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<p>Over recent decades, Latin American countries have made progress in implementing care-oriented public policies. A celebrated example is the District Care System (SIDICU) introduced in Bogotá, Colombia, in 2020. The policy aims at alleviating women’s unremunerated care burden through social services, education and recreational activities offered at Care Blocks (<i>Manzanas del Cuidado</i>) in underprivileged urban areas. Here we examined the policy’s effects on the care burden of low-income women through ethnographic observation, interviews and focus groups. Our research confirms that the program has improved the recognition of care work’s value. It also provides marginalized women with access to public institutions, often for the first time. In addition, an unexpected benefit emerged through social networks of support formed by caregivers in the Care Blocks. We argue that although the policy does not resolve the complex social challenges of unremunerated caregiving, the SIDICU is an important step toward creating more equal and caring cities.</p>

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Care networks as unanticipated gains of local public policy

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    2026年2月25日

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  • María José Álvarez-Rivadulla,
  • Sebastián Orlando Espejo Fandiño,
  • Friederike Fleischer,
  • María José Gómez,
  • Adriana Hurtado-Tarazona,
  • Anyela Lizeth Moreno Palma,
  • Vanesa Estefanía Ospina Ramírez,
  • Daniel Sanchez Vega

摘要

Over recent decades, Latin American countries have made progress in implementing care-oriented public policies. A celebrated example is the District Care System (SIDICU) introduced in Bogotá, Colombia, in 2020. The policy aims at alleviating women’s unremunerated care burden through social services, education and recreational activities offered at Care Blocks (Manzanas del Cuidado) in underprivileged urban areas. Here we examined the policy’s effects on the care burden of low-income women through ethnographic observation, interviews and focus groups. Our research confirms that the program has improved the recognition of care work’s value. It also provides marginalized women with access to public institutions, often for the first time. In addition, an unexpected benefit emerged through social networks of support formed by caregivers in the Care Blocks. We argue that although the policy does not resolve the complex social challenges of unremunerated caregiving, the SIDICU is an important step toward creating more equal and caring cities.