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Asia-Pacific garment industry suffers as COVID-19 impacts ripple through supply chain

Garment sector in Asia and the Pacific

Asia-Pacific garment industry suffers as COVID-19 impact ripples through supply chain

Collapsing consumer demand, government lockdown measures and disruptions to raw material imports have taken their toll on the Asia Pacific garment industry, says a new ILO report.

Virtual Launch of the 2020 Global Deal Flagship Report

Social dialogue can help create effective skills development and lifelong learning policies

Through social dialogue, the actors in the labour market – employers, workers, and governments – can play an essential role in mitigating the impact of the pandemic on education and training, says the ILO Director-General Guy Ryder at the Virtual...

Supporting factories in Bangladesh to manage the impact of COVID-19

Media advisory

ILO to release new report on the effects of COVID-19 on Asia-Pacific garment supply chains

Bangladesh labour inspectorate launches COVID-19 workplace safety guideline

Applying the G20 Training Strategy in Jordan (Phase 2)

COVID-19 implications on the Garment & Leather and the Chemicals & Cosmetics sectors.

ILO Promotes COVID-19 Free Working Environment

Advancing Decent Work and Inclusive Industrialization Programme Provided Disinfection Service & Capacity Building Training for 14 Factories in Industrial Parks in Ethiopia

From voluntary initiatives to legal obligations: Responsible business and decent work in global supply chains

The RSCA held a training to help Chulalongkorn University law students understand the labour dimensions of complex global supply chains

Future business leaders in Thailand reached through their teachers

Training of lecturers from the Faculty of Business Administration (BUS), Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon (RMUTP), aims to integrate international concepts of corporate social responsibility into their social enterprise courses.

Applying the G20 Training Strategy in Jordan (Phase 2)

Employers Take the Lead in Qualifications’ Development for TVET

Multi-donor programme

ILO/Germany programme to protect garment workers affected by COVID-19

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) is giving €14.5 million to an International Labour Organization (ILO) multi-donor programme to help garment sector workers in seven countries who have been affected by...

COVID-19: Supporting enterprises, jobs and incomes

Employers and workers join forces to reinstate the past glory of Indonesian garment and footwear industries

The COVID-19 pandemic has threaten the health and livelihoods of workers and employers around the world, including Indonesia. The Indonesian employers and workers from the garment and footwear industries have opted to join forces to overcome the...

COVID-19: Supporting enterprises, jobs and incomes

Towards concerted efforts for business sustainability and protection of workers of garment and footwear industries

The ILO facilitates dialogue among government, workers’ and employers’ organizations on strengthening the coordination and efforts to promote sustainability of business and protection of workers in garment and footwear industries.

Expert roundtables explores how COVID-19 might reshape garment production in Asia

The ILO hosted two roundtable discussions with leaders from across the garment industry, to examine how the COVID-19 pandemic will affect production in the sector.

PM Sheikh Hasina addresses ILO Virtual Global Summit on COVID-19 and the World of Work

Honourable Prime Minister addressed the largest ever online gathering of workers, employers and governments to discuss how to better rebuild economies in the post-pandemic recovery

Better Work

New report shows improvements across Viet Nam’s garment factories

ILO partners with BGMEA and BKMEA to launch COVID-19 safety ‘Learning Hub’ for RMG workers

Comprehensive ‘virtual’ safety and training packages targeted at preparing and maintaining safer workforces and workplaces during and post-pandemic

SCORE continues enterprise trainings despite challenges posed by COVID-19

As enterprises face the challenges posed by the outbreak of COVID-19, the ILO SIRAYE programme, understanding the needs of enterprises, is continuing to deliver productivity and quality training to factories in tandem with preventing and mitigating...

Better Work Jordan and IFC join forces to tackle gender-based violence in Jordan’s garment sector

A new programme will support national stakeholders in addressing gender-based violence.