Ethiopia – WE-Care

Unlocking sustainable development in Africa by addressing unpaid care and domestic work

February 3, 2020

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.

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care: Phase II Interim Report

September 12, 2017

This report examines the second phase of Oxfam’s Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (We-Care) programme. The first phase focused on building evidence for influencing policy change on women’s heavy and unequal unpaid care work in six countries.

Factors and norms influencing unpaid care work: Household survey evidence from five rural communities in Colombia, Ethiopia, the Philippines, Uganda, and Zimbabwe

November 15, 2016

In order to address ‘heavy’ and ‘unequal’ care work and to raise the profile of care as a cross-cutting development issue, Oxfam and its partners implemented a baseline Household Care Survey (HCS) in five countries in which the WE-Care project was active.