Description
With gender transformation at the heart of our work, we strive to support communities, healthcare providers and other stakeholders to critically explore and transform power dynamics and achieve the right to food and health. CARE uses a Social Analysis and Action (SAA) process to provide a tested and evidence-based platform for communities to collectively explore and implement ways to tackle gender and other barriers to food and health, both at the household and community levels. The SAA process has three core elements: 1) reflection, dialogue and exploration; 2) envisioning alternatives and challenging harmful norms; and 3) action to challenge norms that act as barriers to food, health and nutrition security. CARE will promote the use of SAA and other formative research methods to identify barriers to women's participation in decision-making around their and their children's health and nutrition, then work with community leaders, men and boys through male support groups, Village Savings and Loan Associations and other platforms to transform harmful gender norms and practices and increase women's decision-making power.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
Improving nutrition approaches
Description
Improving nutrition must happen through local structures or collectives, such as care or savings groups, and integrated approaches. This commitment will focus on both nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive approaches. By focusing on these two approaches, we will directly affect nutrition for women and children, support dietary diversity and promote positive nutrition practices. CARE also focuses on male engagement and sectoral interventions such as homestead food production; improved water, sanitation and hygiene access; and agriculture and natural resource management practices and models that prioritise nutrition outcomes. Building on successes, we will build stronger service delivery and coordination systems across stakeholder platforms that improve access to and delivery of quality health, agriculture, water, climate and education services for improved nutrition.
GNR assessment
| Verification status |
Unverified
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| SMARTness index |
Low
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Details
| Target population characteristic |
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| Global nutrition target(s) |
Anaemia
Exclusive breastfeeding
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Percentage of women who report that they are able to equally participate in household nutrition and health decision-making |
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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 | 2.8 million people received food and nutrition support in emergencies. | 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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