CARE fights poverty by empowering women and girls in the poorest communities of the world CARE International Annual Report 2011 Contents Our Vision Chapter 1 We seek a world of hope, tolerance and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and 02. Our Vision and Mission people live in dignity and security. 03. Forewords CARE will be a global force and partner of choice within a worldwide movement dedicated Chapter 2 to ending poverty. We will be known everywhere 04. Where We Made a Difference for our unshakeable commitment to the dignity of people. Chapter 3 06. How We Made a Difference: CARE’s Highlights of 2011 Our Mission Chapter 4 CARE’s mission is to serve individuals and Reducing the Difference: families in the poorest communities in the world. Drawing strength from our global 08. Closing the Gender Gap diversity, resources and experience, 10. Food Security we promote innovative solutions and 12. Maternal Health are advocates for global responsibility. 14. Climate Change We promote lasting change by: 16. Education • Strengthening capacity for self-help 18. HIV & AIDS • Providing economic opportunity • Delivering relief in emergencies 19. Water, Sanitation & Hygiene • Influencing policy decisions at all levels 20. Economic Development • Addressing discrimination in all its forms 22. Spot the Gender Difference: Emergency Response Guided by the aspirations of local communities, we pursue our mission with both excellence and compassion because the people whom we serve Chapter 5 deserve nothing less. 24. Make a Difference Chapter 6 © CARE 26. Being Different, Being Accountable 28. CARE International’s Structure Chapter 7 30. Financial Figures 03 Forewords Over the past year, I am pleased to CARE International has present to you CARE embarked on a journey International’s annual of organizational change report for 2011. The to improve our overall report includes some efficiency, effectiveness wonderful examples and impact. It is a of CARE’s poverty- journey that CARE, as fighting work around one of the world’s largest the world, with our aid organizations, owes to the more than one billion particular focus on empowering women and girls. people who go to bed hungry every night. Because Today, over 90 percent of our country offices in an ever-changing world with a growing gap have developed programs which specifically aim between rich and poor, we must ask ourselves every to provide women with the tools and skills to day: How can we most effectively reach the poor lift their families out of poverty. From years of and marginalized? How can we use our resources experience, CARE has learned that investing in better to promote social justice for the poor? women and girls is one of the most effective ways to overcome poverty. Women and girls CARE is a global confederation with more than 11,300 can create lasting change if they have the staff and 1,015 poverty-fighting projects around opportunity to gain an education, access health the world. In the fiscal year of 2011, these projects services, generate an income, and take a lead in reached over 120 million people. We continue to build our capacity to fight poverty with a focus on their communities. gender equality and empowering women and girls. CARE began work in 1945 in the wake of the We are pooling our collective resources across the terrible destruction wrought by World War II. CARE membership to make significant impacts on At that time, we sent millions of CARE packages people’s lives, the communities where they live and to Europe to help the survivors overcome hunger the policies that affect them. and destitution. Today, we work in 84 countries. In the fiscal year of 2011, we welcomed CARE India We respond to humanitarian emergencies as well as a new Affiliate Member of CARE and we welcome as focus on longer-term social and economic CARE Peru as an Affiliate Member this year, further development. We advocate for policy change to strengthening our global diversity and capacity. improve the lives of the poor and marginalized. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all I hope you enjoy reading this annual report and of our partners, donors, stakeholders and staff. that you are as inspired as I am by the spirit, The exciting work described in the pages of energy and commitment of the people and this annual report would not have been possible communities we are working with around the without your generous support! world in the fight against poverty and injustice. Mag. Ralph Martens, Dr. Robert Glasser, CARE International Chairperson CARE International Secretary General 04 CARE International Annual Report 2011 Where We Made a Difference In fiscal year 2011, CARE worked in 84 countries around the world, implementing long-term programs to fight poverty, responding to humanitarian emergencies, and advocating for policy change to improve the lives of the poorest people. We supported 1,015 poverty-fighting projects to reach more than 122 million people. Below is a breakdown of the countries where we worked in the fiscal year of 2011 (July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2011). 72 79 Countries with CARE 73 78 programming in FY11: 80 83 75-76 84 70 1. Afghanistan 35. Liberia 74 51 82 23 2. Angola 36. Macedonia 16 8 53 81 40 3. Armenia¥ 37. Madagascar 32 36 3 4 4. Azerbaijan¥ 38. Malawi 1 5. Bangladesh 39. Mali 41 66 77 ¥ 30 47 44 6. Benin 40. Montenegro 20 7. Bolivia 41. Morocco 28 26 43 65 5 8. Bosnia and Herzegovina 42. Mozambique 17 33 27 39 46 9. Brazil 43. Myanmar 13 60 50 58 67 10. Burundi 44. Nepal 25 45 11 CARE International 21 6 11. Cambodia 45. Nicaragua 22 15 24 Members: 54 12. Cameroon 46. Niger 62 12 57 70. Austria 35 55 13. Chad 47. Pakistan 63 31 71. Australia 19 29 ¥ 52 14. Chile 48. Papua New Guinea 72. Canada 18 10 48 15. Côte d’Ivoire 49. Peru** 59 73. Denmark 49 61 16. Croatia 50. Philippines§ 9 74. France 2 ¥ 38 17. Cuba 51. Romania 75-76. Germany-Luxembourg◊ 68 42 64 18. Democratic Republic 52. Rwanda 7 77. Japan 69 37 of Congo 53. Serbia 78. Netherlands 71 19. Ecuador 54. Sierra Leone 79. Norway 34 20. Egypt 55. Somalia -- Thailand*** 56 21. El Salvador 56. South Africa 80. United Kingdom 14 22. Ethiopia 57. Sri Lanka 81. United States 23. Georgia 58. Sudan 24. Ghana 59. Tanzania CARE International 25. Guatemala 60. Thailand*** Affiliate Members: 26. Haiti 61. Timor Leste -- India* 27. Honduras 62. Togo 28. India* 63. Uganda CARE International Secretariat: 29. Indonesia 64. Vanuatu 82. Geneva, Switzerland 30. Jordan 65. Vietnam 83. Brussels, Belgium 31. Kenya 66. West Bank & Gaza -- New York, United States 32. Kosovo 67. Yemen 33. Laos 68. Zambia Sub-offices: 34. Lesotho 69. Zimbabwe 84. Czech Republic (of CARE Austria) East & Latin America Middle East 05 Central Africa & Caribbean & Europe Participants: 9,467,433 Participants: 8,869,822 Participants: 914,133 Projects: 199 Projects: 196 Projects: 66 Asia Southern Africa West Africa Participants: 80,782,313 Participants: 7,989,450 Participants: 14,135,508 Projects: 329 Projects: 116 Projects: 109 (As at June 30 2011) 72 79 73 78 80 83 75-76 84 70 74 51 82 23 16 8 53 81 40 32 36 3 4 1 41 66 77 30 47 44 20 28 26 43 65 5 17 33 27 39 46 13 60 50 58 67 25 45 11 21 6 22 15 24 54 62 12 57 35 55 63 31 19 29 18 52 10 48 59 49 61 9 2 38 68 42 64 7 69 37 71 34 56 14 • CARE International Member ¥ Limited presence. • Countries with CARE programming in FY11 * CARE India is an Affiliate Member of CARE International and a country with ongoing programs. • Countries where CARE has limited presence ** CARE Peru is in the process of becoming an Affiliate Member of • CARE International Affiliate Member CARE International. • Countries where CARE works through a *** CARE Thailand is both a Member of CARE International and strategic partnership a country with ongoing programs. § CARE works through a strategic partnership. • CARE International Secretariat ◊ CARE Germany-Luxembourg has offices in both Germany and Luxembourg. (Geneva, Brussels, New York) 06 CARE International Annual Report 2011 How We Made a Difference: CARE’s Highlights of 2011 Our advocacy work at international What our Country Offices did summits and conferences In 2011 we had some important birthdays to CARE speaks on behalf of poor people, who are not celebrate: CARE Afghanistan and CARE Sierra able to influence high-level meetings and political Leone each celebrated their 50th anniversary, summits where issues that affect their future are showing a long and strong legacy of development negotiated and decided on. Through joint engagement and emergency assistance in both countries. of Members and Country Offices, CARE advocated for improvements on maternal health, poverty and hunger, The CARE Member family is growing: CARE India gender equality and climate change at the United became our first Affiliate Member and CARE Peru Nations Millenium Development Goals Summit in will become an Affiliate Member in 2012. Both will New York City in September 2010 and its preparatory further strengthen the global diversity in CARE’s process. CARE brought expert input and learning, and governance – and give our confederation a true was a leading contributor to the development of the southern voice. United Nations Secretary General’s Global Strategy for CARE Cambodia’s model of bilingual education has Women’s and Children’s Health. At the United Nations gained so much recognition for its effectiveness Climate Change Conference in Mexico in December in engaging and retaining indigenous children in 2010, CARE advocated for a fair, ambitious and binding school, especially girls, that the Cambodian Ministry climate agreement and called on all negotiation of Education, Youth and Sport is now replicating parties to place poor people at the centre of their it in 33 schools across five provinces in north- efforts to tackle climate change.