The Gender and Advocacy Officer for SWIDA Ghana, Ms. Patience Basing participated in a two-day national advocacy strategy development training workshop, organized by Netright and Alinea International.
The training workshop is aimed to, as a matter of importance, put a spotlight on all the key areas of unpaid care work and how they can be enhanced for better value, conditions and recognition.
The key areas explored at the training workshop involved the 5 Rs of care work, which include Recognition, Remuneration, Redistribution, Reduction, and Reclaiming, which all point to a demand for the conditions of care work to be improved.
The training featured insightful presentations from lecturer at the University for Development Studies, Dr. Naazia Ibrahim, whose presentation focused on how unpaid care work in Northern Ghana affects women and girls.
A lecturer at the University of Ghana, Dr. Faustina Obeng had the responsibility to connect care work to the broader economy and how improving care work would ultimately feed well into the nation’s economy.
The key areas of shortfall in reward for care work form the foundation for advocacy strategies and solution hunting.
While Ghana has some policies in place to support the recognition and valuing of care work, there are still some gaps which increased advocacy is needed to help in fixing.
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