Alcázar, L., Robino, C. & Rojas, V. (2025). Hacia sistemas integrales de cuidado para la equidad de género en América Latina: evidencia y aprendizajes desde el Fondo de Investigación-Acción colaborativa

In 2023, the Collaborative Research-Action Fund was launched to promote care policies and systems in Latin America and the Caribbean. Its purpose is to generate rigorous and applied evidence to build or sustain public care policies. It is based on partnerships among governments, academia, and civil society, with a feminist approach. The Fund is funded by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), with support from the Ford Foundation to generate learning and contribute to policy impact. Regional coordination is led by the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE), in collaboration with the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) and the Global Alliance for Care.

Since then, two consecutive editions  have been launched: Fund 1 (2023–2025), which focused on evidence to scale and sustain care policy innovations, and Fund 2 (2025–2026), which expanded the geographic and thematic agenda, more actively involving feminist organizations, civil  society, and community actors. The projects and findings of each edition are detailed in the following sections.