Tools: Programmatic Review

Name

Source

Description

Mapping Drivers of Poverty

CARE-ECARMU: Program Design Workshops (D Pinault) Aggregating the findings of situational analysis, this tool maps drivers of poverty across agency/structures/relations along with immediate/intermediate/underlying causes of poverty to prioritize key considerations for program design.

Benefits-Harms Design Tool

CARE Benefits-Harms Handbook (P O'Brien) Helps programmers move from understanding an opportunity or problem to acting on it, as well as identify the constraints to action, both internally (within an organization or project) and externally (in the outside world).

Portfolio Review

CARE-SAA Toolkit Works with a small team to creatively about how to integrate gender and sexuality into current projects and programs.

Gender Continuum

CARE-SAA Toolkit Helps staff analyze their own approaches toward women's empowerment, across agency, structures and relations.

Program Principles Analysis

CARE-SAA Toolkit Helps staff understand the relevance of CARE International’s Programming Principles to their work and measure how our work addresses deeper social and cultural issues.

Design Analysis

CARE-SII (M Picard) Explores the extent to which CARE projects incorporate rights-based approaches – with a focus on women’s empowerment - in design.

Promising Practices Inquiry

CARE-SII (V Vaughn) Examines strategies and interventions, their relationship with broader trends as well as changes around women’s empowerment (agency, structures and relations) to capture key lessons and promising approaches to supporting women’s empowerment.

Gender Areas of Inquiry

CIGN Framework developed by CI Gender Network for gender analysis. For each area listed, analysis teams must consider how agency, structures and relations interact to reinforce or transform gender inequality.

Do No Harm

CDA Collaborative Learning Projects Flexible framework to be used across the project cycle for understanding a) potential conflicts, b) sources of division, cohesion and peace within a community, and c) implications for programming.