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National Care Policy
The care economy entails a diversified range of productive work with both paid and unpaid work activities for care that is necessary for the physical, psychological and social wellbeing of primarily care dependent groups such as children, the older persons, persons with disabilities and persons who are ill. Growing populations, aging societies, changing families, women’s secondary status in labour markets and shortcomings in social policies demand urgent action on the organization of care work from governments, employers, trade unions and individual citizens.
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Bibliographic information
Subject areas:
Care and support services
Care work
Economic empowerment
Gender data gaps
Gender data use and accessibility
Gender equality and women’s empowerment
Gender wage gap
Girls
Indigenous women
Literacy
Macroeconomic policies
Rural women
Social protection
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Unpaid work
Women with disabilities
Women’s rights
Resource type(s):
Policy papers
UN Women office publishing:
Kenya Country Office
Publication year
2026
Number of pages
83
Publishing entity/ies:
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)