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Towards gender equality with care-sensitive social protection
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014This policy briefing argues that unpaid care work and social protection are intrinsically linked. Women and girls' uptake of social protection provisions is affected by their unpaid care work responsibilities. Conversely these essential provisions can help alleviate the drudgery and burden that unpaid care work places upon them.DocumentUnpaid care work resource guide
ActionAid International, 2013This resource guide is based on discussions and thinking from the unpaid care work workshop held in Nairobi, Kenya from 21-24 March 2011. The workshop brought together ActionAid staff and partners from Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda and India.DocumentExtreme poverty and human rights: Special Rapporteur report
UN, 2013This report from the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights positions unpaid care work as a major human rights issue.DocumentRapid Care Analysis for development programs: initial findings and methodology
Oxfam, 2013Oxfam has developed a Rapid Care Analysis (RCA) to assess context-specific patterns of unpaid household work and care of people.DocumentCare in households and communities: background paper on conceptual issues
Oxfam, 2013This paper clarifies the main conceptual issues around care as a major issue in promoting women’s human rights, empowerment and overcoming poverty and inequality. It outlines overlapping terms and debates relevant for local programming and research on ‘care in households and communities’.DocumentGender-equitable public investment: how time-use surveys can help
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014This briefing argues that macroeconomic policy often fails to recognise the disproportionate burden of unpaid care work on women, and as a result reinforces both gender and income inequalities.DocumentConnecting unpaid care work and childhood development for gains in women and children’s rights
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014This policy briefing argues that women’s rights and children’s rights directly influence each other, yet there have been few successes at tackling the agendas in a collaborative way, limiting the quality of policy and practice in both areas.DocumentAfrican Women and Girls – Their say on their world post-2015
Agency for Co-operation and Research in Development, 2014The Agency for Cooperation and Research in Development (ACORD), has released a landmark publication that details the voices of African women and girls in the post Millennium Development Goals discussion. African women and girls at the Grassroots – their say on their world post 2015 is a representation of African women’s voices from the grassroots.DocumentEmpowerment of women and girls: unpaid care work in Nigeria
2014This resource is the Nigeria country profile within the Eldis Interactions 'Empowerment of Women and Girls' portal, under the theme of 'unpaid care work'.DocumentTrabajo decente e igualdad de género: Políticas para mejorar el acceso y la calidad del empleo de las mujeres en América Latina y el Caribe (Español)
Centro Interamericano para el Desarrollo del Conocimiento en la Formación Profesional de la Organisación Internacional del Trabajo, 2013A pesar de la masiva incorporación femenina a la fuerza de trabajo en las últimas décadas, persisten las brechas dePages