For Manufacturers/ Producers
NIT-Warangal faculty members develop innovative wastewater treatment system for textile industry effluents
While the textile industry helps many across the state earn their livelihoods, the chemical effluents from the units affect the lives of people living in the vicinity. To address this, a team of faculty members at the National Institute of Technology, Warangal (NIT-W), has...
Asia Garment Hub
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January 29, 2024
"Good policy won’t be helpful unless there is regular monitoring, follow-up, guidance and reporting to ensure effective implementation"
In our section "What's going on in...?" we want to sharpen the view on key garment production centres, and talk to experts about current developments, exciting topics and innovations in these countries. For Bangladesh, we speak with Smita Nimilita, Country Representative for...
Juliette Tafreschi
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August 17, 2022
What's going on in Indonesia: Growing awareness of sustainability amid lingering pandemic impacts and a changing legal environment
In our section "What's going on in...?" we want to sharpen the view on key garment production centres, and talk to experts about current developments, exciting topics and innovations in these countries. For Indonesia, we speak with Amalia Falah Alam. Alam is the country manager...
Juliette Tafreschi
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September 20, 2022
What's going on in Pakistan: "The textile industry has gone through a very difficult time - but we will find a way to revive the industry"
In our section "What's going on in...?" we want to sharpen the view on key garment production centres, and talk to experts about current developments, exciting topics and innovations in these countries. For Pakistan, we speak with Azizullah Goheer, Secretary General, of the...
Juliette Tafreschi
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July 18, 2023
“Companies that were responsible during the pandemic recovered very quickly”
In our new section "What's going on in..." we want to sharpen the view on key garment production centres, and talk to experts about current developments, exciting topics and innovations in these countries. We kick off the series with prominent Labour Researcher Dr. Do Chi Quynh....
Juliette Tafreschi
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February 22, 2022
Dialogue for Sustainability (DfS)
“Dialogue for Sustainability” (DfS) is a process consultation approach designed to bring together various representatives throughout the organizational hierarchy, to work as a "Change Management Team (CMT)" towards achieving common goal of sustainability (social, economic,...
GIZ FABRIC Asia
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February 09, 2023
Dialogue for Sustainability: A Case Study on HR & Labour Standards and Productivity in Arian Sports Private Limited
“Dialogue for Sustainability” (DfS) is a process consultation approach designed to bring together various representatives throughout the organizational hierarchy, to work as a "Change Management Team (CMT)" towards achieving common goal of sustainability (social, economic,...
GIZ FABRIC Asia
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February 09, 2023
Dialogue for Sustainability: A Business Case Study on Environment and Sustainability in Kohinoor Textile Mills Limited
“Dialogue for Sustainability” (DfS) is a process consultation approach designed to bring together various representatives throughout the organizational hierarchy, to work as a "Change Management Team (CMT)" towards achieving common goal of sustainability (social, economic,...
GIZ FABRIC
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February 09, 2023
Dialogue for Sustainability: A Business Case Study on Environment and Sustainability in Masood Textile Mills Limited
“Dialogue for Sustainability” (DfS) is a process consultation approach designed to bring together various representatives throughout the organizational hierarchy, to work as a "Change Management Team (CMT)" towards achieving common goal of sustainability (social, economic,...
GIZ FABRIC Asia
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February 09, 2023
Traceability and Transparency: Digital Solutions to Improve Tracebility and Transparency in the Textile and Agriculture Sectors
Global supply chains are long, complex, fragmented, continuously evolving and notoriously opaque. The fragmented and opaque information can create the breeding ground of exploitative and unsafe working conditions while obscuring who has the responsibility and power to redress...
GIZ FABRIC Asia
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February 15, 2023
Traceability in the Agricultural Sector
Global supply chains are long, complex, fragmented, continuously evolving and notoriously opaque. The fragmented and opaque information can create the breeding ground of exploitative and unsafe working conditions while obscuring who has the responsibility and power to redress...
GIZ FABRIC Asia
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February 15, 2023
Digital Solutions and Challenges in the Textile and Garment Sector
Global supply chains are long, complex, fragmented, continuously evolving and notoriously opaque. The fragmented and opaque information can create the breeding ground of exploitative and unsafe working conditions while obscuring who has the responsibility and power to redress...
GIZ FABRIC Asia
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February 15, 2023
Digital Solutions and Challenges in the Agriculture Sector
Global supply chains are long, complex, fragmented, continuously evolving and notoriously opaque. The fragmented and opaque information can create the breeding ground of exploitative and unsafe working conditions while obscuring who has the responsibility and power to redress...
GIZ FABRIC Asia
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February 15, 2023
Ask an Expert: Anne Sutanto on making business productive and sustainable
Meet Anne Sutanto, Vice CEO of Indonesian Apparel giant PT Pan Brothers to hear what she has to say on the links between productivity and sustainability.
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February 17, 2023
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OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector: Due diligence costs and responsibilities - Collaborative approaches to buyer supplier relationships
Buyer-supplier collaboration on due diligence implementation based on distribution of costs and responsibilities along the supply chain can help support the development of effective due diligence processes and a more equal distribution of the burden of compliance. Within the...
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February 23, 2023
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OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector: Responsible Purchasing Practices - how can companies integrate responsible purchasing practices in their businesses?
Brands are increasingly turning their attention to their purchasing practices, however, progress towards responsible purchasing practices (RPP) across the sector is being slowed due to a number of repeatedly reported barriers. Our panel will focus on how brands can revise their...
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March 01, 2023
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OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector 2023: Contracts and HREDD Legislation
It is widely known that contracts are frequently used tools for carrying out human rights and environmental due diligence (HREDD). Frequency of use is not tantamount to effective use, however, and the two should not be confused. The new HREDD laws coming from Europe have raised...
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March 01, 2023
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OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector, Side Session: Commercial compliance - accelerating change, measuring progress
In this session we are putting the spotlight on the tools that we have at our disposal now and in the future to make commercial compliance measurable at an industry level. This discussion encompasses therefore the definition of commercial compliance and its components as...
GIZ FABRIC Asia
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March 13, 2023
Oxfam Report: Trading Away Our Rights
This report reveals the double standards at the heart of the corporate practices that are emerging under globalization. Companies’ demands for faster, more flexible, and cheaper production in their supply chains are undermining the very labour standards that they claim to be...
Asia Garment Hub
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May 04, 2023