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WE-Care Programme

Tackling heavy and unequal unpaid care and domestic work to create lasting change for women and girls

Webpage

Gender Justice & Women’s Rights

If we are to end poverty we must tackle intersecting systems of oppression to realise gender equality and to protect, promote and realise the rights of women

Research report

Infrastructure and Equipment for Unpaid Care Work: Household survey findings from the Philippines, Uganda and Zimbabwe – 2017 Household Care Survey report

26/04/2018

4 documents

92 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Care work is essential for personal wellbeing, a healthy society and a functioning economy. But across the world, it is overwhelmingly done by women, which restricts their opportunities. Policy makers rarely recognize the public responsibility for facilitating unpaid care and domestic work through investments in infrastructure and care services. In 2017, Oxfam’s Women’s Economic Empowerment […]

Research report

Gendered Patterns of Unpaid Care and Domestic Work in the Urban Informal Settlements of Nairobi, Kenya: Findings from a Household Care Survey – 2019

19/11/2019

4 documents

85 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Care work is essential for individuals, society and the economy. However, it is overwhelmingly done by women and girls, which restricts their ability to participate in education, paid work, politics and community life. In low-resource settings, fetching water or preparing food can be particularly burdensome. In 2018–2019, Oxfam's Women's Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme […]

Evaluation report

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) Mid-Term Evaluation Report: Philippines

09/12/2019

1 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Women's Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme aims to confront unpaid care work as a gender equality issue by recognizing, reducing and redistributing care work, and ensuring those who perform unpaid care are represented in policy decisions about it (the '4Rs' framework). This mid-term evaluation of WE-Care programme activities in the Philippines used several […]

Annual report

Making Care Count: An Overview of the Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care Initiative

18/11/2020

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Across the globe, unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW) sustains communities and economies, provides essential care for children, sick and elderly people and those living with disabilities, and keeps households clean and families fed. Without unpaid care, the global economy as we know it would grind to a halt. Yet this work falls disproportionately on […]

Annual report

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) – Oxfam: Phase 1 final report

02/11/2016

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The eradication of poverty and injustice depends on women’s equal enjoyment of their human rights. Oxfam has invested significantly in women’s economic leadership, and affirms that economic empowerment requires parallel progress in women’s political, social and personal empowerment. Women’s control over their own time and labour is increasingly recognized as a precondition for, and component […]

Briefing paper

Time to Care: Unpaid and underpaid care work and the global inequality crisis

20/01/2020

11 documents

64 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Korean, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Economic inequality is out of control. In 2019, the world’s billionaires, only 2,153 people, had more wealth than 4.6 billion people. This great divide is based on a flawed and sexist economic system that values the wealth of the privileged few, mostly men, more than the billions of hours of the most essential work – […]

Research report

Measuring Social Norms on Unpaid Care Work: Insights from Oxfam’s household care surveys

12/10/2021

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper describes the approach to measuring social norms related to unpaid care work in Oxfam’s Household Care Survey (HCS), and discusses benefits and limitations of this approach. The HCS is a quantitative research tool developed through Oxfam’s Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme. It measures adults’ and children’s time spent on unpaid care work […]

Evaluation report

Impact Evaluation of Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-CARE) Oxfam 2014-2023

17/10/2025

1 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care: Evidence for Influencing (WE-Care) program, launched by Oxfam in 2014, set out to confront one of the most persistent and invisible barriers to gender equality: Unpaid Care and Domestic Work (UCDW). Over nearly a decade, the program sought to recognize, reduce, and redistribute the burden of care work that […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

Webpage

WE-Care Programme

Tackling heavy and unequal unpaid care and domestic work to create lasting change for women and girls

Webpage

Gender Justice & Women’s Rights

If we are to end poverty we must tackle intersecting systems of oppression to realise gender equality and to protect, promote and realise the rights of women

Research report

Infrastructure and Equipment for Unpaid Care Work: Household survey findings from the Philippines, Uganda and Zimbabwe – 2017 Household Care Survey report

26/04/2018

4 documents

92 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Care work is essential for personal wellbeing, a healthy society and a functioning economy. But across the world, it is overwhelmingly done by women, which restricts their opportunities. Policy makers rarely recognize the public responsibility for facilitating unpaid care and domestic work through investments in infrastructure and care services. In 2017, Oxfam’s Women’s Economic Empowerment […]

Research report

Gendered Patterns of Unpaid Care and Domestic Work in the Urban Informal Settlements of Nairobi, Kenya: Findings from a Household Care Survey – 2019

19/11/2019

4 documents

85 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Care work is essential for individuals, society and the economy. However, it is overwhelmingly done by women and girls, which restricts their ability to participate in education, paid work, politics and community life. In low-resource settings, fetching water or preparing food can be particularly burdensome. In 2018–2019, Oxfam's Women's Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme […]

Evaluation report

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) Mid-Term Evaluation Report: Philippines

09/12/2019

1 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Women's Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme aims to confront unpaid care work as a gender equality issue by recognizing, reducing and redistributing care work, and ensuring those who perform unpaid care are represented in policy decisions about it (the '4Rs' framework). This mid-term evaluation of WE-Care programme activities in the Philippines used several […]

Annual report

Making Care Count: An Overview of the Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care Initiative

18/11/2020

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Across the globe, unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW) sustains communities and economies, provides essential care for children, sick and elderly people and those living with disabilities, and keeps households clean and families fed. Without unpaid care, the global economy as we know it would grind to a halt. Yet this work falls disproportionately on […]

Annual report

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) – Oxfam: Phase 1 final report

02/11/2016

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The eradication of poverty and injustice depends on women’s equal enjoyment of their human rights. Oxfam has invested significantly in women’s economic leadership, and affirms that economic empowerment requires parallel progress in women’s political, social and personal empowerment. Women’s control over their own time and labour is increasingly recognized as a precondition for, and component […]

Briefing paper

Time to Care: Unpaid and underpaid care work and the global inequality crisis

20/01/2020

11 documents

64 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Korean, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Economic inequality is out of control. In 2019, the world’s billionaires, only 2,153 people, had more wealth than 4.6 billion people. This great divide is based on a flawed and sexist economic system that values the wealth of the privileged few, mostly men, more than the billions of hours of the most essential work – […]

Research report

Measuring Social Norms on Unpaid Care Work: Insights from Oxfam’s household care surveys

12/10/2021

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper describes the approach to measuring social norms related to unpaid care work in Oxfam’s Household Care Survey (HCS), and discusses benefits and limitations of this approach. The HCS is a quantitative research tool developed through Oxfam’s Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme. It measures adults’ and children’s time spent on unpaid care work […]

Evaluation report

Impact Evaluation of Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-CARE) Oxfam 2014-2023

17/10/2025

1 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care: Evidence for Influencing (WE-Care) program, launched by Oxfam in 2014, set out to confront one of the most persistent and invisible barriers to gender equality: Unpaid Care and Domestic Work (UCDW). Over nearly a decade, the program sought to recognize, reduce, and redistribute the burden of care work that […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

Webpage

WE-Care Programme

Tackling heavy and unequal unpaid care and domestic work to create lasting change for women and girls

Webpage

Gender Justice & Women’s Rights

If we are to end poverty we must tackle intersecting systems of oppression to realise gender equality and to protect, promote and realise the rights of women

Research report

Infrastructure and Equipment for Unpaid Care Work: Household survey findings from the Philippines, Uganda and Zimbabwe – 2017 Household Care Survey report

26/04/2018

4 documents

92 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Care work is essential for personal wellbeing, a healthy society and a functioning economy. But across the world, it is overwhelmingly done by women, which restricts their opportunities. Policy makers rarely recognize the public responsibility for facilitating unpaid care and domestic work through investments in infrastructure and care services. In 2017, Oxfam’s Women’s Economic Empowerment […]

Research report

Gendered Patterns of Unpaid Care and Domestic Work in the Urban Informal Settlements of Nairobi, Kenya: Findings from a Household Care Survey – 2019

19/11/2019

4 documents

85 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Care work is essential for individuals, society and the economy. However, it is overwhelmingly done by women and girls, which restricts their ability to participate in education, paid work, politics and community life. In low-resource settings, fetching water or preparing food can be particularly burdensome. In 2018–2019, Oxfam's Women's Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme […]

Evaluation report

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) Mid-Term Evaluation Report: Philippines

09/12/2019

1 documents

42 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Women's Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme aims to confront unpaid care work as a gender equality issue by recognizing, reducing and redistributing care work, and ensuring those who perform unpaid care are represented in policy decisions about it (the '4Rs' framework). This mid-term evaluation of WE-Care programme activities in the Philippines used several […]

Annual report

Making Care Count: An Overview of the Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care Initiative

18/11/2020

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Across the globe, unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW) sustains communities and economies, provides essential care for children, sick and elderly people and those living with disabilities, and keeps households clean and families fed. Without unpaid care, the global economy as we know it would grind to a halt. Yet this work falls disproportionately on […]

Annual report

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) – Oxfam: Phase 1 final report

02/11/2016

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The eradication of poverty and injustice depends on women’s equal enjoyment of their human rights. Oxfam has invested significantly in women’s economic leadership, and affirms that economic empowerment requires parallel progress in women’s political, social and personal empowerment. Women’s control over their own time and labour is increasingly recognized as a precondition for, and component […]

Briefing paper

Time to Care: Unpaid and underpaid care work and the global inequality crisis

20/01/2020

11 documents

64 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Korean, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Economic inequality is out of control. In 2019, the world’s billionaires, only 2,153 people, had more wealth than 4.6 billion people. This great divide is based on a flawed and sexist economic system that values the wealth of the privileged few, mostly men, more than the billions of hours of the most essential work – […]

Research report

Measuring Social Norms on Unpaid Care Work: Insights from Oxfam’s household care surveys

12/10/2021

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This paper describes the approach to measuring social norms related to unpaid care work in Oxfam’s Household Care Survey (HCS), and discusses benefits and limitations of this approach. The HCS is a quantitative research tool developed through Oxfam’s Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme. It measures adults’ and children’s time spent on unpaid care work […]

Evaluation report

Impact Evaluation of Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-CARE) Oxfam 2014-2023

17/10/2025

1 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care: Evidence for Influencing (WE-Care) program, launched by Oxfam in 2014, set out to confront one of the most persistent and invisible barriers to gender equality: Unpaid Care and Domestic Work (UCDW). Over nearly a decade, the program sought to recognize, reduce, and redistribute the burden of care work that […]