• We contribute to recognize, reduce, redistribute, reward, and represent care work

  • We work to reverse the current organization of care

  • We promote co-responsibility in care among all persons and all social sectors of society

  • We prioritize a human rights approach for care providers and receivers

  • We consider it urgent to reduce gender inequality

  • We address care needs in a differentiated approach

Global Alliance for Care

The Global Alliance for Care is the first global multi-stakeholder community that facilitates and fosters spaces for collective action, advocacy, communication , and learning about care, its recognition as a need, as work, and as a right. It is an articulation between governments, civil society, union associations, the philanthropic sector, international organizations, and academia seeking to advance the care agenda from the local to the global level.

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Care

Care work consists of the activities undertaken to ensure the day-to-day well-being and development of persons from various perspectives: physical, economic, moral and emotional.

As such, it ranges from the provision of elements essential to human life, such as food, shelter, sanitation, cleanliness, health, company, and a healthy environment, to support and the transmission of knowledge, social values and practices via processes related to nurturing and other community dynamics.

Care work consists of two overlapping activities: direct, personal and relational care activities such as feeding a baby or nursing an ill, elderly or disabled person; and indirect care activities, such as cooking and cleaning.

Care work with a gender perspective

Around the world, care is primarily provided by women and girls. The overload and disproportionate distribution of care work directly impacts girls and women as it creates time poverty. This hinders and interrupts their personal development and potential, as it impedes their participation in the labor market, education, and their time for self-care and recreation, among the exercise of other human rights.

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News

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Second National Meeting: The future of care in Mexico
November 12, 2024
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Building caring societies across the G20 and beyond
November 07, 2024
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Multi-stakeholder national policy dialogue - The future of Women Economic Empowerment
October 31, 2024

Global Digital Community on Care

This Global Digital Community on Care is a repository of information related to care: research, data, experiences, videos, laws, policies, advocacy strategies, and type of services. We invite you to review this important care-related production.


Members

  • Civil society

    World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA)

  • Academia and research

    Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)

  • Private sector

    Arredo

  • Civil society

    Solidarity and Multisectorial Actions for Endogenous Development (ASMDE Relief)

  • International organizations

    Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA, Mexican office)

  • Civil society

    ALCE (Abolition of Punishment and Lockdown Logics)

  • Civil society

    Alimentaccion

  • Trade associations

    Association of Domestic, Home and Maquila Workers (ATRAHDOM)

  • International organizations

    United Nations Partnership on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNPRPD)

  • Private sector

    Alliance for Business Development

  • Private sector

    Aditya Birla Capital

  • Private sector

    Association of Banks of Mexico

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