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Care in Latin America and the Caribbean during the COVID-19: Towards comprehensive systems to strengthen response and recovery

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The construction of comprehensive care systems is a fundamental factor in achieving the empowerment of women and gender equality, and it is a key element in socioeconomic recovery in that it creates jobs both directly and indirectly and enables other sectors of the economy to function adequately. For these reasons, UN Women and ECLAC are calling for the governments in the region to put care at the center of their responses to COVID-19, by creating incentive and recovery packages, promoting comprehensive systems that ensure access to care for people who need it, and guaranteeing the rights of those who provide it. These comprehensive care systems can become a real driver for a socioeconomic recovery which leaves nobody behind. This document substantiates the importance of care work for societies, defines the care sector’s current condition in Latin America and the Caribbean and describes the impacts caused by the COVID-19 crisis, as well as the contingency measures that have been implemented in various countries in the region to address the crisis. The document concludes with a series of policy recommendations to address the care crisis as a way out of the COVID-19 crisis.

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  • -, 2020. "Care in Latin America and the Caribbean during the COVID-19: Towards comprehensive systems to strengthen response and recovery," Coediciones, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), number 45917.
  • Handle: RePEc:ecr:col013:45917
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    1. -, 2020. "Risks of the COVID-19 pandemic for the exercise of women’s sexual and reproductive rights," Libros y Documentos Institucionales, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), number 46508 edited by Eclac, May.
    2. -, 2022. "Towards transformation of the development model in Latin America and the Caribbean: production, inclusion and sustainability," Libros y Documentos Institucionales, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), number 48309 edited by Eclac, May.
    3. -, 2022. "Towards transformation of the development model in Latin America and the Caribbean: production, inclusion and sustainability," Documentos de posición del período de sesiones de la Comisión 48309, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).
    4. Abramo, Laís, 2022. "Policies to address the challenges of existing and new forms of informality in Latin America," Políticas Sociales 47774, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).
    5. -, 2022. "Toolkit. Institutional frameworks for social policies for equality in Latin America and the Caribbean," Sede de la CEPAL en Santiago (Estudios e Investigaciones) 48070, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).
    6. Vaca-Trigo, Iliana & Bidegain Ponte, Nicole & Scuro Somma, Lucía, 2020. "Women’s economic autonomy during the COVID-19 pandemic," Revista CEPAL, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), December.

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