Good practice

Îlots de soins de Bogotá (Manzanas del Cuidado)

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Depuis octobre 2020, les Îlots de soins de Bogotá offrent aux aidantes non rémunérées — majoritairement des femmes — garde d'enfants gratuite, formation, bien-être et services juridiques en un seul lieu, libérant plus de 18 000 heures de soin et réduisant la charge quotidienne mesurée de travail de soin non rémunéré.

200,000+

Services fournis (Oct 2020-Sep 2022)

7,038

Aidantes formées (2020-2022)

18,000+

Heures de soin libérées (volet à domicile)

-57%

Réduction du coût par participante (modèle hybride)

233,000

Femmes soutenues (by 2023)

Îlots de soins de Bogotá (Manzanas del Cuidado)

Details

Maturity: Scaling
Promoter: Secretaría Distrital de la Mujer, Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá
Period: 2020–present
Keywords: care economy, unpaid work, urban planning, women's wellbeing, social services

Context

La Secretaría Distrital de la Mujer de Bogotá a ouvert la première Manzana del Cuidado à Ciudad Bolívar en octobre 2020, en réponse à des données montrant qu'environ 1,2 million de femmes de la ville consacrent 10 heures ou plus par jour au travail de soin non rémunéré. Chaque îlot du soin regroupe garde d'enfants, formation professionnelle, conseil juridique, soutien psychosocial, activité physique et services de laverie à moins de 20 minutes à pied, complétés par des bus du soin mobiles et des tournées à domicile.

Results

En septembre 2022, le réseau de 11 îlots et 2 bus avait fourni plus de 200 000 services, formé 7 038 aidantes et atteint 2 134 ménages à domicile ; en 2023 il comptait 20 équipements et 233 000 femmes soutenues, avec un objectif de 45 îlots d'ici 2035. Une évaluation de science citoyenne de deux ans, évaluée par les pairs, a montré que le volet à domicile a libéré plus de 18 000 heures de soin et réduit le travail de soin quotidien non rémunéré de plus d'une heure, tandis qu'un modèle hybride moins coûteux a réduit les coûts par participante de 57 % sans diminuer les gains de santé mentale. Le programme a remporté le Global Mayors Challenge 2021 de Bloomberg Philanthropies.

Implementation

Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.

Data sources

Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.

C-NAPSE web research — accessed 2026-07-05
Secretaría Distrital de la Mujer, Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá — accessed 2026-07-05
OECD OPSI — Bogotá Care Blocks — accessed 2026-07-05
PMC — Urban Care for Unpaid Caregivers: Community Voices in the Care Block Program, Bogotá — accessed 2026-07-05
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy — In Bogotá, Gender Equity Is All Part of the Plan — accessed 2026-07-05

Attachments

Quality score: 100/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Observational / pre–post

Top 1% in this catalogue (719 scored practices)

Scores cluster high, so position within the catalogue is often more telling than the number alone.

Evaluation

Evaluated by C-NAPSE

Score profile — the dimensions behind the score — how it's computed

Transferability / replicability3/3

Recognised by the OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation and studied by other Latin American cities as a replicable municipal-scale model; won the 2021 Bloomberg Global Mayors Challenge for its transferability potential.

Impact on gender equality1/1

Targets a documented gap of 1.2 million women in Bogotá doing 10+ hours/day of unpaid care, with a peer-reviewed evaluation directly measuring reduced daily unpaid-care hours.

Effectiveness1/1

The independent two-year evaluation found over 18,000 caregiving hours freed and a >1 hour/day reduction in unpaid care work, a direct measured effect on the target problem.

Evaluated outcomes1/1

Findings published in a PMC-indexed peer-reviewed article using entry/exit surveys and a citizen-science methodology, distinct from the city government's own service-count reporting.

Efficiency1/1

A hybrid at-home/in-block model cut per-participant costs by 57% while preserving mental-health benefits, per the same peer-reviewed evaluation.

Sustainability1/1

Expanded from 1 site (2020) to 20 (2023) with a published roadmap to 45 by 2035 and integration into Bogotá's Master Plan, indicating institutionalisation beyond one mayoral term.

Achievement / evidence1/1

233,000 women supported by 2023 and over 200,000 discrete services delivered by September 2022 are concrete, independently reported milestones.

Gender-mainstreaming embedding1/1

Created and run by the city's Secretaría Distrital de la Mujer specifically to redistribute care work recognised as a gendered burden, with cultural-change workshops targeting norms directly.

Curator validation1/1

Figures cross-checked between the OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation's case profile and an independent PMC-indexed peer-reviewed evaluation, which converge on service counts and measured hour reductions.

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Evidoria. Îlots de soins de Bogotá (Manzanas del Cuidado). Persistent ID: 7abe1fdb-a080-4240-9ed3-b5dd7a6b146b.

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