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UP!
UP!

UP! is a community-based training program that aims to empower and improve the lives of workers…

Workers' Voice Report
Workers' Voice Report

This series of reports attempt to investigate and understand the complexity of Bangladesh’s RMG industry from…

Improving Industrial relations and workplace cooperation through capacity building and social dialogue
Improving Industrial relations and workplace cooperation through capacity building and social dialogue

The goal of this project is to improve wages in the RMG sector towards a living…

ALDI Factory Advancement Project
ALDI Factory Advancement Project

This project works on developing the capacity of workers and management on issues such as occupational…

Establishment and promotion of Anti-Harassment Committee in RMG sector in Bangladesh
Establishment and promotion of Anti-Harassment Committee in RMG sector in Bangladesh

This pilot project aims to reduce gender-based violence (GBV) at a supplier factory in the Gazipur…

Improving wages
Improving wages

Progress towards a living wage is one of the key goals in Awaj Foundation’s Theory of…

Women's Café: Promotion of social dialogue in the industry
Women's Café: Promotion of social dialogue in the industry

Awaj Foundation has had a long-running partnership with GIZ to improve working conditions in the RMG…

Strengthening industrial relations through leadership
Strengthening industrial relations through leadership

The goal of this project was to mobilize and strengthen capacity of the workers so that…

Harassment-free workplaces
Harassment-free workplaces

This project focuses on implementation of anti-harassment provisions in Bangladesh Labour Law in garment factories to…

Feminist Participatory Action Research on contractual workers in RMG sector
Feminist Participatory Action Research on contractual workers in RMG sector

This project is part of APWLD’s regional program to advance women’s labour and human rights in…

Workers' empowerment program
Workers' empowerment program

The Workers’ Empowerment Program (WEP) of Solidarity Center aims to improve labour conditions in the RMG…

Strengthening civil society and public institutions to address gender-based violence
Strengthening civil society and public institutions to address gender-based violence

The goal of this project is to reduce prevalence of gender-based violence (GBV) in the RMG…

Promoting worker’s rights in RMG through decent work
Promoting worker’s rights in RMG through decent work

This project promoted workers’ rights through promoting decent working conditions in the RMG sector. Focusing particularly…

Gender-based discrimination in maternity and child care in RMG sector
Gender-based discrimination in maternity and child care in RMG sector

This research partnership between the Fair Labor Association (FLA) and Awaj Foundation sought to understand the…

Mainstreaming UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
Mainstreaming UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

“Mainstreaming the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in the Bangladesh Garment, Leather and…

Sustainable and Responsible Actions for Making Industries Care (SRAMIC)
Sustainable and Responsible Actions for Making Industries Care (SRAMIC)

The objective of the SRAMIC project is to promote inclusive and sustainable growth through realization of…