Projects

Socially Marginalised Women

Projects under the Socially Marginalised Women program span a range of areas including sexual & reproductive health, dignified work, women's economic empowerment and preventing violence against women. 

 

Current projects

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• Health and Nutrition Initiative (HNI)

         Improve the health and well-being of garment and footwear factory workers in VF Corp’s                 strategic factories.

 

• Enhancing Women's Voice to Stop Sexual Harassment (STOP)

This project, Enhancing Women’s Voice to Stop Sexual Harassment, is working in four countries in the Mekong to address sexual harassment in the garment industry. The project will develop, test and adapt workplace models for the prevention of and response to sexual harassment in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam.

 

• Healthy Women, Healthy Workplace (HWHW) phase II

           Improve the sexual reproductive maternal health and nutrition of women in 19 garment                 factories in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

 

• Sewing for a Brighter Future (SBF)

A project focusing on improving the knowledge and skills of young migrants working in garment factories.

 

• Addressing Gender Based Sexual Harassment in the workplace (GBSH)

         Working in four countries in the Mekong to address sexual harassment in the garment   

         industry. The project will develop, test ad adapt workplace models for the prevention of and

         response to sexual harassment in Cambodia and Vietnam. 

 

• Safe Services for Minority Population (SSMP)

        To contribute to achieving the ACCESS program improving the sustainablity, quality and
        inclusiveness of services for persons with disabilities and for women affected by gender-

        based violence (GBV).

 

 

A selection of previous projects

 

• Sewing for a Brighter Future (SBF)

• Healthy Food, Healthy Workplace (HFHW)

• Healthy Women, Healthy Workplace (HWHW) Phase 1

• Chat! Contraception

• LEAD Innovations

• Female Construction Workers (LRCW)

• Partnering to Save Lives (PSL)

• Dignified work for female hospitality, tourism and entertainment workers

• Personal Advancement and Career Enhancement (PACE) in the Community

• Safe Homes, Safe Communities (SHSC)

• Local Economic Leadership (LEL)

• Protections for Marginalised Urban Women (PMUW)

• Village Savings and Loans Association (VSLA)

• Improvements in Health Service Delivery in Remote & Marginalised Communities(GSK rural)

• Safe Workplaces, Safe Communities (SWSC)

• Global Fund

• Personal Advancement and Career Enhancement (PACE) in Garment Factories

• Promoting the Safety of Women Workers in the Beer Industry

• Safe Migration and Reduced Trafficking (SMART)

• Young Women in Business (YWIB)

 

Read about the successes of previous projects:

 

See this program in action