IDRC announces research on solutions to address women’s care load in Africa
07 March 2024
PETTERIK WIGGERS / PANOS PICTURES
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Launched in July 2023, Scaling Care Innovations in Africa is a five-year CAD25-million partnership between Global Affairs Canada and IDRC to begin transforming the care landscape in sub-Saharan Africa.
The initiative ran a competitive two-stage process to select 17 research teams that will assess how to scale pilot-tested innovations addressing the disproportionate responsibility for unpaid care work that falls on women and girls.
Seven of these teams will focus on policy-oriented solutions and 10 will look at scaling program-based solutions. Each project will tackle the challenge of unpaid care work by building on successful, locally led solutions.
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