Region:Asia PacificCurrent UN Women Plan Period Afghanisthan:2018-2022
World Bank Income Classification:Low IncomeThe World Bank classifies economies for analytical purposes into four income groups: low, lower-middle, upper-middle, and high income. For this purpose it uses gross national income (GNI) per capita data in U.S. dollars, converted from local currency using the World Bank Atlas method, which is applied to smooth exchange rate fluctuations.Least Developed Country:YesSince 1971, the United Nations has recognized LDCs as a category of States that are deemed highly disadvantaged in their development process, for structural, historical and also geographical reasons. Three criteria are used: per capita income, human assets, and economic vulnerability.Gender Inequality Index:0.575GII is a composite metric of gender inequality using three dimensions: reproductive health, empowerment and the labour market. A low GII value indicates low inequality between women and men, and vice-versa.Gender Development Index:0.723GDI measures gender inequalities in achievement in three basic dimensions of human development: health, education, and command over economic resources.
Population:209,497,025Source of population data: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2022). World Population Prospects: The 2022 RevisionMale:19,976,265 (9.5%)Female:189,520,760 (90.5%)
National care systems enable Latin America and the Caribbean women's economic autonomy.
Activity DetailsResourcesOutcome Indicators and ResultsStrategic Note Outcome Progress NoteDocuments
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SDG alignment
Impact areas
Organizational outputs
Policy markerGENDER EQUALITY
Humanitarian scopeNo
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Outcome Indicator and ResultsPlan Period :
2023-2025
OUTCOME
LAC_D_2.1
National care systems enable Latin America and the Caribbean women's economic autonomy.
SP_D_0.1.4
SP_D_0.1.4
Country
Number of laws that were adopted, revised or repealed to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment (CO)
Complementary indicators are identified as those in the results framework
that are not repeated verbatim in the results framework of another United Nations entity, but are related or provide
different but complementary lenses or insights into the same issue, high-level result and/or area of complementary work,
such as a Sustainable Development Goal target.
Complementary
UNAIDSUNDP
2025
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SP_D_0.1.4
Country
2022
Baseline
11
2023
Milestone
11
Result
11
2024
Milestone
11
Result
--
2025
Target
11
Result
--
SP_D_0.1.5
SP_D_0.1.5
Country
Number of national and/or local (multi) sectoral strategies, policies and/or action plans that are adopted with a focus on gender equality (CO)
Complementary indicators are identified as those in the results framework
that are not repeated verbatim in the results framework of another United Nations entity, but are related or provide
different but complementary lenses or insights into the same issue, high-level result and/or area of complementary work,
such as a Sustainable Development Goal target.
Complementary
UNAIDSUNDPUNFPAUNICEF
2025
Result-
SP_D_0.1.5
Country
2022
Baseline
33
2023
Milestone
33
Result
1010
2024
Milestone
11
Result
--
2025
Target
11
Result
--
SP_D_0.4.3
SP_D_0.4.3
Country
Number of countries where multi-sectoral systems, strategies or programs are implemented to advance women’s equal access to and use of services, goods and/resources, including social protection (CO)
Complementary indicators are identified as those in the results framework
that are not repeated verbatim in the results framework of another United Nations entity, but are related or provide
different but complementary lenses or insights into the same issue, high-level result and/or area of complementary work,
such as a Sustainable Development Goal target.
Strategic Note Outcome Progress NoteShowing data of :
2023
National care systems enable Latin America and the Caribbean women's economic autonomy.
UN Women has advanced the implementation of a regional agenda for the promotion of Integrated care systems . In this regard, during 2023 UN Women ACRO provided technical assistance and policy support to 14 countries in LAC region (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Uruguay) to advance in policy and normative frameworks for integrated care systems.
As a result, in 2023 Ecuador approved a specific legislation to implement a comprehensive set of care policies, becoming the fourth country of the region, -together with Uruguay, Costa Rica and Venezuela– with and specific law approved. In Colombia the law 2281 of January, 42023 that creates the Minister of equality and Equity and Equality stablishes the creation of the national care system. (art 6.). In Argentina Decree 89/2023 (February, 2) creates the Economic recovery, employment generation and social inclusion programme for domestic workers. Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay and Peru also have discussing legislative projects underway which counted with the advisory of UN Women. At local level the Municipality of Bogota adopted the agreement that regulates and institutionalizes the District Care System in Bogotá.
Furthermore, additional national and local strategies, policies and/or action plans for the promotion of care have been developed and adopted in the region with UN Women’s support Overall and up to December 2023, this results in a total amount of 30 national and local strategies, policies and/or action plans for the promotion of care have been developed and adopted in the region within 11 countries with the support of UN Women.
In terms of promoting the financing of care policies and systems , during 2023 UN Women ACRO supported the calculation of cost and returns of investment in care in 13 municipalities of , using the modeling and tool to design financing strategies of comprehensive care systems developed and launched in 2022. This adds to the existing costing exercises supported by UN Women in . As a result of these exercises, it is estimated that 24.8 million people will benefit from care services by 2030 in these 5 countries. Furthermore, using gender responsive budgeting tools, in 2023 UN Women was able to identify that from 2019 to 2021, governments of Latin America and the Caribbean allocated USD 4.17 billion in their national budgets on care programmes and policies.
In terms of capacity building , with the support of UN Women until 2023, near 2,000 care workers had already been trained in the whole LAC region , reaching an estimated 1.85 million indirect beneficiaries. Furthermore, as part of its coordination role within the United Nations system UN Women partnered with UNDP-ILO-ECLAC-UN Women Interagency Initiative on Gender, Care and Social Protection to promote the 4th edition of the virtual course towards integrated care systems: training for action in public policy in the first half of 2023 through a 7 week length course. As a result, in 2023 more than 219 policy makers from national governments (45%), local governments (14%), civil society and women organizations (8%), trade unions (13%) and other policy makers (20%) reported to having increased their capacity to advancing the agenda and implementing integrated care systems aligned with the Buenos Aires Commitment resulting from the XV Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean.
At regional level, in 2023 UN Women ACRO started the implementation of the project “Transforming Economies. Towards the Recognition, Reduction and Redistribution of Unpaid Domestic and Care Work in Latin America and the Caribbean” with the support of AECID. As a result, a comprehensive analysis of regulatory frameworks, policy instruments and mapping of good local practices in Latin America to promote the recognition, reduction and redistribution of care work has been developed serving as the basis for organizing a regional seminar of exchange of experiences that will take place in February of 2024.
Also at the regional level, during 2023 UN Women continue to work to consolidate Care as a political priority and commitment in the intergovernmental sphere . In this regard, f ollowing up on the Buenos Aires Commitment adopted in 2022, UN Women together with ECLAC achieved to position Care as the main issue of discussion for the next Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean to take place in Mexico in 2025 through an agreement adopted during the Sixty-fifth Meeting of the Presiding Officers held in Santiago, Chile in October 2023.
Furthermore, taking advantage of the special opportunity opened by the EU-CELAC Summit held in Brussels in July 2023, UN Women worked to position Care also at the center of the Bi-regional discussions . In this regard, UN Women in alliance with ECLAC and the EU-LAC Foundation and the support of the government of Argentina, promoted the adoption of a bi-regional Pact for Care between Latin America and the Caribbean and the European Union, with the aim of promoting cooperation in public policies and comprehensive care systems between the countries of both regions. The proposal of the Pact was presented during the EU-LAC Gender Equality Forum held in Berlin on May 11 and 12, convened by the EU-LAC Foundation, where, in addition to Argentina, the governments of Germany, Mexico and Spain added their support. The pact was also included in the Declaration of the EU-LAC Civil Society Forum held in Brussels in July, prior to the EU-CELAC Summit . Furthermore, the proposal of the bi-regional Pact for care was included in the commitment to advance gender equality signed by several women parliamentarians from the EU and Latin America during the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (EuroLat) held in Madrid in July 2023, urging "to strengthen bi-regional cooperation to ensure the right to care, to receive care and self-care in conditions of equality and quality and therefore, to advance in the consolidation and financing of comprehensive care systems" as well as in the Declaration of the Bureau of the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly held in October 2023 in Santo Domingo expressing the "need to adopt a gender approach in the framework of EU - CELAC relations, promoting a bi-regional pact for care based on the European Care Strategy and the Buenos Aires Commitment that enhances cooperation on public policies and comprehensive care systems". Finally, in October 2023, the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, during the Sixty-fifth Meeting , agreed to encourage ECLAC and UN Women together with the EU-LAC Foundation, to promote the bi-regional pact for care "with the aim of promoting cooperation on public policies and comprehensive care systems with a gender perspective between the countries of both regions, within the framework of the implementation of the Buenos Aires Commitment and the European Care Strategy, and to promote cooperation initiatives in this area with other regions of the world". In 2024 the work to position the Pact will continue.
Finally during 2023 UN Women ACRO continue to support care work at the global level, supporting the Global Alliance for Care which already reached 168 members (including national and local governments, international organizations, private and philanthropic organizations, and civil society organizations), becoming the largest multi-stakeholder engagement platform to date that promotes a transformation of the care economy globally. As part of the Alliance and in partnership with the EU-LAC Foundation, ECLAC and the National Women’s Institute of Mexico (INMUJERES) UN Women ACRO conducted a series of five interregional dialogues on Comprehensive Care Systems , to place the priority populations that receive and provide care at the center.
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World Bank Income Classification:Low Income
The World Bank classifies economies for analytical purposes into four income groups: low, lower-middle, upper-middle, and high income. For this purpose it uses gross national income (GNI) per capita data in U.S. dollars, converted from local currency using the World Bank Atlas method, which is applied to smooth exchange rate fluctuations.
