The next 5-year phase of WE-Care builds on past successes to broaden its scope. It will now advocate for not only unpaid care workers but also those in vulnerable, underpaid roles such as cleaners, childcare workers, and community health workers. The program aims to secure fair wages and improved working conditions for these essential workers.

With continued support from the Hewlett Foundation, the programme now has a regional African focus with work being carried out in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, and Zimbabwe – countries where WE-Care has laid solid foundations over the years, working with strong civil society partners and where we believe there are concrete opportunities to bring about change for women and girls. In this fundable concept, the program explores the possibility to expand to West Africa, i.e., Niger, Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal.

The programme has been designed in close consultation with seven local partners and centres the voices of women and girls, ensuring that the approach is localised, contextually relevant and aligned with other initiatives. Partners lead on direct work with communities, while Oxfam takes the role of influential ally, working with our partners to gather evidence-based data, share learning, tools and techniques, as well as, building partner capacities. This plays to our strengths as a global and regional convenor and facilitator to leverage influence and decision-making on this issue, as well as, embeds sustainability into our model to ensure that partners continue to lead on this issue, in the long-term, without Oxfam.

For questions, reach out to Charity Namara at charity.namara@oxfam.org.

Read the concept note here.