Improving the recognition and working conditions of Domestic Workers as Care Workers in Tanzania

Domestic work is a significant part of the care sector in Tanzania, employing many women who face challenges such as lack of formal contracts, low wages, and poor working conditions. These decent work deficits are worsened by societal norms that undervalue domestic work. This intervention aims to contribute to and address decent work deficits in domestic work by ensuring the effective protection of domestic workers by labour laws and by increasing the recognition of domestic work as skilled, professional care work, and as an essential component of the care economy. The intervention will raise awareness about fundamental principles and rights at work and key international labour standards such as the Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy Recommendation, 2015 (No. 204), and will promote the ratification of the Maternity Protection Convention, 2000 (No. 183), the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189) and the Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190). The institutional beneficiaries include the Prime Minister’s Office-Labour, Youth, Employment and Person with Disabilities, Trade Union Congress of Tanzania, Association of Tanzania Employers, and education and training institutions. The ultimate beneficiaries are women and men engaged in care and domestic work, and household employers in DaresSalaam and Dodoma regions. The expected results include the formal recognition of skills and rights of domestic workers, increased awareness of domestic work as skilled work among employers and service providers (employment agencies), increased institutional capacity of the Government and social partners to intervene in domestic work and strengthened social dialogue mechanisms for this sector.

Project symbol

TZA/24/01/RBS

Admin unit

CO-Dar es Salaam

Start date

01/06/2024

End date

28/02/2026

Total allocation

516256

Total expenditure

Status

Active

430744

Development Partners

Core voluntary funds (RBSA)

Country/Countries

United Republic of Tanzania

Outcomes

Outcome 6: Protection at work for all
Outcome 5: Gender equality and equality of treatment and opportunities for all