 27-28 November 2018  Montevideo, Uruguay
This regional policy dialogue meeting focuses on the recognition, redistribution and reduction of unpaid care and domestic work and is organised in partnership with UN Women and Goverment of Uruguay.
The objectives of the meeting are:
- Place care at the core of the social, economic and political agendas, at the national and
regional levels – as a central and transversal axis in public and private policies across the
region to create awareness, consensus and alliances around its relevance.
- Share, exchange and learn from local, national and regional experiences on how to address
unpaid care and domestic work and promote women´s economic empowerment and social
welfare.
- Present and discuss new research and findings around initiatives to recognise, redistribute
and reduce unpaid care and domestic work, and pave the way towards effective
implementation.
- Strengthen alliances and synergies within the community of practitioners working to
achieve SDG 5.4 and promote women’s economic empowerment.
Programme outline
| Tuesday 27 Nov |
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| 8:30-9:30 |
Opening session
- Impacts of care for the development agenda in the regional and global level. Implications for the economy, social welfare and full citizenship of women.
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| 9:30-10.30 |
Inaugural panel
- Recognize, Redistribute and Reduce the Care Work. Inspiring Practices In Latin America and the Caribbean (Presentation of the Mapping study)
- Centrality of care in the regional agenda. Importance of women’s national machineries to promote a gender and feminist economic perspective in this agenda
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| 11.00-12.00 |
Magistral conference:
- Care policies in a context of change: achievements, transformations and challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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| 12:00-13:00 |
Central session:
- Care at the core of Public Policy. Findings and lessons from Uruguay´s experience.
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| 14.30-18.30 |
Working thematic sessions:
- Recognice - Valuing and making unpaid care work visible
- Redistribute - A more equal and fair distribution of unpaid care and domestic work
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Wednesday 28 Nov
8.30-11.30
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Working thematic sessions
- Reduce - Extending public coverage of basic care needs to shift the burden away from households
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| 12.00-13.30 |
Closing panel:
- Public policy governance: challenges for implementation and recommendations for articulating care systems across the Region that address unpaid care and domestic work
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| 13.30-14.00 |
Closing remarks to the policy dialogue
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| 15.00-17.30 |
Preparatory Session of the regional intergovernmental consultation for CSW63
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CONTEXTO & OBJETIVOS (in Spanish)
Reunión del Diálogo Regional de Políticas en América Latina y el Caribe
BACKGROUND
AGENDA
Open session: ENG / ESP
Working thematic sessions: ENG / ESP
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