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Journal article

‘My mother was a kitchen girl’: legal and policy responses to the problem of care for women who provide care in South Africa

31/08/2022

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘My mother was a kitchen girl’: legal and policy responses to the problem of care for women who provide care in South Africa

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Overview

Domestic labour or care work creates the conditions through which other labour can occur, however, the value that this work provides is scarcely recognised when lawmakers consider its remuneration and regulation. This paper investigates legal discrimination against providers of domestic labour in South Africa, especially at home involving women in relationships and domestic workers. This […]

Research report

Care in households and communities: Background paper on conceptual issues

07/10/2013

2 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s initiative ‘Innovations in Care’ aims to support development, humanitarian and advocacy practitioners to work more effectively on care issues. Care is understood as a major issue in promoting women’s human rights, empowerment and overcoming poverty and inequality. This paper clarifies the main conceptual issues, overlapping terms and debates relevant for local programming and research […]

Guidelines and toolkits

The Care-Responsiveness Barometer: A framework to plan, measure and improve the care-responsiveness of policies, investments and institutions

13/09/2021

2 documents

74 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

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 […]

Journal article

The Care Policy Scorecard: a new tool to shift progress towards a caring economy

31/08/2022

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

The Care Policy Scorecard: a new tool to shift progress towards a caring economy

Keywords

Overview

COVID-19 has highlighted the centrality of care and women’s labour (paid and unpaid). While there is a growing body of literature on specific policy measures to address care work in different contexts, there is no global practical tool to track progress against key policy areas. This article introduces the Care Policy Scorecard, an evidence-based policy […]

Research report

Rapid Care Analysis in a Rapid-Onset Emergency: Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

27/06/2018

2 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This analysis looks at unpaid care work patterns in both Rohingya and host communities in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The aim is to recognize the care work done by women and find ways of reducing or redistributing this work. The analysis examines the level of acceptance for sharing care responsibilities, as well as the differences in […]

Research report

Rapid Care Analysis: A contextualized tool for the Occupied Palestinian Territory

26/11/2019

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This report analyses the issue of unpaid care and domestic work in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) using Oxfam’s Rapid Care Assessment tool. The report explores how different communities across OPT define unpaid care and domestic work through a gender lens; how they distribute this work across the household, the average hours spent by women […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Care Principles: Guidelines for promoting care-responsive institutional strategies

13/09/2021

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Care work, both unpaid and underpaid, is mostly carried out by women, and still remains largely invisible in policies and projects across many organizations. The principles outlined in this guide aim to influence institutional policies towards recognizing, planning, adopting and monitoring strategies that reduce and redistribute care work.

Briefing note

Increasing Investments in Care in the IDA20 Replenishment

19/07/2021

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

IDA20 offers an important opportunity to tackle the rising gender inequality tied to the unequal distribution of unpaid care work between women, girls, and men. IDA is a crucial source of concessional finance that lower-income countries depend on and is one of the biggest providers of core support for human development and public services. Against […]

Journal article

‘Care is not a burden’: a 7-4-7 framework of action for operationalising the Triple R

31/08/2022

23 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Care is not a burden’: a 7-4-7 framework of action for operationalising the Triple R

Keywords

Overview

Our research on government policy responses to address the increase in women’s unpaid care and domestic work during COVID-19, across 59 countries of Asia and the Pacific, shows that less than 30 per cent of measures are care-sensitive and of these only 12 per cent are gender-differentiated. From this analysis, this paper proposes a care-integral […]

Briefing note

Unpaid Care – Why and How to Invest: Policy briefing for national governments

12/01/2018

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Investments which support households to better meet their unpaid care responsibilities – such as childcare, food preparation and laundry – can yield substantial returns in terms of macro-economic growth, job creation and other key government priorities. This briefing looks at selected evidence and examples and argues that governments should: include commitments to support households’ unpaid […]

Showing 421 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

‘My mother was a kitchen girl’: legal and policy responses to the problem of care for women who provide care in South Africa

31/08/2022

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘My mother was a kitchen girl’: legal and policy responses to the problem of care for women who provide care in South Africa

Keywords

Overview

Domestic labour or care work creates the conditions through which other labour can occur, however, the value that this work provides is scarcely recognised when lawmakers consider its remuneration and regulation. This paper investigates legal discrimination against providers of domestic labour in South Africa, especially at home involving women in relationships and domestic workers. This […]

Research report

Care in households and communities: Background paper on conceptual issues

07/10/2013

2 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s initiative ‘Innovations in Care’ aims to support development, humanitarian and advocacy practitioners to work more effectively on care issues. Care is understood as a major issue in promoting women’s human rights, empowerment and overcoming poverty and inequality. This paper clarifies the main conceptual issues, overlapping terms and debates relevant for local programming and research […]

Guidelines and toolkits

The Care-Responsiveness Barometer: A framework to plan, measure and improve the care-responsiveness of policies, investments and institutions

13/09/2021

2 documents

74 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

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 […]

Journal article

The Care Policy Scorecard: a new tool to shift progress towards a caring economy

31/08/2022

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

The Care Policy Scorecard: a new tool to shift progress towards a caring economy

Keywords

Overview

COVID-19 has highlighted the centrality of care and women’s labour (paid and unpaid). While there is a growing body of literature on specific policy measures to address care work in different contexts, there is no global practical tool to track progress against key policy areas. This article introduces the Care Policy Scorecard, an evidence-based policy […]

Research report

Rapid Care Analysis in a Rapid-Onset Emergency: Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

27/06/2018

2 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This analysis looks at unpaid care work patterns in both Rohingya and host communities in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The aim is to recognize the care work done by women and find ways of reducing or redistributing this work. The analysis examines the level of acceptance for sharing care responsibilities, as well as the differences in […]

Research report

Rapid Care Analysis: A contextualized tool for the Occupied Palestinian Territory

26/11/2019

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This report analyses the issue of unpaid care and domestic work in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) using Oxfam’s Rapid Care Assessment tool. The report explores how different communities across OPT define unpaid care and domestic work through a gender lens; how they distribute this work across the household, the average hours spent by women […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Care Principles: Guidelines for promoting care-responsive institutional strategies

13/09/2021

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Care work, both unpaid and underpaid, is mostly carried out by women, and still remains largely invisible in policies and projects across many organizations. The principles outlined in this guide aim to influence institutional policies towards recognizing, planning, adopting and monitoring strategies that reduce and redistribute care work.

Briefing note

Increasing Investments in Care in the IDA20 Replenishment

19/07/2021

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

IDA20 offers an important opportunity to tackle the rising gender inequality tied to the unequal distribution of unpaid care work between women, girls, and men. IDA is a crucial source of concessional finance that lower-income countries depend on and is one of the biggest providers of core support for human development and public services. Against […]

Journal article

‘Care is not a burden’: a 7-4-7 framework of action for operationalising the Triple R

31/08/2022

23 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Care is not a burden’: a 7-4-7 framework of action for operationalising the Triple R

Keywords

Overview

Our research on government policy responses to address the increase in women’s unpaid care and domestic work during COVID-19, across 59 countries of Asia and the Pacific, shows that less than 30 per cent of measures are care-sensitive and of these only 12 per cent are gender-differentiated. From this analysis, this paper proposes a care-integral […]

Briefing note

Unpaid Care – Why and How to Invest: Policy briefing for national governments

12/01/2018

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Investments which support households to better meet their unpaid care responsibilities – such as childcare, food preparation and laundry – can yield substantial returns in terms of macro-economic growth, job creation and other key government priorities. This briefing looks at selected evidence and examples and argues that governments should: include commitments to support households’ unpaid […]

Showing 421 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

‘My mother was a kitchen girl’: legal and policy responses to the problem of care for women who provide care in South Africa

31/08/2022

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘My mother was a kitchen girl’: legal and policy responses to the problem of care for women who provide care in South Africa

Keywords

Overview

Domestic labour or care work creates the conditions through which other labour can occur, however, the value that this work provides is scarcely recognised when lawmakers consider its remuneration and regulation. This paper investigates legal discrimination against providers of domestic labour in South Africa, especially at home involving women in relationships and domestic workers. This […]

Research report

Care in households and communities: Background paper on conceptual issues

07/10/2013

2 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Oxfam’s initiative ‘Innovations in Care’ aims to support development, humanitarian and advocacy practitioners to work more effectively on care issues. Care is understood as a major issue in promoting women’s human rights, empowerment and overcoming poverty and inequality. This paper clarifies the main conceptual issues, overlapping terms and debates relevant for local programming and research […]

Guidelines and toolkits

The Care-Responsiveness Barometer: A framework to plan, measure and improve the care-responsiveness of policies, investments and institutions

13/09/2021

2 documents

74 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

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 […]

Journal article

The Care Policy Scorecard: a new tool to shift progress towards a caring economy

31/08/2022

19 pages long

Free access through journal website

The Care Policy Scorecard: a new tool to shift progress towards a caring economy

Keywords

Overview

COVID-19 has highlighted the centrality of care and women’s labour (paid and unpaid). While there is a growing body of literature on specific policy measures to address care work in different contexts, there is no global practical tool to track progress against key policy areas. This article introduces the Care Policy Scorecard, an evidence-based policy […]

Research report

Rapid Care Analysis in a Rapid-Onset Emergency: Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

27/06/2018

2 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This analysis looks at unpaid care work patterns in both Rohingya and host communities in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The aim is to recognize the care work done by women and find ways of reducing or redistributing this work. The analysis examines the level of acceptance for sharing care responsibilities, as well as the differences in […]

Research report

Rapid Care Analysis: A contextualized tool for the Occupied Palestinian Territory

26/11/2019

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

This report analyses the issue of unpaid care and domestic work in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) using Oxfam’s Rapid Care Assessment tool. The report explores how different communities across OPT define unpaid care and domestic work through a gender lens; how they distribute this work across the household, the average hours spent by women […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Care Principles: Guidelines for promoting care-responsive institutional strategies

13/09/2021

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Care work, both unpaid and underpaid, is mostly carried out by women, and still remains largely invisible in policies and projects across many organizations. The principles outlined in this guide aim to influence institutional policies towards recognizing, planning, adopting and monitoring strategies that reduce and redistribute care work.

Briefing note

Increasing Investments in Care in the IDA20 Replenishment

19/07/2021

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

IDA20 offers an important opportunity to tackle the rising gender inequality tied to the unequal distribution of unpaid care work between women, girls, and men. IDA is a crucial source of concessional finance that lower-income countries depend on and is one of the biggest providers of core support for human development and public services. Against […]

Journal article

‘Care is not a burden’: a 7-4-7 framework of action for operationalising the Triple R

31/08/2022

23 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Care is not a burden’: a 7-4-7 framework of action for operationalising the Triple R

Keywords

Overview

Our research on government policy responses to address the increase in women’s unpaid care and domestic work during COVID-19, across 59 countries of Asia and the Pacific, shows that less than 30 per cent of measures are care-sensitive and of these only 12 per cent are gender-differentiated. From this analysis, this paper proposes a care-integral […]

Briefing note

Unpaid Care – Why and How to Invest: Policy briefing for national governments

12/01/2018

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Investments which support households to better meet their unpaid care responsibilities – such as childcare, food preparation and laundry – can yield substantial returns in terms of macro-economic growth, job creation and other key government priorities. This briefing looks at selected evidence and examples and argues that governments should: include commitments to support households’ unpaid […]