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All Aboard! On-Boarding Training Package for Workers in Myanmar Garment Factories
All Aboard! On-Boarding Training Package for Workers in Myanmar Garment Factories is an induction tool kit for new garment industry workers. It is designed to help the Myanmar Garment Manufacturers Association (MGMA) and its members to set up an...
Automation and Digitization in the Myanmar Garment Sector
Automation and Digitization in the Myanmar Garment Sector reviews the current situation and implications for market strategies, investment and skills policies associated with increased automation and technological changes. It recognizes the...
Promoting career pathways for women in the Myanmar’s garment industry
The garment industry is an important engine for Myanmar’s sustainable development. The industry creates formal employment for almost half million people, more than 90% of whom are young women who migrated from their remote native states and regions...
Gender equality and growth
ILO: Women’s empowerment and skills development are critical to ensure sustained growth in Myanmar’s garment sector
Myanmar’s garment workforce is projected to grow to one million workers by 2020, mostly women. A new ILO report assessing gender gaps in the sector underlines the need to address workplace culture in order to achieve decent work for the thousands of...
Gender equality and growth
Weaving Gender: Challenges and opportunities for the Myanmar garment industry
Weaving Gender: Challenges and Opportunities for the Myanmar Garment Industry provides detailed information on the results of a gender-equality assessment (GEA) carried out in 16 Yangon-based factories in Myanmar’s garment sector.
Our impact, Their voices
Myanmar apparel: ILO project helps factories to improve efficiency and productivity
Garment manufacturing involves various operations carried out by different operators at different stations. If not executed efficiently, these operations may jeopardize productivity, cause economic loss, and ultimately damage workplace relations.
Social dialogue
Garment Suppliers briefed on sound labour relations for decent work
The ILO “Improving labour relations for decent work and sustainable development in the Myanmar garment industry” project (ILO-GIP) presented its training programmes to local and foreign-owned garment firms.
Improving Labour Relations for Decent Work and Sustainable Development in the Myanmar Garment Industry (ILO – GIP)
The ILO-GIP project aims to reduce poverty and contribute to the empowerment of Myanmar women working in the garment industry by improving labour relations, social dialogue and gender equality.