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

         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 Food, Healthy Workplace (HFHW)

In this project, CARE is working to improve workers’ knowledge of nutrition behaviour so they can make informed decisions about their diet.

 

• Sewing for a Brighter Future (SBF)

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

 

 

A selection of previous projects

 

• 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