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Hacia un enfoque integrador de la sostenibilidad: Explorando sinergias entre género y medio ambiente (Español)
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2013Occidente atraviesa por una dDocumentThe hidden crisis: women, social reproduction and the political economy of care in Africa
Pambazuka, 2013The concept of social reproduction, the process by which individuals, families, and society itself continue to function, provides the framework for this article featured in Pambazuka News, a pan-African publishing platform.DocumentGender patterns and value of unpaid work: findings from China's first large-scale time use survey
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 2012In 2008, the first large-scale time-use survey (TUS) was carried out across China. This paper, produced by the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, analyses the TUS data collected, describing the gender patterns across three different types of activity: paid work, unpaid work, and non-work activity.DocumentMeasuring unpaid care work with public policy in mind
UN Women, 2013Prepared for a UN Women expert group meeting on structural and policy constraints in achieving the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls, this paper by Valeria Esquivel concerns measuring unpaid care work with public policies in mind.DocumentCaring for wellbeing
Institute of Development Studies, Sussex [ES], 2011Commissioned by the Bellagio Initiative as part of their Future of Philanthropy and Development in the Pursuit of Human Wellbeing series, this paper by IDS fellows Marzia Fontana and Rosalind Eyben presents an alternative to the development field’s traditional emphasis on economic growth over human wellbeing, and its ignorance of care as a public good that sustains and reproduces society andDocumentThe hegemony cracked: the power guide to getting care onto the development agenda.
Institute of Development Studies, Sussex [ES], 2012Numerous factors have played their part in keeping care of the development agenda: silence from government allows them to pass on the costs to families and communities rather than financing care as a public good; self-interest and peer-group dynamics have contributed to development practitioners avoiding the issue; and those most affected - the caregivers themselves - are often those who are mostDocumentSeen, heard and counted: rethinking care in a development context
Development and Change Journal, 2012This is a diverse collection of contributions covering various aspects of care from around the world, from Chinese women’s burdens under economic reform, to the political and social organisation of childcare in Argentina.DocumentValuing and compensating caregivers for their contributions to community health and development in the context of HIV and AIDS: an agenda for action
Huairou Commission, 2010This paper concerns the valuation and compensation of caregivers for their ongoing contribution to community health and development in the context of HIV and AIDS.DocumentMeasuring the economic and social value of domestic work
International Labour Organization, 2011It is generally accepted within law and practice on domestic work that it is undervalued, underpaid, unprotected, and poorly regulated.This policy brief represents a summary of a subsequently published working paper on this theme, and addresses two key questions: What is the real value of domestic work? And how can this value be measured?DocumentHome-Based Care Alliance policy brief: debunking myths
Home-Based Care Alliance, 2013The Home-Based Care Alliance (HBCA) represents more than 30,000 caregivers organised into multi-district HBCAs in twelve African countries, caring for over 200,000 neighbours and friends, and with a history of organising around HIV/AIDS and its effects.Pages