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Information By Approach
In order to access the various approach sites, use the appropriate link below. All pages are formatted similarly with Program Highlights, Announcements, Document Libraries, Useful Links, Discussion and Collaboration Forums, Relevant Individual Practitioner Contacts and Groups as well as a List of Programs pertaining to the titled tab. As a CARE Economic Development practitioners, you can make an announcement or highlight approach-specific by selecting the appropriate approach on the new announcement menu.
Value Chain
- To help the poorest of the poor, the most vulnerable and rural populations, CARE acknowledges that markets hold a significant power in playing a role in the creation of or combat against poverty. In conjunction to scaling up the VS&L methodology, CARE promotes economic growth opportunities through Value Chain Development and Market Access. Value Chain development is the chain of activities or inputs required to bring a product from conception to the consumer. Value is added at each stage of processing until it reaches its completion, transformed into a finished product. The consumer group of a product will dictate how much a product has been transformed or upgraded. Market Access services are the area of highest demand by CARE target groups. The types of programs working in market access cover a wide variety of activities including: market research to identify appropriate markets and access means of transportation to and from markets; vendor fairs; and coordination with other projects to build roads that reach marketplaces.
- Value Chain Toolbook
- Value Chain Terminology by USAID
Microfinance
- CARE’s commitment to the creation of locally governed, self-sufficient enterprises that can provide sustainable services to the poor is affirmed in the Program Related Investment (PRI) Policy and Guidelines. Often times, the PRIs of CARE are Microfinance Institutions, Not-for Profit entities and For Profit Exporting Companies. A PRI represents a financial investment or substantial governance role in a partner enterprise that is initiated for the purpose of expanding CARE USA’s mission in a country. In most instances this will be an entity created by CARE USA that allows CARE USA to further its vision and mission of overcoming poverty. Many CARE USA Country Offices have developed, or expressed an interest in developing, a PRI (often times Microfinance Institutions, For Profit Exporting Companies as well as Not-for Profit entities) . PRIs can represent exciting new opportunities for Country Offices in the development of innovative programs to impact the lives of the poor. The documents housed in this site will help to mitigate some of the uncertainties and risks Country Offices might face in getting involved in PRIs, and provide the guidance for making investment, investment management and disinvestment decisions. It is also intended to facilitate lessons learned and knowledge sharing that can help spread PRI innovations.
- PRI Guidelines
- PRI Policy
- On the Savings-Led Microfinance methodology you will find specific documents, links and technical forums for the Savings-Led Microfinance methodology known within CARE as Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA) programming. CARE is the originator of and global leader in the VSLA method. In 1991, CARE began its first Village Savings & Loan Association program in Niger. This model has since been implemented in twenty-two countries, including seventeen in Africa. About 865,000 people, more than 70% of whom are women, participate. CARE groups have saved over $11 million and have made over $33 million in loans to their group members. Recently CARE has launched 3 Signature Programs, one of them focusing on scaling up the VSLA methodology in Sub-Saharan Africa. Going forward, documents and learning forums related to the methodology, related evolutions and innovations will be housed on the Signature Programs website which will soon be developed.
- Access Africa Executive Summary
- Access Africa Strategy
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