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RISE is seeking a research/consulting organization to:
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Review GBVH interventions and tools currently used in Bangladesh’s garment sector. This includes mapping relevant stakeholder initiatives across specific GBVH domains, such as prevention, risk assessment, grievance mechanisms, survivor support, and remediation. The aim is to identify overlaps, gaps, and opportunities for alignment
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Conduct participatory needs assessment leveraging RISE’s participatory methodology and working in partnership with RISE appointed women’s rights organizations and unions, this process will include design workshops, focus groups, and feedback sessions at the factories and in the worker communities to ensure that women’s perspectives are captured and directly inform the development of the industry action framework .
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Cofacilitate a workshop with worker/women’s rights group for the action framework that is formed to guide and advocate for the GBVH action framework. Together with a women’s rights organization, conduct a workshop with the representatives from women led unions, women’s rights organizations and workers’ representatives to validate the findings from the workers research, identify barriers in addressing GBVH, co-create solutions and collective actions
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Conduct Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) with stakeholders such as Industry Associations (BGMEA/BKMEA), Ministry of Labour, Ministry of Women’s Affairs and other major civil society organizations who are working on GBVH issue in Bangladesh.
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Organize logistic and facilitate a multistakeholder workshop in country to present the worker research findings, explore reasonable interaction between business practices, compliance models and GBVH risks and find clear pathways and scalable approaches to address and remediate GBVH through collective approaches.
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Conduct a GBVH action framework validation workshop in country to facilitate high level dialogue and collect feedback on the draft action framework from the key stakeholders
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Arrange logistics for the formal launch event of the action framework in country to present the action framework jointly with brands, suppliers, unions, women’s organizations, NGOs, and government actors.
How to Submit
Please submit the following in a single file (PDF or Word document) by 15 December 2025:
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The proposal (5-6 pages) addressing the points listed above; and
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Profiles/CVs of key team members (these can be included in the same file as annexes).
Please use the email subject line:
“RISE Bangladesh GBVH Consultancy – Proposal Submission – [Name/Organization Name]”
Key Activities
- Analysis of legal and policy frameworks and their enforcements: Conduct a comprehensive review of Bangladesh’s GBVH-related legal and policy frameworks—including the 2009 High Court Guidelines, the Bangladesh Labour Act 2006, the Labour Ordinance 2025, and the women's rights reform commission report. Assess gaps in the laws themselves, weaknesses in enforcement and implementation, challenges in access to remedy, and opportunities for alignment with international standards such as ILO Convention 190.
- Review of stakeholder recommendations: Analyse reports and recommendations from women’s rights organizations, trade unions, and national and international civil society actors to understand ongoing gaps, progress made, and practical opportunities to strengthen GBVH prevention, protection, redress, and accountability across the garment sector in alignment with ILO C190.
- Comparative analysis of global models: Review relevant international initiatives—such as the Dindigul Agreement (India), the Lesotho Agreement and the Java Agreement—to draw lessons from rights-based, worker-led approaches. Identify elements that can inform feasible, scalable, and context-appropriate legal, policy, and enforcement strategies for Bangladesh.
- Provide recommendations on legal/policy reforms and enforcement: Based on the analysis, develop clear, actionable, context appropriate recommendations for strengthening Bangladesh’s legal and policy frameworks on GBVH, as well as improving enforcement, accountability, and access to remedy. Recommendations should prioritize worker-centred, survivor-sensitive, and rights-based approaches.
How to Submit:
Please submit the following by 15 December 2025:
• Your proposal (3–4 pages) as a PDF or Word document.
• CV(s) of the consultant and any key team member(s).
Please use the email subject line:
“RISE GBVH Research Consultancy – Proposal Submission – [Your Name/Organization]”
RISE is seeking a women’s rights organization to:
- Facilitate data collection in the worker communities together with a research organization appointed by RISE, to capture women and men workers perspectives on GBVH. This is under the needs assessment segment of the industry action framework work and collected data will
guide the discussion of the consultation workshops and will inform the framework. - Convene and facilitate consultation with trade union representatives, and women’s rights organizations to ensure that the development of the GBVH Industry action framework is informed by diverse women worker-centred perspectives and validated by organizations advocating for labour rights and gender justice. The consultant will arrange an orientation meeting with the rightsholders and cofacilitate a workshop with the research organization to review and validate the findings from the workers research, identify barriers in addressing GBVH, co-create solutions and promote collective actions.
- Support validation and launch of the report by cofacilitating GBVH industry action framework validation/feedback workshop and support to launch of the report with RISE.
How to Submit:
Please submit the following in a single file (PDF or Word document) by 15 December 2025:
• The proposal (3–4 pages) addressing the points listed above; and
• Profiles/CVs of key team members (these can be included in the same file as annexes).
Please use the email subject line:
“RISE Bangladesh GBVH Women Worker Engagement Partner – Proposal Submission – [Organization Name]”
Tackling gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH) in the garment and footwear sector is a core priority for RISE. RISE Respect is the initiative’s comprehensive approach to preventing and addressing GBVH, with a strong focus on transforming social norms and driving positive behavior change. Through its in-factory workplace program, RISE strengthens equitable relationships and attitudes among women and men, providing a tested model for GBVH prevention, mitigation, and remediation.
Since 2015, the Respect workplace program has been implemented in seven countries—India, Bangladesh, Kenya, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Guatemala, and Vietnam—supporting more than 70 suppliers and benefitting over 80,000 workers.
RISE aims to co-design solutions with its membership that address critical gaps and key drivers of gender inequity across the sector. In the context of emerging human rights due diligence (HRDD) legislation, industry stakeholders have expressed strong interest in a scalable program that can support more comprehensive GBVH prevention and mitigation across supply chains. To meet this need, RISE will lead the design, testing, and learning of a scalable GBVH response model, drawing from shared learning and existing approaches in the garment, textile, and footwear industries. Pilot testing will focus on identifying the program components that are most essential, adaptable, and scalable. The pilot will take place in two countries—India and Bangladesh—with the intention of future scale-up across all RISE countries.
Simultaneously, also as art of Respect scalability strategy, the RISE Respect program will be expanded in Central America, with a particular emphasis on women’s economic empowerment and financial health, given the strong link between GBVH and financial insecurity in the region. This will include developing a blended GBVH + Financial Health program model. This integrated approach will address the interconnected drivers of GBVH, and financial vulnerability faced by women workers in Central America’s garment sector.
PROPOSAL
Please share a brief proposal (2-3 pages) including but not limited to the following list:
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Demonstration of consultant’s skillset (see qualifications below).
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Key steps and timeline to achieve the deliverables of the assignment.
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Budget
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Examples of previous work.