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According to the Uganda Bureau of Statistics definition, UCW is the set of activities done in one’s home without receiving any payment for it (UBOS, 2019). UCW entails domestic
chores such as cooking, cleaning, washing clothes, and caring for the sick and the elderly, among others. Whereas time spent on UCW activities is not accounted for in the economy, it represents most work hours for rural families and mostly falls to women (UBOS, 2019). In Uganda, UCW in households is shaped by gender, social norms, and power relations, which define what men and women should do (Maestre and Thorpe, 2016; Mwesigye, 2019). As Mackie et al. (2015) suggests, social norms encompass: (1) behaviour – what women and men do (i.e. the amount and intensity of their care work); (2) attitudes what women and men believe they should do; (3) empirical expectations – what women and men believe others do; and (4) normative expectations – what women and men believe others think they should do.
This report presents the baseline quantitative results of the RCT by control and treatment group to lay the groundwork for measuring the impact of the POWER model at the endline’s. It specifically analyses the differences between the treatment and control groups along the causal chain of the theory of change. The primary UCW outcome is the time spent on UCW activities. The report also presents multilevel regression analyses to estimate the predictive power of women- and men-level characteristics in determining UCW and perceptions of SGNs outcomes.
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- Published Aug 6, 2024