we care

Over the last couple of months, WE-Care has embarked on an exciting journey to reflect on what we have accomplished so far and use these reflections to plan for more journeys ahead. Our team met in…

Unpaid Care and Domestic Work (UCDW) falls disproportionately on women and girls, limiting their opportunities to participate in decent paid employment, education, leisure and politicallife. Heavy…

The first issue of the WE-Care Stories 2022 is here. The Ugandan content featured includes Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP,) Francis Ogweng’s journey of male involvement and social…

Before COVID-19, heavy and unequal care responsibilities were already trapping women in time and income poverty and locking them out of public and political life, with women providing 12.5 billion…

As part of celebrating African Women’s Day, Oxfam in Uganda, Uganda Women’s Network (UWONET), the WE-Care Pan-African programme and the Enough campaign team collaborated on a social media campaign to…

New research by Oxfam and partners reveals that while COVID-19 and the related containment efforts have caused increases in women’s – and men’s – unpaid care workloads, women are still doing the bulk…

58-year-old Lambert is living to prove that stereotypes and negative cultural norms can be dismantled even while living in a very patriarchal rural society. He now comfortably shares household chores…

For the first time ever, I have spent 90% of my time doing household work. I must say that home daily chores take up a lot of time!Since the lockdown, I have been at home supporting my wife with Care…

The Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) programme has been working since 2013 to reignite progress on gender equality by addressing heavy and unequal unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW…

Unequal and heavy unpaid care work has implications for women’s health, well-being, mobility, time for learning new skills and employment opportunities and it perpetuates their unequal status in…