Take care Life is collective

• Antioquia Governor´s Office, though its Secretariat for Women. A trust-based working relationship has been built with this public entity since 2021, around the design and implementation of a pilot test on Care Economy Plans. This background has made it possible the articulation to work in partnership and contribute to the implementation of the Departmental System of Care.
• Antioquia Federation of NGOs (FAONG in Spanish). It is a social organization that brings together 90 social organizations of Antioquia. In this project it is a relevant player that convenes the federated organizations of Antioquia to participate in the project's offer of interest for them.
• Comfenalco Antioquia. Private sector entity with whom we have planned to implement actions to strengthening the youth school for social and political leadership. It also seeks to influence the business sector, based on this organization's experience in labor inclusion processes with a gender perspective.
• Telefónica Foundation. They will be responsible for guiding the training process to strengthen digital skills that favor access to employment or the development of undertakings by young women.

This project aims to raise awareness and acknowledgement of the sexual division of labor and its relationship with the violence that women have experienced, such as the control of their bodies and sexuality, the restrictions and dispossession of their patrimony, the social and economic devaluation of domestic work and the systematic restriction of access to material resources, which hinder their economic autonomy. 

Through a set of pedagogical and communication activities, opportunity-generating actions and a strategy of social and political advocacy, the project goal is to contribute to the closure of gender gaps in the targeted territories of Antioquia, by achieving redistribution of unpaid care work in the home and the promotion of women's economic empowerment.

• Improvement of public planning mechanisms to contribute to closing gender gaps in 9 municipalities of Antioquia. 1a. Improvement of sociocultural attitudes and practices that promote the acknowledgement, reduction of time and redistribution of unpaid care work;
• Increase in the number of women developing livelihoods (employment or undertaking);
• Increase in the number of young people participating in social, economic, and political scenarios that promote the closing of gender gaps.