Independent evaluation: Transformative approaches to recognize, reduce and redistribute unpaid care work in women’s economic empowerment programming | Publications

In Africa, ladies dedicate 3.5 occasions extra time to unpaid care and home tasks than males, leading to limitations to their training, earnings, and neighborhood management. To deal with this disparity, UN Ladies, with the funding of International Affairs Canada, applied “Transformative approaches to recognise, scale back, and redistribute unpaid care work in ladies’s financial empowerment programming” (3R Programme) in Rwanda, Senegal, and South Africa, from March 2021 to March 2023.

To judge the outcomes of the 3R Programme, UN Ladies commissioned an impartial analysis carried out between December 2022 and April 2023. The aim was to evaluate programme outcomes, perceive how and why they had been achieved or not, and supply steering on selections concerning the programme’s continuity, enchancment, scaling up, or replication.

This government abstract presents findings and suggestions derived from an built-in evaluation of information obtained by stakeholder consultations, subject visits, and a desk assessment of programme paperwork. The abstract addresses the relevance, effectiveness, effectivity, sustainability, and concerns for gender, human rights, and incapacity inclusion throughout the three international locations. Classes discovered from the analysis affirm the validity and effectiveness of the adopted methods.

The doc assesses the transformative, modern, and regionally related points of the programme, outlining its context-sensitive response to the essential wants of focused teams, together with applied sciences, employment alternatives, and gender-based violence providers.

Concluding with suggestions, the abstract highlights the mandatory insurance policies, methods, authorized provisions, and motion areas required to speed up progress in ladies’s financial empowerment by addressing the 3Rs of unpaid care and home work.