Responsible Digital Wages: An Industry Stakeholder Approach to Supporting Female Workers to Access, Use and Benefit from Payroll Accounts

There are 4,000 garment factories and over four million garment workers in Bangladesh. Supporting workers to be able to use their accounts safely and confidently requires a concerted effort from all of the different organizations they come into contact with during the transition from cash to digital wages. HERproject has therefore explored a new way of engaging stakeholders who are important touchpoints for workers during wage digitization.

This included embedding key elements of  HERproject’s Digital Wages program into their training in order to (i) increase workers’ confidence to use their digital payroll accounts; (ii) increase awareness of PIN safety and fraudulent activities and; (iii) increase awareness of relevant and appropriate financial products.

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“This article was published as part of BSR’s HERproject. In 2023, HERproject, Gap Inc. P.A.C.E, CARE and Better Work came together to launch RISE: Reimagining Industry to Support Equality, a collaborative initiative supporting industry to advance equality for women workers in global garment supply chains.”