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Improving Working Conditions in the Ready-made Garment Sector in Bangladesh - Multiple donors - Final Evaluation

eval_number:

2159

eval_title:

Improving Working Conditions in the Ready-made Garment Sector in Bangladesh - Multiple donors - Final Evaluation

location:

region:

Asia and the Pacific

country:

Bangladesh

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eval_url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2159

lessons_learned:

description:

If one of the social partners is much better organized and more influential than the other partner, ILO programmes have more difficulty in balancing interventions among those partners.

context:

In Bangladesh, the employers organisations in the RMG sector are not only very well organized but also well-connected to the GoB, while the workers’ organisations are very fragmented into factory level unions, various types of loosely organized trade unions and two incipient platforms. Engaging with workers organisations in this situation is thus much more burdensome, and in fact the RMG programme had to resort to intermediate organisations (e.g. Bangladesh Institute for Labour Studies, BILS) to deliver the planned training to trade union representatives. As a result, the number and volume of interventions has been skewed towards support for the GoB and the employers’ organisations, leaving relatively less resources for the workers’ organisations.

success:

A balanced tripartite approach is the comparative advantage that the ILO has vis=a-vis other international organizations.

challenges:

The challenge is to engage the fragmented workers’ organisations in substantial interventions as their organizational strength leaves much to be desired.

administrative_issues:

N.A.

comments:

GoB, employers’ and workers’ organisations.

url:

https://analyticstest.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/204467

themes:

theme:

Tripartism & constituent partnerships

category:

Organizational issues

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