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Improving Working Conditions in the Ready-made Garment Sector in Bangladesh - Multiple donors - Final Evaluation
- eval_number:
- 2159
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2159
- lessons_learned:
- themes:
- theme:
- Labour legislation
- category:
- International Labour Standards
- comments:
- GoB, social partners and workers.
- challenges:
- The negative lesson of course is that if you do not do all the reforms at once the more difficult ones are bound to be delayed (substantially). However, if the issue would have been forced the reform of 2013 would most likely not have happened at all!
- success:
- Awareness raising has increased substantially as a result of the RMG Programme, and now the chances of pushing through a broader reform are much larger. In addition, the workers’ organizations were at a very low level of organization in 2013, and since then have become more organized also with the rise of the second platform IBC next to the NCCWE.
- context:
- In Bangladesh in 2013, in fact, major reforms would have been necessary in the Labour Law 2006, in particular the inclusion of Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining. However, the strong employers’ organizations, cooperating closely with the GoB, could have easily delayed such broader reforms and would have made certain components of the present RMGP more difficult to implement. Now, after three years of programme implementation, and with the help of the EU-GoB Compact involving the GSP-system, the time seems to be more appropriate to push for those broader reforms, and this is actually happening both by the EU in its negotiations with the GoB and by ILO (Governing Body of March 2017).
- description:
- The lesson learned is that after such a disaster as the Rana Plaza collapse the circumstances are conducive to most stakeholders to move towards labour law reforms even if the reform is only partial. It is more important that (limited) changes are made than that a push for broader reforms would jeopardize the entire operation.
- administrative_issues:
- Ministries of Labour/Employment together with the ILO are crucial partners in this area. Through the Compact the EU is now also in a pivotal position to push for further reforms.
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/204462
- location:
- country:
- Bangladesh
- region:
- Asia and the Pacific
- eval_title:
- Improving Working Conditions in the Ready-made Garment Sector in Bangladesh - Multiple donors - Final Evaluation
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