2024 Annual report: Collaborative Action toward Gender Equality in Supply Chains

Key Points:

1. Women workers are underrepresented in leadership roles within factories in the Ready-made-Garment (RGM) supply chains 
2. Existing activities focused on workers’ and supervisors' capacity building to promote women to supervisory roles don’t fully match the expectations of workers or address their concerns  
3. There is an opportunity to explore a broader approach to supporting women’s advancement, beyond supervisory roles, that can get the buy-in of women and support longer term business needs.  

Celebrating its first anniversary on International Women’s Day, RISE is expanding its membership to accelerate its gender equality mission.

2023 has been an inspirational year from launch to integration to innovation. Read our Annual Report to learn about our work, impact and activities! 

This report shares the benefits for garment sector workers and business following participation in HERfinance in India.

This guide offers global brands and buyers practical advice and covers four stages for ensuring sustainable wage digitization, that benefits both business and workers.

This guide offers financial service providers practical advice to develop the digital wage segment, including acquisition, driving usage of financial services, and retention of new customers.

Interviews led by HERproject suggest that female and male garment workers were more financially resilient following wage digitization and financial capability training. However, the systemic gender inequalities that have long affected women and girls were exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic.   

HERproject's new report presents findings on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on workers in global supply chains and recommendations for companies and other stakeholders for an inclusive recovery that benefits workers and supply chains.

Training and support are vital to help workers, especially women, transition to digital wages and help them to access, use, and ultimately benefit from their new payroll accounts.