CARE InternationalFood & Nutrition Security

Strategy

Food & Nutrition Team Workshop

Atlanta, GA

April 30, 2014

The process of the CI FS strategy

A call to

action

• CARE and Oxfam: Multi-stakeholder forum (Rome, April 2008)• CARE’s Agenda for Action: CARE’s Global Conference

(Johannesburg, November 2008)

Food Security Working Groups

• London, February 2009• Atlanta, February 2010• Consultant to completed the strategy

Towards an

implementation

plan

• 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• Current discussions and organizational processes (CI 2020 Vision, CARE Global,

CI Program Strategy, formation of Food and Security Team)

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 ultra-poverty, 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….

Enhancing environmental sustainability, adaptive capacity and resilience to shock and stress

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

Demonstrating a long-termcommitment to the community Addressing all threecomponents of the Unifying Framework

Leveraging our areas of expertise, informed by ourdeep understanding of community needs

Measuring impact and advocating for policy change

Women’s Empowerment

Good governance

= x x

Resilience

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 governanceTo 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

Transforming Governance

Empowering Women

The intersection of these three things is our value proposition

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 long-term 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 CompositionComposition:

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