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Journal article

What is a transformative approach to care, and why do we need it?

10/11/2014

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

What is a transformative approach to care, and why do we need it?

Keywords

Overview

The meanings of care are contested – the approaches to care in the development and feminist literature have varied greatly. At the same time, care is a common word, loaded with moral meanings concerning notions of duty and love, and care is commonly associated with women. These associations are not innocent; they have concrete effects in shaping different policy […]

Briefing note

Why We Care: An overview of the distribution of unpaid care work in Ma’an, southern Jordan

29/06/2021

1 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The concept of unpaid care work is not widely known in Ma’an or other parts of Jordan. As a result, the benefits of unpaid care to individuals’ lives, as well as its negative impact on women who bear a disproportionate share of it at the household level, are overlooked by both local communities and policy […]

Research report

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care: Evidence for influencing

20/07/2015

1 documents

116 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Development actors increasingly identify care responsibilities as a factor restricting women’s empowerment outcomes, yet there is limited evidence on determinants of long hours or gender inequality in care work. To gain a clearer understanding of care work and pathways of change to promote more equitable care provision, Oxfam conducted a Household Care Survey in communities […]

Research report

Caring in a changing climate: Centering care work in climate action

23/02/2022

1 documents

129 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The global care crisis is being exacerbated by the global climate emergency, with interlocking impacts that threaten lives and livelihoods in all parts of the world. These impacts are particularly severe among rural livelihoods in low-income countries. Climate change intensifies the work involved in caring for people, animals, plants, and places. It reduces the availability […]

Briefing paper

Who Cares? How best to protect UK care workers employed through agencies and gangmasters from exploitation

02/12/2009

1 documents

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

More than a million people work in the UK social care sector; residential care homes, or providing care to people in their own homes. Care workers, particularly those employed through agencies and gangmasters, are extremely vulnerable to exploitation in this low-paid, low-status sector – and migrant workers are often the most vulnerable. In this paper, […]

Research report

The World Bank in Asia: An assessment of COVID-19-related investments through a care lens. Care-responsive investments and development finance

06/12/2021

1 documents

143 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

International financial institutions (IFIs) have been playing a vital role in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and will play an equally important role in the recovery and ‘build back anew’ agenda. This is particularly true of the World Bank Group (WBG), given its high volumes of committed investments across sectors, especially in low-income and […]

Briefing paper

Care Policy Scorecard: A tool for assessing country progress towards an enabling policy environment on care

20/09/2021

6 documents

90 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Care work needs to be recognized, shared and invested in now more than ever given that progress on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 – Achieve Gender Equality – is behind target and COVID-19 has created additional challenges with increases in care work, poverty and precariousness that could reverse gains made in gender equality and poverty […]

Journal article

Crisis, care and childhood: the impact of economic crisis on care work in poor households in the developing world

01/07/2010

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Crisis, care and childhood: the impact of economic crisis on care work in poor households in the developing world

Keywords

Overview

Caring for children and other dependents is crucial to human well-being, and to social and economic development. Yet, most national and international policymakers appear persistently blind to this fact, as has been highlighted by the recent global economic crisis. They need to recognise and value care work if they are to support vulnerable families from […]

Case study

Integrated Prevention and Care: Including men in care

06/06/2005

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Centre for Positive Care (CPC) was founded in 1993, working with the communities of the Vhembe district in Limpopo Province of South Africa, providing information on STIs, HIV and AIDS, and teaching about safer sex and distributing condoms. Some critical factors led to the expansion of CPC: the rapid rise in the number of people […]

Journal article

The role of care and the local economy in women’s labour force participation: evidence from Mexico and Colombia in the pandemic era

31/08/2022

31 pages long

Free access through journal website

The role of care and the local economy in women’s labour force participation: evidence from Mexico and Colombia in the pandemic era

Keywords

Overview

Women face disproportionate care burdens on their time because of traditional gender roles, lack of public policies supporting them and the lack of government services for satisfying society's care needs. This unequal distribution of care responsibilities reduces their opportunities to fully participate in labour markets. We argue that all else equal, women's physical proximity to […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

What is a transformative approach to care, and why do we need it?

10/11/2014

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

What is a transformative approach to care, and why do we need it?

Keywords

Overview

The meanings of care are contested – the approaches to care in the development and feminist literature have varied greatly. At the same time, care is a common word, loaded with moral meanings concerning notions of duty and love, and care is commonly associated with women. These associations are not innocent; they have concrete effects in shaping different policy […]

Briefing note

Why We Care: An overview of the distribution of unpaid care work in Ma’an, southern Jordan

29/06/2021

1 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The concept of unpaid care work is not widely known in Ma’an or other parts of Jordan. As a result, the benefits of unpaid care to individuals’ lives, as well as its negative impact on women who bear a disproportionate share of it at the household level, are overlooked by both local communities and policy […]

Research report

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care: Evidence for influencing

20/07/2015

1 documents

116 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Development actors increasingly identify care responsibilities as a factor restricting women’s empowerment outcomes, yet there is limited evidence on determinants of long hours or gender inequality in care work. To gain a clearer understanding of care work and pathways of change to promote more equitable care provision, Oxfam conducted a Household Care Survey in communities […]

Research report

Caring in a changing climate: Centering care work in climate action

23/02/2022

1 documents

129 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The global care crisis is being exacerbated by the global climate emergency, with interlocking impacts that threaten lives and livelihoods in all parts of the world. These impacts are particularly severe among rural livelihoods in low-income countries. Climate change intensifies the work involved in caring for people, animals, plants, and places. It reduces the availability […]

Briefing paper

Who Cares? How best to protect UK care workers employed through agencies and gangmasters from exploitation

02/12/2009

1 documents

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

More than a million people work in the UK social care sector; residential care homes, or providing care to people in their own homes. Care workers, particularly those employed through agencies and gangmasters, are extremely vulnerable to exploitation in this low-paid, low-status sector – and migrant workers are often the most vulnerable. In this paper, […]

Research report

The World Bank in Asia: An assessment of COVID-19-related investments through a care lens. Care-responsive investments and development finance

06/12/2021

1 documents

143 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

International financial institutions (IFIs) have been playing a vital role in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and will play an equally important role in the recovery and ‘build back anew’ agenda. This is particularly true of the World Bank Group (WBG), given its high volumes of committed investments across sectors, especially in low-income and […]

Briefing paper

Care Policy Scorecard: A tool for assessing country progress towards an enabling policy environment on care

20/09/2021

6 documents

90 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Care work needs to be recognized, shared and invested in now more than ever given that progress on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 – Achieve Gender Equality – is behind target and COVID-19 has created additional challenges with increases in care work, poverty and precariousness that could reverse gains made in gender equality and poverty […]

Journal article

Crisis, care and childhood: the impact of economic crisis on care work in poor households in the developing world

01/07/2010

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Crisis, care and childhood: the impact of economic crisis on care work in poor households in the developing world

Keywords

Overview

Caring for children and other dependents is crucial to human well-being, and to social and economic development. Yet, most national and international policymakers appear persistently blind to this fact, as has been highlighted by the recent global economic crisis. They need to recognise and value care work if they are to support vulnerable families from […]

Case study

Integrated Prevention and Care: Including men in care

06/06/2005

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Centre for Positive Care (CPC) was founded in 1993, working with the communities of the Vhembe district in Limpopo Province of South Africa, providing information on STIs, HIV and AIDS, and teaching about safer sex and distributing condoms. Some critical factors led to the expansion of CPC: the rapid rise in the number of people […]

Journal article

The role of care and the local economy in women’s labour force participation: evidence from Mexico and Colombia in the pandemic era

31/08/2022

31 pages long

Free access through journal website

The role of care and the local economy in women’s labour force participation: evidence from Mexico and Colombia in the pandemic era

Keywords

Overview

Women face disproportionate care burdens on their time because of traditional gender roles, lack of public policies supporting them and the lack of government services for satisfying society's care needs. This unequal distribution of care responsibilities reduces their opportunities to fully participate in labour markets. We argue that all else equal, women's physical proximity to […]

Showing 439 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

What is a transformative approach to care, and why do we need it?

10/11/2014

16 pages long

Free access through journal website

What is a transformative approach to care, and why do we need it?

Keywords

Overview

The meanings of care are contested – the approaches to care in the development and feminist literature have varied greatly. At the same time, care is a common word, loaded with moral meanings concerning notions of duty and love, and care is commonly associated with women. These associations are not innocent; they have concrete effects in shaping different policy […]

Briefing note

Why We Care: An overview of the distribution of unpaid care work in Ma’an, southern Jordan

29/06/2021

1 documents

19 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The concept of unpaid care work is not widely known in Ma’an or other parts of Jordan. As a result, the benefits of unpaid care to individuals’ lives, as well as its negative impact on women who bear a disproportionate share of it at the household level, are overlooked by both local communities and policy […]

Research report

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care: Evidence for influencing

20/07/2015

1 documents

116 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Development actors increasingly identify care responsibilities as a factor restricting women’s empowerment outcomes, yet there is limited evidence on determinants of long hours or gender inequality in care work. To gain a clearer understanding of care work and pathways of change to promote more equitable care provision, Oxfam conducted a Household Care Survey in communities […]

Research report

Caring in a changing climate: Centering care work in climate action

23/02/2022

1 documents

129 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

The global care crisis is being exacerbated by the global climate emergency, with interlocking impacts that threaten lives and livelihoods in all parts of the world. These impacts are particularly severe among rural livelihoods in low-income countries. Climate change intensifies the work involved in caring for people, animals, plants, and places. It reduces the availability […]

Briefing paper

Who Cares? How best to protect UK care workers employed through agencies and gangmasters from exploitation

02/12/2009

1 documents

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

More than a million people work in the UK social care sector; residential care homes, or providing care to people in their own homes. Care workers, particularly those employed through agencies and gangmasters, are extremely vulnerable to exploitation in this low-paid, low-status sector – and migrant workers are often the most vulnerable. In this paper, […]

Research report

The World Bank in Asia: An assessment of COVID-19-related investments through a care lens. Care-responsive investments and development finance

06/12/2021

1 documents

143 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

International financial institutions (IFIs) have been playing a vital role in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and will play an equally important role in the recovery and ‘build back anew’ agenda. This is particularly true of the World Bank Group (WBG), given its high volumes of committed investments across sectors, especially in low-income and […]

Briefing paper

Care Policy Scorecard: A tool for assessing country progress towards an enabling policy environment on care

20/09/2021

6 documents

90 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Overview

Care work needs to be recognized, shared and invested in now more than ever given that progress on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 – Achieve Gender Equality – is behind target and COVID-19 has created additional challenges with increases in care work, poverty and precariousness that could reverse gains made in gender equality and poverty […]

Journal article

Crisis, care and childhood: the impact of economic crisis on care work in poor households in the developing world

01/07/2010

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Crisis, care and childhood: the impact of economic crisis on care work in poor households in the developing world

Keywords

Overview

Caring for children and other dependents is crucial to human well-being, and to social and economic development. Yet, most national and international policymakers appear persistently blind to this fact, as has been highlighted by the recent global economic crisis. They need to recognise and value care work if they are to support vulnerable families from […]

Case study

Integrated Prevention and Care: Including men in care

06/06/2005

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Centre for Positive Care (CPC) was founded in 1993, working with the communities of the Vhembe district in Limpopo Province of South Africa, providing information on STIs, HIV and AIDS, and teaching about safer sex and distributing condoms. Some critical factors led to the expansion of CPC: the rapid rise in the number of people […]

Journal article

The role of care and the local economy in women’s labour force participation: evidence from Mexico and Colombia in the pandemic era

31/08/2022

31 pages long

Free access through journal website

The role of care and the local economy in women’s labour force participation: evidence from Mexico and Colombia in the pandemic era

Keywords

Overview

Women face disproportionate care burdens on their time because of traditional gender roles, lack of public policies supporting them and the lack of government services for satisfying society's care needs. This unequal distribution of care responsibilities reduces their opportunities to fully participate in labour markets. We argue that all else equal, women's physical proximity to […]