Sustainable Industrial Clusters (S.I.C.) / Environmental and Social Standards in the Textile and Garment Industry in Ethiopia

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The project promotes long-term stable industrialisation by:

• Improving working and living conditions for the mainly female factory workers in the selected industrial parks by preventing gender-based violence and harassment at work, as well as setting up social dialogue platforms like workers’ cafés and grievance mechanisms.
• Making industrial parks more climate sensitive with a relevant regulatory framework, mobilisation of investments and technical assistance to set up ecological industrial parks.
• Improving social and environmental regulations and enabling compliance and government enforcement of them.
• Enabling locally based businesses to supply to industrial parks and buyers/fashion brands abroad.

Objective

Ethiopia’s manufacturing sector, with a focus on textile, garment and leather industry, is creating decent jobs and moving towards more stable economic growth.

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