care policies – WE-Care

Unseen work, unmet needs: Exploring the intersections of gender, race, and ethnicity in unpaid care labor and paid labor in the US

April 25, 2024

The study seeks to bring visibility to this work and underscore its significance in economic policy. The urgency of the project is highlighted by the recent social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has significantly affected unpaid care work, altering its distribution among men and women as well as across racial and ethnic groups. The paper also brings in the voices of the people who are holding crucial caregiving roles in their communities so readers can hear from individuals directly.

US Care Policy Scorecard: Assessing federal unpaid and underpaid care policies in the US

July 19, 2023

The US Care Policy Scorecard demonstrates that federal UUCW policies are severely lacking, and the needs of caregivers and care workers are not being met by federal policies. It is women of color and immigrant women who are most harmed by the US’s failure to fully support working families, caregivers, and care workers.

The Care Policy Scorecard: A new tool to shift progress towards a caring economy

August 31, 2022

The Scorecard helps care advocates to assess how care-related policies are adopted, budgeted for, and implemented by governments, and to what extent they can transform the social organisation of care. The paper also includes preliminary results from the application of this tool in Kenya, and shares learnings from the use of the findings for national-level care policy advocacy.

Care Policy Scorecard: A tool for assessing country progress towards an enabling policy environment on care

September 20, 2021

The Care Policy Scorecard provides a practical tool to assess and track the extent to which government policies related to care are adopted, budgeted for and implemented, and the extent to which they have a transformative effect on care. It can be used at the national or sub-national level. The Scorecard is intended to be used by civil society, government and academia alike.

Making policy care: A guide to influencing on unpaid care

October 18, 2018

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.