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CARE - EVOLUTION One of the largest global network

Founded in 1945 to help survivors of world war II

A decade later scope of work phased out to fight with poverty and injustice

Headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.

CARE works in 84 countries around the world, supporting 1,105 poverty-fighting projects to reach 122 million people

CARE - INTRODUCTION Leading national devp. organisation

Focus areas are extreme poverty, social injustice and health

Focus group are poor women and girls of most disadvantaged communities

Because CARE highly believes that women have the power to help families and whole community when equipped with proper resources

SERVICES PROVIDEDCARE’s Community Based Efforts are:

Basic Education

Boost MCH

Prevent the spread of HIV & TB

Livelihood Improvement

Urban microfinance

Urban Health Initiative

Ending gender based violence

Disaster Response

WHY WOMEN & GIRLS?

CARE India recognises that these group are disproportionately affected by:Unequal power relationsExperience violation of their rightsFace discrimination in personal & public

lives

CARE help millions of women and girls find lasting solutions to poverty by developing their potential.

WHAT NUMBERS SAY… For every year a girl spends in school she

raises her family income by up to 20 percent

Educated women, who have healthier babies and they will educate their children

When a girl receives seven years of education, she marries four years later and has 2.2 fewer children

When women earn an income, they reinvest 90 percent of it in their families.

VISION AND MISSION VISION:

We seek a world of hope, tolerance and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and people live in dignity and security.

MISSION:We fight poverty and exclusion by

empowering women and girls from the poor and marginalized communities.

CARE – PROGRAMME GOAL 5M women and girls from the most

marginalised communities in India have the power to realise choices in personal and public spheres to advance their positions.

CARE India will accomplish this goal by working with 50 million people to help them meet their health, education and livelihoods entitlements.

WHERE IT WORKS? Presently working in 197 districts in 15

states with its head quarters in New Delhi

With the focus on poorest of poor and marginalised communities, caste-discriminated (SC/ST) populations, tribal people, migrant workers and women and girls

Mainly works in AP, Bihar, Gurjarat, Orissa, MP, UP, Tamilnadu and West Bengal

PROGRAMMESMainly services are provided in four areas:

Education

Health

Livelihoods

Disaster Response

EDUCATIONProjects under Education are:

Girls’ Education Programme (GEP)Formal Primary SchoolsAlternative Schools and Approaches to EducationUdaanKasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBV)Early Childhood Care and Educatio(ECCE) -

Working with the ICDS SystemPower Within

HEALTHProjects under Health are:

SAKSHAM

AXSHYA

Bihar Family Health Initiatives

Bihar Health Sector Reforms (SWASTH)

Enhancing Mobile Populations Access to HIV/AIDS Services Information and Support (EMPHASIS)

CONTD…

Gaon Kalyan Samithi (GKS)Sure StartUrban Health Initiative (UHI) Initiative to Manage People Centred

Alliances (IMPACT)MP Tribal Project - SEHAT

HEALTH PROJECTS SAKSHAM – AP

Obj: Enhance capacity of NGOs and CBOs to apply community mobilization strategies for reducing risk of HIV/AIDS

Training of Institutions, programme implementation units and NGOs

Technical assistance in implementation of NACP

CONTD.. AKSHYA – MP, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh -

2015

To enhance capacity for quality assured rapid diagnosis of DR-TB in 43 laboratories

To scale-up care and management of DR-TB in 35 States/UT’s of India

To improve the reach, visibility and effectiveness of the RNTCP through civil society support in 374 districts across 23 states

Bihar Family Health Initiatives – 2015

With support from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, this trying to improve maternal, newborn and child health outcomes

Project goals include:

Improving the quality of key family health services and delivery processes

Increasing utilization of key services and uptake of health promoting behaviors

CONTD..

Bihar Health Sector Reforms (SWASTH):CARE is providing Technical Assistance (TA)

support to Govt. (GoB) to develop a comprehensive health sector reform, a nutrition policy and capacity building

EMPHASIS:To address vulnerability in terms of HIV-AIDS

amongst population from low prevalence countries Bangladesh and Nepal to high prevalence areas in neighboring India.

CONTD..

Gaon Kalyan Samiti – OrissaSupporting NRHM by building the capacity of

GKS members to enable them to carry out their functions effectively.

NRHM mandates the formation of GKS in each village to ensure community participation

GKS formed under leadership of MO in block

9000 samitis were formed in nine districts of Orissa

CONTD..

SURE START – UP:Aims at bringing about sustainable

improvement in maternal and newborn health status through effective community action in 2 districts of UP

Urban Health Initiative – UP: It is designed to contribute to India’s efforts

to achieve the MDG of Universal Access to Reproductive Health by 2015

Goal: To increase CPR by 20% in four cities of MP

CONTD..

IMPACT – West Bengal

To support the RNTCP to decrease the morbidity and mortality caused by TB, MDR-TB and HIV/AIDS co-infection

Strategies:

Intensification and expansion of community based DOTS treatment

Strengthening of case holding and completion of treatment among re-treatment and MDR TB pts.

CONTD..

MP Tribal Project:

To improve nutrition and health status of women and children

To enable access to quality education for children from SC/ST communities in 500 villages across Sidhi and Shahdol districts

CONTD..

LIVELIHOODSProjects under this are:

Insure Lives and Livelihoods ILAL Cashew Value Chain Livelihood Improvement for Economic

Security Banking on Change Urban Microfinance Balasahyoga Kutch Livelihood Education Advancement

Project K-LEAP Enhancing Tribal Development Outcomes -

SAMRATH

DISASTER RESPONSEAndhra Pradesh Flood Recovery

Project:

Goal – Rehabilitation of flood affected families in two districts

Interventions –Reconstruction of disaster resilient housesSupport in Income generationSustaining livelihoodsCrucial rehabilitation services

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