Work Package 1
Work Package 1: Investigating contexts, arrangements, norms, experiences and impacts of care
Aim
To generate Africa-centred quantitative evidence, in-depth qualitative understandings and conceptualisations of present social contexts, arrangements, norms, infrastructures and lived experiences of LTC and ECC provision and receipt, and the associated gender-specific economic, well-being and distributional impacts in different rural, urban and socio-economic settings.
Elements
WP1 will address its aim through a combination of:
- Secondary analysis and modelling of demographic and epidemiological trend data;
- Mapping and analysis of existing policy architectures, policy actors and arenas;
- Qualitative mapping and typology of existing formal organized ECC and LTC services, and organized community-based ECC and LTC provision modes in rural, peri-urban and urban contexts;
- In-depth qualitative investigation of care arrangements and experiences among purposively selected samples of community representatives, frontline health staff and providers and recipients of family-, community-and service-based ECC and LTC;
- Quantitative surveys of all paid ECC and LTC workers in study localities;
- Representative household-based surveys on care arrangements and experiences.
Across all elements we will reflect explicitly on the relevance of existing global North-derived conceptual or theoretical frames and methodological approaches and, where appropriate, work to fashion locally appropriate and centred alternatives (Mamdani, 2019; Connell et al. 2018; Connel, 2020; Morrel, 2016).