WaterAid looks to provide improved hygiene practices and access to safe drinking water and sanitation among female garment workers, their children, families, and their communities under the network of Oporajita – Collective Impact on Future of Work project. Clean water, decent toilets, and good hygiene practices improve lives and livelihood of female garment workers by reduce health burdens and increasing productivity.
We intend to realise our vision for Oporajita by ensuring two thematic strands:
WaterAid is an international charity focused on helping people break free from poverty and change their lives for good through ensuring access to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH).
We change millions of lives every year, with our global footprint spanning 27 countries. In Bangladesh, WaterAid looks to realise the vision of strengthening systems to ensure universal, resilient, safely-managed, and sustainable access to WASH for everyone, everywhere.
WaterAid have deep networks in the Bangladesh readymade garments (RMG) sector with projects that yielded tangible results. To outline a few of our achievements, our work resulted in factory workers – which are predominantly female in intervened factories – enjoying 15% reduction in absenteeism, 19% decrease in medical costs, 35% improvement in work quality, and increment in income by 5%. For factories, our studies indicate that investments in WASH gives a return of $6.79 for every $1 over a 10-year period – a considerable business case for factories. Despite great results, being the sole voice of WASH in an enormous sector like the RMG sector restricts scalability of our interventions and limits further understanding of how to adapt our approaches. We believe partnerships is the ideal way to reach scale – a sentiment shared by other partners of Oporajita – and therefore our alliance to drive collective impact was born.
Our work will be centralized in five wards of Gazipur City Corporation and in Savar Upazila –
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