#WeCareForHer Equality project

Women and girls in Zimbabwe shoulder a heavy load of unpaid care and domestic work, which is pervasive in both rural and urban areas, limiting their engagement in productive work and development activities. Although vital to the economy and society, this work remains undervalued and under-recognized, which is reflected in a lack of policies at both local and national levels.

This project will scale up policy interventions that have achieved results by engaging local government authorities in three target districts to include unpaid care and domestic work considerations in local planning and budgeting, and support sustainability of achievements. The project will also engage with national-level policymakers and will develop alternative policy documents and annual national model gender-responsive budgets in an effort to inform the policymaking process and encourage the prioritization of public services that benefit women and girls.

This project is supported under the Scaling Care Innovations in Africa partnership co-funded by Global Affairs Canada and IDRC. Scaling Care Innovations is a five-year partnership aimed at scaling tested and locally grounded policy and program innovations to redress gender inequalities in unpaid care work in Sub-Saharan Africa.