Models & Approaches

At CARE Tanzania, what we do matters but how we do it is what makes the difference

About Us

Over 30 years, we have refined a toolkit of proven, evidence-based approaches that put communities in the driver's seat of their own transformation.

Interactive diagram of CARE Tanzania's ecosystem of change. Five thematic clusters of approaches converge on the central principle of empowering women and girls.

CARE Tanzania ecosystem of change Nine approaches across five clusters connecting to the central principle of empowering women and girls. Economic Empowerment VSLA · FFBS Gender Transformation SAA · Engaging Men & Boys Governance Community Score Card Climate Resilience CVCA · PSP Education & Adolescents SOAR Empowering Women & Girls At the heart of everything we do

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Our Organizing Principle

Empowering Women & Girls

Every CARE Tanzania approach — economic, gender, climate, governance, and education — serves one purpose: to put women, girls, and their communities at the center of their own transformation. After 30 years and 100+ projects across Tanzania, this is not just a value. It is our methodology.

How We Work

CARE Tanzania does not parachute in with prescriptions. We do not deliver one-off services and walk away. We do not impose solutions from the outside.

Instead, we work with proven, participatory, evidence-based approaches that have been refined over decades in Tanzania and across CARE’s global network of more than 110 countries. Our approaches share a common DNA:

  • People-Centered—Communities, especially women and girls, are at the heart of every approach
  • Participatory — Change is co-created, not delivered
  • Evidence-Based—Each model is grounded in research and results
  • Scalable — Designed to be replicated, adapted, and institutionalized
  • Sustainable — Built to outlast any single project

The result?

Programs that don’t just produce reports but also produce lasting change.

CARE Tanzania Approaches

Farmers' Field and Business Schools (FFBS)

It is proven that tis participatory model enhance women's equitable participation in agriculture by getting them the resources, support, and information they need to invest in their farms, business, families and communities

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Participatory Scenario Planning

This approach enable local stakeholders including women and different vulnerable groups to have better access to seasonal climate forecast from meteorological services and local forecasting experts

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Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA)

This has proven to be an effective way to increase women's control over assets and bring women into the realm of financial inclusion and have been proven to accelerate their economic empowerments

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Engaging Men and Boys

CARE work with men and boys as clients, partners, and allies. We seek to involve men and boys as part of the solution to inequality faced by women and girls. We need to address men as allies who benefit from improved women and girls' relations, not only a target group.

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Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (CVCA)

The Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis (CVCA) is a CARE tool used to gather and analyse information on community-level vulnerabilities to and capacities for climate change. It informs the identification of actions, at the community level or more broadly, that support communities in increasing their resilience to climate change.

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Social Analysis and Action tool

CARE’s signature approach to social norm transformation and is a facilitated process through which individuals explore and challenge the social norms, beliefs, and practices that shape their lives and health. Unique and central to SAA is that the process of critical reflection and dialogue begins with CARE staff, encouraging them to reflect on their own biases and beliefs and how they affect their work, and to make them more comfortable discussing sensitive issues with others.

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Community Score Card

This is a governance tool that improves participation, participation, decision making, transparency and accountability

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Strengthening Opportunities for Adolescent Resilience, (SOAR)

Seeks to empower adolescent girls who have never attended school, or who dropped out in early grades, to make positive life choices. CARE’s integrated accelerated education on learning model, is designed to enable out‐of‐school adolescents, particularly girls, to acquire key academic and life skills. After only 11 months, girls who complete the program can transition into formal school or use their new skills for employment.

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Empowering Women and Girls

This Approach is envisioning on the equal value of every human being and the importance of respecting and honoring everyone.

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