Latest: Improving Working Conditions in the Ready-Made Garment Sector in Bangladesh (RMGP Programme)
2013
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Press release
ILO to launch major new programme to improve garment factory safety in Bangladesh
21 October 2013
The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Government of Bangladesh will launch a new programme to improve working conditions in the ready-made garment (RMG) sector in Bangladesh, on Tuesday 22 October in Dhaka.
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Press release
ILO to launch major new programme to improve garment factory safety in Bangladesh
21 October 2013
The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Government of Bangladesh will launch a new programme to improve working conditions in the ready-made garment (RMG) sector in Bangladesh, on Tuesday 22 October in Dhaka.
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© Munir Uz Zaman / AFP 2024
Bangladesh
ILO Director-General's statement on the Aswad garment factory fire
08 October 2013
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Press release
Bangladesh Minimum Wages Board returns from study tour to Cambodia and Viet Nam
07 October 2013
Members of the Minimum Wage Board returned to Dhaka on Friday from a study tour to Cambodia and Viet Nam. The aim of the study tour was to better understand the approaches taken in other countries in order to inform the Board’s on-going negotiations on a new minimum wage for Bangladesh’s 4 million garment workers.
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Skills training
Getting skills and jobs to Bangladesh's poorest
01 October 2013
People from rural Gazipur and remote North Bengal, Bangladesh’s poorest region, are now being employed in the readymade garments sector after completing a 3-month skills training programme. The project is a partnership between Far East Knitting & Dyeing Industries, IDLC Finance, the ILO TVET Reform Project, Gazipur Technical School and College, Care Bangladesh and Shiree.
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Informal apprenticeships
Pakistan learning lessons from Bangladesh in structuring informal apprenticeships
27 September 2013
A five-day visit of fourteen high-level officials from Pakistan’s public and private sector concluded today. The officials were here to learn about how the government and industry are working together to structure apprenticeships in Bangladesh’s informal sector, in trades such as motorcycle servicing, mobile phone servicing, tailoring and dressmaking.
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Bangladesh
Apprenticeships for youth employment
17 September 2013
Informal apprenticeships are an effective way to ensure youth employment and empowerment, high-level officials from the ILO, BRAC and the Ministry of Primary & Mass Education stated this week. The comments were made after almost 1,000 learners from UNICEF’s Basic Education for Hard to Reach Urban Working Children (BETRUWC) programme successfully completed a six-month BRAC & ILO skill training programme and have just started work in the informal economy.
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Press release
Assessment of structural integrity and fire safety of RMG factories to begin in September
22 August 2013
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© Munir Uz Zaman / AFP 2024
Bangladesh
The Rana Plaza building collapse… 100 days on
05 August 2013
A number of initiatives have been launched in response to the Rana Plaza building collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which expand upon ILO action following previous accidents in the country. The Director of the ILO Office in Dhaka, Srinivas B. Reddy, explains what these initiatives are and the steps that have been taken on the ground.
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Press release
ILO Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific concludes four day mission to Bangladesh
02 August 2013