Care Connect: Action for care workers

This project aims to enhance empowerment socioeconomic well-being and enjoyment of rights for women and girls working in domestic care in Indonesia and the Philippines. Project activities include: (1) training domestic care workers on advocacy leadership and their right to decent work and living free from violence; (2) conducting feminist research to generate evidence on women’s rights and needs related to paid care work. It does so to influence national and international spaces effectively; and (3) providing technical support to civil society organizations particularly women’s rights organizations to implement gender-transformative environmentally sustainable care programs. Oxfam Canada implements this project in collaboration with Oxfam Indonesia and Oxfam Philippines partnering with three local organizations per country. The partners in the Philippines are the Labor Education and Research Network Pambansang Koalisyon ng Kababaihan sa Kanayunan and United Domestic Workers of the Philippines. The partners in Indonesia include Jaringan Nasional Advokasi Pekerja Rumah Tangga Yayasan Kalyanamitra and SMERU Research Institute. Care Connect seeks to reach 5 148 people directly. This includes 244 young women ages 18 to 24 3 874 women ages 25 and above 140 young men ages 18 to 24 and 890 men ages 25 and above.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) strengthened capacity of civil society organizations particularly women’s rights organizations paid care worker unions and paid care worker groups to advocate for women's rights and needs related to paid care work in the Philippines and Indonesia; (2) enhanced competencies of paid care workers particularly domestic care workers and their employers; and (3) strengthened capacity of civil society organizations particularly women’s rights organizations duty-bearers and the private sector to implement gender-transformative initiatives.