Better Practices in Legislation, Policy, and Financing Subsidised Care Systems: Using the “5R” Approach and Principles
Workshop for Caribbean Parliamentarians

JOINT STATEMENT

RESOURCES:

• FAQs: What is unpaid care work and how does it power the economy? UN Women, 2025.
• The Right to Care in Latin America and the Caribbean: Progress on the Regulatory Front. UN Women, ECLAC, and ILO, 2025.
• A toolkit on paid and unpaid care work: From 3Rs to 5Rs. UN Women, 2022.
• Towards a Care Society: The Contributions of the Regional Gender Agenda to Sustainable Development. ECLAC, 2021.
• Towards the Construction of Comprehensive Care Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: Elements of Implementation. UN Women and ECLAC, 2021.
• Inter-American Model Law on Care. OAS and CIM, 2022.
• Policy Guide: Parental Leave. ParlAmericas, 2020.
• Lactation and Daycare Facilities in Parliaments. ParlAmericas, 2023.
• Intersectionality. ParlAmericas.
• Intergenerational Perspectives in Parliamentary Work. ParlAmericas, 2025.
• Gender Sensitivity in Legislation. ParlAmericas.
• What we Heard: Survey of Women’s Organisations on their Engagement with Parliaments. ParlAmericas, 2022.
• Strengthening Accountability: A Tool to Support Good Governance and Gender Equality in the Caribbean. ParlAmericas, 2025.
• Making the Case: Key Gender Considerations for Addressing Development Challenges in Caribbean SIDS. ParlAmericas, 2024.
• Advisory opinion 31 of 2025: The Content and Scope of Care as a Human Right. Inter-American Court of Human Rights, 2025.
• Knowledge Products for the Gender Aware Beneficiary Assessments for the Public Assistance Programmes for Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. UN Women Multi-Country Office Caribbean.
• Unpaid care and domestic work. UN Women Multi-Country Office Caribbean.

PRESENTATIONS 

• Current National Care Laws and Policies, UN Women Multi-Country Office – Caribbean
• Guyana’s Birth Through Life Care System, The Honourable Mischka White-Griffith (Guyana), Member of Parliament and Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Education
• Emerging Good Practices in Care Policies and Legislation, Chantal La Roche, Director of Legal Services, Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago
• Inter-American Model Law on Care, Beatriz Piñeres, Specialist, Inter-American Commission of Women, Organization of American States (CIM-OAS)
• Financing Care Systems – Evidence, Gaps, and Policy Options, Mahalia Jackman, UN Women technical expert and Head of the Department of Economics, The University of the West Indies – Cave Hill Campus
• Gender-Responsive Social Protection and Care Service Delivery, Kimberly-Ann Gittens-Baynes, UN Women technical expert and researcher in social protection, health policy, and economic evaluation