Agenda. Who Cares? Unpacking care work: Various dimensions of care work

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1 Agenda Who Cares? National Convention on Advocacy for Care Work 16 th & 17 th of February 2015 Deputy Speaker Hall Constitution Club, Rafi Marg, New Delhi Day One 9.15 am Registration 9.50 am Welcome Sandeep Chachra, Executive Director, ActionAid India am Political Economy of unpaid care work Chair: Padma Bhushan Devaki Jain, Senior Feminist Economist. Unpacking care work: Various dimensions of care work Care in the neo-liberal economic model: International policies and their impact on women s and girls unpaid care work. Indira Hirway, Director and Professor of Economics at Center for Develoent Alternatives, Ahmedabad. Jayati Ghosh, professor of economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, JNU, New Delhi Construction of labour hierarchy in India Chirashree Das Gupta, Associate Professor, School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi. Linkages in paid and unpaid care work Neetha N., Associate Professor, Centre for Women s Develoent Studies, Delhi The impact of unpaid care on women and girls rights : Chair: Ritu Dewan, Director, Center for Develoent Research & Action, Mumbai. Girl Child labour issues and challenges. Preet Rustagi, professor, institute of human develoent

2 Whither child care provisions? Sudeshna Sen Gupta, Mobile Creches to 4.00 Women Subsidizing Health Lunch Break Who Delivers: Delivering care and the rights of care providers Saswati Ghosh, Economist, City College, Kolkata. Chair: Ananya Bhattacharya, President, Garment and Allied Worker Union. Provisions for maternity benefits: Institutional mechanisms and gaps in providing support during and after pregnancy. Sejal Dand, Director, ANANDI, Gujarat Do not call me a volunteer, I am worker: Women in care sector. Dipa Sinha, Right to Food Campaigner and Research Scholar, JNU Challenges in Recognition and valuation of women s care work Chair: Neetha N., Associate Professor, Centre for Women s Develoent Studies, Delhi Women s right to work: policy instruments countries putting in place. Reiko Tsushima, Senior Gender Specialist, ILO. Care work and political participation and politicization of women and problems of organizing. Sr. Lissy Joseph, National coordinator, National Domestic Workers Movement. Care work and young women in urban areas Bijaylaxmi Nanda, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Miranda House, Delhi University please scroll down to next page for Day 2.

3 Day Two am Challenges in Recognition and valuation of women s care work (continue) Chair: Devika Singh, Co-founder, Mobile Creches. Care work, capitalist structure and violence against women. Who cares for care providers? Unpaid care and women worker s right to social security. Ananya Bhattacharya, President, Garment and Allied Worker Union. Sharit Bhowmik, Professor and Chairperson, School of Management and Labour Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences am am am to A caring and sustainable Economy Agenda for Change Priti Darooka, PWESCR, Delhi. executive director of Caring Initiatives: A Caring constitution: Unpaid Care work in Venezuelan constitution. Susana Barria, Public services international (PSI) to 1.30 Some caring judgements. Time sheets for recognition by care providers. Analyzing policies with care lense. Men sharing care: MASWA Experience Global context and campaigns and movements in India? Risha Syed, Feminist Lawyer. Indira Rani N., Programme Manager, ActionAid, Hyderabad. Chandan Kumar, National Coordinator, Bonded labour Programme, ActionAid, Delhi. Mahendra, MASWA. Chair: Arundhati Dhuru, National Alliance for People s Movement. International Processes: Advocating unpaid care in the post 2015 agenda. Ranja Sen Gupta, Third World Network. Care work and campaiagns and movements in India: Opportunities and Constraints Priti Darooka, executive director of PWESCR, Delhi. Global movements: Challenges and entry points. Deepta Chopra, IDS, UK Lunch Break Importance of CARE LENS for state policies and programmes and Road Map Moderators:

4 Group work: Finding sustainable models for care provision that respects, protects and fulfil women s rights and does not exploit women s labour. Specific asks for public policies to be transformed to recognise and value paid and unpaid care work and make provisions to reduce and redistribute the care work responsibility towards state and employers. An Agenda for Change Values, Structures and Institutions. Devika Singh, Co- Founder, Mobile Creches. Dipa Sinha, Right to Food Campaigner and Research Scholar, JNU. Sudeshna Sengupta,Senior Manager, Advocacy, Mobile Creches, New Delhi. Saswati Ghosh, Economist, City College, Kolkata. Jameela Nishat, Shaheen, Hyderabad Panel Discussion: Can the Media Share the 'Care' Load? Topics of discussion Moderated by: Akhila Sivadas, Executive Director, Centre for Advocacy and Research What does it take to bring Care Work as a main agenda in Mainstream media? How can the media bring the public opinion in favour of a shared care work? The changing portrayal of women in adverts and films - socially relevant advertising - where commercial aspirations meet social objectives Can alternative media be the harbinger of social change? Panel Member T.K. Rajalaksmi Deputy Editor, The Frontline Bhasha Singh - Assistant Editor, Outlook Swati Bhattacharya Principal Partner, Dentsu India Neha Dixit - Independent Journalist Subhajit Sengupta Journalist, CNN IBN Panel Discussion: How to make policies caring for care providers? Topics of Discussion: Moderated by: Annie Raja, General Secretary, National Federation of Indian Women. Panel Member Pam Rajput, Head, High Level Committee on the status of women and Founder, Center for Women's Studies, Punjab University. Reena Gupta, member of the Aam Aadmi Party policy team. (tbc)

5 5.45 Vote of Thanks Sehjo Singh, Programme Policy Director, ActionAid India.