In this together: Share the Care, Transform Tomorrow

Monday 11 July 2022
7:30-9:00 am EST / 13:30-15:00 CEST

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Addressing the inequitable distribution of unpaid care work by ‘Sharing the care’ is in our view not only key to advance women’s rights and progress on Gender equality and wellbeing for all, but also key to bring about some of the systemic changes which are so necessary to ensure a sustainable and resilient recovery from the pandemic, and to achieve the 2030 development agenda.

The main purpose of this event is to continue the discussion about how to lay the ground for a more caring society, a society where care work is valued and more equally and fairly shared – between men and women, but also across society, with every stakeholder – families, communities, governments, and private sector – taking responsibility.

‘In this Together, Share the Care Transform Tomorrow is an official side-event to the 2022 UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (5-15 July 2022, New York).

Program

Speakers bios

Welcome & introduction

• Opening video: #UnpaidCareWorkCounts – with thanks to CartoonBase
• Anne-Claire de Liedekerke, President, Make Mothers Matter
• Introductory video featuring MMM associate members AJAD (Cote d’Ivoire), Otitsara (Madagascar) and EALE (DRC) on why and how they support #SharingTheCare

Moderator:

• Nikki van der Gaag, Independent gender consultant and Senior Fellow Equimundo; MMM Board Member, Steering Committee member of MenEngage Europe

Panel:

Sharing the care within families

• Introductory video by MenCare : Join the mouvement Time for action
• Ilaria Buscaglia, Head of Programs, Rwanda Men’s Resource Center (RWAMREC), a MenCare partner organisation running the program P in Rwanda – A concrete example of parenting education programs fostering fathers’ engagement in domestic tasks and caregiving

Redistributing unpaid care work – and its costs – across society

• Suna Hanoz-Penney, Director of Strategy, International Programs and Partnerships, ACEV, Turkey – on the program ACEV has been running in different countries to develop a culture of caring within communities
• Lorena Villavicencio, former MP, Mexico – on the role of governments and the example of the Mexican initiative to enshrine the right to care in the Mexican Constitution and current work on a Mexican national care policy
• Françoise Cardoso, Director Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, Breastfeeding Support, Danone France  – on the role of the private sector and the Danone Global policy to support parents and other caregivers

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Read also about our 2020 and 2021 HLPF side-events:

• Care and education – Cornerstones of just and sustainable economies (July 2020)
• Changing narratives about unpaid care work and the economy (July 2021)

Resources from our speakers

RWANREC & MenCare

• Information on MenCare’s Program P , to engage men in active fatherhood

ACEV

• The Mother Support Program
• The Father Support Program
• Continuing effects of early enrichment in adult life: the Turkish early enrichment project 22 years later
• Mothers Reporting: The Mother – Child Education Program in Five Countries
• “Fathers are here for Gender equality” Project final evaluation report
• Involved Fatherhood and Its Determinants in Turkey

The Right to Care in Mexico

• Equitable distribution of unpaid care work and women’s rights (in Spanish)

Danone

• Danone Global Parental Policy (2017)