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GENERAL OBJECTIVE
Contribute to the formulation of proposals that will integrate the care component as a central axis of development and which will give value to care, collective responsibility and gender equality in the provision of care.
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SPECIFIC OBJETIVES
- Generate reliable data on the role of feminine migration – intra and extra-regional - in the social reorganization of care of two destination countries (Chile and Spain) originating from three Latin American countries (Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia) which focuses on the dynamics of the creation and function of global care chains and the effects of women’s migration on the social reorganization of care in their countries of origin; and on (b) the key actors involved in the articulation of the mentioned global care chains;
- Create/strengthen the dialogue between the women inserted in the various links of global care chains concerning the demands pertinent to the social organization of care and the public policy recommendations regarding the provision of care;
- Disseminate and raise awareness on the social importance of care work in general and the global care chains in particular, and on the viewpoint of women themselves concerning the need for change in the social organization of care, placing the issue in the global agenda.
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PROJECT COMPONENTS
The project has three components:
1. Diagnosis (research and analysis component):
Diagnosis (research and analysis component): with this diagnosis the aim is to understand the dynamic processes of global care chains and to identify the key actors who are involved in their articulation, as well as the formal and informal structures that influence the women who play a leading role in the chains. The identification of the key issues to be analyzed and the methods to be used will bethe objective of the first action of the research component. The elaboration of the conceptual and methodological framework includes specific provisional elements: identification of links in the chains and the conditions in which care is offered in each one of them; the logic guiding the confirmation of chains and the care labour offered within them (search for remuneration, feeling of responsibility/solidarity/coercion…); the actors who play a leading role (state, informal sector, businesses, domestic groups) and the different participation of women and men.
The foreseen methodology is of a qualitative nature. Quantitative data will be obtained through secondary sources and the project will focus on the gathering of primary data through in depth interviews and focus groups.
2. Political dialogue component
 A dialogue is sought between the women who are inserted in the different chain links for the creation of networks amongst them and to advance in the purpose of the proposals in order to achieve change in the social organization of care at transnational level. A corresponding issue to this component is that gender has a strong bearing on the social organization of care, therefore there is a particular interest in highlighting the role of women as actors of change within this topic as those that have been historically responsible for providing care. Yet despite the gendered association of care with women, it cannot be assumed that all women share the same interests and critiques therefore the products of the process of dialogue, an exchange of experiences and the formation of alliances are significant. Ultimately it is important to develop proposals and recommendations at a transnational level which transcends borders in order to influence public policies on the provision of care and hopefully impact a transformation in the distribution of work responsibilities concerning care.
The main tool responsible for the functioning of this component will be the dialogue platforms constituted in each of the countries.
This political dialogue component seeks to insert itself in processes already in course, strengthening them and providing them with resources that will allow for a richer and more effective debate. The objective is, to articulate the existing spaces since it is believed that the establishment of political debates in civil society can only be the result of the dynamics created by the civil society itself. For this reason, an effort will be made to integrate the dialogue platforms from different structures (with different degrees of formalization) that assemble women who are key participants in the chains. Amongst the feminist organizations are migrant women, indigenous women, elderly women, women with incapacity, domestic workers, workers in other care services, etc. The aim is to gather women who play a key role in the chains, both as caregivers and receivers of care, in the understanding that there is no clear division between giving and receiving care, but a continuum with different degrees of interdependence.
3. Communication and awareness-raising components
Throughout the project communication will be a priority and a tool to promote changes in attitudes and behaviour that will lead to a more equitable distribution of care work and encourage social rights for the women who are engaged in work in this sector.
Through communication and advocacy the project aims to strengthen the capacity of both women and men who are involved in this work as well as the forms of communication that address this issue. The project also aims to facilitate the exchange of experiences, data and knowledge.
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Phase 1 (September 2008-May 2009)
In this first phase, the weight falls on the research and analysis component. In the first place, the definition of the conceptual and methodological framework will allow for the initiation of research in the different countries. Research initiation in each country will be at the same time that the dialogue platforms are constituted so that as mentioned before, the research can be endowed with the most participative character as possible. The analysis in each corridor will have double content: the understanding of the own constitution process of the chains and the mapping of key actors. After the drafting of the country reports, a global report will be prepared to obtain an understanding of the chains that make up the interregional and extraregional migration. This phase will end when the inputs that feed the political dialogue are available, that is: reliable and homogeneous data on the processes for the form the chains and the identification of the different agents involved in its articulation, understanding its nature and roles.
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Phase 2 (July 2009-November 2009)
The second phase focuses on the political dialogue component, both at national and transnational level. Equally, the communications and awareness-raising component will acquire greater importance. Therefore, in this phase efforts will be made to articulate the dialogue with the final objective of identifying demands and proposals for change, as well as action mechanisms to articulate them (identification of social actors to whom the proposals should be addressed and mechanisms for doing it), all this at two levels, national and transnational. These debates will end with the formulation of a document on the demands and proposals for change in each project country. Also in this phase, the functioning of the platforms and the additional communications activities are particularly important for participation in national and international forums and will be the key mechanism through which the issue on the social organization of care in public development agendas will be inserted. Lastly, a document will be prepared on learned lessons and proposals for change that will include essential issues on: the homogenization of the analysis framework on the organization of care from a transnational viewpoint; the comparative analysis on the formation of global care chains as far as migratory corridors are concerned and proposals for change from the women who play a key role in the chains on the social organization of care as an integral element of development models.
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