Reducing and Redistributing Women’s Unpaid Care Work in Livestock Systems: Evidence and Tools from Kenya & Ethiopia
Ripple Effect
Discover how bundled socio-technical innovations can improve work balance and enhance women’s empowerment in smallholder livestock systems, drawing on evidence and practical tools from Kenya & Ethiopia.
Women and girls in rural Kenya and Ethiopia often carry a disproportionate share of unpaid care work—cooking, collecting water and firewood, caring for children and older family members, and supporting household livelihoods. In smallholder livestock systems, the daily labour of fetching water and transporting forage for animals can add hours of physically demanding work, restricting women’s time for paid work, leadership, education, and wellbeing.
To address this hidden burden, Ripple Effect – together with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Centre for Rights Education and Awareness (CREAW), Women Empowerment Action, and We Effect, with funding from the International Development Research Corporation – is implementing the Scaling Innovations for Reduced and Redistributed Women’s Unpaid Care Work (I4RR) project in Bungoma County, Kenya and Wolayta, Ethiopia. The project is testing a socio-technical bundle of innovations—including improved forage production, the use of donkeys to transport water and feed, and gender-transformative approaches such as THM and SASA! (Start, Awareness, Support, Action)—to reduce and redistribute unpaid care work and strengthen women’s empowerment.
This webinar brings together researchers and implementers to share early evidence, implementation lessons, and practical ways participants can adapt the SASA! tool to their own contexts.
What you’ll learn
- What the research is testing, why it matters, and emerging insights from Kenya and Ethiopia
- How bundling childcare services with livestock feed innovations can reduce and redistribute unpaid care work
- Implementation experience and lessons from partner organisations
- How changes in power relations and empowerment are assessed (including links between SASA and empowerment measurement approaches)
- How to adapt and apply the SASA! guiding questions and related survey tools to your own programme area
Who should attend
Programme implementers, researchers, policymakers, funders, and practitioners working on:
- gender equality and women’s empowerment
- rural livelihoods and livestock systems
- childcare and care services
- labour-saving technologies
- gender-transformative approaches and social norms change
Speakers and agenda
Speakers and agenda will be announced soon!
We hope to see you there — register today to secure your place.
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