Project profile — Scaling Care Innovations in Africa

• Burundi (5.00%)
• Benin (2.00%)
• Côte d'Ivoire (5.00%)
• Ethiopia (9.00%)
• Ghana (1.00%)
• Kenya (14.00%)
• Rwanda (4.00%)
• Sierra Leone (5.00%)
• Togolese Republic (0.50%)
• Tanzania (8.50%)
• South Africa (2.00%)
• Zimbabwe (1.00%)

• South of Sahara, regional (43.00%)

• Government And Civil Society, General: Women's rights organisations and movements, and government institutions (15170) (100.00%)

• Gender equality (principal objective)

The project seeks to improve the lives and livelihoods of women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa. Project activities include: (1) scaling tested policy and program innovations that recognize, reduce and redistribute women’s unpaid care work by providing sub-grants to local stakeholders, including women's rights or advocacy organizations; (2) establishing an African care work community of practice, with the proactive engagement of women’s rights organizations to facilitate knowledge exchange, peer learning and coalition building; and (3) building stakeholders' capacity through training seminars and workshops to carry out gender analysis and generate and use care data and evidence to drive actions. Women and girls - particularly those living in poverty and belonging to marginalized groups - will benefit from this project.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) greater participation of women and girls in economic, educational, political and leisure activities of their choice; (2) improved gender responsive planning and budget allocations by national or sub-national governments that consider the unequal distribution of unpaid care work responsibilities shouldered by women and girls; and (3) strengthened participation of women’s rights and advocacy organizations in care policy dialogues, consultations, and decision-making.

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• Proactive disclosure