WE-Care Program Manager Charity Namara interrogates the possibility of decolonized learning in multi-country programs, and cites WE-Care as example in promoting a culture of peer learning and collaboration.
Purity Jebor of Oxfam Kenya writes about her experience growing up in a deeply patriarchal culture at the foot of the Nandi Hills, where certain norms and behaviors were so ingrained in her that she considered them natural.
Oxfam in Africa, in collaboration with WE-Care partners (AWAK and NEWA), actively participated in multiple sessions throughout the event, contributing insights, experiences, and initiatives aimed at fostering transformative action and advocating for the rights of women and marginalized communities.
Women in Africa’s agri-food systems face worse conditions than their male counterparts; with their livelihoods characterized as informal, irregular, and labour-intensive.
There’s been a huge amount of work done by feminist economists and others in addressing care inequalities and envisioning a caring economy – but until now, there’s been no practical tool that tracks and measures government progress. That’s why we, a group of organisations from around the world, have developed the Care Policy Scorecard.
How we frame things matters. From political slogans to hashtags to social justice campaigns, anyone who has tried to compel others into action knows that the words we choose are important. Words can mean the difference between winning and losing an election, having one hundred or one million retweets, or getting legislation passed.
In shifting behaviours around care work, findings from Zimbabwe, Uganda and the Philippines suggest that what matters most is what people think other community members believe, rather than what they think other community members do.
In Kenya, the budget calendar is an annual exercise that counties undertake as part of the development planning process. The budget process has four parts: formulation, approval, implementation, and oversight. It is in the formulation stage where women and men get an opportunity to participate and present their community needs and priorities.
At any rate, women continue to work more, work harder, and work longer hours. The additional hours of care work brought on by this pandemic are taking a toll.
The COVID-19 pandemic is threatening the global development narrative of ‘leaving no one behind.’ This particularly, for the more than 420 million Africans who live below the global poverty line, many of whom are women and girls.
