The round table seeks to bring a greater understanding of the importance of care and support systems and service provision for community inclusion of persons with disabilities by exposing how traditional care models do not recognize or enable the autonomy of persons with disabilities.
The Global Alliance for Care calls for action to strengthen comprehensive care systems as a crucial pathway to gender-responsive recovery from the current global crises. It urges governments and all other sectors to take urgent action.
Two years after the Global Alliance for Care launch, important achievements in care were presented. It was during the event "Moving towards a New Care Paradigm through Collective Action: A High-Level, Interactive and Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue" at #UNGA78.
Achievements and challenges in designing and implementing care policies and comprehensive care systems will be shared at the event: “Moving Towards a New Care Paradigm through Collective Action: A High-level, Interactive, Multi-stakeholder Dialogue”. It will take place in the framework of #UNGA78.
The Global Alliance for Care will participate in "Building evidence for policy action on the care economy", a side event in the framework of #UNGA78. The discussion will address what is needed for systems-level change in care policy at global, regional, and national levels.
The Global Alliance for Care, together with Inmujeres and UN Women organized the "National Meeting of Caregivers of Mexico". Community caregivers, nurses, domestic workers and caregivers of people with disabilities came together to work on a common agenda.
On June 28-30, the Global Grassroots Women Community Caregivers’ Summit brought together more than 70 caregivers and domestic workers from 24 countries. The Summit was convened by the Global Alliance for Care, the Huairou Commission, the National Institute of Women of Mexico, and UN Women.
