Leading with Care: How Women Around the World are Inspiring Businesses, Empowering Communities, and Creating Opportunity

Moving Forward

Over the years, CARE has sought ways to improve on the Mata Masu Dubara program. Now into its third version, the program has incorporated changes based on past experience. The current program responds directly to the issues raised by the women themselves, including literacy training, rights education, and technical assistance for raising livestock. CARE is happy to add these components to the program because they’ve found that the more responsive and relevant a program is, the greater its success.

Programs like this exist in all seven regions of Niger. In one region, where groups have been able to pool significant resources, CARE is helping to establish links with formal lending institutions. This will allow these groups to ...