Manual for the Training of Community-based Stakeholders on Gender Equality, Reduction of Unpaid Household Work and Care and the Promotion of Essential Health for Women

With the training and empowerment of community-based stakeholders provided using the guidelines, we expect beneficiaries of the training, both men and women, to understand the overall gender dimensions of unpaid care and domestic work as well as access to essential health by women and girls in rural communities of Edo and Delta States of Nigeria and other parts of Nigeria in general. [...] Each group will report and present the outcome of their group discussions to the 24 PART B MANUAL ON UNPAID CARE AND DOMESTIC CARE 25 MODULE 6 INTRODUCTORY MESSAGES ON UNPAID CARE AND DOMESTIC WORK AND GENDER This module is to introduce the participants i.e., community-based groups and other stakeholders to the definition of unpaid household labour in relation to gender in the context of the preva. [...] Discuss and interact with participants on the following issues by discussing the factors affecting the degree and intensity of unpaid care and domestic work in their communities as follows: Family Size and Structure • Family size and structure clearly affects the degree and intensity of care and domestic work because it has been noted that care workloads decreased as the age of the youngest child. [...] 30 MODULE 8 INTRODUCTORY MESSAGES ON HOW THE UNDERSTANDING AND VIEW OF UNPAID CARE AND DOMESTIC WORK AFFECT WOMEN, MEN AND CHILDREN IN THE COMMUNITY This module is to introduce the participants i.e., community-based groups and other stakeholders to the effects of unpaid care and domestic work on women, men and children in the context of their communities. [...] 34 MODULE 9 INTRODUCTORY MESSAGES ON KEY POLICIES AND ACTIONS WHICH CAN BE CONCEIVED AND IMPLEMENTED TO REDUCE THE BURDEN OF UNPAID CARE AND DOMESTIC WORK ON WOMEN AND GIRLS This module is designed to introduce the participants i.e., community-based groups and other stakeholders to the policies and actions that can be put in place to reduce the burden and negative effects of unpaid care and domest.