CARE International Asia Region: Published on 26 Feb 2007

CARE International has a regional group called 'CARE Asia Regional Management Unit' (ARMU). They had an annual meeting during 12- 14 February, 2007 at Chiangmai, Thailand.

CARE International Strategic Plan has three 'Specialised Core Sectors': Shelter, Food/Food Security, WATSAN. There was a concern on Shelter being a Core Sector.

Its interesting to note that the CARE recipient country offices eventually will form separate NGOs. This is a part of 'Nationalisaion' process. Thailand country office was nationalised and renamed as 'Raks Thai'. Similar efforts are in place for Philippines and India.

DRR (Disaster Risk Reduction) and Climate Change is also some of the areas which are being discussed in the Asia Region. This will translate into couple of conferences and meetings in this area.

We are also forming a 'WATSAN Coordinating Group' for our country office. If every thing materializes, we would have an active coordination on WATSAN by the end of this year.