This Pre-Summit offers a platform for WROs to lend their voices and advocate for gender equality, influence policymaking, encourage research and innovation, and foster partnerships that promotes gender development at regional level.
On its first face-to-face meeting on 5 to 9 February 2024, the WE-Care Program Management Unit (PMU), together with key representatives from Oxfam affiliates and the Oxfam in Africa leadership, met in Bangkok, Thailand.
In 2024, WE-Care launched a campaign titled #LoveTheWayYouCare throughout February to highlight stories of care, love, and appreciation within households and shared spaces.
During the last quarter of 2023, the WE-Care PMU conducted a series of monitoring support visits following the launch of WE-Care Phase V.
In a significant move, Kitui’s caregivers presented a powerful draft memorandum to Kitui Governor, Dr. Julius Malombe, emphasizing the challenges they face and the need for government support.
The Ruiru Market Child-Care Centre is poised to provide much-needed support to women working in the informal sector, offering them the flexibility to pursue their livelihoods while ensuring their children receive care.
This poignant initiative underscored the importance of extending care to women and girls, acknowledging their unique needs and nurturing their growth and well-being.
Women in Africa’s agri-food systems face worse conditions than their male counterparts; with their livelihoods characterized as informal, irregular, and labour-intensive.
The WE-Care Program’s three-day workshop took place from August 28 to 30, 2023, at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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.
