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Advancing Solutions to Transform Care in Africa

Part of the Scaling Care Innovations in Africa Initiative, the Africa Cares Together Community of Practice website is a resource and networking center for project implementers, individuals, and organizations. We showcase advocacy work, host knowledge products, and facilitate engagement to identify and amplify solutions to recognise, reduce and redistribute unpaid care work across the continent.

 

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Access a comprehensive repository of research, tools, and learning materials focused on care innovations and the social organization of care in Africa.

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Join a vibrant Community of Practice to network with project implementers, share experiences, and map connections across care-focused programs.

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Explore a platform for African voices and virtual art that showcases ongoing advocacy work and depicts the realities and reimagining of care.

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Welcome to Africa Cares Together

Welcome to the pan-African network dedicated to innovations in the social organisation of care. This platform serves as a central resource and networking center for individuals and organisations committed to understanding and engaging with care-related discourse and activism in Africa.

We are bringing together partners across the continent to create a dynamic Community of Practice. Here, you can access valuable knowledge products, connect with peers, and showcase advocacy work that is advancing solutions to unlock opportunities for women, girls, and their communities. Join us in learning, sharing, and reimagining care together.

 
 
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Report calendar_today August 19, 2026

Labour of Love or Unpaid Labour?

In 2024, Tiny Totos embarked on a 2-year action research undertaking funded by IDRC and supported by the Population Council, designed to determine if and why our care model reduced the burden of unpaid care on women, invest in making the model better, and to share learnings from this process.

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Report calendar_today August 3, 2026

Elder Care Policy in Botswana: Transforming Elder Care through Collective Policy Action across Southern Africa

Elder care is not a niche policy concern. It sits at the intersection of social protection, public health, gender equality, and human rights.

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IAFEE Roundtable: Lessons from Social Movements: Translating Feminist Economic Principles into Policy and Institutional Change
Conference session calendar_today July 11, 2026

IAFEE Roundtable: Lessons from Social Movements: Translating Feminist Economic Principles into Policy and Institutional Change

ACT CoP members are hosting a roundtable session at the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) Annual Conference, which takes place in Cali, Colombia from 9 – 11 July 2026. The roundtable explores what contemporary social movements can teach us about translating feminist economic principles into durable policy, institutional and cultural change, with a particular […]

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The Feminist Economics of Care: Making the Financing Case for Africa
Webinar calendar_today July 16, 2026

The Feminist Economics of Care: Making the Financing Case for Africa

Across Africa, women and girls shoulder the vast majority of paid and unpaid care work, playing a critical role in sustaining households, economies and social wellbeing. Yet care remain systematically undervalued, underfunded, and excluded from macroeconomic planning and national financing priorities. As austerity measures, debt burdens and cuts to public services deepen the care crisis, […]

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Opinion calendar_today June 16, 2026

Invisible No More: Why Unpaid Care Must Be Recognised

In this blog post, Dr Jane Kamau shares her experiences and reflections from attending the Women Deliver 2026 conference.

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Care, Cities and Collective Action: Insights from Women Deliver
Opinion calendar_today June 3, 2026

Care, Cities and Collective Action: Insights from Women Deliver

Attending the Women Deliver Conference, which took place in Narrm (Melbourne), Australia from 27–30 April 2026, was both affirming and inspiring. It was a powerful reminder that the future of cities, economies, and communities depends on how seriously we invest in care systems and how intentionally we place care at the center of public policy, infrastructure, and everyday life.

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