Promoting Responsible Sourcing in Uzbekistan’s Textile Sector using Tools from ILO Better Work Programme

The Project is aimed at preparing up to 15 textile companies/clusters apply responsible investment requirements by helping them adopt and implement ILO Better Work in-factory tools and enhance their competiveness in Uzbekistan and globally. The Project is aligned with the priorities of the Uzbekistan Country Strategy (2018-2023) and will support strengthening of the private sector’s role in the textile sector while helping to eradicate residual forms of forced labour and promote decent working conditions in the country. The objectives of this Project are to: (a) improve the respect to core labour rights within textile companies to enable them to attract responsible investments from IFIs and facilitate placement of orders from global textile companies and retailers; (b) support to the GoU’s effort to privatize the textile sector as a way to promote competiveness of the sector and respect to fundamental labour rights, including the eradication of the unacceptable forms of forced labour in cotton/textile sectors; (c) support EBRD’s fast-growing portfolio in Uzbekistan and pro-actively assist the Bank’s various sector teams to prepare textile companies for potential financing by responsible investors; and (d) strengthen the institutional engagement with the ILO to support the GoU reform to promote responsible production and sourcing of cotton.

Project symbol

UZB/22/01/EBD

Admin unit

DWT/CO-Moscow

Start date

04/07/2022

End date

30/06/2024

Total allocation

487471

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

487101

Development Partners

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

Country/Countries

Uzbekistan

Outcomes

Outcome 1: Strong, modernized normative action for social justice