Report of Rapid Care Assessment conducted in Isoso village, Kishapu district
16/August/2013
Moderator: Azimio Mbegu, - Sisal Value Chain Advisor, Oxfam shinyanga
Others: Emanuel kitundu – DCP Kishapu district
Charles Buregeya – redeso Programme manager,
Ibrahim Mhazi – REDESO Assistant programme manager
1. Introduction
Care work refers to the many services and goods that women provides in their homes that households consumes yet are not reflected in economic measurements. However, these works make women to forego their basic rights to educations, economic activities, healthcare, and leisure time to balance these activities. These are said to perpetuate gender inequality, reinforce gender norms and keeps women and girls in poverty lifecycles.
This is the one day draft Rapid Care Analysis report conducted in August 2013 to sisal women producers in Kishapu district in Shinyanga region. The objective of this exercise was to uncover less understood barriers affecting women’s effective participation in sisal economic activities and hence inequality benefits from the project. While Oxfam programs strive to put women at the heart of its activities only few women’s are regularly reported to benefit. This can be due to many contributing factors but unpaid care work is the main stake. The draft report is organized into Introduction, Methodology, Results and Conclusion chapter. Visible evidence from these findings can trigger to a well organized study covering a large area and involving key stakeholders from household, community and state level to tackle issues related to gender normns which require high level of intervention and involvement of people as in some cases is sensitive to peoples beliefs and living and have been believed and practiced for centuries and might require a collaborative force to tackle it. These visible evidences are assumed to contribute to a well future good study by all stakeholders within the region for better understanding and solving this through recognistion, redistribution, reduction and share of unpaid care work from household, community and to state level.
Visible evidences might contribute to a well detailed study by stakeholders of finding key problems and solutions for addressing inequality by age, status, gender, wealth groups within the community.
2. Description of method
The rapid care analysis exercise was conducted in Isoso village in Kishapu district. A group of 10 women were randomly selected from sisal producer groups found in the village. The exercise conducted per individual. Each woman was asked to recall the last day activity done and respective time used. The facilitator questions were categorized in the following areas; Time used on products for sale, Paid labour/services, Unpaid care work, Unpaid care work producing products for home consumption, Unpaid community work and time used for non work. A table indicating activities, time and simultaneously activity was drawn and a facilitator supported them to fill. Time for each main and secondary activity was recorded. Average time was multiplied by seven to obtain time allocated to each activity in a week.
2.1 Data collection process
Firstly participants were requested to record all their main daily activities plus the simultaneous activities and then Facilitators supported them to fill the table accordingly (simultaneous activities). Secondly they were requested to estimate time spent per activity. Finally they were supposed to mark if it is paid or unpaid activity.
2.2 Data processing and analysis
The table below indicate time spent per main activities and simultaneous respectively. The total number of time spent by the single person was multiplied per seven to represent a week. This number was finally divided by 10 to get the average number spent by the whole population per week for each category of work.
Categories of work/activities / DAILY Totals / Yesterday’s main activities x 7 days All participants / Estimated weekly hours for womenMain / Simultaneous / Main / Simultaneous
1. PRODUCTION for SALE
· Harvesting sisal leaves
· Head transport & hand processing / 1.05
2 / 1
1 / 2,1.5;0.5;0;1;1;1;1.5;1.;1.
1.5;2;2;2.5;2;3;1;2;2;2. / 7
14 / 7
7
2. PAID LABOUR/ PAID SERVICES Agriculture waged work / 0 / O / 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 / 0 / 0
3. UNPAID CARE WORK
a) Water collection / 3.1 / 2 / 3;4;4;2;3;3;3;3.5;2.5;3. / 21.7 / 14
b) Fuel collection / 2. / 0 / 2;3;2;1;2;2;2;3;1.5;2 / 14 / 0
c) Cooking / 2.95 / 1 / 2;3;3;3;3;2;3;3;4;3.5. / 22.05 / 7
d) Household moral support / 4.45 / 0 / 2;4;4;6;5;4.5;4;5;5.5;4.5. / 35 / 0
4. Unpaid PRODUCTD for home consumption / 0 / 0 / 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 / 0 / 0
5. Unpaid COMMUNITY WORK / 1.3 / 0 / 1;2;2;1;1;1;1;1;1;2. / 0 / 0
6. Non work-sleep, / 7 / 0 / 6,7,7,6,6,7,7,8,8,7
TOTALS / 12.6 / 5 / 88.2 / 35
Conclusion
The result shows that sisal producer women spent less than 3.05 hours per day equal to 12.7% of their day time on productive work for economic activities and spent at least 12.5 hours per day equal to 52% of their daily time on the unpaid care work providing services and goods for their households. This therefore much time of women’s daily activities is allocated to unpaid care work rather than production for sale or paid labour/service. It is not suppressing from the result that, even those unpaid product for home consumption work did not appeared; this is off season, villagers have already harvested their crops. Nevertheless men are engaged to different paid labour such as working in cotton ginneries, brick making, transportation of sisal leave and cotton as well as doing business.
Using this sisal case study, Rapid care analysis is very critical for uncovering les understood reasons and barriers to women and girls less participation and their ability to benefit equally from our programmers’. And can help and lead to develop programs which consider unpaid care work.
Appendix: Participants list
S/No. / Name / Mob. Number1 / Monica Edward / 0752360083
2 / Rebeka Saidi / 0784059241
3 / Joyce John / 0689158221
4 / Lidiya Lucas / 0783171476
5 / Ted Mapunda / 0755217740
6 / Martha Emanuel / 0769751088
7 / Salome John / 0683797423
8 / Stela Pius / 0765191461
9 / Mwashada Yusuphu / 0652941479
10 / Emiliana Charles / 0689945339