Approach

What is Collective Impact

Collective Impact refers to a collaborative approach to addressing complex social problems or challenges. It involves various organizations, stakeholders, and community members coming together to work in a coordinated and structured way to achieve a common goal. Key characteristics of collective impact include a common agenda where all participants must share a unified vision and understanding of the problem, agreeing on primary goals for the initiative. It also includes shared measurement systems where a common system for measuring and reporting progress is essential, enabling alignment, accountability, and shared learning. Diverse stakeholders contribute unique strengths and activities that complement each other within an overarching plan through mutually reinforcing activities. Continuous communication is key to building trust, and regular, facilitated communication among participants is crucial.

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Common Agenda

Common Agenda

Unified vision for shared goals

Shared Measurement Systems

Shared Measurement Systems

Consistent metrics for tracking progress

Mutually Reinforcing Activities

Mutually Reinforcing Activities

Coordinated actions for collective impact

Continuous Communication

Continuous Communication

Ongoing dialogue fosters collaboration

Backbone Support Organizations

Backbone Support Organizations

Dedicated infrastructure enables effective coordination

Our Work

Our Common Vision

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Women garment workers are prepared for a future defined by automation, and have greater agency to lead secure, dignified, and fulfilling lives, with enhanced economic opportunities, in a sustainable and resilient environment.

Our Intervention Areas

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Skills & Employment

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Enabling Environment

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RMG Sector competitiveness

Shared Outcomes

SECURE, DIGNIFIED AND FULFILLING LIVES

Women garment workers and their families have improved access to:

  1. Essential services such as health, WASH, social security
  2. Child protection, parenting support, and STEM education opportunities for their children
  3. Safe, unbiased, and supportive workplace and community

ENHANCED ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES

Women garment workers have improved access to:

  1. Career progression pathways and diverse job roles within the RMG sector
  2. Alternative livelihood opportunities, including micro-entrepreneurship

AGENCY

Women garment workers are enabled to make choices and utilize opportunities through improved awareness of and access to:

  1. Skills training to facilitate career progression and improve employability within and outside the RMG sector
  2. Business development services, including credit, training, and market linkages

RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY

  1. Women garment workers have improved financial resilience due to improved knowledge of and access to digital financial services and products
  2. RMG sector is resilient to automation and emerging competition, and has a concerted focus on sustainability through greater collaboration, and the adoption of innovative human-centered technology and ideas, including the creation of circular economy jobs

Strategies for Collective Success

COORDINATION

Effective coordination on synergies. Accountability among partners. Joint data-driven decision making

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ADAPTABILITY

Flexibility and ability in adapting to changes in the environment. Designing and adapting strategies for ensuring program continuity.

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ADVOCACY

Regular sharing of data and learnings. Intentionally influencing key system actors and policy environment.

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Context

Bangladesh's RMG sector is losing competitiveness due to better product diversification and shorter lead times in other production hubs.

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Automation and digitization are gaining prominence globally, improving productivity, but at the cost of potential large-scale job losses.

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Over 60% of the RMG workforce in Bangladesh may be made unemployed by 2041, and the livelihoods of women garment workers would be most vulnerable, as they predominantly occupy junior and low-paid roles that are most at risk and lack access to skills training.

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There is a lack of an enabling policy framework (e.g., schemes/subsidies to encourage micro-enterprise development), training programs that can provide alternate livelihood opportunities to women garment workers, and a lack of social protection/welfare infrastructure.

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Women garment workers have to deal with negative biases and perceptions, and gender-based violence and harassment at home, in their communities, and in factories, that limit their career progression.

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Women garment workers bear an unequal and heavy share of unpaid work and care, including childcare, and lack parenting support.

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Children of women garment workers face risks of exploitation, poor health, and inadequate learning opportunities for future of work skills.

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There is a lack of access to reliable clean water, gender-sensitive sanitation facilities, hygiene products and awareness, quality healthcare, secure housing, and a persistent gender gap in digital financial literacy.

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Our Geographical Impact

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