policymakers – WE-Care

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.

Infrastructure and equipment for unpaid care work: Household survey findings from the Philippines, Uganda, and Zimbabwe

March 26, 2018

In 2017, Oxfam’s Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) initiative conducted a Household Care Survey (HCS), collecting data in the Philippines, Uganda and Zimbabwe, to inform the design of public policies and local development programmes. The study tests which infrastructure, equipment and other factors influence care-work patterns.