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When Brazil assumed the G20 presidency in 2024, it was encouraging to see an immediate emphasis on issues important to gender equality, including social inclusion and sustainable development. This, coupled with the advent of the new ministerial Women’s Empowerment Working Group, signaled a promising...

The insinuation that the informal work of bringing up families, cultures, and values is less real than the formal work of paid employment reflects a crucial mindset shift that still needs to happen. Care work is real work. It may be informal and undervalued, but it is real work.

Now is an opportune time for bilateral and multilateral donors to invest in early childhood development and childcare in fragile, conflict, and violence settings, as the International Development Association replenishment, IDA21, is underway. Unfortunately, the proposed IDA21 policy package reflects...

The Center for Global Development has been working to inform an innovative approach to addressing challenges in settings affected by fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV), which brings together the early childhood development (ECD), childcare, and gender equality sectors to center FCV investments ...

In an effort to drive policy change and support global coordination efforts on the care economy, a new Global Roadmap for Action on the Care Economy (GRAC) has been developed by Center for Global Development, The Asia Foundation, CIPPEC, Women Deliver, and the International Center for Research on Wo...

IDA21 risks setting a very unfortunate precedent by sharply reducing the scale and scope of its policy commitments on gender. Shareholders need to seize the moment to ensure that this does not happen.

As many countries around the world prepare to celebrate Mothers’ Day weekend, including in the United States, care is at the top of many people’s minds. This theme resonates from intimate household spaces to the broad corridors of global policy. The G20 is one global policy space where, each year, i...

In the wake of COVID and amidst global crises, care has increasingly become recognized as a global issue critical for sustainable development and gender equality. Yet, there are still massive gaps in care policies, services, and financing, and there is much more work that needs to happen to ensure u...

When discussing the connection between early childhood care (ECC) and women’s economic empowerment with policymakers, donors, and practitioners, we often come across five pervasive misconceptions dismissing the case for investing in ECC in Africa. Our research, however, tells a different story. We f...