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Bangladesh - CLI facilitates Tripartite Multi-stakeholder Dialogue event to support injured and deceased workers in the Ready-made Garment Sector

Region Asia
Start 2021
Sector Private Sector, Public Sector, Civil Society
CLI Project Manager Lulekwa Gqiba, Douglas F. Williamson
Bangladesh garment sector project

Project context

The Collective Leadership Institute began working with the Shurokkha project in 2020 and then deeper in 2021. The stakeholders, including the Government of Bangladesh, Workers Associations, and Factory Owners Associations have formed a tripartite Steering Committee and that body will steer the process and be the official decision-making body during the pilot phase with a view towards later scaling up. Over the course of late 2021 and all the way through the end of 2022, CLI offered a series of online training modules to all the stakeholders in the system. In June 2023, CLI facilitated a two-and-a-half-day multi-stakeholder dialogue event outside of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Project Facts
Project time

2021 – 2023

Stakeholders

Government of Bangladesh, Workers Associations, Factory Owners Associations

Outcome

CLI established a positive culture of collaboration among stakeholders and helped to agree on a common vision that all were able to actually draw, and it advanced a draft of a vital communications document. These stakeholders will remain in the collaboration ecosystem with the expectation of further contributing to improving the sector, protecting its workers and their families from the worst economic effects of work-related injury and death, and contributing to the positive and sustainable development of Bangladesh. The pilot system for the EIS has already settled its first four cases and with the current collaboration, including efforts to increase education and knowledge among workers and their families about the EIS benefits, the project expects there to be many more claims and a better future for vulnerable factory workers in Bangladesh.

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