Busan — Gender responsive budgeting becomes important when seen in the background of unpaid but important care work done by women, say delegates to an international meet on aid effectiveness in this South Korean city.
“In Africa, a majority of women spend a majority of their working hours doing chores that sustain life such as cooking, cleaning and fetching water while producing and caring for the human resource,” Richard Ssewakiryanga, executive director of the Uganda National NGO Forum, told IPS.
Women’s work is unacknowledged, unaccounted for and, therefore, unremunerated, said Ssewakiryanga, a member of the BetterAid Global Facilitation Group.
Categories: Africa, Women Rights