Amidst the care crisis, stemming from the unequal distribution of household and care work between men and women, and the care deficit faced by countries - caused by cultural changes and shifts in women's roles; the integration of women into the workforce; the increase in female-headed households; demographic transition; and economic crises that no longer allow households to be sustained by a single income - these policies become essential to achieve gender equality and the empowerment and economic autonomy of women.

In this regard, UN Women firmly advocates for the construction of comprehensive care systems that consider care as a fundamental pillar of social protection, alongside pillars such as health, education, or social security, ensuring the right to live a full life, both for the person receiving care and the one providing it.

Also, investing in these systems yields social and economic benefits, as they contribute to people's well-being, enable the direct and indirect creation of quality employment, facilitate women's participation in the workforce, and improve household incomes. This translates into income returns for the State through taxes and contributions, as well as higher household incomes.

Our Solutions

UN Women provides technical assistance to accompany countries in Latin America and the Caribbean on their path towards building and implementing comprehensive care policies and systems, carrying out various actions including:

• Development of Roadmaps for the construction of the national care system
• Preparation of studies on supply and demand for care services
• Application of costing methodology and projection of economic impacts of implementing care services - studying their effects on GDP, employment, and tax revenues
• Design of Pilot programs for care services at the local level
• Review and preparation of recommendations for existing national and/or local care policy instruments
• Technical advice for the development of National and subnational Care Laws
• Generation of inputs for discussions and decision-making processes on policy or care system financing
• Participation in training sessions for the installation and appropriation of the notion of care and the comprehensive care system
• Design of programs aimed at promoting increased service provision and the generation of decent work for women

Similarly, UN Women conducts research, studies, and knowledge products with policy recommendations to promote the recognition, reduction, and redistribution of care work disproportionately carried out by women, and to advance towards comprehensive care systems. Additionally, UN Women promotes cultural and behavioral changes in societies to achieve gender equality; it collaborates with other international organizations and is part of the Global Care Alliance, a space for co-creation, cooperation, and international collaboration aimed at mobilizing care agendas worldwide.

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