Caring system is a difficult concept Caring for one another in difficult times is the first sign of civilization. Covid makes us learn that we are all in this together. We must take away something positive, this provides us an opportunity
We need to move from local government to local governance and to strength the voice of civil society See equity service deliver If water cause you more than 10% of your income you don’t have access to this type service We need to create a caring system of local governance. How to create and foster caring, it is easy to say we need to do it. The question is how?

Past and future conversation. The goals of the SDG and the new urban agenda is fundamental. Recognize that we live with a major set of issues that could be called pandemics associated with global inequity. There are many incomplete and postponed cities that call for global awareness of the city as an ecosystem and space of care. We must continue to focus the global debate and strengthen the necessary forces. Prioritize needs with coherence, with the capacity to be able to concretize.
Talking about life and equity for a healthy planet is urgent. The creation of an ecosystem for human life sufficiently inclusive and accessible to all, allowing innovations not only associated with new technologies but also in the way we build communities and relate to them as well as in the culture of agreements based on solidarity. We must insist on these ideas through different agendas such as the one promoted by UCLG as mechanisms to build these collective agreements for our future. Focus on how, when and what we should do. It must become an agreement that reaches our political leaders.
There is an urgent need in today's world for new political leadership. Urgency that the questions we ask ourselves are actually solved. Strengthening of knowledge: involvement of academia so that they are connected and that the pact for the future of humanity is really cooperative and associative. Not only among public leaders but also with research and local innovation that allow us to really move forward and faster. We are living in times of much disillusionment; this implies that we promote the conviction of communities to regain confidence and create collectively. Strengthen planning, intensive participation of the leadership in the communities with government institutions in order to generate cooperation.

In this brainstorming we need to have a vision for the future but keep in mind what brought us here. We all know that care is mainly or mostly a female task. It has been in the shoulder of women since forever. If we want to think on a new caring system, we need to de-womenize care. We need to open the schools for training care to men, which is not always the case. It is a share obligation we have between gender, family and society.
We need to think that care is an important factor of the economy but not in the sense that it has been intended in the past. Also consider to include all that can be delivered to the care of our community. It is responsibility of government to deliver social public services. Care is a human right. There should be share responsibility. We issued a manifesto for the social redistribution of care . .

I was introduced at an early point in my life to the care industry as I was a domestic worker. When we talk about caregivers from all contexts and we look at the pandemic and health care, a good portion of them are migrant workers, foreign born. In the US one out of three doctors is foreign born, if we look at nurses or domestic health care whether it's in residence the majority are foreign born. We have to consider the global south serving the global north. This trend will increase and has intensified during the pandemic.
The precariousness of workers was exposed and when we talk about providing health care, these migrant workers were exposed to dangerous situations during the pandemic. This was because a majority of people who were infected were immigrants and because they work in the service sector, which includes health care, they did not have the privilege to work from home and exposed themselves in dangerous situations to provide the necessary care.
We have also seen good practices, but these have been isolated cases as most of these workers have been deported by the government and suffer from complicated situations such as domestic and mental abuse. Considering a new solidarity that is already emerging during the pandemic, it is relevant when talking about cities are listening because even though it has been frustrating, local authorities have started to respond in a way that recognizes migrants within cities. Cities are the first to provide firewalls when there are problems with access to health services. There are cities that at the municipal level offer identification document. It is important to offer health care in an urban context that allows communities to be able to access and benefit from it. We cannot ignore a new solidarity between migrant associations.

When we talk about systems of care as governments of care, we are touching on the primary element of how we can rebuild public trust. Need for political leadership. Governance is a key element to include all the groups that are often not taken into account. Political will: not only in governments, but also in processes. Understanding care not only as a service but also as a social protection network. If we consider how the world was 2 years ago and how we are today, it seems that we did not learn the lessons. Today we have more poverty and more billionaires. We are still not vaccinating and providing medicine to the people who really need it. Local government. That is the best element to talk about and rebuild public trust, it is the first phase to build that social contract we are talking about.
If we want to rebuild the planet, we have to start by rebuilding communities. The necessary social networks are recreated; health is an indispensable human right. If we do not have access to health services, how will we be able to fight poverty? We need to have people at the center of decision making and think about who are the service providers. If we talk about protective equipment, it is designed for men when the majority of those who use it are women. Achieving health for all is a political lesson that affects the other SDGs.

What are care systems and how are they structured? They are systems based on trust. This participatory system allows us to explore in a framework of democratization. In this sense, we have been working on the rights of people with disabilities, we have been fighting to include sustainability objectives that are adapted. With the pandemic it has happened that there has been radical change. To create an inclusive, democratic, participatory governance system.
The challenge is that the caring system can be highly commoditized, it is necessary to decommoditize. We have poverty traps, this has happened with the pandemic. It is a matter of laying the groundwork that fosters inclusion and adopts those approaches backed by solidarity and that guarantee access for all, regardless of whether they are perceived to be "unproductive" it should be a human rights-based approach.
New systems of care that empower workers to participate. How do systems empower caregivers? Individuals who do not have access to systems are not being adequately engaged in the ways they would prefer to be integrated because they are marginalized and do not have the right to agency. How within this context of systems of care can accessibility be advanced? Through appropriate data collection, recording the type of accidents. To understand these quality metrics, holistically to people. Systems needing leadership, we need people with disabilities. Need to strengthen systems based on participation.

We seek to give young people a voice by improving participation. Mental health support is not recognized in the world. Basic food and water were unavailable to the youth population. Low-income youth did not have access to technology and suffered mental health problems in the pandemic. Lack of funding to reach vulnerable populations. Protection at the local government level is where we see the most immediate support and where we need to draw attention. We need inclusive systems, not only for consultation but also for representation.

There are two ways we can look at this. There is a shift in government to governments that care and a series of concrete trajectories towards equality. This is about connecting, learning systems with each other, repairing and caring. These pathways are essential for advancing urban equality

To consider care as a matter of public interest is to recognize it as a central function that has been historically invisibilize. In accordance with society's demands, governments have a key role to play. To advance in a social contract that incorporates care as a fundamental pillar that breaks with the sexual division of labor. Recognize the rights of both, those who receive and provide care. The market can only solve part of the problem, so the proposals must include the production of most of the care that takes place in the home without being remunerated.

Territory and care cities must formulate policies and management models that respond to the challenges of our societies, for example by providing relocation and programs aimed at reconciling domestic and working time. Redistribution of time is fundamental. From a gender equality and territorial perspective, it is necessary to redistribute the unpaid work performed by women. Reduce the burden of unpaid work and provide greater coverage. Change the concept of those who can pay can have access to it. Importance of crossover between care and territory

Within this new social contract, it's fundamental to build cities living well and more importantly, to settle this historic debt of governments with those at the margins, this violence and impoverishment and indifference, which make their needs invisible.

We need safety to eradicate gender violence. So far this has been relegated. As the women in these discussions, we need to wipe out political violence that is giving less importance to our fundamental caring and from rights. We are subjects of change, not objects but subjects.