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Promoting social dialogue and harmonious industrial relations in Bangladesh ready-made garment industry - Midterm Evaluation
- eval_number:
- 2508
- eval_url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2508
- lessons_learned:
- themes:
- theme:
- Social dialogue
- category:
- Governance and Tripartism
- comments:
- - Tripartite partners
- Employers and workers
- challenges:
- - Development discontinues after project stop
- Outreach limited and only to export oriented factories
- success:
- - Increased awareness among workers
- Improved skills among managerial staff (individuals – not system change) at factory level
- Improved compliance (even no system change)
- context:
- - Project was designed to have focus on factory level interventions
- Some attention was paid to build up sectoral social dialogue
- description:
- Long time is needed for development of good faith social dialogue and harmonious industrial relations.
An important lesson learned from the SDIR RMG project is the need for realistic time frames and goals, when planning interventions related to improvement of social dialogue and industrial relations. Institutional changes and changes in large groups of people’s mind sets and industrial culture take time and goals need to be very ambitious, to achieve intended results. Therefore, any technical assistance, offered in the field of the improvement of industrial relations and social dialogue as well as structures and processes at enterprise, sectoral and national level, should be planned for a longer period of time, possibly in the form of a programme rather than projects. This would allow for the generation of lasting results and impact.
- administrative_issues:
- - Inception phase should be included in all Sd – IR projects and efforts should be made to increase advocacy towards employers.
- url:
- https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/lessons/216126
- location:
- country:
- Bangladesh
- region:
- Asia and the Pacific
- eval_title:
- Promoting social dialogue and harmonious industrial relations in Bangladesh ready-made garment industry - Midterm Evaluation
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