2025 Asia-Pacific Care Learning Week

Care – for children, persons with disabilities, older persons and other vulnerable groups – is a right, a shared responsibility and essential for families, societies, and economies to function and thrive. However, globally women and girls bear a disproportionate amount of unpaid care work compared to men, a similar reality in Asia-Pacific. The disproportionate share of caregiving responsibilities often borne by women and girls is one of the main reasons women do not join the labour market, and girls miss important opportunities to learn and thrive.

The current state of care systems fails to provide care receivers with sufficient, accessible and quality care and support services. The lack of care support and services contributes to women and girls taking up precarious work or dropping out of their jobs and education. Similarly, paid care jobs – which often employ women, many of whom are migrants – do not offer decent working conditions, leaving them with low wages and limited protections.

UN Women’s regionally spearheaded TransformCare Investment Initiative Asia-Pacific (TCII-AP) is a UN Women-convened initiative to make care systems prosperous for people and the planet in Asia-Pacific.

The TRANSFORM CARE FACILITY, led by the UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, in close collaboration with UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office and UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia, UN Women Knowledge and Partnership Centre in the Republic of Korea, the Global Alliance for Care, ESCAP, Government of Norway, Oxfam, The Government of Sweden, and supported by the European Union and United Nations joint programme, Empowered Women, Prosperous Nepal (EWPN) and key partners will be organizing the 2025 Asia-Pacific Care Learning Week and the 2025 Asia Pacific Care Forum (02 -05th September 2025) in Kathmandu, Nepal.

The Asia-Pacific Care Learning Week will support countries across Asia-Pacific to build their ability to Transform Care Systems through tangible actions. Set over four days, the 2025 Asia-Pacific Care Learning Week will focus on a training for selected participants for deepening implementation of recommendations from the 2024 Asia-Pacific Care Forum, building on progress made so far in advancing transformed care systems so that more women can benefit and thrive in political, economic and social life. It will conclude with the 2025 Asia-Pacific Care Forum, aiming to foster South-South collaboration, learning and exchange on care and showcase best practices from our region.

Governments, civil society organizations, private sector, and key development actors from the region are invited to attend. 

TransformCare Training: 02-04 September 2025, limited up to 30-40 participants including governments and women’s organizations. 

Asia-Pacific Care Forum: 04-05 September 2025, will bring together 100 participants, including government, civil society organizations, private sector and key development actors from the region.

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