Abdallah Farah
The training programme aimed to explore how to successfully promote decent work in care work and enable a more balanced sharing of family responsibilities.
OBJECTIVES
The training programme allowed to:
have a better understanding about the care economy, the centrality of care work and care policies and their value for societies and economies;
recognise the main concepts of the care economy and its importance for decent work, gender equality and an inclusive socioeconomic development through policies and international labour standards;
get familiar with strategies to promote transformative policies so that care work is at the core of a future with decent work and gender equality.
CONTENT
In this learning journey, you took through four modules. Main topics included:
key concepts, definitions and approaches to the care economy and care policies;
ILO’s policy framework for decent work in care work including the 5 Rs: recognise, reduce, redistribute, reward and represent;
an overview of policies, international labour standards, tools, measures and good practices to position care work at the core of a future with decent work and intersectional gender equality.
NUMBER OF HOURS: 20