Women, provisioning and community

Provisioning allows us to examine work activities and patterns of work as well as the reasons why people do the work that they do, and the strategies they use to get their work done. [...] To survive and change at the same time, members of the groups, networks and programs engaged collectively in complex negotiations about who the group provides for and how. [...] Besides the work of establishing and changing the vision of the groups, there is the daily labour of sustaining the group. [...] What is new is looking closely at the wide range of collective work, the complexity of the labour, and the significant impact these activities have in the current time and place. [...] We describe these examples of provisioning as a reminder of the importance of the collective work of women and how they need collective spaces to raise issues and awareness about womenÊs needs and priorities.