Resources on Care Economy

  1. Infographic

    Towards Dignity and Autonomy: A Comprehensive Look at Personal Assistance Policies for Persons with Disabilities Worldwide

    29 February 2024

    This infographic presents the findings from a review of personal assistance policies and practices from across the world and formulates recommendations on how to ensure that personal assistance promote full inclusion and participation of persons with disabilities in community, including by improving the working conditions of assistants. This research is a product of the cooperation between the International Labour Organisation and the European Network on Independent Living (ENIL).to take an active role in its provision and that has a long-lasting impact on their rights. Looking into personal assistance services globally may shed light on how to structure care and support services to reduce inequalities.

  2. Towards Dignity and Autonomy

    A Comprehensive Look at Personal Assistance Policies for Persons with Disabilities Worldwide

    29 February 2024

    The report presents the findings from a review of personal assistance policies and practices from across the world and formulates recommendations on how to ensure that personal assistance promote full inclusion and participation of persons with disabilities in community, including by improving the working conditions of assistants. This research is a product of the cooperation between the International Labour Organisation and the European Network on Independent Living (ENIL).to take an active role in its provision and that has a long-lasting impact on their rights. Looking into personal assistance services globally may shed light on how to structure care and support services to reduce inequalities.

  3. Publication

    Empowering for Independence: Building High Quality Personal Assistance Services for Persons with Disabilities

    29 February 2024

    This factsheet focuses on the provision of personal assistance, as a support service that enables persons with disabilities to take an active role in its provision and that has a long-lasting impact on their rights. Looking into personal assistance services globally may shed light on how to structure care and support services to reduce inequalities.

  4. UN Women - ILO Policy Tool

    Assessing the employment situation in five countries and promoting a gender responsive structural transformation

    09 February 2024

    A consolidated report on lessons learned and policy insights

  5. UN Women - ILO Policy Tool

    Social accounting matrix-based analysis of gendered employment sectoral strategies in Ethiopia

    09 February 2024

  6. UN Women - ILO Policy Tool

    Gendered employment analysis and policy recommendations in Ethiopia

    09 February 2024

    Evidence from Hawassa and Yirgalem Intergrated Industrial Parks

  7. Publication

    Care Work in China: Who does care work, what is its economic value and how has it been affected by Covid-19?

    09 November 2023

    UN Women and ILO worked together to produce this report to better understand care work and the economy of care in China, where policy recommendations are put forward to strengthen the societal reorganization of care to help shape a more equal and inclusive society.

  8. Gender equality and women workers

    Investments in childcare for gender equality in Asia and the Pacific

    01 August 2023

    The report highlights why and how investing in childcare impacts positively on gender equality and decent work in Asia and the Pacific.

  9. Publication

    Public investment in care services in Argentina. Coverage of deficits, employment generation, fiscal efforts and economic impacts

    17 July 2023

    Based on the methodology developed by ILO-UN Women (2021), this study provides the results of an exercise to estimate the deficits in meeting the demand for care in the country (coverage and quality, including staff working conditions) for each of the sub-sectors (education, health and long-term care), as well as the investments needed to reverse this, and the economic and employment implications of expanding and strengthening care policies in a comprehensive manner in a future scenario up to 2030.

  10. Publication

    Cooperative Care Provision as a Gender-Transformative Decent Work Solution

    19 May 2023

    The ILO’s Gender, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Branch (GEDI) and Cooperatives Unit (COOP) are working together on building an innovative cross-regional, multi-country programme on Cooperative Care Provision as a Gender transformative Decent Work Solution. The programme aims to enhance care provision through cooperatives and other social and solidarity entities starting with a series of pilot initiatives. The full programme is expected to help strengthen and scale up national support networks to better serve their members by building capacities for improved delivery of services, and advocating for their needs, concerns, and priorities.