Better Factories Cambodia - Li & Fung HER Project

The objective of the HERproject is to raise awareness and improve links to relevant services for workers by using a peer education appraoch. HERproject was initially conceived to improve female factory workers’ health knowledge, and to improve workers’ access to reproductive health services in factory clinics or nearby external service centers. HERproject training activities, materials and impacts are locally driven and respond to local needs. Better Work brings global perspective and staff, proximity to the private sector and knowledge of supply chains as effective entry points for training and women’s empowerment to deliver meaningful impact. Better Work works closely with carefully selected local partners to design and deliver program content. » Factories provide access to workers and facilities for trainings and may share program cost; » Local NGOs work with HERproject to adapt an efficient and inexpensive program design to the factory setting and to respond to worker’s identified needs; » Companies provide access to factories and may share program cost; » Better Work manages projects to maintain effective partnerships, ensure quality control, keep implementation costs down, and build sustainability. To insure program activities are sustainable, HERproject also strives to foster lasting local relation-ships based on mutual trust between NGO partners and participating factories. These relationships can serve as the foundation to explore more sensitive issues than health.

Project symbol

CMB/14/03/LIF

Admin unit

BETTERWORK

Start date

28/07/2014

End date

31/12/2016

Total allocation

147450

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

144355

Development Partners

LI & FUNG (Trading) LTD

Country/Countries

Cambodia

Outcomes

More and better jobs for inclusive growth and improved youth employment prospects