The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) was commissioned by Oxfam GB, Unilever and the Surf laundry brand to conduct the final evaluation of the Work your Dreams project, which is the largest component of Oxfam’s Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme. In this report, for the sake of simplicity, the project is referred to as the WE-Care project. The final evaluation has two main objectives:

• To provide Oxfam, donors, partners, beneficiaries and stakeholders with information about what changed due to the intervention, through a rigorous assessment with the support of data collected at baseline and during the mid-term evaluation.
• To learn more about selected components of the WE-Care Theory of Change (ToC) in different country contexts (the Philippines and Zimbabwe) by testing different pathways to understand how change happened. The WE-Care project was implemented by Oxfam GB, Oxfam in the Philippines, Oxfam in Zimbabwe, and their partners from October 2016 to September 2019, with a total budget of about €5m. Implementation at country level started in January 2017 and concluded between March and August

The WE-Care project was implemented by Oxfam GB, Oxfam inthe Philippines, Oxfam in Zimbabwe, and their partners from October 2016 to September 2019, with a total budget of about €5m. Implementation at country level started in January 2017 and concluded between March and August 2019 The final evaluation was conducted between March and August 2019, focusing on the work that took place in the
Philippines and in Zimbabwe, and activities and results achieved at global level.

The project aimed to tackle the problem of the unequal distribution of unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW) and heavy, time-consuming tasks that negatively affects women and girls’ overall wellbeing and how they choose to spend their time, which is often dictated by perceptions of gender roles related to care. Its overall objective was to enable women and girls to have more choice over how they spend their time and therefore enable them to engage in social, personal, economic and political activities.