UN Women West and Central Africa Gender-responsive Care Framework
Care work, mostly carried out by women, unpaid or underpaid, remains informal and invisible. Despite its inherent value to societies, communities and families, unpaid care work is also excluded from economic calculations and ends up perpetuating gender inequalities. However, unpaid care work receives very little attention on the political agenda in West and Central Africa.
This Care Framework highlights the context and challenges of women's unpaid care work in the West and Central Africa region. It also describes UN Women's approach to the care economy to address unpaid care within the context of the SDGs and the polycrisis in the region, and enabling gender equality and economic justice for rural and poor women.
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Bibliographic information
Geographic coverage:
Africa
Subject areas:
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Access to basic services
Economic empowerment
Gender statistics
Governance and national planning
Macroeconomic policies
Poverty
Rural women
Social protection
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Resource type(s):
Briefs
UN Women office publishing:
West and Central Africa Regional Office
Publication year
2024
Number of pages
11
Publishing entity/ies:
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)
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06/12/2024