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.
Care work, paid, unpaid or underpaid, is a critical social and economic good. There is a need to place it at the core of all policy decisions and investments in development work, as well as across institutions. The Care-Responsiveness Barometer has been developed as a guiding tool for all institutions to plan, measure and improve the care-responsiveness of their work.
This toolkit provides guidance on using Oxfam’s Household Care Survey (HCS) methodology, which was developed by Oxfam as part of the WE-Care initiative to transform the provision of unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW).
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.
The Rapid Care Analysis (RCA) was designed to be a user-friendly assessment tool that development practitioners could learn through distance training sessions. The purpose of the RCA is to assess who in a community carries out unpaid care, so that where care work is heavy and unequal it can be recognized, reduced and redistributed, and so carers can be represented in decision making.
Designed for community facilitators working with illiterate or semi-literate groups, this training curriculum is intended for women and men to understand and challenge the conventional view of the economy by putting care for people and the environment first. It unpacks how power can be challenged at the household, community and state levels to recognize, reduce and redistribute women’s unpaid care work.
Oxfam's 2014–2017 WE-Care initiative addressed the unequal burden of care and housework to improve outcomes for women in their food security, political participation, and other programs. Directly active in ten countries like Colombia and Uganda, aspects of WE-Care were also implemented in Bangladesh and Honduras through Oxfam Canada, GB, and Novib.
