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Gender equality

Gender equality is CARE Zimbabwe's central organizing principle.

A woman stands with her hands on her hips. She smiles directly at the camera with a confident, happy grin.

We cannot achieve women’s economic justice, climate justice, health equity, the right to food, water, and nutrition, or equal access to humanitarian assistance without addressing gender inequality.

What is CARE International doing to improve gender equality?

By 2030, CARE International seeks to support 50 million people to experience greater gender equality in their lives.

CARE International’s gender equality work focuses on improving the rights of women, adolescent girls, and marginalized groups in three sub-programs:

  • Eliminating gender-based violence
  • Increasing women’s and girls’ voice and leadership
  • Equal access to quality education

CARE International has implemented a broad range of education interventions mainly contributing to the four broader Education Sector Strategic Program (ESSP) domains namely Access, Quality, Equity and Inclusivity. The interventions are also mainly aligned to the software components of the ESSP strategic priority areas focusing on curriculum enhancement, learner safeguarding and support and teacher capacity development. To date CIZ has capacitated more than 300 guiding and counselling teachers responsible for gender responsive and disability inclusive approaches to delivery. Our approaches also remain focused on keeping adolescents, particularly girls, in school for a brighter future.