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Managing Transitions and Retrenchments Guidelines (Version 2.0)

The Covid-19 pandemic is affecting the world of work, increasing unemployment and underemployment, and disproportionately impacting women workers who make up the majority of the garment workforce.

ILO Working paper 31

Turning up the heat: Exploring potential links between climate change and gender-based violence and harassment in the garment sector

This working paper highlights the intersection between climate change and gender-based violence and harassment by exploring how climate change, measured by increasing heat stress and extreme weather events, could lead to heightened violence being...

How does the ILO SCORE Training Address Audit Issues?

SCORE Training helps to achieve better compliance with contract and legal requirements by demonstrating to SMEs the benefits that can be obtained through good working conditions and a safe working environment

Full report

Moving the Needle: Gender equality and decent work in Asia’s garment sector

This report sheds light on the importance of addressing gender equality in the garment sector, while also providing ILO constituents and industry stakeholders with a holistic roadmap for action that places decent work and social justice at the heart...

Reducing the footprint? How to assess carbon emissions in the garment sector in Asia

This report examines carbon emissions across the garment sector as counted using the two prominent methodologies for calculating emissions – the life cycle assessment (LCA) and carbon accounting in line with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. The purpose...

Factory productivity improvement

Productivity interventions available to garment factories in Asia: A mapping study

This study focuses on the availability of productivity interventions in the Asian garment sectors. By examining a subset of productivity interventions available to the industry, the paper depicts a broader picture of what type of support services...

Promising practices for fair recruitment: Fair recruitment pilot between Nepal and Jordan in the garment sector

This promising practice is part of a series, and results from a stocktaking exercise undertaken five years after the launch of the Fair Recruitment Initiative (FRI).

Frequently asked questions by migrant garment workers in qualified industrial zones

This handbook is a compilation of the frequently asked questions posed by migrant workers in qualified industrial zones (QIZs) on their employment conditions, employer–employee relationships, and their rights and entitlements while working in Jordan...

International Labour Review, Vol. 159 (2020), No. 4

The Rana Plaza disaster seven years on: Transnational experiments and perhaps a new treaty?

This article examines several noteworthy initiatives that were implemented following the deadly 2013 Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh. They broke new ground in transnational labour law. The ILO-backed initiatives were largely successful but remain...

SCORE Training - Promoting the capacity of suppliers in global supply chains

Brief

Gendered impacts of COVID-19 on the garment sector

This brief, co-authored by the ILO and Better Work, aims to raise awareness of the gendered reality of COVID-19 and to outline some of the ways in which the pandemic impacts women and men workers in the garment sector in the short, medium and long...

Getting Beyond Tier 1:

Using a systems approach to improve working conditions in global supply chains

Brief

Getting Beyond Tier 1

Using a systems approach to improve working conditions in global supply chains

Research brief

The supply chain ripple effect: How COVID-19 is affecting garment workers and factories in Asia and the Pacific

This research brief assesses the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on workers and factories in garment supply chains in Asia and the Pacific, presenting evidence from the main garment-exporting countries of the region, summarizing policy responses and...

Skills for Trade and Economic Diversification (STED) in the Garment & Leather Manufacturing Sector in Jordan

This report looks at the positioning of the garment and leather sector in the Jordanian economy from a skills and labour market perspective.

Report

Overview of laws, policies and practices on gender-based violence and harassment in the world of work in Bangladesh

What next for Asian garment production after COVID-19? The perspectives of industry stakeholders

This report summarizes findings from a qualitative study conducted with a group of industry experts to explore the implications of COVID-19 for production systems and practices in Asia. The results provide an early and tentative picture of industry...

Applying the G20 Training Strategy in Jordan (Phase 2)

STED in the Garment & Leather Manufacturing Sector in Jordan

This report looks at the positioning of the garment and leather sector in the Jordanian economy from a skills and labour market perspective.

Gender equality

Understanding the gender composition and experience of ready-made Garment (RMG) workers in Bangladesh

Policy brief

Policy brief on addressing vulnerability to forced labour in the garment, textile and footwear sector (in Nepali)

The policy brief includes related facts and recommended laws, policies and practices drawing on the experience of the Programme.