Access to technical advisory or training services in agriculture and non-agricultural services
Description
To address the fact that agriculture does not represent the only pathway out of poverty for many rural women and their families, CARE will address gender- and age-related barriers to livelihood opportunities. We will promote livelihood diversification – including integrated development policies and investments, climate change resilience and disaster risk-reduction approaches, and youth employment – through vocational education, entrepreneurship and emerging technological and innovation opportunities. We will increase women’s access to finance, tools and training to improve their economic options and potential for income. We also will leverage market actors to respond to the needs of vulnerable populations in accessing nutritious food, water and production inputs during crises.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
Food and water security for nutrition
Description
Sustainable agricultural inputs and water are essential to all of CARE's outcome areas, vital resources for all sectors and foundational to resilience. Water scarcity and insecurity, caused by poor water resources management and exacerbated by climate change, drive cycles of drought and food insecurity, migration and chronic emergencies. CARE’s work to ensure the protection, restoration and management of ecosystems that supply water resources is a critical path to ensuring food security, nutrition and livelihoods. It reduces forced migration and humanitarian emergencies, mitigates potential for conflict and promotes wider economic and social well-being.
CARE will build on decades of experience in landscape approaches, inclusive governance, integrated water resources management, climate change adaptation and water- and climate-smart agriculture models to ensure that communities and governments are addressing risks to the ecosystems upon which they depend. We will enable women and youth to engage in the development and scale-up of innovations and models for improved water and agriculture resource management and protection. We also will continue to engage with partners at all levels in driving better practice and policy. Our work to increase land- and water-use efficiency and reduce water stress includes promoting climate- and water-smart agriculture to reduce agricultural water withdrawals, increase rainwater harvesting and ensure women small-scale farmers have access to water for agriculture, especially in vulnerable watersheds and water-scarce contexts. This work also relies on the integration of agriculture and water resource management in disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and humanitarian, nexus and development interventions.
GNR assessment
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Unverified
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| SMARTness index |
Low
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Details
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Enabling >
Operational
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Percentage of people benefitting from technical advisory or training services in agricultural and non-agricultural services |
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| Measurement plan | Unknown |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | TBD | 2021 |
| Target | TBD | November 2030 |
Progress
| Value | Measurement date | Status | |
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| Progress report | 34 million people reached in FY23 | November 2023 |
Progress not able to be assessed
Despite the commitment maker’s active participation in the process, they were unable to provide the required information about the baseline data or the progress indicator's updated (latest) level or status, or the data provided were not in a format allowing calculation of progress.
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