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Factory Improvement Toolset case studies: Pakistan

This report reviews the results of the pilot implementation of Factory Improvement Toolset (FIT) located in Pakistan.

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Implementation of the Factory Improvement Toolset in the Asian garment sector: Final report

This final report reviews the results of the pilot implementation of Factory Improvement Toolset (FIT) across 27 factories located in Cambodia, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

Learning from Crisis: Apparel industry experts on mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic and future crisis

The opportunities and challenges identified by industry actors in the focus group discussions and presented in this paper indicate how to move towards an inclusive and sustainable apparel sector.

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Building back better with environmental sustainability and gender equality: Bangladesh country summary

This report provides highlights of the Bangladesh country level findings of the Building Back Better with Environmental Sustainability and Gender Equality Study, including stakeholder identified priorities and recommendations for enhancing...

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Building back better with environmental sustainability and gender equality: Cambodia country summary

This report provides highlights of the Cambodia country level findings of the Building Back Better with Environmental Sustainability and Gender Equality Study, including stakeholder identified priorities and recommendations for enhancing...

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Building back better with environmental sustainability and gender equality: Indonesia country summary

This report provides highlights of the Indonesia country level findings of the Building Back Better with Environmental Sustainability and Gender Equality Study, including stakeholder identified priorities and recommendations for enhancing...

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Building back better with environmental sustainability and gender equality: Viet Nam country summary

This report provides highlights of the Viet Nam country level findings of the Study, including stakeholder identified priorities and recommendations for enhancing environmental sustainability and gender equality in the sector in Viet Nam.

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Building back better with environmental sustainability and gender equality: Recommendations for the textile and garment sector in the...

This Synthesis Report covers the regional level findings, priorities and recommendations and detailed explanation of the study methodology, as well as presenting summary findings for each of the country level results. The Synthesis Report draws on...

Sector-wide strategy and action plan for the employment of persons with disabilities in the Ethiopian Garment and Textile Sector

The Sector-Wide Strategy was informed by a comprehensive baseline assessment, again conducted by the SKILL-UP Project, looking into the employability of persons with disabilities in the Ethiopian garment/textile sector by selecting four major...

Textile and Garments Sector Skills Committee - Operational Guide

TVET – industry linkage is very important in skills development, but this linkage is weak in Ethiopia. To bring the private sector at the centre for textile and garment establishing sector skills council (SSC) is one means to create ownership and...

Sector Skills strategy for the Garment Sector in Ethiopia

This sector skills strategy is intended mainly for the garment-manufacturing sector and certain skills issues relating to the whole value chain, extending to the textile sector upstream and garment distribution and marketing downstream, are covered

Assess Access to Child Care Services and Facilities for Jordanian And Syrian Garment Workers in Al-Hassan Industrial Estate / Irbid

This study assesses accessibility to child care services and facilities for Jordanian and Syrian garment workers in Al-Hassan Industrial Estate / Irbid with a focus on options and challenges faced by workers in accessing such services and...

Prevocational Entry-Level Core Skills Programme for the Garment Sector in Ethiopia – Learner Handbook

This Learner Handbook is designed to support this group of early school leavers, enabling them either to enter and retain employment or access further education and training for future employment. The Learner Handbook is largely pictorial and...

Prevocational entry-level core skills in Ethiopia’s garment industry - Trainer handbook

This trainer guide that accompanies the Prevocational Core Skills Programme for the garment and textile sector in Ethiopia was developed and designed in response to national research in Ethiopia that revealed that many Ethiopian workers in the...

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Knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) gaps in environmental management in the textile and garment sector: Project highlights:...

The Decent Work in the Garment Supply Chains in Asia (DWGSCA) project funded by the Swedish International Development Corporation Agency (SIDA) aims to support decent work and sustainability in the garment sector.

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A Just Transition in the textile and garment sector in Asia: Decent Work in Garment Sector Supply Chains project

A Just Transition for the garment industry in Asia is critical as the sector seeks to recover from the impacts of COVID-19 and transforms as part of a critical decade of action for achieving the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals....

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Knowledge Intensive Business Services - gaps in environmental management in the textile and garment sector: Synthesis report

A critical weakness in the environmental management systems in the textile and garment sector is the lack of business services to provide high level, technical expertise, and services in environmental management. These types of knowledge activities...

Workers with Disabilities in Jordan’s Garment Sector

The present study is an assessment of the realities faced by workers with disability in Jordan’s garment factories, from a sample of nine main factories and three satellite factories in the country’s garment sector (12 factories total) within three...

Report Summary: Workers with Disabilities in Jordan’s Garment Sector

The present study is an assessment of the realities faced by workers with disability in Jordan’s garment factories, from a sample of nine main factories and three satellite factories in the country’s garment sector (12 factories total) within three...

Assessment of Health Care Services Provided to Workers in the Garment Sector in Jordan