Events

Webinar calendar_today October 28, 2026

From Invisible Work to Public Responsibility: African Solutions for Transforming Care

Across Africa, caregivers sustain households, livelihoods and communities, yet much of this work remains unsupported and invisible. To mark the International Day of Care & Support, this #VoicesOfCare webinar will bring together four projects from the Africa Cares Together Community of Practice (ACT CoP) to share what they are learning about transforming care in different […]

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Conference session calendar_today July 11, 2026

IAFEE Roundtable: Lessons from Social Movements: Translating Feminist Economic Principles into Policy and Institutional Change

ACT CoP members are hosting a roundtable session at the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) Annual Conference, which takes place in Cali, Colombia from 9 – 11 July 2026. The roundtable explores what contemporary social movements can teach us about translating feminist economic principles into durable policy, institutional and cultural change, with a particular […]

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Webinar calendar_today July 16, 2026

The Feminist Economics of Care: Making the Financing Case for Africa

Across Africa, women and girls shoulder the vast majority of paid and unpaid care work, playing a critical role in sustaining households, economies and social wellbeing. Yet care remain systematically undervalued, underfunded, and excluded from macroeconomic planning and national financing priorities. As austerity measures, debt burdens and cuts to public services deepen the care crisis, […]

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Conference side event calendar_today April 28, 2026

Reimagining Diverse Care Infrastructures for Just and Feminist Futures

This Women Deliver side-session explores how care infrastructures – both social and physical can be reimagined and implemented to build just and feminist futures. Social care infrastructures include the norms, practices, connections and laws that recognise the value of unpaid care and aim to redistribute women’s disproportionately heavy responsibilities of providing care to their families […]

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Workshop calendar_today 6-9 Oct 2025

The Scaling Care Innovations in Africa (SCIA) Mid-Term Workshop

The Scaling Care Innovations in Africa (SCIA) Mid-Term Workshop convened a diverse coalition of researchers, policymakers, women’s rights activists, and advocates committed to advancing care-centered development across sub-Saharan Africa. This four-day workshop marked a pivotal milestone in the five-year SCIA program, a flagship initiative jointly developed by the International Development Research Centre and Global Affairs […]

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