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OUR APPROACH

OUR APPROACHES

OUR APPROACHES

CARE Kenya’s Food and Nutrition Security and Climate change program seeks to empower vulnerable rural communities and enhance their food and nutrition security and resilience and adaptation to climate change through various multi-pronged approaches including food security and economic development, water for multiple uses, disaster risk reduction, community based climate change adaptation and agricultural value chains making the markets work for the poor.

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CARE KENYA PROGRAMS

Food, Nutrition Security and Climate Change

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CARE KENYA PROGRAMS

Women Economic Empowerment

This program provides opportunities for enhancing women’s and girls’ economic capacities and strengthens economic self-reliance by fostering sustainable and affordable access to economic opportunities and rights. Current projects focus on Village Savings and Loaning Associations, Financial Education/Literacy, Rural Sales Agents, and Micro enterprise development, Linkages to formal financial institutions, Market engagement and Poverty Graduation Models.

Projects

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CARE’s health and nutrition program focuses on improving the health system, and working with communities to ensure they adopt behaviours and practices that enhance good health at both individual and community levels. CARE also builds social accountability between communities and health service providers in order to build quality services that are responsive to the needs of communities.

Health and Nutrition

CARE KENYA PROGRAMS

Projects

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CARE KENYA PROGRAMS

Emergency and Humanitarian Assistance

Kenya’s emergency and humanitarian assistance program provides crucial support to communities affected by droughts, floods and other related emergencies in affected counties. Through the Refugee Assistance Program (RAP), under the mandate of UNHCR, CARE works in partnership with other agencies to provide relief and development assistance to refugees within the Dadaab region for over 25 years.

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CARE KENYA PROGRAMS

Water Sanitation and Hygiene

Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) has been and remains CARE’s core business. CARE has contributed enormously to the country’s efforts of improving access to safe water which now stands at 51% nationally, modest sanitation and good hygiene practices. Over the years CARE’s WASH programming approach has evolved from just humanitarian intervention to a major driver and catalyst of improving households’ incomes through food production, livestock keeping and environmental hygiene. Diversified approaches have been used including working directly with communities, institutional based WASH activities targeting public schools and health facilities, as well as through partnerships with other actors.

Projects