An advocacy tool for the MenCare campaign, the report provides recommendations for policy and programmatic action. It targets governments, employers, and individuals around the world to promote involved fatherhood and caregiving.
Women’s heavy and unequal responsibility for paid and unpaid care is increasingly recognized as a key barrier to their social, political and economic empowerment and broader objectives like sustainable development and inclusive growth. During what many call a “moment” for the global care agenda, some governments and donors have announced significant new commitments and investments […]
Care work, both unpaid and underpaid, is mostly carried out by women, and still remains largely invisible in policies and projects across many organizations. The principles outlined in this guide aim to influence institutional policies towards recognizing, planning, adopting and monitoring strategies that reduce and redistribute care work.
Through its work on the Fiscal Accountability for Inequality Reduction (FAIR) programme, Oxfam in Kenya aims to influence decision makers to take action on progressive taxation and budgeting processes. It aims to equip citizens and civil society organizations with the knowledge and skills to feed into public finance management processes, including monitoring of spending and […]
Learn about how Oxfam defines define key terms like fiscal justice, unpaid, paid and underpaid care work and what a care economy could look like as well as sharing new, cutting edge research on care. This webinar features country insights from Bolivia, The Philippines, South Africa and the Pan-Africa Programme.
Across Africa, ambitions to achieve inclusive and sustainable development are being undermined by inadequate investment in the care economy. Women and girls are providing millions of hours of unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW) – a provision which props up the economy and underpins society, yet remains under-recognized, undervalued and under-invested in. While inattention to […]
In the last couple of decades of analyses on women’s lives, the myth of complementarity and equalitybetween the sexes in the private sphere has been busted. On the ground, changes in traditional roles ofmen and women and the power hierarchy they breed are slow and often contested. This is so because social norms—a common understanding […]
This guide aims to capture valuable experiences and learning on influencing activities on unpaid care and domestic work from across the WE-Care programme and several other relevant Oxfam country experiences, and to communicate it in an accessible, practical format that maximizes use for internal and external audiences. The guidelines provide new and useful guidance to […]
Investments which support households to better meet their unpaid care responsibilities – such as childcare, food preparation and laundry – can yield substantial returns in terms of macro-economic growth, job creation and other key government priorities. This briefing looks at selected evidence and examples and argues that governments should:
People contribute to the economy through their work in many different ways. Women and men contribute to the productive economy by producing goods and services that people use every day. It is this work that is counted and measured by governments. Yet the work of social reproduction ‘ which refers to the activities needed to […]
