unpaid carework

Shadrack helping his wife on household chores.

Oxfam Kenya partners with Media for Effective Reporting on Unpaid Care and Domestic Work.

Nairobi, Kenya- Oxfam in Kenya hosted a media breakfast on 13th February 2020 to sensitize the media on unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW).UCDW is a social good and a driver of economic growth. It…

Tabitha Mwikali, 36, a domestic worker hanging clothes for her employer in Eastleigh, Nairobi, Kenya. 2016

Gendered Patterns Of Unpaid Care and Domestic Work in the Urban Informal Settlements Of Nairobi, Kenya.

Oxfam in Kenya through its Women’s Rights Programme commissioned a Household Care Survey (HCS) between October 2018 and March 2019. The objective of the survey was to understand how Unpaid Care and…

Tabitha Mwikali, 36, a domestic worker hanging clothes for her employer in Eastleigh, Nairobi, Kenya. 2016

Oxfam Kenya new report provides key findings and recommendations on unpaid care and domestic work.

Nairobi, Kenya 5th December 2019 – Oxfam in Kenya today will launch a household care survey report on the gendered patterns of unpaid care and domestic work in five urban informal settlements of…

Rose Wasiaya, 39, at her chapatti business in Korogocho, an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya. Photo Credit: Katie G. Nelson/Oxfam

Women and Unpaid Carework

The Care work study was part of a four year broad programme funded by the European Union and spearheaded by Oxfam in partnership with SITE Enterprise Promotion, National Organization of Peer…

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