Women and Girls Equality and Education - CARE ZIMBABWE
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Women and Girls equality

Women and Girls 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 women and girls inequality.

What is CARE doing to improve gender equality?

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

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

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

CARE 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 CARE Zimbabwe 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.