The Oxfam Intermón Foundation (Spain) has extensive experience with advocacy in forums for dialogue on caregiving (care roundtables) in Europe. They have supported women's rights organisations in establishing and consolidating care roundtables in several LAC countries (through Oxfam Colombia, Oxfam Bolivia, Oxfam Cuba and Oxfam LAC, among others), and they have also promoted tools for monitoring care-related public policies. The organisation has promoted research, discussions and surveys on inequalities in the field of care, fostering spaces for reflection and connecting with other experiences in care policies in the region.
The Barcelona City Council, in Spain, has a long trajectory of fostering public policies on the universal access to care, as well as cutting-edge practical experience at the local level.
The Fundación para la Investigación y el Desarrollo de la Salud y la Seguridad Social(Foundation for Health and Social Security Research and Development), in Colombia, an entity represented by the Mesa de Economía Feminista - Feminist Economy Roundtable - MEF, has a solid track record of promoting tools that aim to facilitate spaces for advocacy, including a comprehensive care system as well as supporting the establishment of territorial roundtables and the Mesa Intersectorial del Cuidado (Intersectoral Roundtable on Care). Members of the MEF have participated in key processes in Colombia, such as the creation of Law 1413 on the Care Economy, and incorporating the topic of care into the National Development Plan.
The Latin American Council of Social Sciences - Latin American Social Sciences Council - CLACSO (Argentina), the Coordinadora de la Mujer (Women's Coordinating Committee) of Bolivia, the University of Havana, in Cuba, through its Red Cubana de Estudios de Cuidados (Cuban Network of Care Studies - RCEC), and the Centro de la Mujer Peruana Flora Tristán (Flora Tristán Centre for Peruvian Women) in Peru, - all have care networks or experiences with varying levels of implementation and participation. They all share the challenge of strengthening their capacities to advocate for transformative care policies (care systems / laws) based on dialogue with civil society.
Equidad, in Mexico, and the Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir(Simone de Beauvoir Leadership Institute), also in Mexico, both collaborating entities in the Initiative, are also strategic partners of Oxfam in Mexico; promoting essential networks to raise awareness among the public and foster political debate around the country regarding care (Coalición por el Derecho al Cuidado y la Plataforma por el trabajo digno y tiempo propio de las mujeres - Coalition for the Right to Care and the Platform for Decent Work). Through their advocacy work with governments and legislatures, both entities are putting forward proposals for a bill to establish a National Care System.
In addition, through their experience of working with different groups of caregivers, academia, etc., they are helping to strengthen the capacities of the women's movement to engage citizens. They have also pushed for pilot projects at various levels to support and strengthen the capacities of local public authorities in the implementation of care initiatives. This type of experience is of great value for the Partnership entities that aim to respond to the challenge of coordinating policies and tangible proposals to redistribute and bring awareness to care in their respective contexts.
Thanks to previous experiences of working with each of the Partnership member entities and with the collaborating entities, Oxfam has identified an opportunity to bring these organisations together so that, through complementary approaches, they can contribute valuable experiences and generate collective knowledge to continue the work in advocacy and monitoring roadmaps for public policies focused on care.
This Triangular Cooperation Initiative responded to the goal of adopting tactics and building capacities to coordinate advocacy strategies and proposals for transformative care policies, together with civil society, benefiting from the favourable contexts of the Beneficiary entities' countries. By focusing on dialogue and joint reflection, the Provider entities lended their knowledge and expertise of advocacy and coordination in care roundtables in similar contexts, which has allowed progress to be made towards public policies on care.
By systematising the development of Latin American public care policies, the Initiative also aimed to create proposals that will contribute to new policies that incorporate a transformative perspective of care in other contexts in Latin America and Europe.
This process has been reflected in a model that has been developed with the purpose of transferring the lessons learned and challenges identified to other territories, where transformative care experiences are to be pursued.
This Triangular Cooperation Initiative aimed to share the knowledge, experiences and lessons learnt of the Partnership entities in order to jointly develop solutions for the establishment and consolidation of care committees, in addition to advocacy strategies for transformative public policies with a participatory, gender-based and locally-driven approach.
Triangular approach
The capacity for advocacy and oversight of social policies by civil society is key to ensuring that the design and implementation of new policies incorporate a transformative approach, with a focus on the rights of all social groups and environmental sustainability. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need to rethink the role and responsibilities of the central government, establishing opportunities for the implementation of new policies that are adapted to the current context.
The Initiative sought to maximise the knowledge and expertise of the leading European and Latin American organisations in public care policies, by strengthening capacities to effectively shape and oversee the design of public policies to promote the universal right to care.
The focus on the joint construction of solutions based on a highly collaborative process was also mutually beneficial for all entities, thanks to the opportunity to connect with actors who are promoting transformative care policies in their respective fields; jointly identifying challenges, lessons learnt and opportunities to move the agenda forward in the region.
Sectoral approach - Contribution to the 2030 Agenda
Primary SDG
Goal 5.4 Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate
Secondary SDG
Goal 1.3 Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable
ADELANTE SDG
Goal 10.4 Adopt policies, especially fiscal, wage and social protection policies, and progressively achieve greater equality
Goal 17.9 Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the sustainable development goals, including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation
Territorial approach
Intervention methodology
For decades, social policy in the LAC region has been based on a social welfare structure, which has provided support and care services to households and women in particular. The Initiative aimed to generate knowledge that would enable the Partnership entities to effectively shape and oversee public policy processes, working to ensure the universal right to care from a gender-transformative, participatory and locally-driven perspective.
To this end, the work plan was based on three face-to-face activities in which a needs assessment was carried out within the Partnership, as well as capacity building among the Beneficiary entities to connect them with the experiences of the Provider entities and collaborating entities. In this regard, they were able to contribute to the development of the 'Trenzando Cuidados' network and the Beneficiary entities' advocacy and knowledge.
The first meeting was a seminar in Cali, Colombia, focusing on a needs assessment and the exchange of experiences in public care policies based on the experience of the territorial committees, along with an assessment of the context, mapping of supply and demand, and a roadmap for action.
The second activity was a seminar in Lima, Peru, which focused on the role of civil society in the design of public care policies. The seminar provided the opportunity for the exchange of experiences and lessons learnt from civil society in the different countries, as well as the transfer of tools for the evaluation of care policies.
External technical support was provided through a consultancy that systematised the key experiences of care committees and participatory processes, in addition to transformative local and community-led experiences that can be scaled up. As a result, knowledge was generated to respond to the needs of the Beneficiaries in terms of learning, which could be useful for civil society organisations in promoting similar processes in other territories.
The knowledge generation process culminated in a study visit to Spain and Belgium, where exchanges were facilitated with domestic and care workers' movements supported by Oxfam in recent years, as well as with academic, social and public institutions with a proven track record in the care agenda. In addition, the visit coincided with the celebration of the Feminist Economics Congress in Barcelona, co-organised by the Barcelona City Council. The activity ended in Brussels, where participants had the opportunity to visit the European Parliament and the European Commission, and held an informative session to share the results obtained following implementation of the Initiative.
This methodology enabled the Partnership entities to equip themselves with the tools, strategies and policy proposals to advance their own advocacy roadmaps at both the national and local levels, in order to move towards transformative care policies in their respective contexts. In addition, the exchange with local care-related experiences and pilot initiatives helped nurture the policy proposal with a multi-tiered approach, with the aim of promoting care at the local level.
Partnerships and the exchange of experiences for the construction of a feminist society
Working collaboratively through partnerships allows us to establish objectives and learn how other feminist organisations are tackling the same issue in different countries, with both similar and different circumstances. We spoke about this with Cecilia Gofman, research project developer at CLACSO.
What is the Trenzando Cuidados Initiative?
Trenzando Cuidados is a Triangular Cooperation Initiative between feminist and diverse entities with the objective of learning and sharing knowledge and experiences in order to move towards the development and consolidation of care committees. Cristina Rovira, Head of Inequalities and Power at Oxfam Intermón and coordinator of Trenzando Cuidados, explains this.
The power of collective and intergenerational strength to put care at the forefront
The intergenerational dialogue on feminist economics and public policy experiences enables us to share tools for the development and consolidation of care committees in Latin America and the Caribbean and Europe. We discussed it with Denisse Vélez, Head of Research on Gender Equity, Citizenship, Work and Family, and Friné Salguero, Director of the Simone de Beauvoir Leadership Institute.
Building a different way of doing politics through the feminist care economy
Feminist economics with care at the forefront can change the political agenda and build a society that cares for people's lives. With this in mind, the Trenzando Cuidados project will create a toolkit to further develop feminist care committees and to serve as a framework for other projects. According to Magela Romero, coordinator of the Cuban Care Studies Network.
How exchanging diverse feminist perspectives strengthens care committees
Exchanging different points of view on an issue expands our understanding of it. This is why sharing experiences on care committees from different countries allows us to address doubts and to continue questioning ourselves in order to improve. Only then can we move towards a caring and feminist society. We discussed this with Tania Sánchez, director of the Coordinadora de la Mujer (Women's Coordinating Committee).
The importance of regional work to advance feminist public policies
By highlighting the work on the ground to empower women, as well as the experiences in the development of national and feminist public policies on care in different political and social contexts, it is now possible to move towards societies that put such policies on their public agenda with a feminist perspective. We discussed this with Valentina Perrotta, researcher and expert from the CLACSO network, co-coordinator of the Care and Gender working group, and academic coordinator of the Specialisation in Care Policies and Gender.
We spoke with experts and activists from Latin America about transformative care policies
How can we change care policies? In the panel "Knowledge for transformative public policies in the field of care", we spoke with feminist experts and activists from different Latin American countries about how to ensure care is at the centre of public policies to achieve real equality of opportunities. This way, we can build and consolidate care committees with a feminist approach. The panel took place at the First National Meeting of Feminist Economics in Colombia.
Why it is important to share experiences of care committees between countries
Sharing the insights from different care committees in other countries helps us make progress in developing and consolidating care-centred public policies. We spoke to Diana Milena Ávila-Moreno, member of the Mesa de Economía Feminista (Feminist Economics Roundtable) of Colombia, about this, made possible by the Trenzando Cuidados Initiative.
Sharing experiences for the construction of care committees
Sharing knowledge from different care committees with other countries that are taking the first steps towards public care policies is a great way to improve their development and to focus the public agenda on such policies. We spoke with Gina Chacón Antezana, head of the Political Participation and Decentralisation Programme at the Flora Tristán Peruvian Women's Centre.
Summary of the panel on public care policies with experts and activists from Latin America
How can we change care policies? In the panel "Knowledge for transformative public policies in the field of care", we spoke with feminist experts and activists from different Latin American countries about how to ensure care is at the centre of public policies to achieve real equality of opportunities. This way, we can build and consolidate care committees with a feminist perspective. This is the summary of the panel that took place at the First National Meeting of Feminist Economics in Colombia.
Role of civil society in the conception of public care policies' Lima, Peru |14-18 November 2022
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Direct beneficiaries (individuals)
According to Rule 9 of the Guidelines for Applicants: all persons participating in the activities of the Initiative.
The Initiative featured more than 60 direct beneficiaries; primarily members of the Partnership entities working on the public policy agenda for care, including those involved in advocacy, knowledge creation, citizen engagement or awareness-raising.
In addition, all entities interested in promoting the care agenda benefited from the activities that were open to the public.
The information gathered in this IMPACT section is the result of the first 'joint ex post analysis exercise' of the Initiative which, as foreseen in the policy framework of the ADELANTE Window, took place one year after the end of the implementation period.For more information on these exercises, please consult the ADELANTE Window 2021 Impact Report.
Continuity of the Partnership
STARTING POINT:Existing North-South and South-South relationship that has been strengthened by the combination of both modalities (with the Second provider entity as the unifying partner).
The Partnership has been strengthened and maintained over time.
The dynamic of collaboration and joint work has been maintained between all the Partnership member entities involved in the Initiative.
This dynamic has made it possible to identify new areas of collaboration with significant added value.
In addition, a working group has been set up which has made it possible to replicate the knowledge generated within the framework of the Initiative, reaching more direct beneficiaries.
Application of generated knowledge
The knowledge generated has been applied by all Partnership member entities.
This has led to capacity building to advocate for the right to care in national, regional and global spaces.
Advocacy work for a bi-regional EU-LAC care agreement.
Impact
Applying this knowledge has enabled the Beneficiary entities to successfully tackle the development challenge that gave rise to the Initiative with the necessary quality assurance. At the same time, the other Partnership member entities have increased the impact of their interventions.
In addition, it has given rise to actions with a strong impact beyond what was initially envisaged in the Initiative, such as the joint work on the systematisation of experiences in strengthening the social claim for the right to care, will be published soon.
FACTORS THAT HAVE ENABLED THE IMPACT:
The coordination of work within a network.
Mutual trust and a good rapport between the individuals from the Partnership member entities.
The relevance of the knowledge generated in response to the challenges of the Partnership member entities.
Future perspectives
Continue to make progress in the Partnership’s work, which is already established as a stable network with the potential to increase the number of entities involved, generating and exchanging new knowledge.
Ensure public financial support and international funding to strengthen the network and broaden its objectives, which remain relevant.
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