Better Factories Cambodia

Responsable: Corinne Vargha
CTP:

Better Factories Cambodia was established in 2001 and is a unique programme of the ILO in that it combines monitoring, remediation and training in a virtuous cycle of improvement. It benefits workers, employers and their organizations. It benefits consumers in Western countries and helps reduce poverty in one of the poorest nations of the world. Better Factories Cambodia does this by monitoring and reporting on working conditions in Cambodian garment factories according to national law complying with international standards, by helping factories to improve working conditions and productivity through workplace cooperation on remediation and training, and by working with the Government and international buyers to ensure a rigorous, transparent and continuous cycle of improvement.

Better Factories Cambodia has been widely credited with:

• Improving working conditions and compliance with international labour standards inthe Cambodian garment industry;
• Improving bipartite and tripartite social dialogue in the enterprise, the sector and nationally;
• Contributing to the growth of the Cambodian industry after the expiration of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement [MFA].

Today Garment Sector is the Cambodian main export industry and employs 300,000 mostly female workers. Better Factories Cambodia has an agreed sustainability structure. By 1st January 2009, the project will become an independent Cambodian organization.

The ILO Better Factories Cambodia Project has released its 20th synthesis report on working conditions in Cambodia's garment sector. For more information, please visit the Better Factories Cambodia website.