The ILO joins the Global Alliance for Care

ILO Director-General Guy Ryder participated in the high-level panel on care at the Generation Equality Forum in Paris on 2 July, 2021 during the launch of the Global Alliance for Care. In his intervention, he highlighted that in order to support countries in realizing investments in the care economy, “the ILO has joined forces with UN Women in the Joint Programme “Promoting decent employment for women through inclusive growth policies and investments in care”. Countries like Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco and Nepal are applying tools designed by the programme to identify gaps in care services, costs, the required investments and financing their implementation.” He announced that the ILO has joined the Global Alliance for Care, “actively contributing to it through:

• providing tools, knowledge and technical assistance to make investments in care services an integral part of a gender-responsive recovery;
• ensuring that investments in the care economy provide decent work for care workers, contributing to gender equality in the distribution of paid and unpaid care work;
• supporting universal social protections systems, recognizing that investments in health and care systems contribute to the prevention of future shocks and pandemics; and
• deepening knowledge on effective care leave policies, including in the informal economy, and promoting their extension to all workers.”