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INNOVATIONS IN CARE - CARE ANALYSIS
Linking unequal care
responsibilities to human rights.
Innovations in Care is an Oxfam initiative to make care work more visible and address it as a factor influencing gender equality. Oxfam's goal is to join with others to build solutions to the centuries-old challenge of providing effective care for people while also ensuring women's human rights.
Le Thi Ban with her granddaughter, Viet Nam. Credit: Abbie Trayler Smith/Oxfam
Innovations in Care is an initiative to make care work more visible and address it as a factor influencing gender equality. Our goal is to join with others to build solutions to the centuries-old challenge of providing effective care for people whilst also ensuring women's human rights.
Why is Oxfam interested in care work?
Care is a crucial dimension of well-being. People need care throughout their lives in order to survive and thrive. Care has long been considered to be the natural responsibility of women, as a result of which the costs of providing care fall disproportionately on women. Women's unpaid care work has recently been recognised as a major human rights issue. Women, especially those living in poverty, face heavy and unequal care responsibilities which impede efforts to promote gender equality and women's equal enjoyment of human rights.
Rapid Care Analysis Toolbox
How to implement a Rapid Care Analysis for various contexts and programmes.
The toolkit can be used to assess
context-specific patterns of unpaid household work and care of people. It is
designed to integrate into existing tools on livelihoods, food, security or vulnerability,
it makes visible how care responsibility impacts women's time, health or
mobility, and identifies practical interventions to help ensure that women can
participate fully in and benefit equally from development programmes.
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Background Research
Covering the conceptual issues and debates on care in households and communities.