Why Promote Gender Equity and Diversity?
Our success in advancing quality programming depends on our ability to harness and apply the talents of our staff within an environment of respect, trust, and value for the contribution of all. Understanding and appreciating GED internally is a process to create these conditions. Our business rationale for GED is as follows: • In order to enhance and advance our relief and development work, we need a variety of perspectives to inform relevant and responsible choices about how programs are designed, and how projects are managed and implemented; • To increase capacity within the communities in which CARE works, we need to build collaborative relationships and partnerships amongst people with a multiplicity of similarities and differences; • CARE’s mission calls for affirming the dignity and worth of all people. This includes, but is not limited to, combating discrimination in all its forms; • CARE’s successful future is dependent upon our ability to learn and innovate. Our differences in
