Care systems
A toolkit for local policymakers
We all need care and support throughout our lives. Cities play a key role in fostering services and programs that ensure all peoples’ care needs are met. Effective care policies take a transformative, integrated, gender-sensitive and systemic approach, accounting for the voices and aspirations of caregivers and care-receivers.
This toolkit offers cities strategies to Recognize, Reduce and Redistribute unpaid care work and Reward and Represent care workers. Select one of the sections below to explore local challenges, policy solutions and case studies—in line with ILO’s 5R Framework for Decent Care Work. Alternatively, you can explore the full list of policy solutions.
