How to do note: Reducing rural women’s domestic workload through labour-saving technologies and practices

This How To Do Note looks at the opportunities provided by labour-saving technologies and practices for rural women in the domestic sphere. The purpose is to inform IFAD country programme managers, project teams and partners of proven labour-saving methods available to reduce the domestic workload and how they can best be selected and implemented – to help promote equitable workloads between men and women and contribute to poverty eradication.

The annexes give an overview of the most burdensome domestic chores and identify key labour-saving technologies and practices available to address them.