Women’s Economic Empowerment & Resilience

CARE’s Women’s Economic Empowerment & Resilience Programs give women and girls have greater access to and control over economic opportunities and resources, resilient livelihoods, sustainable and inclusive value chains, dignified work and safe migration.

See Below for Our Project Within the Women’s Economic Empowerment & Resilience (WEER) Programme.

Sustainable Production and Ethic Responsible & Women Empowered Coffee Value Chains (SuPER WE Coffee)

The project supports the development of a green, low-carbon, resource-efficient and more circular economy, and contribute to poverty reduction in Lao PDR.

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Green Action through Media, Mass Organization and Civil Society in Laos (GAMCIL)

The project helps to increase knowledge on the complexities associated with green issues and climate change in rural Laos in particular, improve digital literacy to reduce the risk of ‘’fake news, and improve the ability to utilize social media and other new technologies.

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Khoua Food Security Project (KFSP)

Food insecure upland ethnic communities have more secure water supply systems and  increased own food production and incomes from other sources to better meet their food security needs.

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Women Empowerment for Climate Resilience (WECR)

The project helps to enhance the adaptation capacity of smallholder famers, particularly ethnic women in adapting to sustainable climate change through the implementation of the Community Adaptation Action Plan (CAAP).

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Agro-Climate Information for the Adoption of Resilient Farming Practices by Women and Ethnic Minority Farmers in Southern Laos (ACIS III)

The project helps to improve agricultural productivity and diversity, nutrition, food security, the climate change and disaster risk finance in the context of the Insu-resilience; increase climate resilience of women and remote farmers.

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Agro-Climate Information for the Adoption of Resilient Farming Practices by Women and Ethnic Minority Farmers in Northern Laos (ACIS II)

Women and ethnic minority farmers in Dak Cheung and Kaleum districts, Sekong Province are able to better anticipate and respond to risks and opportunities from climate variability through participatory and equitable agro-climatic planning.

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Empowered Women for an Equitable Coffee Value Chain

This project work on women farmers are technically and commercially empowered with the technical knowledge and skills to produce and process quality coffee.

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Multi-Actor Partnership on Climate and Disaster Risk Financing and Preparedness in the Context of the InsuResilience Global Partnership (CDRFI)

The project help to increase expertise and exchange from and on CDRFI issues between various actors in Laos and a sustainable implementation perspective for poverty–oriented and gender–sensitive CDRFI approaches.

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Protection and Choice for Marginalized Urban Women in Vientiane Capital, Champasack and Savannakhet Provinces, Phase III

The project helps to reduce the risks of migration through increasing access to authoritative information and integrated support services for female returned and future women migrants to enhance their financial independence and address GBV, including sexual harassment

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Enhancing Women’s Voice to Stop Sexual Harassment (STOP)

“Enhancing Women’s Voice to Stop Sexual Harassment” project addresses multi-faceted vulnerabilities of marginalised women in urban settings in Laos. It built on previous experience in strengthening legal literacy, community mobilisation and life skills amongst marginalised women, as well as strengthening the motivations and skills of duty bearers to implement protections.

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Strengthening Civil Society Engagement Against Gender-Based Violence

The project help to increase the technical and organizational capacity of Lao civil society organisations to mobilise communities and duty bearers to take action to end violence against margainlised and vulnerable women.

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