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.
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.
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.
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.
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA, Mexican office)
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
Alimentaccion
SOS Children’s Villages International
World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA)
Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll)
Islamic Relief Pakistan
United Nations Partnership on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNPRPD)
Planetary Health Alliance (PHA)
Arredo
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
