CARE Philippines Accomplishment Report 2020 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 CARE Philippines 1 Focus on Women and Girls 2 Work in the Philippines 3 Work in Numbers 4 Communities We Worked With 5 Focus Areas 7 Emergency and Humanitarian Responses 12 Programs and Initiatives 17 Research and Knowledge Sharing 19 Partners 20 Funders and Donors Founded in 1945, CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere) is a leading global humanitarian and international development organization dedicated to defending dignity and eradicating poverty. CARE enables lasting change by strengthening the capacity of communities and households through social, political and economic opportunities, delivering relief in emergencies, influencing policy decisions, and addressing discrimination. For 75 years, CARE has led the way to a better life for the world’s most vulnerable people across 100 countries and 70 million people, each year. In fiscal year 2020, CARE and partners worked in 104 countries to reach 92 million people directly through 1349 projects and initiatives. CARE also reached 433 million people indirectly through its advocacy, replication of successful programs and scale up of innovations. FOCUS ON WOMEN AND GIRLS In the Philippines, CARE is known for its rights-based, community-based, participatory approaches in extensive humanitarian response and development programming. Since 1949, CARE Philippines has worked to deliver life-saving aid to communities most at need and has effectively done so by investing in local partnership-building with civil society, government, and the private sector. Across our work in emergencies and community resilience, we have been intuitively gender-conscious; we have deliberately anchored our success stories around women and their experiences; and we have trialed practices and techniques to empower women economically and meaningfully engage truly vulnerable sectors. In the bid to strengthen our gender equality program and systematically examine our programming through an intersectional gender lens, CARE Philippines interviewed its staff and local partners in a 2019 participatory gender review. We agreed on common challenges, such as: gender indicators not always being evident in project designs, and when they are, not being reflected in project budgets; sex-, age-, and disability-disaggregated data being collected, but not always centralized or used; and the need for a comprehensive knowledge management system. We learned that most staff have not received training in gender-in-emergencies, gender-in-programming, or gender in general, and that not all project teams have a designated gender focal point. 1 | CARE Philippines As a team, CARE Philippines determined there is a need to: monitor overall adherence to CARE International’s Gender Equality Policy; determine if, and how, we deliver on our gender commitments to partners and communities; mainstream gender in emergencies and programs; and develop our identified strengths. To achieve these, we decided on four key recommendations: to train staff and partners, to build a gender structure, to make use of gender data, and to operationalize gender priority. WORK IN THE PHILIPPINES CARE has been providing emergency relief and development assistance in the Philippines since 1949. Over the years, the organization has developed strong working relations with local communities and local non-government organizations throughout the country. CARE has a long history in the Philippines being a partner of the U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for the implementation of Nutribun program in the 1970s. Nutribun was designed as a convenient “ready-to-eat complete meal” for public elementary school feeding programs to combat child malnutrition in the Philippines. Currently, CARE Philippines is implementing a number of programs, ranging from disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in rural and urban areas, to humanitarian assistance focusing on food, shelter, cash, protection, water, sanitation & hygiene, to recovery and rehabilitation focusing on women economic empowerment, health and livelihoods, across the Philippines. CARE’s main donors include the European Union, the Governments of Canada, Netherlands, Germany, France, USA, UK, as well as corporate donors such as Abbott, Diageo, International Hotel Group, Rationale Group, the SkalA Initiative, etc. CARE has also established its innovative Humanitarian Partnership Platform (HPP) with national organizations, local cooperatives, people’s organizations, and private companies. The partnership allows CARE to respond to natural and man-made disasters with speed, scale and quality. CARE’s partners have a strong and established presence in all regions of the Philippines. In the photo: CARE and ACCORD Incorporated provided multipurpose cash support to women leaders and gender-based violence (GBV) survivors in Barangay 28, Caloocan City. COVID-19 and local quarantine measures have affected women’s access to GBV, sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services, and livelihood opportunities. This effort is part of the Together for Her initiative, CARE International's call to action to stand in solidarity with women and girls around the world by supporting the global response against domestic violence during the time of COVID-19. 2 | CARE Philippines In 2020, CARE Philippines has reached 998,648 people by providing food, clean water, jerry cans, water purifiers, hand washing stations, hygiene kits, disinfectants, vitamins, medications, personal protective equipment, support in livelihood and agriculture, trainings and technical support in Integrated Risk Management, and protection from gender-based violence and more than 1.7 million people by providing lifesaving information through various online and offline communication and education campaigns. 6 out of 10 people we work with in communities are women. 3 | CARE Philippines 1 COMMUNITIES WE WORKED WITH Sulu Archipelago 4 | CARE Philippines FOCUS AREAS Humanitarian Response Anticipate risks: foresee and reduce the impact of hazards that are likely to occur CARE Philippines responds to major and and be ready for unexpected events through minor emergencies within the country which prevention, preparedness and planning. includes typhoons, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and displacements. For our Absorb shocks: accommodate the immediate responses, CARE works closely with our impact that shock and stress have on lives, partners on the ground to develop a well-being and livelihoods, by making comprehensive risk assessment to know the changes in usual practices and behaviors specific needs of the affected population. using available skills and resources, and by managing adverse conditions. CARE has also been part of several interagency Rapid Gender Analyses on Adapt to evolving conditions: adjust different emergencies such as the Taal behaviors, practices, lifestyles and Volcano Eruption and COVID-19. These RGAs livelihood strategies in response to changed allow CARE to widen the scope of our circumstances and conditions under responses as well recognize the gaps and multiple, complex and at times changing needs of vulnerable sectors - particularly of risks. women and girls. Transform: influence the enabling Integrated Risk Management environment and drivers of risks to create individual and systemic changes on In the Philippines, CARE empowers behaviors, local governance and decision- vulnerable communities & local advocates making structures, market economics, to strengthen their resilience to various policies and legislation. disasters. Thus, CARE is integrating disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation Health and Hygiene & ecosystems restoration and management CARE provides women and girls of across all our programs. reproductive age with comprehensive quality sexual and reproductive health and CARE’s resilience approach works not only in rights (SRHR) services, addresses non- response to shocks and stresses but it is a communicable diseases (NCDs) in internally permanent element of our programmatic displaced communities and strengthens thinking. It also goes hand in hand with public health sector capacities in SRHR integrating gender equality and inclusive health care and NCD management including governance as core elements of the pathway in emergencies. out of poverty and to a life with dignity. In Mindanao, CARE conducts onsite health CARE focuses on the following key capacities visits to facilitate primary health care – called ‘the 3As and T for resilience’ – to consultations and nutrition screenings for help people better cope with shocks, community members affected by the violent stresses and uncertainty. They are relevant conflict and repeated displacements, at all levels: individual, household, specifically in Marawi City. CARE also institutional, and the wider social system: provides referrals as well as logistical support so that at-risk populations can access health, nutrition and psychosocial support. 5 | CARE Philippines | Focus Areas Research and Knowledge Exchanges CARE opens spaces for new and existing RILHUB further develops and integrates the knowledge to be shared within and across IRM approach to combine DRR, CCA, EMR different relevant development and across all sectors of Philippine society. At humanitarian actors. CARE Philippines present, RILHub also serves as a participates in local and international compendium and inventory of case studies, research within CARE and with other articles, best practices, and other resource agencies.