Empowering Women and Girls Affected by Crisis

Over the past five years CARE has invested significantly in working on gender in emergencies. Building on and contributing to the Inter-Agency Standing Committee’s (IASC) gender work, the tools, approaches and capacities developed by CARE have strengthened the impact, relevance and effectiveness of its emergency programming. This report demonstrates CARE’s progress on its gender in emergency (GiE) work, and highlights the impact and importance of gender sensitive and equality approaches for ensuring that women and girls are reached and empowered through humanitarian action. Furthermore, the report supports the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit’s call for action and transformation that is central to the theme of ‘Leave no one behind’. CARE shares this report with the humanitarian community with the hope of encouraging greater accountability, commitment and collaboration in making emergency preparedness and responses work for all women, girls, men and boys.