By Hannah Awadzi, GNA
Accra, April 3, GNA – Dr Faustina Obeng Adomaa, a researcher, has said that the 2026 budget does not reclaim care work as a public good.
She said there is no- care tagged budget line to foster intentionality in nurturing the care economy, “unpaid care work is taken for granted and underestimated”
Care work was fundamental to social reproduction, even though the greater part of the care economy was invisible, Dr Adomaa said at a meeting organised by the Network for Women’s Right in Ghana (NETRIGHT) to validate the gender analysis of the 2026 budget.
She spoke on the topic: The 2026 budget statement and economic policy of the Government of Ghana through the lens of gender equitable care economy.
Dr Adomaa said everything about care work was privatised and financialised and there was the lack of an integrated and coordinated care infrastructure. Care is treated as a private concern
She urged the government to recognise and treat care infrastructure as an economic infrastructure and not as charity
“We need strategically shift care as an investment in the economy,” urging the government to invest in a care sensitive budgeting.
GNA
Edited by Christabel Addo