A Private Sector Rapid Care Analysis toolkit (PS RCA) is a rapid process for businesses and workers to understand the heavy responsibility and long hours of unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW), usually done by women workers. The guide also makes the case for why private sector companies should address UCDW as part of workers' rights and human rights, and it outlines the benefits to businesses of taking action. PS RCA discussions clarify how employment policies, workplace culture and practices may make unpaid care and domestic work more challenging for workers, with hidden costs for company operations. The PS RCA process helps identify opportunities for company action and builds commitment to change. The step-by-step guide is easy to follow for businesses, women's rights and feminist organisations, civil society organisations, trade unions and other interested parties. The two accompanying webinars provide training and guidance for managers, champions and advocates on how to conduct a PS RCA (Webinar 1), and for facilitators on how to conduct the focus group exercises with workers (Webinar 2). This PS RCA Toolkit complements the original Participatory Methodology: Rapid Care Analysis that focuses on community and local government roles in addressing women's heavy and unequal share of unpaid care and domestic work. The toolkit also complements broader gender equity audits and strategies for business
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- Manuals, training packs & toolkits
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.21201/2024.000025
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- 60
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- Kenya
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Table of Contents
- Slide Number 1 1
- Private Sector Rapid Care Analysis 2
- OBJECTIVES OF THE TRAINING SESSION 3
- AGENDA FOR TODAY’S TRAINING SESSION 4
- Introduction: Unpaid care and domestic work Why do a Private Sector Rapid Care Analysis (PS RCA)? 5
- WHAT DO WE MEAN BY ‘UNPAID CARE AND DOMESTIC WORK’? 6
- Why are investments in care important? 7
- Unpaid care makes up 42% of all work, and is a major part of economies 8
- Evidence: Care workloads are heavy and unequal by gender, age, ethnicity, rural–urban LOCATION, income and employment status AND OTHER IDENTITIES AND FACTORS 9
- How is it possible to make changes to improve care work? 10
- Common doubts and questions (Resource 5) 11
- Why do a PS RCA? 12
- The special benefits of PS RCA methodology 13
- Examples of measures from private sector entities to address unpaid care and domestic work 14
- ACKNOWLEDGING the value of addressing UCDW: ‘aha’ moments from organizations 15
- The basics: Who, what and how? 16
- Who will initiate the PS RCA? 17
- What kind of company is the PS RCA for? 18
- What types of workers are involved? 19
- What are the steps of the PS RCA? 20
- Time for your questions and reflections 21
- PS RCA Step 1: Engaging colleagues and securing buy-in 22
- The journey of a company manager towards understanding unpaid care 23
- Slide Number 24 24
- Engaging different parties in the PS RCA 25
- Clarifying expectations and securing long-term commitment 26
- Clarifying expectations of safe programming and safeguarding 1 27
- Clarifying expectations of safe programming safeguarding 2 28
- Carefully planned talks with stakeholders 29
- Crucial Connections: the Impacts of Workers’ Family Responsibilities and Domestic Work on Company Operations 30
- First company management meeting 31
- Why Conduct small group discussions with Workers? 32
- Participants’ Discussion (optional) 33
- COMFORT BREAK 34
- PS RCA Step 2: Gathering evidence 35
- Why Gather Evidence from the Company and Workforce? 36
- Step 2A: Workforce and Employment Policies 37
- Workforce and Employment Policies (cont’d) 38
- Step 2B: Focus Group Exercises with Workers 39
- Focus Group Exercises with Workers (cont’d) 40
- Overview of the Focus Group Exercises 41
- The seven small group discussion Exercises 42
- Exercise 2: Individual one-day recall (24 hours) 43
- Documentation, Reporting and Interpretation of Findings 44
- PS RCA Step 3: Taking action 45
- Hold a Joint Meeting to Prioritize a List of Actions 46
- How to Prioritize Actions from Workers’ Proposals 47
- Second Meeting: Prepare An Action Plan 48
- PS RCA Step 4: Monitoring and making progress 49
- Feedback, follow-up and accountability 50
- Your questions and reflections 51
- Private Sector Rapid Care Analysis Authors: Thalia Kidder and Carine Pionetti Illustrators: Jairo Miguel Gutierrez-Llanes & Lucy Peers Contributors: Amber Parkes, Asmaa Abu Mezied, Ayesha Arif, Fatema Tuz Johoora, Fuad Fathurrahman, Ha Do Thuy, Juvilyn Salazar-Dormitorio, Leah Payud, Leena Patel, Lucy Cowie, Ruth Mhlanga, Ruth Oloo and Tamara Beradze (Oxfam); Retno Augustin (Sri Hidayati); Charlotte Pallangyo (SOAS); Christine Svarer and Lauren Shields (BSR); Claire Trichot (Casal dels Infants); Elleni Daniels (Mela Events); Halima Ahmed (ETI); Lauren Murphy (ICRW); Mara Bolis (Marshall Plan for Mothers); Pins Brown (Natura & Co); Stephanie Barrientos (University of Manchester); and others. 52
- THANK YOU 53
