Hiring INTERN, SOCIAL NORMS AND CHILD MARRIAGE, - US - Atlanta, GA
CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in 100 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis. These solutions have a broad range, from disaster response to food and nutrition to education and work for women and girls to healthy mothers and children. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because when they have equal access to resources, they lift their families and communities out of poverty. Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We’ve been doing this for 75 years, since World War II. It started with the world’s first CARE Package® of food for the post-war hungry in Europe. Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us, and Fight with CARE.
Work Location : US - Atlanta, GA Type of Post :
Other Possible Location : US- Washington, DC Funding :
Expected Travel : Not Applicable Type of Contract :
Language Requirement : English Application Deadline :
Employee Duration : Intern-No Pay
CARE is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) with operations in over 100 countries, dedicated to creating local solutions to poverty and inequality. Our mission is to seek dignity for everyone every day, including during times of crisis. Our work spans a broad range of areas, from disaster response and food and nutrition programs to education and empowerment initiatives for women and girls, as well as maternal and child health. With over 75 years of experience, CARE places women and girls at the center of our work, empowering them to lift their families and communities out of poverty. We believe that poverty and inequality are injustices that can be eradicated within a generation, and we are committed to this goal through various innovative and community-driven approaches.
SCOPE OF WORK:
Social norms pathway to impact at scale: CARE’s approach to impact at scale is organized around six pathways to change, including shifting harmful and discriminatory social norms to create lasting positive change for diverse women and girls. The Social Norms and Engaging Men and Boys pathway is a cross-sectoral pathway. CARE USA leads this work through developing and testing approaches, supporting program implementation and strengthening measurement of social norms change.2. Give Girls a Chance (GGaC): As a key programmatic focus linking social norms with other areas critical to girls’ wellbeing and development, CARE works to prevent child marriage. Give Girls a Chance is one of CARE’s strategic bold solutions, investing in proving lean, scalable approaches that address the multiple drivers of child marriage and can be sustained and scaled through government systems.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Validated the social norms program matrix and strengthened the accompanying justifications.
- Drafted briefs summarizing the impacts of social norms programs.
- Revised drafts of the child marriage evidence review.
* Please note this internship is for academic credit or volunteering and not for pay*
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