CARE International
Food & Nutrition Security Strategy
Food & Nutrition Team Workshop
Atlanta, GA
April 30, 2014
The process of the CI FS strategy
A call to
action
Food
Security
Working
Groups
• CARE and Oxfam: Multi-stakeholder forum (Rome, April 2008)
• CARE’s Agenda for Action: CARE’s Global Conference
(Johannesburg, November 2008)
• London, February 2009
• Atlanta, February 2010
• Consultant to completed the strategy
• CI POC (Program and Operations Committee) approved strategy, formation of
Steering Committee and development of 18-month implementation plans
• Steering committee develops ToC and initial plan
Towards an • Current discussions and organizational processes (CI 2020 Vision, CARE Global,
implementa
CI Program Strategy, formation of Food and Security Team)
tion plan
Goal of the CI FSS
• CARE, in partnership with stakeholders,
supports the empowerment of poor women
and girls to realize gender equitable and
sustainable food and nutrition security
Impact Group
• Vulnerable women and girls living in ultrapoverty, marginalized from socio-economic
support and opportunity
Theory of Change
CARE supports the
empowerment of
poor women and
girls to realize
gender equitable
and sustainable food
& nutrition security
by….
Demonstrating
a long-term
commitment to the
community
Addressing all three
components of the
Unifying Framework
Leveraging our areas of
expertise, informed by our
deep understanding of
community needs
Measuring impact and
advocating for policy
change
=
Enhancing
environmental
sustainability,
adaptive capacity
and resilience to
shock and stress
Resilience
x
Women realize their
right to food through
increased access to
and control over
resources
Promote pro-poor
and gender
equitable
institutions that
protect and
promote the food
security and
nutrition of poor
women and girls
Women’s
Empowerment
Good governance
x
Logic of the ToC…..
• Domains of change – you cannot
achieve gender equitable and
sustainable food and nutrition
security unless you address the
underlying causes of poverty and
inequality and build just (equitable,
fair) systems for managing
opportunity, risk and uncertainty
Technical pillars for a
comprehensive approach
• Agricultural production and marketing systems
• Livelihood strategies
• Nutrition
• Social protection
• Emergency response
• Right to food linked to governance
To transform the lives of women, girls and their
families by building on their own capabilities and
desires to ensure the availability, access , utilization
and stability of safe, quality nutritious food
An integrated approach – The
technical pillars
• The technical pillars do address the key
components to build livelihoods and protect and
provide food and nutrition security for the most
vulnerable
• The technical pillars do not articulate
fundamentals about CARE’s approaches –
program approach, analysis, advocacy, women’s
empowerment and gender transformation
• Therefore, we will contextualize the CI FNS
strategy with a program framework
CI FNS Strategy Framework (CARE UK)
• Availability
• Access
• Utilization
• Stability
What is Our Value Proposition?
Goal:
CARE International, in partnership with stakeholders,
supports the empowerment of poor women and girls to
realize gender equitable and sustainable food &
nutrition security.
Impact Group: Vulnerable women and girls living in ultra poverty,
marginalized from socio-economic support and
opportunity.
Supporting change that:
• Enhances environmental sustainability, adaptive capacity and
resilience to shock and stresses (Strengthening resilience)
• Enables women realize their right to food and optimal nutrition
through increased access to and control over resources (Empowering
women)
• Promotes pro-poor and gender equitable institutions protecting and
promoting the food security and nutritional status of poor women and
girls (Transforming governance)
Our Value Proposition – a Venn Diagram
Strengthening
Resilience
Empowering
Women
The intersection of these
three things is our value
proposition
Transforming
Governance
Big Questions:
Overarching
• What are the UCVPs in Pathways COs?
Which of these barriers should CARE work
on?
• Why are women and girls hungry? Analysis
of the right to food, inequities and social
justice
• Policy scans etc
Questions ????
• Women’s Empowerment (WE framework)
– Is women’s empowerment fundamental to achieving food
and nutrition security? Why and in what ways?
• Strengthening Resilience (Livelihoods framework)
– What do we mean by resilience, and how to you strengthen
resilience of chronically food insecure women?
• Governance (UK Governance Framework)
– How can more accountable systems for food and livelihoods
justice be built?
Positioning CARE in FNS
• How do we communicate and represent the
strategy across the organization? How do we
engage with teams in CI member offices?
• How is the strategy relevant to developing longterm programs? In what ways can it be
operationalized?
• How do we build our profile and use this to lever
new partnerships?
• How is CARE a good investment for allies,
partners and donors?
CI FNS Strategy
• How can we be effective in supporting
country office portfolios for long term
programs in FNS?(design, implementation,
partnerships, resources and impact
measurement)
• What are current realistic approaches and
activities for FY15 and beyond?
Steering Committee Composition
Composition:
11 members : 5 CI members: USA, Canada, UK, Australia,
Austria
Co-chaired: CARE USA & CARE Canada (CARE UK)
Terms of Reference:
• Guidance and oversight of the strategy
• Develop a program framework
• Guidance to RMU & CO on long-range FNS programs
• Leading the socialization of the strategy
• Identify resource mobilization opportunities
• Create and sustain synergies with CI initiatives
• Monitor and evaluate progress of the strategy
Thank You