CARE Bangladesh's Partnership Approach

Working with partners is one of the programming principles of CARE that intends to adopt effective programming approaches to maximize greater impact of our programs. Our approach to programming is to go into deeper of local issues, capacity development of communities and local institutions. To maximise our program impact, we forge longer-term partnerships with other relevant actors those who offer complementary approaches and are able to effectively contribute in our programming to address the underlying causes of poverty and marginalization.

We partner with local NGOs, public and private sectors and technical service providing institutions to help spread the benefits of our development interventions more widely. Our partnership focuses on developing mutual organization-to-organization beneficial relationships towards achieving common goal and common vision. A commitment towards this process is to develop a operating model that enable us to better serve the interests of our impact groups and the shareholders over the longer term period. Taking into consideration of CARE’s core values (respect, integrity, commitment to services, excellence and diversity) and to ensure accountability to the people we serve, we take joint decisions, divide tasks and responsibility with partners based on each others’ comparative advantages and share potential risks equally. We engage in learning and reflection with partners to capitalize each others’ strengths and opportunities as well as engage in mutual capacity development.

Partnership with private sector is one our strategic choices that broadly focuses on creating win-win situation through which the private sector can make potential contribution to poverty reduction. Our engagement with private sector is to improve the life and livelihoods of the poor and marginalized by creating income and employment, access to products and services and access to market. On the other hand, the private sector also finds business opportunities for investment and innovations. CARE has forged partnerships with numbers of private sector such as BATA, Unilever, Square, GAP Inc, ACI, Walmart, etc.