Enhancing Compliance and Building Capacity: Combating Modern Slavery in Bangladesh

Results

Over the course of this project, GRC prepared and delivered training courses on the UN Guiding Principles of Business and Human Rights to factory owners, employers and over 200 mid-level staff, promoting the core activities essential to conducting responsible business. To enhance capacity and knowledge on all industry levels, GRC further created training manuals and delivered the training to trade unions, labour unions and workers on international human rights, labour rights, worker rights and employer responsibility for upholding international human and labour rights. Subsequently, GRC designed guidelines, human rights impact assessment templates and model grievance mechanisms that were rolled out throughout the Bangladesh ready-made garment industry and for use by BGMEA’s member factories. Furthermore, in order to provide for meaningful stakeholder engagement, GRC carried out a multi-stakeholder workshop with several governmental bodies, owner associations and other relevant stakeholders to promote understanding of the UNGPs as well as organised “worker cafés” to provide workers with a safe space to engage in dialogue with each other and exchange their grievances.