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Evaluación final Proyecto Mujeres Emprendedoras
Con dicho fin, el levantamiento de la información se realizó, en ambas oportunidades, mediante llamadas telefónicas a los beneficiarios(as) del proyecto Mujeres Emprendedoras. El instrumento de recolección de datos, la selección y muestra final de los participantes fue coordinado con CARE Perú según los avances previos al desarrollo estudio. La aplicación de las encuestas telefónicas se realizó sobre la base de beneficiarias(os) provista por la Municipalidad Metropolitana de Lima en coordinación con CARE PERÚ.
El estudio presenta seis secciones: La primera sección busca realizar la caracterización de la población de beneficiarios(as), donde se halla que se trata de una población con múltiples vulnerabilidades debido a la situación económica y la dependencia de los negocios familiares que han sido afectos durante la pandemia. La segunda sección busca conocer las características los negocios de las beneficiarias(os), evidenciando que se tratan principalmente de los negocios propios dedicados a la venta de alimentos en la vía pública. Estos negocios han sido golpeados duramente por la disminución de la demanda, no han tenido procesos de diversificación productiva ni han intentado expandirse fuera del ámbito local, pese a que, en la actualidad, se registran cambios ligeros en estas tendencias. En contraste, los negocios de los beneficiaros(as) han experimentado una reducción importante de trabajadores, principalmente, por los efectos de la reducción de la demanda y la reducción de los ingresos Read More...
Evaluación final Proyecto Aprendemos+, crecemos y emprendemos siempre III
El presente informe del Estudio de Línea de Base del proyecto tiene como objetivo general medir los indicadores del proyecto a nivel cualitativo y cuantitativo; y, compararlos con un área de no intervención (grupo control). El estudio se enmarca en las consecuencias educativas de la pandemia de Covid-19, y las medidas de respuesta del sector para garantizar el acceso a una educación con calidad y equidad. El estudio cuenta con dos componentes. El componente cuantitativo contó con 294 entrevistas en IIEE tratamiento y control, dirigidas a directivos, docentes, estudiantes y padres/madres de familia. El componente cualitativo estaba compuesto por 32 entrevistas en 8 IIEE tratamiento y control, dirigidas a directivos, docentes, estudiantes, padres/madres de familia y agentes educativos comunitarios.
El informe presenta los resultados de los indicadores centrales del proyecto, así como la medición de indicadores referenciales, complementados por los resultados cualitativos a nivel descriptivo y analítico. Incluye además un conjunto de conclusiones y de recomendaciones para la implementación del proyecto. Read More...
Línea de base Proyecto Aprendemos+, crecemos y emprendemos siempre III
El presente informe del Estudio de Línea de Base del proyecto tiene como objetivo general medir los indicadores del proyecto a nivel cualitativo y cuantitativo; y, compararlos con un área de no intervención (grupo control). El estudio se enmarca en las consecuencias educativas de la pandemia de Covid-19, y las medidas de respuesta del sector para garantizar el acceso a una educación con calidad y equidad. El estudio cuenta con dos componentes. El componente cuantitativo contó con 294 entrevistas en IIEE tratamiento y control, dirigidas a directivos, docentes, estudiantes y padres/madres de familia. El componente cualitativo estaba compuesto por 32 entrevistas en 8 IIEE tratamiento y control, dirigidas a directivos, docentes, estudiantes, padres/madres de familia y agentes educativos comunitarios.
El informe presenta los resultados de los indicadores centrales del proyecto, así como la medición de indicadores referenciales, complementados por los resultados cualitativos a nivel descriptivo y analítico. Incluye además un conjunto de conclusiones y de recomendaciones para la implementación del proyecto. Read More...
Evaluación final Proyecto Aprendemos+, crecemos y emprendemos siempre II
El proyecto APRENDEMOS+ CRECEMOS Y EMPRENDEMOS SIEMPRE es la respuesta educativa de CARE Perú para mejorar los aprendizajes de las Instituciones Educativas de nivel primaria multigrado en ámbitos rurales durante el estado de emergencia del COVID-19, en el marco de la educación a distancia. El proyecto se implementó en escuelas rurales de Amazonas y Cajamarca en 2019. En 2020, se implementó en 115 instituciones educativas multigrado y/o unidocentes de las regiones de Amazonas, Cajamarca, Huánuco y Pasco. La intervención cuenta con tres componentes: un componente pedagógico que busca fortalecer las capacidades de los y las docentes/directores para la implementación de la propuesta pedagógica innovadora centrada en la convivencia saludable y educación social y emprendedora; un componente de gestión escolar centrada en la participación, la convivencia y el bienestar socioemocional, a partir de la asesoría a directivos en materia de planificación y gestión escolar; y un componente de soporte que busca promover el aprendizaje autónomo a través de herramientas digitales, para salvaguardar la salud integral de los y las estudiantes. Read More...
CARE in the Pacific PARTNERSHIPS RESEARCH REPORT
What this research report does
⮚ Documents CARE in the Pacific’s partnership approach and the key features of the partnership that are supporting locally led outcomes
⮚ Employs a qualitative approach drawing on the voice of partners through feedback captured during interviews, and secondary documentation related to CARE’s partnership and localisation practice, and current sector discourse on localisation to demonstrate how CARE in the Pacific is supporting localisation, and approaches hindering locally led outcomes
⮚ Identifies actions and approaches for CARE in the Pacific for charting a more strategic course for partnership and localisation by building on existing positive practices and considering areas for improving partnership practice to better support localisation
Key findings
Partnership findings
⮚ CARE’s partnership can be characterised by long-term and short-term partnerships. The long-term partnership is guided by a high-level partnership agreement with sub-agreements developed for project or program specific engagement. Capacity strengthening is focused on supporting organisation-wide learning and growth. The short-term partnership usually begins with CARE either securing or identifying a funding opportunity. Based on consultation and shared objectives, agreement is sought to work together and co-design proposals/projects. A sub agreement guides the engagement. Capacity strengthening (informed by due diligence assessments) is largely focused on ensuring partners can meet CARE’s program quality, administrative and financial requirements, including donor compliance requirements.
⮚ Both long-term and short-term partnerships are contributing to positive change, in advancing CARE’s strategic objective of achieving greater impact through partnerships, and for partners, helping to achieve positive change at organisational and community levels. Having both short-term and long-term partnerships allow for flexibility in the partnership and as partnering is also influenced by the amount of funding CARE has available to support partners. A long-term partnering approach would better position CARE to achieve its broader partnership goals for transformed partnerships in the Pacific for reduced poverty and inequality. A key consideration is for CARE to articulate how it will support partners who want to transition to long-term partnerships, the strategy to engage long-term partnerships and with which organisations it will establish such partnerships.
⮚ CARE’s approach is grounded in supporting partners to achieve their mandate and objectives, working within partners priorities, and partners strengths. Partners perceive CARE is taking a partner led approach that is based on shared values and complementary vision, and a strong commitment to partnership. This approach together with the provision of quality technical support in gender, disaster, and humanitarian programming is helping establish CARE as a partner of choice. This is noted by partners as a core strength of CARE’s partnership approach and an area that CARE should continue to build on.
⮚ CARE has strong foundational policies, processes, and principles in place for partnership, but these are not being consistently applied outside of project implementation. CARE has strong processes and principles in place for partnering but these are not being fully maximised, with the focus more on assessing project delivery and results and not partnership outcomes. This approach to partnerships is potentially hindering achievement of more meaningful partnership outcomes, including more effective programming. There is a desire from partners to have more conversations and participate in processes that are focused on assessing the partnership.
⮚ CARE is directly investing in partnerships in several ways: recruitment of dedicated staff and consultants to the CARE in the Pacific team including a Partnerships Coordinator, Gender, and Inclusion Senior Advisor (Fiji), Program Quality Coordinator, Finance & Grants Coordinator and Project Coordinators. CARE is also demonstrating ongoing financial investment in partners by mobilising consecutive funding with the majority of its partners. It will be important for CARE to consider and plan for future resourcing that may be needed to support a long-term partnering approach, acknowledging that CARE largely operates on project specific funding which directly influences the parameters of support CARE is able to provide to partners as this support has to fit within project budgets. Read More...
Rapid Gender Analysis Ukraine
Ukraine has made modest gains on women’s rights in recent years and has a developing state-level ‘gender machinery’. These gains were already under threat from deeply entrenched and persistent gender and discrimination-based inequalities, eight years of conflict in the east of the country, and the gendered social and economic stress wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic. This current crisis, with mass displacement inside and outside Ukraine, will add to that complex situation and put pressure on any gains that have been made.
Humanitarian actors need to build on the advances in gender equality and women’s empowerment by Ukrainian women’s rights, women-led and civil society organisations, and work with them to identify and respond to the different humanitarian needs of women, men, boys, girls and people of all genders. This Rapid Gender Analysis Brief for Ukraine and the Gender in Crisis Ukraine infographic are a first attempt to identify the gender, age, and diversity issues so that humanitarian responses can better meet people’s different needs as the crisis evolves. Read More...
She Told Us So (Again)
Since March of 2020, CARE—and more importantly, the women CARE works with—have been warning that COVID-19 would create special challenges for women and girls, above and beyond what men and boys would face. Tragically, these women were exactly right. What they predicted even before the WHO declared a pandemic has come true. In September 2020, CARE published She Told Us So, which showed women's and men's experiences in the pandemic so far. In March 2022, updated data shows that the cost of ignoring women continues to grow. For more than 22,000 people CARE has spoken to, COVID-19 is far from over. In fact, the COVID-19 situation has gotten worse, not just for women, but for men, too.
Ignoring the voices of women, girls, and other historically marginalized groups has worsened the situation for everyone—not just for women. Men are more than twice as likely to report challenges around livelihoods, food insecurity, and access to health care as they were in 2020, and are three times more likely to report mental health challenges—although they are still only two-thirds as likely as women to report mental health as a priority. As women burn through their coping strategies and reserves, men are also facing bigger impacts over time.
Women have stepped up to the challenge—especially when they get support from each other and opportunities to lead. They are sharing information, preventing COVID-19, and using their resources to support other members of their communities. 89% of women in savings groups in Yemen are putting some of their savings to help others. Women are stepping into leadership roles, "We are women leaders in emergency . . . we have the capacity to say: I have a voice and a vote, I am not going to stay stagnant . . . (participant, Colombia). In Niger, women are saying, “Now we women are not afraid to defend ourselves when a decision does not suit us. We will say it out loud because our rights are known and we know the ways and means to claim our rights.”
Those accomplishments are impressive, but they come at a cost. The constant struggle for their rights, and for even the most basic necessities, is taking its toll. Women are almost twice as likely to report mental health challenges as they were in 2020. As one woman in Iraq describes, “If any opportunity appeared, the man would be the favorite . . . This psychologically affected many women, as they turned to household work which included preparing food and cleaning only.”
To understand these challenges and create more equitable solutions, CARE invests in listening to women, men, and people from marginalized groups to understand the challenges they face, what they need, and the ways in which they lead through crisis. This report represents the voices of more than 22,000 people in 23 countries since September of 2020.
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End-line Survey Report for Scaling-up Sustainable Agriculture (SSA) Project: Lashio – Northern Shan
End of the Project Evaluation | Strengthening Approaches for Improved Maternal, Neonatal and Reproductive Health in Myanmar: Lashio Township, Northern Shan State, Myanmar
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