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Our role in OPORAJITA

To facilitate increased proportion of skilled women in managerial and supervisory roles in the RMG sector through improved access to high-touch soft-skills coaching and management training opportunities for women garment workers.

  • Expand and facilitate inclusive and gender responsive soft-skills training programs for women workers within RMG factories.
  • Facilitate inclusive and gender responsive HR management and staff development program for RMG women workers.
  • Establish a mentor network of RMG women leaders to inspire potential women workers to pursue managerial/supervisory roles.
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two women and a child laughing

Who are we

Founded in 1945, CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty with special focus on working with girls and women. CARE currently works in over 100 countries. In today's Bangladesh, CARE started its journey in 1949 and our current programs are focused around Women and Girls' Empowerment, Health and Nutrition, Extreme Rural Poverty Reduction, and Humanitarian and Resilience. In FY21, CARE in Bangladesh reached out to 7.5+ million people directly and 32.08+ million people indirectly with 61 projects/initiatives where 56% of our program participants were women.

Why are we a part of Oporajita

CARE has reached over 480,000 women garment workers at workplaces and in their communities, working in close collaboration with over 175 factory management teams in 5 industrial areas of Bangladesh. CARE has a unique understanding and experience in translating buyer-supply chain needs into win-win collaborations that advance the shared goals of buyers, suppliers, and women garment workers.

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Activities and Impact

Enabling Environment

Sessions on gender rights, gender-based violence and gender-equitable policies and practices, conducted by trained facilitators.

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Soft Skilling

Organizing buy-in meetings with factory management in order to sensitize them about the project activity.

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Women-friendly Space in Community

Organizing buy-in meetings with factory management in order to sensitize them about the project activity.

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Enabling Environment

Our Activities

Factory level:

Organizing buy-in meetings with factory management in order to sensitize them about the project activity.

  • Basic Training: Basic trainings will be organized with the pool of identified potential women leaders. The women worker participants will be selected in consultation with line supervisors and management.
  • Aspiration Mapping Workshop: From among the trained women workers, a post-training evaluation will be carried out and a number of women workers will be selected based on their continued interest, self-motivation, ambition and aspirations for career advancement; leadership skills; good performance in the class and in post-test assessment; and recommendation from Factory Management.
  • Advanced Training: Advanced training will be imparted for women who completed aspiration workshop. The topics will include Gender and Socialization, Leadership and Team Building, Problem Solving, Goal Setting and Planning, Work Excellence, Communication and Negotiation.
  • Futuristic Career Advancement: From among 1600 women workers who attend the aspiration workshop, 480 women workers are selected based on a set of criteria, some which include: demonstration of leadership skills matching their aspiration; Level of technical skills as reported by Factory management; adequate and sound skills in application of technology, level of digital literacy, e-communications, planning skills; performance in the aspiration workshop and post-test assessment; and further recommendation from Factory Management.
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two women and a child laughing

The Targets of the Project

Primary actors:

  1. 3360 women workers in 8 factories will benefit from improved HR systems in staff development, knowledge and skills.

Secondary actors:

  1. 200 factory management personnel (Senior managers, managers, officers) of eight factories (about 90% male and 10% female).
  2. 200 Factory supervisors (about 90% male and 10% female).

Geographical Location (Upazila Level)

  • Gazipur City Corporation under Gazipur District
  • Savar under Dhaka District

Soft Skilling

Our Activities

Community level:

Under the auspices of Women-Friendly Spaces:

  • Sessions on gender rights, gender-based violence and gender-equitable policies and practices, conducted by trained facilitators.
  • Sessions on empowering women in making economic decision in home and in workplace, conducted by trained facilitators.
  • Stress management sessions to safeguard mental health of women witnessed violence, conducted by trained Psycho-social Counsellor.
  • Conduct campaigns and observe special days (for example: Women's Day)
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two women and a child laughing

The Targets of the Project

Primary actors:

  1. Current women RMG workers: 2000.
  2. Out-of-work women RMG workers who may have lost their jobs 02 years before: 2000.
  3. Members from women RMG worker families (including spouses) (50% male): 1000.

Geographical Location (Upazila Level)

  • Gazipur City Corporation under Gazipur District
  • Savar Upazilla under Dhaka District
  • Bhaluka Upazilla under Mymensingh District.

Women-friendly Space in Community

Our Activities

Community level:

Under the auspices of Women-Friendly Spaces:

  • Sessions on gender rights, gender-based violence and gender-equitable policies and practices, conducted by trained facilitators.
  • Sessions on empowering women in making economic decision in home and in workplace, conducted by trained facilitators.
  • Stress management sessions to safeguard mental health of women witnessed violence, conducted by trained Psycho-social Counsellor.
  • Conduct campaigns and observe special days (for example: Women's Day)

Factory level:

  • Organizing buy-in meetings with factory management in order to sensitize them about the project activity.
  • Activities to foster Increased share of women in managerial and supervisory roles in RMG.
  • Develop Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Toolkit for factories in order to gender-equitable policies and practices.
  • To reduce incidents of Gender-based Violence (GBV) and biases at factories and at homes, develop gender-equitable HR policies in collaboration with the factory management.
two women and a child laughing
two women and a child laughing

The Targets of the Project

Primary actors:

  1. Current women RMG workers: 8000.
  2. Out-of-work women RMG workers who may have recently lost their jobs: 8000.
  3. Members from women RMG worker families (including spouses) (50% male): 4000.
  4. Management staff or male co-workers of women RMG workers:
    • Factory management: Senior Managers, Managers, and officers (about 90% male
    • and 10% women): 100
    • Supervisors (about 90% male and 10% women): 20
    • Male Co-workers (100% male) from four selected factories: 480

Geographical Location (Upazila Level)

  • Gazipur City Corporation under Gazipur District.
  • Savar Upazilla under Dhaka District.

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