Special reports

Climate vulnerability and capacity of ethnic minorities in the northern mountainous region of Vietnam

Vietnam is likely to be one of the most significantly impacted nations in the world from climate change due to its very long coastline, high dependence on agriculture, and relatively low levels of development in rural areas. 

Ethnic minorities in Vietnam are typically remote and their livelihoods are heavily reliant on natural resources, which depend on weather and climate conditions for productivity, and often have lower productivity land.

This report explores the vulnerability to climate change of ethnic minority groups in the northern region of Vietnam and their capacity to adapt. 

Empowering women and girls to achieve their rights is a fundamental pillar of peaceful development in the Balkans, says CARE International in its latest report, Evidence of Change in Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in the Balkans.

The report focuses on CARE’s work in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia over the past seven years and highlights the impact of programs and partnerships to overcome poverty and marginalisation of minorities.

There’s enough food in the world for everyone, but one person in eight still goes hungry every night, and 2.3 million children die needlessly each year from malnutrition.

As the UK prepares to host a high-level 'Hunger Summit' alongside the G8 summit, a new report by CARE and the UK Hunger Alliance highlights the single most important thing governments can do to end global hunger: support the millions of poor women farming tiny plots of land in developing countries.

To read the full report by the Overseas Development Institute, commissed by the Hunger Alliance, visit CARE UK.

This report is a baseline assesment of Syrian refugees living in Jordan's urban areas. 

According to the UNHCR, the total number of Syrian refugees living in urban areas is now approximately 291,000 compared to 117,000 living in camps. More than 367,000 people have sought registration with the UNHCR although the Jordanian government estimates the total figure is as high as 420,000. 

In this Girls’ Leadership Development in Action paper, CARE draws on our extensive fieldwork and research—and that of our partners—to demonstrate that building girls’ leadership skills and helping power-holders, fathers, mothers and boys to reassess the social value assigned to girls, can lead to nothing less than the empowerment of girls.

Tackling the Limits to Adaptation: An international Framework to Address 'Loss and Damage' from Climate Change Impacts

Launched at the UN climate change conference in Doha in November 2012, Tackling the Limits to Adaptation is a joint report from CARE International, Action Aid and WWF. 

The report offers information and a possible way forward on the issue of loss and damage under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The current and future scale of climate change implies serious loss and damage, especially to the lives and livelihoods of those who are poor, most vulnerable and least to blame. What is needed is collective action to face and readdress the problem of climate change. There is no more time left to lose. 

CARE's Asia Impact Report

CARE's Asia Impact Report is a review of five years of CARE's work in sixteen countries across Asia from 2005 to 2010. The report is the first of its kind in Australia and is part of CARE's commitment to transparency. The report shows the positive and significant impact CARE's work has had on the lives of millions of poor people in Asia. Read more

Asia Impact Report 
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CARE International joins the global call to re-energise and restore progress in family planning. Increased investment, targeted programming and supportive policies are all critical to meeting the reproductive health needs of millions of women and men.

Consistent with the 1994 Cairo Programme of Action, which placed women’s empowerment and reproductive rights at the centre of development, CARE believes that access to sexual, reproductive and maternal health services is both a fundamental human right and a critical development issue.

As foreign troops start to withdraw from Afghanistan, precious gains made by women and girls over the past decade in claiming their rights and access to services such as health and education are in jeopardy. High levels of gender-based violence continue, including forced early marriage and domestic abuse, and almost complete impunity for crimes against women and girls.

Aid agency staff and the communities CARE works with fear that increasing and new forms of conflict and instability will emerge. In this report, CARE International makes several recommendations on how the Afghan Government, with support from the international community, can ensure that gains made over the past decade are safeguarded.

A recent CARE UK report, Peacebuilding with Impact: Defining Theories of Change, is the result of a review of 19 peacebuilding projects across three conflict-affected countries; Uganda, DRC and Nepal.   

Peacebuilding programming is built on numerous assumptions, or ‘theories of change’, about how interventions contribute to peace. The review found that the process of articulating and reviewing ‘theories of change’ adds rigour and transparency, clarifies project logic, highlights assumptions that need to be tested and helps identify appropriate participants and partners.

If global warming continues at its current pace, the planet will increasingly suffer irreversible damages to its biodiversity, natural resources and substantial losses of human life and territory.

This joint report from CARE International, ActionAid, Germanwatch and WWF highlights that impacts from climate change and global warming are already being felt and will become increasingly inevitable in the future without deep and rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions reductions coupled with climate-resilient development.

Reaching New Heights: The Case for Measuring Women's Empowerment 

A report titled Reaching New Heights: The Case for Measuring Women’s Empowerment shows that women’s empowerment activities such as self-help and village savings and loans groups delivered through the CARE SHOUHARDO program reduced child stunting by 28 per cent over four years in three of the poorest regions of Bangladesh. 

The $126 million US Government-funded SHOUHARDO program, which stands for Strengthening Household Ability to Respond to Development Opportunities improved food security for more than two million men, women and children.  

Access Africa: Transforming the lives of women through economic empowerment

In sub-Saharan Africa, 550 million people live on less than $2 a day, unable to earn enough to meet their needs and with little access to basic financial services.

CARE has managed economic development programs in Africa for more than 25 years, implementing its first microfinance program in Niger in 1991. Microfinance is financial services geared specifically toward poor or low-income clients. For millions of families, the impact of microfinance is profound: they are able to purchase land, buy fertiliser or seed to increase harvest yields, buy raw materials to start new businesses or create a cushion of savings in case of an illness or unexpected expense.

What works for Women - Joint report on women and smallholder agriculture 

This report, developed on the occasion of the Commission on the Status of Women and International Women's Day, draws on evidence from various programmes and provides analysis and recommendations to increase targeted attention to the gender dimension of food production.

The Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates that increasing women’s contribution to food production and enterprise by providing equal access to opportunities and resources could reduce the number of chronically hungry people by between 12% and 17% - or between 100 million and 150 million people. For CARE, addressing this challenge represents the front line in improving global food security.

2010 Haiti earthquake: Two years on

This report provides a snapshot of the sitution in Haiti two years after the 2010 earthquake that killed over 220,000 people and left over 300,000 injured. It focuses on CARE Australia's intial response to the disaster and outlines CARE's plan to continue to help Haitians rebuild their lives over the next three years.

First consolidated CARE International gender report on the implementation of the CARE gender policy 

This report highlights efforts and achievements made by CARE International members in implementing CARE's Gender Policy and assesses CARE's success in meeting its commitments towards women's empowerment and gender equality. A clear set of recommendations for further enhancing gender equality are provided.

Livelihood security in a changing climate:
Insights from a program evaluation in Timor-Leste

This report by CARE Australia focuses on the effectiveness, impact and sustainability of CARE programming in Timor-Leste in relation to climate hazards. Projects in disaster risk reduction, water and sanitation and food security in Liquica District were reviewed, and a set of recommendations developed for future livelihoods and food security programs.

Rural poverty in remote Papua New Guinea:
Case study of Obura-Wonenara District

This report provides a detailed statistical snapshot of life for remote communities in rural Papua New Guinea. The report, which is a result of collaboration between CARE Australia and the Australian National University’s Development Policy Centre, highlights the ongoing issue of disadvantage in an area which is home to 15 percent of the country’s population.   

Getting it Right from the Start:
Priorities for Action in the New Republic of South Sudan

High Stakes:
Girls’ Education in Afghanistan

This joint report looks at the state of girls’ education in Afghanistan, what must be done to keep them in school and how to ensure they receive a quality education.

Strong Women, Strong Communities: CARE's holistic approach to empowering women and girls in the fight against poverty

This report, produced by CARE, provides an in-depth analysis of our efforts to empower women in the fight against poverty.

Issues brief - Mothers Matter: Healthy Mothers, Healthy Societies

CARE is working with partners across the globe to safeguard women’s health during pregnancy and childbirth. We are striving to ensure universal access to lifesaving health care for mothers in the developing world, to increase investment in maternal health programs, and make maternal health a development priority.

CARE Tsunami Report

The 2004 tsunami was the biggest humanitarian crisis resulting from a natural disaster CARE had ever responded to. This report provides a detailed account of CARE’s efforts to firstly provide immediate relief, then to help rebuild people’s lives.

A place to grow: Empowering women in CARE's agricultural programming

This report looks at CARE's work with women in the agricultural sector and profiles projects across a number of countries.

Rape as a weapon: voices against violence

The impacts of climate change are already causing migration and displacement. Although the exact number of people that will be on the move by mid-century is uncertain, the scope and scale could vastly exceed anything that has occurred before. People in the least developed countries and island states will be affected first and worst.

Tackling extreme poverty in Papua New Guinea

The Lowy Institute for International Policy, in conjunction with CARE Australia and the Australian National University, held a conference in Sydney on 14 May 2009 on tackling extreme poverty in Papua New Guinea. This report details the outcomes of the conference.

Living on the edge of emergency

This reports on the successes and failures of the international aid system's response to hunger in Africa., the new global challenges and the crucial steps to combating those challenges.

This report outlines CARE's work with the people on Simeulue, rebuilding and restoring after the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami.

This brochures outlines CARE's approach to climate change - helping the most vulnerable communities adapt to the unavoidable effects of climate change.

CARE's land-based projects reducing carbon emissions.