Asia-Pacific Care-Climate Hub
Convenings, evidence, insights and practical learning that advance inclusive care systems, women's economic empowerment and climate resilience across Asia and the Pacific.
The Hub joined partners from Latin America, Africa, Asia and North America at the first Climate and Care Gathering, where the five regional hubs shared their work and built a common vision for 2030 and a shared advocacy strategy, including a proposed Care Pavilion at COP31.
Gaurav Mehta (Dharmalife) presented the Hub to the Asia social investment and philanthropy community at AVPN’s flagship conference, themed ‘Investing in Care’. His message: childcare is economic infrastructure, and early philanthropic funding can prove a model that government and private capital then scale.
Gaurav Mehta (Dharmalife) presented the Hub at a strategic roundtable with UN Women, a consortium partner. The session, “Better Skills, Better Care”, showed why unpaid care decides whether skilling turns into paid work. Partners were invited to site visits in Jharkhand and Maharashtra in October and November 2026.
A regional dialogue on transforming care systems to advance women’s economic empowerment in SAARC states. The consortium presented the emerging care and climate framework to South Asian policymakers, civil society and development partners.
The consortium joined the convening “Care at the Center of Climate Action” and hosted a Hub booth. A participant survey, with more than 50 pieces of feedback, validated the draft framework. Elizabeth Silva spoke at the Care Pavilion and Gaurav Mehta at a side event on health, climate and livelihoods.
Research report
The Better Skills Better Care programme integrates vocational skilling, childcare services and gender-responsive community engagement to enhance women's labour force participation and improve early childhood development. This report presents findings from the programme's first phase across Ranchi, Satara and Vadodara.
The results show how accessible childcare, job training and entrepreneurial support can help women enter the labour market while improving children's early learning outcomes and encouraging more equitable caregiving norms.
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This brief introduces Better Skills Better Care, an integrated vocational skilling and Early Childhood Care and Education intervention designed for low-income families in rural and semi-urban India.
By bringing livelihood training and affordable, quality childcare together in one community space, the model supports women's economic participation, children's school readiness and a fairer distribution of unpaid care work.
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