Simeen Mahmud, Coordinator, CGST and Dr. Sohela Nazneen, Lead Researcher, CGST participated as panelists in another seminar on “Women’s economic empowerment: who cares?” at IDS, University of Sussex on 10 October, 2013. This seminar brought together researchers from the SMERU Research Institute in Indonesia, the Centre for Gender and Social Transformation (CGST) at BRAC University, Actionaid International and IDS to discuss their work on trying to raise the visibility of unpaid care work in development policy.
Panelist from BRAC Development Institute (BDI) BRAC University discussed why unpaid care does not feature get on the national development agenda in Bangladesh and how to get unpaid care into the development policy agenda. Deepta Chopra (IDS), Rachel Nurbani (SMERU), Widjajanti Isdijoso Suharyo (SMERU), Rachel Moussie (ActionAid) and Naomi Hossain (IDS) were other panelists in the seminar. A two-day planning meeting on October 11-12 was held at IDS to discuss and formulate the future activities for the project on unpaid care work in the year 2014.