Promoting Gender Rights and Tackling Child Labour in the Garment and Footwear Sector

The project is in line with BWV's overall development objective to contribute to improving the lives of thousands of Vietnamese workers and their families and to increase the competitiveness of the Vietnamese garment industry. The project's specific objectives (Outcomes) focus on reduced non-compliance on child labour and sexual harassment at workplace as well as better health, safety and well being of female workers. The project Outputs include: - Increased BWV EAs' capacity to address the child labour problem. - Effective age verification systems for young workers developed at factories. - Improved coordination and collaboration between MOLISA and DOLISA for more effective child labour remediation systerm. - Increased managers/supervisors' awareness of sexual harassment and capacity to tackle it. - Expanded range of health education, products and services available for female workers in the workplace. The project activities include capacity building, workshops and learning seminars, training and guidance material development, and workplace women's health education.

Project symbol

VIE/14/06/CAN

Admin unit

BETTERWORK

Start date

09/03/2015

End date

30/06/2016

Total allocation

130979

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

114430

Development Partners

Canada, Employment and Social Development Canada

Country/Countries

Viet Nam

Outcomes

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