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CARE's International Program principles encourge the use of a rights based approach
within all programming. These principles form the essential base on which all programms
are developed and implemented.
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Principle1: Promote Empowerment
We stand in solidarity with poor and marginalized people, and support their efforts
to take control of their own lives and realize their rights, responsibilities and
aspirations. We ensure that those people who are affected are involved in the design,
implementation, monitoring and evaluation of our work.
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Principle2: Work in partnership with others
We work with others to maximize the impact of our work, building alliances and partnerships
with those who take similar or complementary approaches, are able to work on a larger
scale, and/or who have responsibility to fulfill rights and alleviate poverty through
policy change and enforcement.
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Principle3: Ensure accountability and promote responsibility
We seek to be held accountable to poor and marginalized people whose rights are
denied. We identify those with an obligation toward poor and marginalized people,
and support and encourage their efforts to fulfill their responsibilities.
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Principle4: Address discrimination
In our programmes and offices we oppose discrimination and the denial of rights
based on sex, race, nationality, ethnicity, class, religion, age, physical ability,
caste, opinion or sexual orientation.
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Principle5: Promote the non-violent resolution of conflicts
We promote just and non-violent means for preventing and resolving conflicts, noting
that such conflicts contribute to poverty and the denial of rights.
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Principle6: Seek sustainable results
Working to identify and address underlying causes of poverty and rights denial,
we develop and use approaches that ensure our work results in lasting and fundamental
improvements in the lives of the poor and marginalized with whom we work.
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We hold ourselves accountable for being consistent with these principles, and ask
others to help us do so, not only in our programming, but in all that we do.
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