Care in Movement: Gender, Migration and the Future of the Care Economy

FORGE and Fundación Avina are excited to announce the final virtual session in the Democracy at Work Fund conversation series with our inaugural grantee partners, “Care in Movement: Gender, Migration and the Future of the Care Economy.”

This session will explore the intersection between care work, gender justice, and migration patterns in our regions, examining personal attention like nursing, domestic work and indirect care work like cleaning.

Please join us on Thursday, December 4 at 8am ET to hear from representatives of:

Astradomes – Costa Rica
Strengthen domestic workers’ capacities, improve conditions for both affiliated and non-affiliated workers in Costa Rica, and promote a care political agenda. The project focuses on generating knowledge for decision-makers, implementing communication strategies, promoting non-electoral political leadership, capacity-building, and evaluating progress.

Uganda Nurses & Midwives Union (UNMU) – Uganda
The project seeks to improve the precarious working conditions and reduce the lack of unionization among nurses and midwives employed in the private sector in the Kampala metropolitan area, Uganda, through organizational efforts, including actor mapping, organizer training, development of an online tool, awareness visits, production of organizational materials, and evaluation tasks.

National Union of Workers in Hospital Support & Allied Services (NUWHSAS) – Malaysia
The project aims to address casualization, the effects of privatization, short-term contracts for regular tasks, the closure of civic space and the reduction of democratic rights for hospital cleaners’ unions in the eastern, central and southern regions of Malaysia by organizing and organizing hospital cleaners, campaigns to demand better conditions, actions to challenge short-term contracts, expand union presence and membership, innovation in internal processes for union organizing, cross-movement with other issues and sectors of civil society.