CASM Strategy Document
This strategy document articulates our vision for integrating care, security, and macroeconomy into domestic policy, with a particular focus on regions in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Our objective is to ensure that care both paid and unpaidis recognized as a strategic resource essential for public health, economic productivity, and social cohesion. The undervaluation of care work has long been a blind spot in conventional policy-making.
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Integrating Care, Security, and Macroeconomy—Implications for Development Policy
Modern development challenges increasingly reveal the inadequacy of policies that treat economic growth, security, and social welfare as separate domains. In many national contexts, the contributions of care work whether delivered in households or through formal institutions are systematically undervalued. This neglect not only distorts economic measurements but also weakens public health, social cohesion, and overall security
Empowering Communities Through Integrated Policy Approaches
Communities around the world face a multitude of challenges that stem from the persistent undervaluation of care, coupled with fragmented policy responses to economic and security concerns. For many citizens, especially those in urban and peri‑urban areas, the everyday reality involves not only grappling with economic insecurity but also managing the heavy burdens of care work.
CASM Articles
Valuing Unpaid Care Work in Economic Policy: Why and How It Matters
"Treating unpaid care work as a critical economic sector, rather than an invisible domestic duty, can fundamentally reshape development policies and gender equality strategies." The theoretical justification for including unpaid care work within economic frameworks rests on the principle that economies depend fundamentally on the reproduction and sustenance of human life.
Care Infrastructure: The Missing Link in Sahelian Climate and Civil Security
Why do budgets persistently undervalue care? Part of the answer lies in epistemic bias. Weapons register on satellite images and in procurement ledgers, while hours spent nursing a fever rarely appear in any database. Security planners count what they can see. GENDERISE’s A-FCSI care score will make the invisible value of climate investments in care visible. By coding unpaid care hours into a risk map, the index hopes to motivate new conversations about what counts as security hardware.