Sustainable social change can only be achieved through collective effort of people, organizations and institutions. CARE not only sees alliance building as one of our critical contributions, but we also approach this work from the perspective of the people we serve. CARE’s impact populations are in many cases marginalized or excluded from participating in mainstream or formal civil society structures. Thus, CARE emphasizes engagement with non-traditional civil society partners with less formal structures that genuinely represent our impact populations such as women's rights movements, youth groups, girls’ movements, Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLA), and other networks and alliance of impact populations themselves.