It will take 157 years to achieve gender equality with the current trend, and the lack of it severely reduces our ability to reach the SDGs. Unpaid care work is a major culprit, as it limits women’s options for education, work, and entrepreneurship. Over 600 million women worldwide are unavailable for paid work due to obligations with family and childcare.
Luckily, there is a highly impactful measure at our disposal that has until now been underutilised: Early Childhood Care and Education. It is a ‘Triple Win’: freeing women’s time to work, improves children’s health and development, and is a large growth creator through new jobs, businesses, taxes, and increased productivity.
The lack of childcare infrastructure is the last obstacle for women to work and combat poverty.
International Labour Organization
Early Childhood Care and Education
Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) is the bedrock of our work, lifted by our 4 main tools – quality assurance, education, centre-based childcare, and value-chain creation.
These tools encompass direct project implementation as well as transformative awareness-raising, to ensure that social justice and internationally recognised human rights are realised in practice, not just in theory.
Quality Assurance
Education
Centre-based Childcare
Value-chain creation
Quality Assurance
Development of the policies and legal framework needed to ensure quality across a country.
PfC is a civil society organisation specialising in creating cost-effective partner coalitions to achieve shared goals. We partner with philanthropists, governments, businesses, and grassroots changemakers, leveraging expertise and resources to implement lasting social change. Here are some options for those interested in partnering and/or learning more about our work.
