Episodes
![Gender Equality in Savings Groups: Women Cannot Do It Alone](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog3370675/RS20021_RWA-2016-RH-008-scr_29wwwh_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
Gender Equality in Savings Groups: Women Cannot Do It Alone
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
Tuesday Jan 04, 2022
Theophile Twahirwa from CARE Rwanda talks about what the team has learned in more than a decade of programming on Women's Economic Empowerment and savings groups. What did they find out? Savings is not enough; economic empowerment is not enough; investing in women is not enough. The team learned that true change comes from investing in equality--working with women, and also with the men in their lives and the systems of power they all face and replicate. Looking over a decade of learning, including the Indashyikirwa project, the team sees transformational change, and talks about where to go next.
![Designing Cash Programming to Reduce Gender Based Violence (English)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog3370675/Livelihood_Money_Dark_Purple_ywd25b_300x300.png)
Monday Dec 20, 2021
Designing Cash Programming to Reduce Gender Based Violence (English)
Monday Dec 20, 2021
Monday Dec 20, 2021
In this English version recorded based on translations from the original Arabic podcasts, Fatima Azzeh from CARE interviews Samar Karamo and Baraa Bobaki from IHSAN Relief and Development, who talk about what they've learned on designing cash programming so it supports and protects women facing gender-based violence. This interview his interview covers why cash is important, how to make sure we don't retraumatize survivors, and the importance of understanding local context and testing our approach. It also shows how important it is to set up safety plans, think about potential harm, and build in holistic services. This podcast is produced in partnership with the Women's Refugee Commission and with support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). CARE and WRC’s programming that integrates CVA into GBV response is also supported by USAID’s Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance.
The original Arabic podcast was in two parts. The English language version covers the same content and is directly translated from the originals. However, it is in only one podcast because the recording time was shorter in English.
![Designing Cash programming to reduce gender based violence: Part 2 (Arabic)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog3370675/Livelihood_Money_Dark_Purple_ywd25b_300x300.png)
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
Designing Cash programming to reduce gender based violence: Part 2 (Arabic)
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
Fatima Azzeh from CARE interviews Samar Karamo and Baraa Bobaki from IHSAN Relief and Development, who talk about what they've learned on designing cash programming so it supports and protects women facing gender-based violence. The second in a 2-part series (check out part one here), this interview covers how important it is to set up safety plans, think about potential harm, and build in holistic services. This podcast is produced in partnership with the Women's Refugee Commission and with support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). CARE and WRC’s programming that integrates CVA into GBV response is also supported by USAID’s Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance.
![Designing Cash to reduce Gender Based Violence (Arabic)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog3370675/Livelihood_Money_Dark_Purple_ywd25b_300x300.png)
Monday Dec 13, 2021
Designing Cash to reduce Gender Based Violence (Arabic)
Monday Dec 13, 2021
Monday Dec 13, 2021
In our first ever Arabic podcast, Fatima Azzeh from CARE interviews Samar Karamo and Baraa Bobaki with IHSAN Relief and Development, who talk about what they've learned on designing cash programming so it supports and protects women facing gender-based violence. The first in a 2-part series, this interview covers why cash is important, how to make sure we don't retraumatize survivors, and the importance of understanding local context and testing our approach. This podcast is produced in partnership with the Women's Refugee Commission and with support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). CARE and WRC’s programming that integrates CVA into GBV response is also supported by USAID’s Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance.
![Get Beyond Your Own Assumptions](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog3370675/Haiti_cash_2019_RS61443_DSC_0819-fb_tmj3xi_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
Get Beyond Your Own Assumptions
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
Holly Radice reflects on 3 years of cash and voucher programming at CARE, where we've grown, and where we need to invest more. Working with cash and vouchers to ensure that we're supporting gender equality and reducing risks of GBV is possible, but it's also a challenge. Here are some places that we need to strengthen: get participants more involved in design, listen to feedback, and understand that you've always got different levels of skills and experience are some of her big recommendations. She also says we need to be patient with ourselves, and always learning more.
![Treat the System, Not the Disease](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog3370675/Tabora_Bloombergay8xq_300x300.png)
Friday Aug 27, 2021
Treat the System, Not the Disease
Friday Aug 27, 2021
Friday Aug 27, 2021
Amani Idfonce from CARE Tanazania talks about how reinforcing the whole health system--especially with community health workers--makes it possible to get an even better COVID response than focusing on the disease alone would have done. How did they manage it? They worked on aligning with existing priorities, thinking about infectious diseases more broadly, and remembered to keep regular services running. Read more about the project here.
![We are not superior: lessons on working authentically with local organizations](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog3370675/RS28326_CARE_TakingFeedback_from_community_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday May 11, 2021
We are not superior: lessons on working authentically with local organizations
Tuesday May 11, 2021
Tuesday May 11, 2021
Mona Sherpa from CARE Nepal reflects on lessons learned in responding to emergencies in true collaboration with local partners. "We are not superior. Learning has to go both ways," she says. It's not just about your plans on paper or your commitment to principles, but also your actions and your systems.
![Breaking Inward: Digital Failures and Who Bears the Risk](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog3370675/oneacrefund_rwanda7zty9_300x300.jpg)
Friday Apr 30, 2021
Breaking Inward: Digital Failures and Who Bears the Risk
Friday Apr 30, 2021
Friday Apr 30, 2021
Zachary Vinyard from the One Acre Fund talks about how digital projects in Rwanda failed because of too many assumptions about what worked for farmers. His team has a new report on Digital Innovations, and how to get better. Key tips? Break inward. Design experiments so if they fail, the organization bears all of the extra risk and extra work, and the farmers you serve don't have to take it on. Also, don't assume just because the code works that it will work for people. The benefits we care about are to farmers, not to functional code.
![Don't Try to Win: Lessons from innovation failures in the humanitarian sector](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog3370675/South_Sudan_emergency6bw5r_300x300.jpg)
Friday Apr 09, 2021
Friday Apr 09, 2021
"Don't try to win for yourself. Try to win for impact." Rahul Chandran talks about what he terms the catastrophic failure of innovation in the humanitarian sector, why importing the Silicone Valley model of innovation and scale doesn't work, and how collective action and anti-racism are the only solutions. "Scale isn't about big" is just one of his provocations to the sector at large.
![Where White Feminism has Failed: Linking women's empowerment with anti-racism](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/3370675/podbean_logo_300x300.png)
Monday Feb 01, 2021
Monday Feb 01, 2021
Allison Burden, CARE International's Head of Programming, reflects on where white feminist traditions have failed at anti-racism, what that means for white feminists to improve their own behavior (hint: listening and humility are two big tips), and what that means for the system of international development where we're working towards equality, human rights, and decolonization.
![Study, analyze, adjust quickly: the Bihar Technical Support Program's concurrent measurement and learning approach](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog3370675/bihar_FHW_with_app_compressedaj7if_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
Dr. Tanmay Mahapatra and Dr. Shridhar Srikantiah from CARE India’s Bihar Technical Support Program explain how they use data to catch failures and make adjustments in real time with their Concurrent Measurement and Learning approach. Learn more at: bihar.care.org
![We are not immune: unlearning white supremacy in international development](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog3370675/CIV_women_photographer_2_at2xz_300x300.jpg)
Monday Dec 07, 2020
We are not immune: unlearning white supremacy in international development
Monday Dec 07, 2020
Monday Dec 07, 2020
"If you are not uncomfortable, you are not having the right conversations." Andres Gomez de la Torre from CARE talks about what we have to do in our work to be actively anti-racist. From the big changes to the small habits, from the individual to the organization, we need to accept that our work is built on a history of colonialism, and we all have to do the work to change our ideas about what it means to support social justice. "It's not just an HR issue. Thinking that is a mistake." We have to make changes across all parts of the organization, and do the work as individuals."
![Fail Again. Fail Better.](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog3370675/MENA_MEALawdxn_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Nov 19, 2020
Fail Again. Fail Better.
Thursday Nov 19, 2020
Thursday Nov 19, 2020
Fiona Cooper talks about her experience leading the research for round two of CARE's Learning From Failure initiative, and…I know this will surprise everyone…we haven’t stopped failures yet. We do have some hopeful signs that we’re failing better. Fiona talks about the importance of looking internally, acknowledging that everyone fails, and finding ways to be honest about failure in a sector that's not really comfortable with it.
![Data in the time of COVID](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog3370675/Clement_SA_002_7fudz_300x300.jpeg)
Thursday Nov 12, 2020
Data in the time of COVID
Thursday Nov 12, 2020
Thursday Nov 12, 2020
Clement Bisai from CARE Malawi talks about what he and his team are learning about how to do better remote data collection. Focus, listen to communities, and reflect regularly are his key takeaways. Don't expect to outsource everything. Digital remote data collection may be the best way to work in COVID-19, but we're already learning how to do it better.
![Dream Big, But Move Methodically](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog3370675/SFTW_egypt_1bj7qt_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Oct 29, 2020
Dream Big, But Move Methodically
Thursday Oct 29, 2020
Thursday Oct 29, 2020
Hazem Fahmy from CARE Egypt talks about the journey from being a country office to becoming an independent member of the CARE family. What are some of his key lessons? First, don't spend all your time planning--test out actions and adapt. Second, learn to listen for what people aren't telling you; trust is critical for organizational change. Third, keep your principles firmly in mind as a north star. It can be easy to lose track of why we're transforming in the excitement of growing a business.