Better Work Indonesia Stage III - Australia

The Better Work Indonesia (BWI) Programme seeks to address the above issues by focusing on improving workers’ lives and strengthening the competitiveness of the Indonesian garment sector. The programme has also recently enlarged its reach with the inclusion of footwear factories. BWI is being implemented in three phases over an eight-year period (2011-2018). The third phase will start from January 2016 and run until December 2018 with the objective to provide its services to 280 factories, create a sustainable structure for the delivery of services, and help build the capacity of the national constituents to improve compliance with national labour law and international labour standards. In the third phase, BWI will establish an independent national institution, “Foundation for Partnership at Work”, that will help deliver the BW core services of assessment, advisory and training, under the new, more efficient service model which started to be rolled out in Indonesia since April 2015. BWI itself will be reduced to a smaller team and work closely with national partners and stakeholders on using the BWI knowledge and lessons learned from the programme to help strengthen the capacity of national constituents, influence public and private sector policy on labour related issues, and support improved industrial relations in line with BW’s mandate. BWI’s strategy for the third phase of the programme will, therefore, be based on achieving 2 Outcomes. Outcome 1: By 2018, BWI will have achieved scale, quality and effectiveness in its core service delivery to improve working conditions, especially for women workers, in the Indonesian garment and footwear sector. Outcome 2: In support of BWI’s mandate, necessary changes in relevant laws, strategies, policies and practices at the sectoral and national level are initiated and influenced by BW.

Project symbol

IDN/16/50/AUS

Admin unit

CO-Jakarta

Start date

01/09/2017

End date

30/06/2022

Total allocation

2480847

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

2480847

Development Partners

Australia, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Country/Countries

Indonesia

Outcomes

Outcome 1: Strong tripartite constituents and influential and inclusive social dialogue