CARE
Founded in 1945, CARE is a humanitarian international organization dedicated to ending poverty and improving the lives of women, girls, and vulnerable populations around the world. As part of the Call to Action, CARE has committed to the creation of a $50 million Center for Gender Equity in Central America focused on women and young people and designed to reach 500,000 individual women and their families, impacting two million people in total. The Center will support public and private programs in the region—scaling up those that work—to support financial inclusion, women’s economic empowerment (including in the protection of labor rights and in supporting entrepreneurship), improved agricultural outcomes, and reductions in gender-based violence. In particular, CARE will support companies joining the Call to Action with technical assistance to ensure that a gender-based lens is applied to new programs and investments.