Better Work Bangladesh Phase III

A partnership between the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, Better Work is a flagship programme that promotes decent work in the global apparel and footwear industry. This new strategic phase builds on the programme’s proven models of impact and strong partner-ships across the supply chain with an increased focus on tackling the fundamental challenges that have stymied sustainable change and that were clearly exposed by COVID-19. With this new strat-egy, the programme will harness the momentum to turn the current crisis into an opportunity to forge a more sustainable, resilient, inclusive, transparent, and just garment industry. Achieving long-term sustainability of Better Work’s impacts will be central of this strategic phase. Better Work will act as a trusted partner, use its unique convening power with purpose, and leverage its knowledge and data capability within the ILO and IFC to advance long-lasting improvements in the lives of workers and their families, address the environmental impacts of the industry and pro-mote sustainable enterprises. It will evolve its services to ensure they continue to be delivered after completion of the programme whereas Better Work’s role will be shifting towards a convenor, ca-pacity builder and quality controller. Outcome 1 aims to ensure that employers’ and workers’ and their representatives in the Better Work programme uphold and are protected by national labour law and fundamental principles and rights at work and that enterprises in the sector that have emerged from the COVID-19 crisis are more sustainable, resilient and inclusive. Outcome 2 focuses on ensuring that national institutions will have the technical and institutional ca-pacity to regulate their labour markets by applying Better Work’s approaches, data and evidence. Outcome 3 aims to ensure that participating enterprises will have adopted responsible business practices that support decent work in supply chains. And under Outcome 4, Better Work’s learning and methods will be creating positive environmental and social repercussions beyond the programme, as they are adopted in other countries and other supply chains.

Project symbol

BGD/22/51/MUL

Admin unit

CO-Dhaka

Start date

15/11/2021

End date

31/12/2024

Total allocation

3000000

Total expenditure

Status

Active

2994993

Development Partners

Multi-donor support for Better Work

Country/Countries

Bangladesh

Outcomes

Outcome 6: Protection at work for all