📋 Tender Overview
Promoting Green Growth in the Ready-Made Garments Sector Through Skills (PROGRESS) project envisions contributing to the development of an inclusive, environmentally responsible, and competitive RMG sector in Bangladesh that can offer productive, well paid, secured, and decent job opportunities to workers, mostly women, and at the same time, adapt to the evolving needs of the global market in terms of technological advancement and ESG standards.
The Project
The primary challenges the PROGRESS project will address are the limited opportunities for workers, mostly women, to be employed in productive and well-paid jobs that are also secured and decent in nature. While limited opportunities for upskilling and reskilling prevents both existing workers and new labour market entrants from being either promoted or employed in secured and decent jobs, women workers suffer from this the most and are likely to do more so in future unless the underlying problems are addressed.
The underlying problems include lack of sustainable industry-driven technical skills development initiatives in the RMG sector resulting in lack of skilled labour force (particularly women). All these underlying and related challenges can be turned into opportunities by the factories, for themselves and for the workers (particularly women), with appropriate and timely interventions.
From the service market perspective, lack of local technical service providers related to skills development, productivity improvement, and ESG compliance of RMG factories is a problem that needs to be addressed sustainably as well.
To tackle these needs, the PROGRESS project will support the factories to improve the technical skills of factory workers and overall productivity. Additionally, by supporting the factories improve their environmental and social compliance, PROGRESS will enable the factories to become more attractive to the large global buyers for large consistent orders. Also, the project will support the factories to run in-house training on technical skills of factory workers to upgrade their skills.
Project Goals
RMG workers (including 60% women) have better retention rates and increased income due to improved technical skills and productivity.
Tier-2 and Tier-3 RMG factories have improved productivity and environmental and social compliance and are offering decent employment to their workers.
