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Access to remediation finance

COVID-19 and the garment and textile sector in Ethiopia: Workers’ perspective

A chance for the garment industry

Supply chain cooperation

Promoting dialogue in the Myanmar garment sector

Social dialogue is the ILO’s best mechanism in promoting better living and working conditions as well as social justice. It is an instrument, a tool of good governance in various areas at every possible level: from factory floor to global stages. It...

ILO-GIP Case Study 1

Investing in the future: Training service providers to offer services to the Myanmar garment industry

Over the past few years, the ILO-Garment Industry Project (ILO-GIP) has invested time and resources to develop the capacity of seven training service providers so they can deliver training on a wide range of labour-related topics to diverse...

ILO-GIP Case Study 2

Building the future: Strengthening the capacities of garment sector representatives through the Myanmar Industrial Relations Lab

Between July 2018 and May 2019, the ILO Garment Industry Project (ILO-GIP), in collaboration with the International Training Center of the ILO (ITCILO) brought its Myanmar Industrial Relations-Lab (MIR-Lab) to thirty garment sector leaders with the...

ILO-GIP Case Study 3

Empowering women: Improving knowledge of and access to sexual and reproductive health of garment workers

With the support of the ILO Garment Industry Project (ILO-GIP), between September 2018 and February 2020, Marie Stopes International (MSI) first developed and then delivered various training programmes and awareness-raising activities on sexual and...

ILO-GIP Case Study 5

Supporting sound industrial relations in the garment sector: Building the capacity of Myanmar trade unions to deliver services to their...

In August 2018, the ILO Garment Industry Project (ILO-GIP) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Industrial Workers Federation of Myanmar (IWFM) and the Myanmar Industries Craft and Services (MICS) affirming their desire to jointly cooperate...

ILO-GIP Case Study 6

Enabling social dialogue for sound industrial relations: Increasing garment workers’ knowledge of the Myanmar labour law

Healthy social dialogue at the workplace depends on training workers and management representatives so they can constructively address issues that arise at the workplace and design adequate solutions.

ILO-GIP Case Study 7

Experiencing social dialogue: Reinforcing the capacity of workplace committees to deliver sound labour relations in garment factories

The Workplace Coordinating Committee (WCC) and joint Occupational Safety and Health committees (J-OSH) are central institutions under the Myanmar Labour Law as they are designed to enable social dialogue to improve working conditions, and to prevent...

Toward sustainable impact of the ILO-GIP social dialogue training in the Myanmar garment industry

After almost three years of operation, the ILO-GIP has concluded on 31 May 2020. With the goal to learn from the thousands of workers, management and workers representatives, including trade union executives, nurses, and supervisors the project...

Delivering income and employment support in times of COVID-19: Integrating cash transfers with active labour market policies

This brief examines how income support and active labour market policies can come together to improve workers' prospects in times of COVID-19, particularly in emerging and developing countries. It identifies the characteristics that determined the...

Introduction to guides for garment factories to build resilience during and after COVID-19

The ILO provides a series of six action-oriented guides for garment factories in Asia to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and to build business resilience. This fact sheet provides an introduction to the series.

Managing your cash flow

This guide helps factory managers keep track of their cash flow to better navigate the COVID-19 pandemic. It is part of the 'Building resilience during and after the COVID-19 pandemic' series.

Communicating with your workers

This guide helps factory managers establish and maintain good internal communications for a more responsive and productive factory environment during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. It is part of the 'Building resilience during and after the...

Going online: Establishing an online presence

This guide helps factory managers establish an online presence in order to promote their factory and to facilitate communication with buyers. It is part of the 'Building resilience during and after the COVID-19 pandemic' series.

Covid-19 resilience

Organizing the factory for safer and more efficient operations

This guide aims to assist factory managers re-organize their factories in order to provide better safety measures and improve their operational efficiency during and after the COVID-19 outbreak. It is part of the 'Building resilience during and...

Finding alternative sources of income

This guide helps factory managers identify new revenue streams to ensure that the factory can survive the COVID-19 pandemic and become more resilient over time. It is part of the 'Building resilience during and after the COVID-19 pandemic' series.

Reducing costs

This guide helps factory managers reduce costs to ease financial liquidity and cashflow pressures on their factory operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is part of the 'Building resilience during and after the COVID-19 pandemic' series.

ILO Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190): 12 ways it can support the COVID-19 response and recovery

This note highlights the relevance of the ILO Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190) to the current Covid-19 pandemic. It provides examples of work-related violence and harassment that have been reported across countries in the context...