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PRIORITYMEASURE53
“Develop and strengthen policies and universal care services based on the highest human rights standards, from agender equality and intergenerational perspective,
in order to share the delivery of services between the State, the private sector, civil society, families and households and betweenmen andwomen
and facilitate dialogue and coordination between all the parties involved.”
Possible lines of action
1. Regulate the basic conditions that guarantee equality of access to care for persons who require it; 2. Develop and implement legal
frameworks to ensure that national systems of care include all categories of care; 3. Integrate care services as a dimension of social
protection systems, allowances, services and benefits; 4. Increase the availability and quality of care systems and, as necessary, of
caregivers, by providing training and by placing cultural and economic value on the activity, including by regulating it and making it
more professional; 5. Implementmeasures toprovide caregiverswith access to jobswith flexibleworking hours.
Targets
1. Universal coverage of care services for persons who require them; 2. Integration of care activities into social protection systems;
3. Shared responsibilitybetweenmen andwomen for providing unpaid care services; 4. Professional care services regulated.
Tentative indicators
1. Percentage of persons in need of care services who actually receive them; 2. Average number of hours devoted to unpaid work,
disaggregatedby sex.
Related instruments,
forums andmechanisms
Santo Domingo Consensus, agreement 37, “
Promote improvements in women’s access to decent employment, redistributing care work
between the State, market and society, and betweenmen andwomen, facilitating training and the use of technology, self-employment and
business creation in the science and technology sector, and increase the proportion of women in areas where they are underrepresented,
for example, in academia and the fields of science and technology, including information and communications technologies
”; agreement
57, “
Recognize care as a right and, therefore, as a responsibility that must be shared bymen andwomen of all sectors of society, and by
families, private companies and the State, and adopt measures, policies and programmes on care and on promoting the joint
responsibility of women and men in family, working and social life in order to free up women’s time so that they can engage in
employment, studies and politics and enjoy their autonomy to the full
.”
Brasilia Consensus, agreement 1.b,
“[F]oster the development and strengthening of universal care policies and services based on the
recognition of the right to care for all and on the notion of sharing the provision of care between the State, the private sector, civil
society andhouseholds, aswell as betweenmenandwomen, andof strengtheningdialogue and coordination between all stakeholders
.”
Quito Consensus, agreement xxvii,
“[A]dopt the necessary measures, especially of an economic, social and cultural nature, to ensure
that States assume social reproduction, caregiving and thewell-being of the population as anobjective for the economy and as a
public responsibility that cannot be delegated.”
SDG target 5.4, “
Recognize and value unpaid care and domesticwork through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social
protectionpolicies, and the promotion of shared responsibilitywithin the householdand the family as nationally appropriate.
”
Comments
This priority measure is directly related to PM 61, which deals with the shared responsibility of the State, the private sector, the
community, families, women andmen in unpaid domestic chores and carework. It also relates to PM 31, regarding the inclusion of care
and social protection systems, to PM 59, regarding the construction of new concepts of masculinity, and to PM 64, regarding
measurement of the care economy.
