ABOUT THE PROJECT

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) is an Oxfam flagship programme which seeks to address unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW) as a key factor in achieving gender equality and economic development. We work in four countries in Southern and Eastern Africa, with regional Pan-Africa and global components.

WE-Care aims to intensify its influencing work to address UCDW and shift the unpaid care narrative from being a woman's issue to being a development, economic, and gender equality issue.

OBJECTIVES

To recognize the importance of care work, so it is valued by both women and men, their families, communities, governments, and the wider society

To reduce difficult or inefficient tasks, such as collecting water or doing laundry

To redistribute care work more equitably between women and men, and redistribute costs from poor families to states and employers

To promote effective representation of carers and their needs and interests to decision-makers.
For more information about WE-Care, read here: www.policy-practice.oxfam.org/we-care.

IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS

  • Uganda Women’s Network. (UWONET)
  • Girls Forum International (GAFI)
  • Mission Uganda

FUNDED BY

  • Hewlett Foundation

PROJECT DURATION

  • 12 Month