Good Practice

Improving Working Conditions in the Ready-made Garment Sector in Bangladesh - Multiple donors - Final Evaluation

Good Practice Description

The High-Level ILO Mission in May 2013 within one month of the Rana Plaza collapse is a good practice that can be replicated elsewhere. By acting so swiftly the ILO was able to support and direct the immediate reactions by the Government of Bangladesh (GoB), and at the same time mobilize broader support from the social partners, the donors and other stakeholders. In the process, all organizations involved increasingly looked at the ILO for the next steps.

The Good Practice was to include direct support to the actual survivors of a disaster in the design of the programme as one of five components.
While many believe it will require a generation to see a holistic mind-set change desired to bring about an ideal working environment in factories, RMGP and BWB have allowed for a decent start to this process in some of the workplaces, with the substantial raising of awareness on rights and responsibilities among workers and supervisors, and an improvement in how workers are treated by supervisors/line-managers.
The Good Practice was to include direct support to the actual survivors of a disaster in the design of the programme as one of five components.