A proven collaboration with the garment industry and financial sector to improve financial inclusion and resilience for workers, especially women, and deliver shared economic value.
Who We Are and What We Do
RISE is a global collaboration of workers, industry and policy makers accelerating equality and opportunity for low-income workers in garment, footwear and home textile supply chains. Together we are driving positive impacts for workers and the businesses they sustain.
Collaboration is the fuel that drives progress for workers and businesses.
Working with brands, buyers, suppliers, engaging with the unions, other worker representatives, trade associations, women’s movements, local civil society and policy makers – at RISE it is essential for us to always be guided by the needs and priorities of women workers.
Resilient businesses are built by a thriving workforce.
Respect
A comprehensive approach to increasing safety at work and preventing and remediating violence and harassment in the world of work
Foundations
A workplace development program to increase agency and advance workers’ rights.
Digital
An app-based program which improves digital literacy and provides tools to improve health, financial, relationship and stress management.
Knowledge shared is impact multiplied.
Explore Insights into how we achieve more equal and resilient workplaces.
Weaving Fairness: How Women Workers Hold the Key to Climate Resilience in the Garment, Footwear, and Textile Sectors
Climate change is already hitting the garment, footwear, and textiles sectors hard. Its impacts are rapidly compounding for both workers and businesses in countries like Bangladesh and Cambodia.
How Garment, Footwear and Textile Businesses Can Improve Women Workers’ Career Advancement
Women are the majority of garment workers but underrepresented in leadership. This report reveals how to unlock diverse career pathways and build resilient factories through insights from 100+ workers.
#WhenWomenRISE: Digital wages are a win for workers and business in Cambodia
For millions of workers in the garment industry, including women, receiving their wages digitally instead of in cash is a gateway to financial security and independence.
We bring the world together for workers and industry.
Attend a RISE event to meet others actively looking to the future of supply chain workforce.
Weaving the Future Together: Unlocking the Private Sector’s Potential to Support Low-Income Workers’ Climate Resilience
This in-person roundtable will share findings from RISE’s conversations with women workers about how climate change affects their current reality and their outlook for the future.
Industry Convening: Building a Resilient and Future-Proof Garment and Footwear Sector in Central America
Industry Convening: Building a Resilient and Future-Proof Garment and Footwear Sector in Central America
Member Collaboration Session: Developing Shared Factory Assessments and Self Diagnostic Tools
Join us to learn and share with other RISE members about aligning factory-level assessments and self-diagnostic tools to support equality across the industry at scale.
More resilient, more sustainable, more equal.
RISE to the future of the supply chain workforce.