• We consider it urgent to reduce gender inequality

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

  • We address care needs in a differentiated approach

  • 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

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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Press releases
UN General Assembly adopts Compact for the Future, with commitments on care
November 20, 2024
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Events
Second National Meeting: The future of care in Mexico
November 12, 2024
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Events
Building caring societies across the G20 and beyond
November 07, 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

  • Private sector

    Arredo

  • International organizations

    Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA, Mexican office)

  • Civil society

    Islamic Relief Pakistan

  • Civil society

    AYAT Care

  • Private sector

    Association of Banks of Mexico

  • Civil society

    SOS Children Villages Spain (Aldeas Infantiles SOS - España)

  • Academia and research

    Planetary Health Alliance (PHA)

  • International organizations

    Metropolis - World Association of the Major Metropolises

  • Philanthropies

    Calala Women's Fund

  • International organizations

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

  • Civil society

    Alimentaccion

  • Civil society

    Solidarity and Multisectorial Actions for Endogenous Development (ASMDE Relief)

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