve the quality of life and well being of 112,500,000 inhabitants of 15 rural villages and surrounding hamlets in the Districts of Nasser and Ihnasya.

The project has three major components, each with separate intermediate results:
1. Institution Strengthening in order to build sustainable private/public sector partnerships than continue to support and expand service provision in Beni Suef.
2. Education to the target population in order build awareness and change attitudes both within the community and governorate stakeholders to hygiene and environmental practices.
3. Service provision, in joint collaboration with governmental non-governmental and private stakeholders in order to ensure the appropriate use and continued delivery of water, sanitation and garbage collection facilities.

This project is aimed at improving the income of parents of working children in order to keep the children studying and away from working in high risk activities.

The project aims to benefit at least 500 small and medium milk producers and their families in San Vicente. Through the project, small-scale producers will receive training and technical assistance in order to increase their productivity, as well as to organize themselves into producer associations to benefit from investments in milk processing technology.  The project will also serve as a showcase for the impact and importance of forging public-private sector alliances to address development problems and contribute to the eradication of poverty.

The general objective is to improve the income of small dairy farmers of Tecoluca and Zapotitan Valley through technical assistance for better milk productivity and quality standards, in order to gain access to formal dairy markets (that usually offer better prices). The project includes not only technical assistance but also associative strengthening and infrastructure provision.

Provide agriculture supplies and livestock to housholds.

Seed distribution within Debub via seed voucher/exchange system to 7,000 HHs

Provide technical assistance to 22 CSCA’s and create 30 new CSCA’s.  The goal is to improve the economic security of 1,040 vulnerable households through cash grants/ loans and IGAs. 

Project components include:
1) Emergency Mitigation: (community based emergency preparedness.
2) Health and Nutrition: Water and Sanitation infrastructure and nutrition and hygiene training for community groups.
3) Agriculture Development: Farmer training and technology dissemination and development of small-scale irrigation schemes.
4) Income Generation: promotion of off-farm income generation activities and training in marketable skills; community awareness campaigns and training in intra-household resource management.

Enhance food security among 1,000 needy households (the poor, landless and middle class) residing primarily in the South Gondar zone of Amhara region

Positive change for Children, Communities and Care (PC-3) aims to address the financial and economic needs of OVC and their families. Emphasis is placed on education, health and nutrition, psychosocial ,and life skill support.

This is technical partnership agreement between CARE and Plan Ethiopia to promote VS&L in Plan target areas. CARE provides technical assistance to Plan and its partners in village savings and loans methodology.

The goal of the project is to reduce the socio-economic impact of HIV & AIDS among women and youth in Bahir Dar through improved quality and response of VCT institutional services for women and youth, improved capacity and viability of community safety nets to support to vulnerable households affected and/or infected by HIV & AIDS and reduction of gender-based violence (GBV) and increased women and youth empowerment.

The goal of the project is to improve the socio-economic wellbeing of 1,500 poor households (6,345 people) in Gewgew Dingete Kebele Administration of Gemechis woreda.

The goal of the ENABLE Project is to support pastoralists to improve household livelihood security and maintain assets during drought cycles.

Multi-faceted, market-driven effort to support poor households in building assets and achieving long-term food security. Through a combination of integrated, market-led interventions, CARE is empowering 42,414 Ethiopian households, each of which is currently receiving support through the national safety net program (PSNP), to make informed decisions about scarce resources while facilitating their entry into markets and access to informal and formal financial products and services.

Key Resources:
PSNP Plus Final Evaluation - Full Report
PSNP Plus Final Evaluation - Executive Summary
PSNP Plus Longitudinal Impact Study - Final Report
PSNP Plus Lessons on Intervention Sequencing
PSNP Plus Case Study: Savings Groups on the Pathway to Graduation

Objective is to assist poor rural communities in arid and semi arid zones reduce their vulnerability to water related shocks and improve their quality of life through Integrated Water Resource Management.

CIP-2 has two major thrusts: An economic development strategy that includes:

1. Continuation of on-farm demonstration and extension services.
2. The creation or strengthening of agricultural groups/associations/service entities.
3. Business development for agricultural service groups.
4. Loans to individuals, producer and services groups, and off-farm entities.
5. Business start-up grants to young women.

This will enable the project to improve farm output, marketing, and support off-farm sector growth. A civil society strengthening strategy that includes: continuation of leveraged grants for infrastructure rehabilitation to Community Based Organizations (CBO),  computers installed and/or rehabilitated secondary schools in five big towns, training of Boards of Trustees in secondary schools, establishment of ecology clubs in selected schools., expanding the coverage and impact of the Scouts movement in Georgia.

The program focuses on organizational capacity building and works with smallholder producer and labor organizations.    The beneficiaries of the program will be farm laborers and small holder outgrowers and their households and communities supplying to and working for fair trade enterprises.  The overall project purpose is to ensure that poor farmers and farm-workers in Ghana producing fair-trade certified fresh produce for exporters are enable to benefit from the fair trade process.  The target enterprises are in banana, pineapple, mango and orange production.
Overall project results include;
(i) Strengthened organizational capacity and operations of at least five producer/worker organizations significantly to be better be able to provide a service to their members and to engage positively with partner enterprises;
(ii) Individual small holders and farmer laborers (from the five organizations) given accurate knowledge of fair-trade processes and structures;
(iii) Satisfactory functioning of fair-trade premium processes for the five beneficiary organizations;
(iv) Priority problems that limit benefits of fair-trade identified and remedied;
(v) Increased professional skills pool available in Ghana to work with and support pro-poor fair-trade and organic producer organizations; and
(vi) Information arising from DOT funded work is disseminated in the form of training/communication material to the fair trade community worldwide.

TIPCEE will target smallholder farmers that already have begun to integrate into commercial marketing chains. Focus will be on strengthening the role of women as owners of small/medium size enterprises, as smallholder farmers, and as productive workers in processing and marketing activities.

An endevour to help build a strong understanding of how CARE includes or excludes women and girls in our agriculture (including water, food security) and agribusiness initiatives.  This portfolio review is helping us to design a strategy for the way forward and tools & learning products for the "new generation" of agricultural related program design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, impact measurement and learning at CARE. 

In support of the 2010 Market Engagement: State of the Practice at CARE report, the Economic Development Unit and CARE International UK jointly hosted an innovations competition designed to gather examples of CARE's work from around the organization and identify opportunities to develop in-depth case studies to profile our achievements and lessons learned.

Women’s Village Banking seeks to improve the status of 500 impoverished rural women by promoting cottage industries through access to credit and technical assistance.

This project is a basis for increasing the potential for generating input activities, strengthening management capacity, supporting self-esteem and active participation in the family, as well as promoting the creation for installed capacity for community level negotiation, based in solidly organized groups of women.

Aims to install 48 agroforestry demonstration and production plots in 48 communities in the highest-priority departments of Intibuca, La Paz and Lempira in Southern and Western Honduras.  The project will improve the food security of vulnerable populations at the household, regional and national levels.  It will also increase the availability of basic foods; promote crop diversification and the production of basic grains and high-value crops through improved agricultural practices; and improve family access to market services.

CARE will monetize 6,500 MT of soybean meal (SBM) and over a period of approximately three years, use proceeds from such sale to implement the following activities in Honduras:  Food safety program in the coffee, plantain and passion fruit agro-industrial chains. This component promotes the production of safe, high quality products up to the phase of HACCP (certification); Create sustainable financial mechanisms and seed capital to increase the economic viability of producers of small farmer enterprises; Provide training and technical assistance on primary and agro-industrial production processes; Expand market opportunities for fresh, unprocessed plantains, coffee and passion fruit producers through outreach forums; Provide needed equipment for preparing, manufacturing and preserving the transformed products; and Micro-irrigation systems:  install 10 micro-irrigation systems in the plantain and passion fruit plantations. 

This project aims at preventing and eradicating child labor at the Tegucigalpa municipal garbage yard, through economic interventions aimed at the over 18 years population and through occupational training interventions aimed at teenagers between the ages of 14 and 18

The goal of this project is to reduce poverty among poor and marginalized communities, especially women and disadvantaged minorities.  The project’s objective are to:

1. Ensure equitable access and participation of the poor and marginalized in the development processes;
2. Ensure that peoples’ organizations are established that have equal access to assets; and
3. Ensure that impact of the development processes reaches the poor and marginalized households.

Livelihood advancement Center is an institutional approach to help the costal and rural poor to access livelihood support services. The center serves as one stop shop for all livelihood related needs. The center organizes various livelihood training programs to cater to the diverse and different group of beneficiaries on various employable skills.  The livelihood advancement center has in-house experts to provide livelihood counseling services to the individuals or group to identify, plan, set up and manage their own enterprises.

Livelihood Advancement Center adopts capacity development approach to help the communities to commence and manage micro enterprises. The center provides livelihood consultation and training services to the individuals and groups to commence viable economic activity. The center also provides technical services and business development services to various government departments and financial institutions to identify right activity. The center also provides vocational training programs on various industry related activities such as welding, electrical and electronics, carpentry and auto mobile repairing. The program ensures that the trained beneficiaries provided capital assistance to commence their enterprising activity. 

STEP aims to facilitate an improvement in the quality of life for the poorest and most disadvantaged members of the tribal society in Andhra Pradesh.  Its key strategies are:

1. Community empowerment,
2. Establishment and strengthening of relevant community based organizations with capacity to plan and manage the tribals’ own development agenda,
3. Action-oriented learning,
4. Facilitation of macro-micro linkages, joint action plans; and 5. Collaboration with the State Government’s Integrated Tribal Development Agency and other government programs.

CARE TRP aims to rehabilitate socially, economically vulnerable groups, fishing communities, tribal families and women affected during the disaster in Tamilnadu, Andhra Pradesh and Andaman & Nicobar Islands in a strategic and holistic manner.

The interventions are in the areas of shelter, water and sanitation, community micro projects, and psychosocial care. The long term rehabilitation phase, 2006-2009, will focus on building social and economic capacities through Livelihood Resource Centre.

CARE India’s livelihood program is graduation of community micro projects and it is active in nine districts of Tamilnadu, Andhra Pradesh and union territory of Pondicherry. Livelihood program is a community driven development activity aim to augment economic capacities and skills of the vulnerable population to sustain and diversify their livelihood opportunities and choices. The choice of livelihood is determined by the criteria of community demand, opportunities for value promotion and the relevance for small, marginal producers and people employed in the sector. CARE livelihood program works with private and public institutions towards pro poor growth. The program aims to reach 6,000 households over its implementation period.

Objectives:
1. Provide Uprooted Communities Access to Livelihood and Health Recovery,
2. Access to basic human needs such water, health service and shelter,
3. Access to markets for local produce and continued policy attention to the needs of uprooted people.

Program focuses on training and capacity building in order to enable MFIs linking to cormmercial sources of capacity as well as providing fund to MFIs to strengthen their financial capacity in serving credit facilities demanded by tsunami effected communities.

CARE approach is to ground in rights-based methodologies, facilitate empowerment and community-based planning to determining interventions, while at the same time ensuring capacity building and alignment with local government decision-making and implementation structures to ensure responsiveness and sustainability of infrastructure, health and livelihoods interventions.

Relief and development programs in Garissa district: emergency food aid, technical capacity building, and linking pastoral groups to the private sector.

Objective: Improve the livelihoods of pastoralist livestock holders in the drought prone and heavily impoverished region through value chain initiatives.

Project intends to address some of the underlying causes of discrimination and exclusion of RAE communities in Kosovo. The project tackles a number of critical factors which prevent stabilization and re-integration of RAE community in Kosovo society as such as: unequal access to health/education, poverty of income and unemployment, lack of strong Civil Society Organizations.

Objectives:
1. Improve the performance of agricultural livelihood systems; 2. Improve the capability of households to take advantage of market opportunities and to improve their access to those markets;
3. Improce access to convenient water sources, and knowledge about basic nutrition and HIV/AIDS;
4. Improve communities’ capacity to plan, implement and manage their own development activities and manage their natural resources; and
5. Imporive the capacity of District and Provincial level organizations to support village and community-based organizations’ development efforts.

This project is comprised of four modules. Each module has its own agenda and a set of activities designed to accomplish certain results.

RM1: Regional food security and agricultural productivity are strengthened through rehabilitation of irrigated rice perimeters.
RM2: Regional production and consumption of fruits and vegetables are increased via introduction of affordable and appropriate micro-irrigation technologies.
RM3: Regional marketing networks of producers and operators are developed to advance selected value-chains better and more professionally.
RM4: Local decision-making structures are created and supported to develop and implement land-use action plans.

Focus is on expanding the agricultural production activities taking place in southeast Madagascar. The project will establish a sustainable technical support network which will assist local farmers with agriculture inputs and further develop and reinforce marketing networks in order to encourage agriculture production.

Tragnambo’s goal is to improve the livelihood security of approximately 7,000 households living in the seven communes of Anosy District in the Fort Dauphin area. CARE, the communities and two local NGOs work in a variety of areas such as agriculture, health, nutrition, infrastructure, and community development.   The project’s community governance activities are the centerpiece of the overall development strategy.  Working with local villages and communes, the Project helps to develop and reinforce development planning and implementation platforms that will take responsibility for the development of their own communities. Project interventions include:

1) Improve rice and vegetable production practices;
2) Improve marketing linkages between Fort Dauphin and the project area; and
3) Improve local dams and irrigation canals.

The project also designs and implements nutritional enhancement strategies.  CARE and local credit organizations also plan to establish rural credit opportunities and to pilot an adult literacy program which, if successful, will be scaled up. 

The goal of the I-LIFE program is to reduce food insecurity among vulnerable households and communities in rural Malawi. The program is implemented through a consortium of eight private voluntary organizations. The program has three strategic objectives
1. Livelihood capacities of vulnerable groups are protected and enhanced;
2. Nutritional status of vulnerable groups is protected and enhanced and
3. Community and district capacity to protect and enhance food security is improved.

Supporting and Mitigating the Impact of HIV & AIDS for Livelihood Enhancement (SMIHLE) is a 5 year food security and HIV & Aids project implemented by CARE Malawi, CARE Mozambique, CARE South Africa and CARE Kenya. SMIHLE's purpose is to develop and promote operational models and practices that strengthen the delivery of food security services that mainstream HIV/AIDS and gender. This sub-program purpose compliments the higher level programme purpose of Improving CSOs and government capacity to deliver quality decentralized rural services that mainstream effective responses to HIV & Aids and address gender inequities to enhance livelihood security.

Strengthen the capacity of Community Based Organizations to apply a livelihoods approach in programs that are providing care for OVC and PLWHA. This will ensure that OVC have access to education, food and other livelihood opportunities, while PLWHAs will have better access to food and income which can be used to access health care.

The overall purpose of the project will be to enhance the livelihood security of the five million poor people in the rural areas and urban slums of Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda.

The project aims to reduce child trafficking and exploitative child labor through improvements in access to and quality of education in five (5) districts in 2 regions of Mali (Segou and Mopti). The project targets all Centers for Development Education (CEDs) as well as 50 percent of the students in target communities and sixth graders in public schools. It also aims to increase overall school enrollment by reaching an additional 14,000 of out-of-school children.

The project objectives are:
1) Improve enrollment in quality non-formal and formal education of children at risk of being trafficked or exploited. CARE aims to strengthen the capacity and functionality of the non-formal CEDs, train at-risk children to make them more employable in the medium to long term, and build bridges between formal and non-formal education programs that allow children a realistic option of transitioning from one to the other;
2) Mobilize two communes per district in the project area to prevent child trafficking and exploitative labor and to adopt re-integration strategies for trafficked or exploited children that model how often communes may address the problem. Under this objective, CARE raises awareness about: the dangers of child trafficking and exploitative labor, lobbying, and other sources of economic opportunities, including microfinance, for the families of at risk children;
3) Improve capacity, collaboration and visibility of key civil society actors in working with the government to combat child trafficking and exploitative labor through education. CARE's role in this component includes engaging in advocacy to ensure that existing laws and safeguards protecting child rights are enforced, providing capacity building to civil society organizations (CSOs) allowing them to protect and defend children's rights, promoting effective collaboration among CSOs and government actors in order to ensure that quality educational opportunities are available to children at risk, and using new technologies for information and communication (NTICs) to improve educational and advocacy services for children at risk.

Contribute to reduced morbidity and mortality due to preventable illnesses among Malian women and children in 11 district and 2 Bamako communes.

The project is strengthening 382 MJT women groups. MJT is a system of women’s self-managed, village level savings and credit with the goal of reinforcing financial autonomy of women and through this, their empowerment, within their families and their communities.The rational of working with MJT groups is to improve their income to increase women and develop their awareness on environmental protection. The women are involved as relay to sensitize their peer on theses issues.

The SAPI Project goal is that "by 2011, 7500 households in the project zone will be organized to improve their livelihood security, increasing agricultural production and economic activities." The three project objectives are as follows.

Objective 1:  By 2011, increase annual average rice production of 6 plains to 28,100 metric tons through hydro-agricultural infrastructures for controlled submersion on 19,950 hectares and 350 hectares in small village-level irrigation perimeters. 
Objective 2:By 2011, the organizational capacity of 12 inter-village associations (AIV) will be strengthened in order to promote a fair and equitable management of activities in project zones.
Objective 3: By 2011, the economic capacity of members of village associations will be strengthened through savings and loan activities and inventory credit.

VIDA covers 14 districts in Nampula Province and aims to improve the Ministry of Agriculture's capacity and other stakeholders' to perform key activities related to achieving food security, and to improve household food consumption, especially for vulnerable children. CARE  will offer crop production advice to about 45,000 direct beneficiaries working in production and women’s groups. VIDA’s market-oriented extension services include providing considerable assistance to the private sector to help it establish seed production businesses and retail outlets for agricultural tools and inputs.  

CARE’s overall goal in Kuyukana is to identify effective strategies to establish and promote livelihood resilience, social cohesion and better local governance in urban Mozambique.  The project also aims to strengthen local democratic institutions and improve the livelihood security of the poorest households in three of Maputo’s inner city neighborhoods. 

The goal of the SEED project is to increase access to and control over a diversified portfolio of farm and non-farm income generating activities that operate on commercially and environmentally sustainable terms by poor households in the target area of Northern Inhambane. This is consistent with PROAGRI II’s general goal of assisting smallholder farmers to increase agricultural productivity, agro-industry, and marketing within the principles of sustainable use of natural resources. The districts of Mabote and Govoru will be the initial target areas for SEED activities. After two years, the SEED Project will expand to the coastal districts of Vilankulos and Inhassoro. The anticipated impact of the SEED Project is to
reduce poverty and sustained rural economic recovery in the targeted districts. To achieve this impact, SEED focuses on three outcomes:
1. Sustainable increase in CBO revenue from commercial agriculture opportunities Outcome
2. Sustainable increase in revenue from non-farm opportunities Outcome
3. Empowered women, men and households successfully implementing diversified livelihood strategies

The goal of the project is to the improve livelihood security of smallholder farmers in Nampula province. More specifically the aim is to improve crop yield and production through the introduction of sustainable soil fertility and water management systems. The project emphasizes participatory farmer research and documentation to share within southern Africa.

The aim of the project is building CARE Nepal capacity to become a strong player in strengthening the Nepali policy framework in regards to urban poverty issues, ensuring that it is responsive to the rights of the urban poor, and poor women in particular.  Our work with urban formal and informal women workers will drive and inform that engagement in partnership with them.

Objective:Ensure that natural resources in selected areas of Nepal are managed in a democratic and sustainable way; that the performance of selected civil society groups and other institutions is improved to meet the principles of good governance; that the benefits from natural resources are dispersed in accountable and transparent ways and that the benefits and other earned revenues are equitably distributed to the local communities both directly and through sustainable livelihoods improvement initiatives; so that the biodiversity is conserved and the democratic process for conflict resolution and peace building is supported.

This project aims to improve the livelihood security of households in remote districts, with emphasis on the most marginalized women, men, and children. The main objective of the project is to contribute to poverty reduction in the remote areas of Nepal through the development, application and dissemination of effective strategies at the local and national levels. The focus in the extension phase will continue to be on reconstruction and rehabilitation of small scale rural infrastructure activities.

The aim of the project is to enhance skills and capacities of women in the Churia region to exercise their rights by addressing the policy and socio-cultural barriers that impede their political, social and economic empowerment and the implementation of UN Resolution 1325.

The Project is developing alliances with private sector, universities, and small enterprises to develop competitive capacities for 100 families involved in small enterprises in the north of Nicaragua.

The goal of CARE’s Mata Masu Dubara project in Zinder and Diffa is to improve the socioeconomic conditions of 50,000 poor rural women and their ability to secure a better livelihood for themselves and their families by offering them access to a permanent system of savings and credit. The project does not provide financial support, but rather, offers training for groups of women interested in the creation and operation of these savings and credit associations. It also develops women's capabilities to participate in decision-making at the community and local levels through an integrated training on rights, decentralization, instructional strengthening, CBO registration and partnership. The project also develops women capacity to network to help them to improve their livelihood and play a role in civil society. The project is extending its activities to pastoral areas.

CARE’s Training for Women’s groups project works in the Dosso, Tahoua, and Tillaberi districts with the aim of developing the livestock sector. This is done by strengthening women livestock producers’ access to credit, training in animal husbandry, and access to marketing techniques for animal products.  The project targets 600 women’s groups or about 12,000 women. Expected results of the project include:

1) Strengthened technical and organizational capacities of women’s groups;
2) Increased revenues earned from livestock production;
3) Improved household food security;
4) Improved social capital from social exchanges;
5) Increased contact and establishment of production and business networks;
6) An adapted saving and credit system;
7) Women’s enhanced ability to amass and retain capital;
8) Strengthened technical and managerial capacities of associations and public institutions; and
9) Reduction of conflicts related to access to natural resources.

All of these results are expected at household, groups/local institutions, community, inter-community, communal and national levels. 

This project is a component of the national program on rural financial services development that aims at replicating the MMD methodology to other groups within the country.

Project activities include: distribution of maize and rice seeds, fertilizers and tools to farmers in Allai; provision of agricultural extension trainings and plantation of fruit trees. Total targeted population includes 20,000 families.

The project aims to make available valid methodologies to business sectors, the NGO community and civil society in order to facilitate the relationships and market linkages of the poor producers. 

The project will develop technical commercial capacity building, promote services of local private technical assistance and the marketing of quality cattle (product of the project). 

The Center will include the facilitation of technical assistance services in management, production, value adding processes.  The CES will also facilitate services of market information and analysis, market promotion, producer organization, and  training in business topics, among others.

Objective: Increase small-scale agricultural enterprise yields and product variety by financing irrigation systems. The project aims to link farm families in the Ayacucho Region of Peru with markets to maximize the value of increased productive capacity. The project will not only finance water systems, but it will also develop linkages with markets so participants can maximize the value received from their increased productive capacity. Activities in the value chain implementation include market identification, organization of producers, workshops to develop the value chain, and optimizing production and negotiation with buyers.

This joint program of WWF, CARE and IIED aims to establish Equitable Payments for Watershed Services (PWS) in selected watersheds in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The central premise of this project is to ensure a sustainable flow of watershed services to beneficiaries of these services into the future through the establishment of equitable payments mechanisms. The intervention strategy is divided into two phases: Phase 1 is preparatory in nature and will last 18 months, while Phase 2 will last  3.5-4 years.

To advance basic and life skills education for out-of-school children and youth who cannot be reintegrated into the formal school system. Focus on linking literacy (reading, writing, mathematics), vocational (skills development, income-generation activities, cooperative principles) and life skills (gender, rights and peace education, conflict mitigation, leadership, HIV prevention). 

Objective: Set up a system of community-based, savings-led groups which will allow project beneficiaries to gain experience in savings mobilization and loan management

POWER based in the southern province of Rwanda in six districts: Nyamagabe, Nyaruguru, Huye, Gisagara, Nyanza and Ruhango. The project will improve access of 30,000 extremely poor people, 80% of whom are women.  The project will also increase participation and inclusion of 30,000 project participnts in decision making processes at both household and community levels. It strengthens the institutional and organizational capacity of local implementing CSOs/CBOs partner associations in order to improve thheir ability to better represent and advocate for the interests of women

The Farm to Market Support (FtMS) project is being implemented in 16 communities in Moyamba and Tonkolili districts of Sierra Leone with the goal of strengthening food security among at-risk communities and households covering a total population of 3,200.  Intervention seeks to address critical gaps with regard to food storage, processing, production and marketing.  Specifically, the following interventions are proposed:
1) rehabilitation/construction of drying floors and storage facilities;
2) market sites rehabilitated and improvement/refinement of local marketing systems, and;
3) promotion of cassava production and processing.

Objective: implement a three year Transition Assistance Program (TAP) in Koinadugu, Kono and Kailahun districts targeting extremely vulnerable and food insecure beneficiaries:  500 women-headed households, mothers,  women and children. 
Goal: of the program is to support Sierra Leone’s recovery from the war by focusing on restoring livelihoods for rural households in 30 chiefdoms in some of the most badly affected districts in the country. The program focuses on re-establishment of livelihoods and does so in ways that will facilitate a transition to development programs. The program has two objectives:
1) to improve health status and
2) to re-establish livelihood activities associated with agriculture.

Nine (9) intermediate results are planned:
1) to improve access to health services;
2) to increase knowledge and skills related to improved health and nutrition practices;
3) to build village-level capacities to address health issues and capitalize on opportunities to improve health status at the village level;
4) to link village-based health groups to wider decision-making structures;
5) to restore productivity of inland valley lowland rice farms, tree farms and upland farms;
6) to rebuild storage and processing capacities;
7) to re-establish access to local markets;
8) to build village-level capacities to address agricultural problems and capitalize on agricultural opportunities;
9) to maintain a safety net Using proceeds from the monetization of 28,830 MT of wheat, rice and vegetable oil.

The overall program strategy for LEAD is to address the food insecurity of those populations in the country that are currently most vulnerable while also contributing to the consolidation of peace in Sierra Leone.

The project's major sector is Education and the sub sector is vocational training. The goal of EBVT is to contribute to the long term reintegration and livelihood security of Somali returnees to Somaliland.  The program aims in achieving this through providing opportunities for vocational training and apprenticeship with local businesses. 

Goal: Enable approximately 26,000 returnees to reintegrate and achieve self-sufficiency in the selected urban and rural areas of Awdal, Togdheer, W. Galbeed and Sahil regions in Somaliland. Provide Enterprise Based Vocational Training(EBVT), Improved Rural Food Security(IRFS) and Microcredit (MC).

The Local Links project addresses three broad constraints with HIV/AIDS in South Africa:
1) Fragile economic safety nets and limited security of assets upon which to draw during the continuum of HIV/AIDS illness;  2) A lack of a comprehensive set of quality services and referral mechanisms at local levels; and
3) A lack of rights protection of children affected by HIV/AIDS. 

CARE will act as a catalyst and facilitator in Local Links, and will work win a participatory, collaborative manner with local partners, OVCs and their carers, communities and key stakeholders.  Local Links operates nationally and in Limpopo and Free State provinces in the north and eastern part of South Africa with the following objectives:

1) Strengthening the economic coping mechanisms of families and communities using CARE’s voluntary savings methodology;
2) Strengthening the capacity of local organizations to meet the needs and rights of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC);
3) Improving advocacy efforts on behalf of orphans and vulnerable children. 

About 35,000 orphans and vulnerable children and community members will access the project services and another 150,000 others in the community will receive indirect benefits. Expansion to into the Eastern Cape is anticipated after the first year. As a result of the project, a diverse array of community-based initiatives will be strengthened, links between civil society and government will be improved and the sustainability of local programs enhanced.

The LIFT project takes an integrated approach to help communities in conflict-affected areas meet their basic human needs and rights. It targets vulnerable communities, provides an integrated range of support to those communities and strengthens the social and economic coping mechanisms of those populations affected by the conflict in Sri Lanka. The main components of the project involve activities revolving around socio-economic empowerment, food production, infrastructure rehabilitation, savings and credit, income generation, research involving important and relevant underlying issues, monitoring and evaluation and project management.

DEC II- Tsunami Emergency Appeal to assist victims of the Tsunami.

Humanitarian Relief for tsunami victims.

Support for tsunami affected communities, reconstruction and development programme(STAR) Ampara district.

DZADP aims to raise the agricultural productivity and incomes of 16,000 poor farmer families residing in five Dry Zone districts of Sri Lanka on a sustainable basis.

ObjectiveL
1. Introduce new participatory development approaches for the farmer groups, through the Government of Sri Lanka service providers, Non governmental organizations and private sector partner organizations.
2. Coordinate service delivery between these different agencies
3. Provide specific technical training to farmers in agricultural technologies, self-seed production, and rehabilitation of minor irrigation, institutional management, organized marketing, entrepreneurship training, and market information to farmer’s organizations.

The objective of this project is to establish Community Banks (CBs) to provide opportunities for savings and micro finance services to residents of estates.

The plantation sector also known as estate sector in Sri Lanka is of national importance both as a source of income and employment. The sector directly employs 310,000 people and provides residence to 5% (850,000) of the total Sri Lankan population. Although the plantation workers are an integral part of the plantation economy they have had no opportunity to participate in decision making even when their own welfare was affected. Lack of services and basic facilities in the estate environment, growing mistrust between estate management and estate residents as well as between estate residents and bordering villagers have caused serous social and economic issues that have negatively affected efficient management and the productivity.

Plantation Community Development Project (PCDP) will aim at addressing some of the problems faced by plantation workers. The project attempts to bring the plantation management and resident workers together into Community Development
Forums where they have ample space for mutual consultations for decision making and relationship building. Construction of basic facilities particularly for women in the tea plucking field and community centers for community gathering, saving and credit, business development , income generation and reduction in gender based violence will be the major project activities to be undertaken by this project .

A development project that aims at improving food security of drought affected people (64,945 households) through increasing agricultural productivity, and accessibility of potable water in North and West Kordofan States.

Objective: improve conservation of globally significant biodiversity in Tajikistan through the demonstration of new mechanisms and approaches for effective management. The project will also work to improve the quality of life of selected communities located next to the protected areas. Quality of life improvements will result from increased household income through selected alternative livelihood and resource use approaches. Approaches include: social/community based joint forest management, livestock and pasture management, community based tourism, and sustainable energy developments.

Through this project, CARE Tajikistan will provide technical assisstance to relevant government agencies and financial supprort to three protected areas and selected communities thus helping to improve protected areas management system, management of natural resources by population and thus help selected communities alleviate poverty.

This project aims to improve food security for vulnerable women through increased household income and increased participation in the civil society of Tajikistan.

This project aims to ensure that the food security needs of the rural population targeted are substantially met.

Objectives:
1. To strengthen the capacity of the Department for Commercial Crops, Fruits and Forestry to manage the conservation areas of Jozani and Chwaka Bay.
2. To strengthen the capacity of JECA and MICA, community conservation organizations.
3. To conserve the Biodiversity of Zanzibar
4. To improve the livelihood security of people living next to Zanzibar’s protected areas

To improve the health and nutritional status as well as income among the poorest households.

Objectives:
1. Improving agricultural extension services.
2. Increasing knowledge of experience on sustainable farming methods.
3. Diversifying and increasing agricultural production.
4. Better marketing strategies.

Objective: Get the rural poor involved with the land they tend to and live off of.

Establish local development organizations and train their members to implement new savings, credit and environmentally sustainable business development initiatives using a low-risk, self-reliant methodology pioneered by CARE.

Objectives:
1. Increase the food and income security of vulnerable households in ten wards of Misungwi District, particularly those headed by women
2. Improve farmer access to agricultural inputs for production
3. Savings mobilization at the community level

Objectives:
1. Social and economic empowerment of marginalized women and girls.
2. Actively engage local leadership and institutions around reproductive and sexual health rights, resource rights and education rights.

This project builds on the lessons and successes of the former JCBCP with the aim of enhancing the “Long term maintenance of Zanzibar’s biological diversity while improving the livelihoods through promoting ecologically sustainable activities”. The expected outcomes are :
1. Provide protection to endangered and endemic species
2. Protect the adjacent village forests
3. Imporve the economic status of the target population
4. Establish community and resource governance systems

VSLA Project implemented in Zanzibar

The goal of the project is to create employment in rural areas through the encouragement of factory owners in Bangkok to move their production out to the rural areas. Raks Thai will serve as a match maker between companies and interested village groups, and will build the capacity of both groups in setting up the new rural area based factory.

Objective: Establish a sustainable foundation for the social and economic rehabilitation of Gulu and Kitgum Districts, through cash employment, access to markets, training, and social services.

The AMI project is design to enhance commercial sesame production based on a private sector approach. The goal of the project is to transform subsistence farmers to commercial farmers able to achieve an annual income of $500 per household. The project links farmers together into producer associations assists them in governance, production, and marketing skills, and links them with private sector buyers on a sustainable basis. The project is trying to set up a private sector entity that will perform this function after the project is completed.

The project aims to sustain and improve the livelihoods of lake dependent communities by sustaining their primary means of income and food security:  their fisheries resources.  This will be done though empowering communities to manage their resources, developing and advocating for policy frameworks that promote community based management, and supporting joint government-CS management institutions.

This program works to improve the household livelihood security of area residents.

The SAFES project aims to improve the food and economic security of the Palestinian population in the Jenin District through the encouragement of appropriate, sustainable livelihoods and increased self-reliance.  Inherent in this are economically, environmentally, and culturally sound practices that are appropriate for small-scale farming.  The project strives to increase the level of meat and dairy production in the area, improve crop diversity, and improve water and land management.

The principle objective of the project is to Support income/food insecure small farmers who have lost access to the export market while mitigating the food security risk of targeted poor households and social/health institutions.

The intervention aims to improve the asset base of vulnerable communities by increasing household food production and sustained income through engaging in small scale agricultural activities, training and capacity building.  Vulnerable households in the northern West Bank and Gaza Strip who are already food insecure, or who are at risk with becoming food insecure will be provided with material and technical support to enhance household level food production through a range of inputs including beehives, small greenhouses, sheep,  seeds, land  rehabilitation, capacity building and training.  The target group of 1,870 households comprises rural Palestinian and Palestinian Bedouin families whose food security has been severely compromised by movement and access restrictions. Women will be targeted in this intervention, specifically through actions which increase knowledge and skills in management of household food production, food processing (preserving, pickling, drying) nutrition awareness,  and in marketing  surpluses of dairy products, honey and vegetables.

Objective:
1. Set up 6 local community councils
2. Establish 6 kindergardens & literacy classes
3. Encourage entry of ethnic minorities to enrol in basic education, skills training and income generation / micro enterprises.

Objective: Improve food security at both household and community level, through the distribution of agricultural inputs to vulnerable but viable farming households. Prior to having access to the inputs, the benefiting households are expected to work on identified community projects such as feeder roads, storage facility, community schools and health posts. The farmers are provided with a seed pack that consists of diversified crops (cereal, legume and root and tuber). Farmers are trained and encouraged to use conservation agricultural system in crop production.

The Sorghum Market Enterprise Project will complement the pilot’s production in order to respond to market demands for Sorghum.  It will also apply best practice production technologies established in the pilot to achieve efficient yields. 

The Market Link/Business Development Services Project is implemented in Midlands Province where it targets 2,500 beneficiaries and addresses a broad range of small and micro enterprise needs.  CARE’s goal is to increase household livelihood security in the informal sector and to enhance its members' participation in civil society.  The objectives are to:

1) Increase income (asset base) of the micro entrepreneurs; 2) Increase the production of micro entrepreneurs;
3) Engage women and other disadvantaged groups in participation in civil society; and
4) Learn from the project, and share lessons with partners, other projects, other NGOs, and policy makers.

The project also builds the capacity of the intermediate technology, food processing and horticulture sectors and of business development service providers, and it facilitates the formation of business associations. 

CARE’s Rural Microfinance Program targets 48,000 beneficiaries in vulnerable communities in Shurugwi, Mberengwa, Zvishavane, Gutu, Chirumanzu Kwekwe and Gweru. RMFP aims to improve rural livelihood security by facilitating the establishment of peer savings and internal lending system for poor households (who do not otherwise have access to credit or savings facilities); by providing basic training in Selection Planning and Management of Income Generating Activities to households and by building the capacity of other institutions to provide KI services.  Beneficiaries are mostly women micro-entrepreneurs, sometimes semi-literate, operating in either the informal or agricultural sectors.

The project aims to improve the population’s income base, increase household assets and savings, and facilitate continued and easy access to capital for supporting viable household based income-generating activities and improve the household resilience to shocks and disasters. Beneficiary led innovations include asset based savings; supporting orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs), micro-insurance and strengthening social support networks through the creation of a 'social fund'. This project is hailed by external appraisers as one of the most successful of its kind in Africa.

The aim of this project is to improve the welfare of poor groups in urban/peri-urban areas by increasing employment opportunities and incomes.

Targetting 10,000 HH in Mwenezi, Mberengwa and Zaka to implement dam rehabilitation and community gardens.