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January 31, 2023
Lived Experience Leadership
Meaningful Engagement of People with Lived Experience
Meaningful Engagement of People with Lived Experience: a framework and assessment for measuring and increasing lived experience leadership across the spectrum of engagement is a first-of-its-kind resource that offers guidance and tools to support organizations’ progress toward meaningful survivor engagement. This toolkit was developed by people with lived experience and allies, in a collaboration between …
Read this postNovember 5, 2021
Apparel
What do they need to know? Talking to different stakeholders about forced labor in Bangladesh's apparel sector
Different stakeholders need to take different actions to end forced labor in Bangladesh’s apparel sector Different stakeholders need different types of information. What governments need to know vs. what brands need to know may be worlds apart. As an anti-slavery leader working to end forced labor in Bangladesh’s informal apparel sector, the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery seeks to empower …
Read this postNovember 5, 2021
Supply Chain Management
Three Promising Forced Labor Risk Detection Tools
The Global Fund to End Modern Slavery invests in developing a range of tools to help brands, buyers, and suppliers prevent, detect, and remediate forced labor in their operations. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased workers’ vulnerability to modern slavery across global apparel and manufacturing supply chains. In addition to exacerbating risks to workers, the pandemic …
Read this postAugust 24, 2021
Commercial Sexual Exploitation
Practitioner note: Supporting victims and survivors of sex trafficking
In August 2020, GFEMS commissioned the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham to conduct policy and practices to address commercial sexual exploitation in India and Bangladesh. This summary examines and documents current CSE policy in India and Bangladesh across three specific areas: Repatriation of victims Survivor rehabilitation Livelihood support. This summary also aims to …
Read this postMarch 31, 2021
Apparel, Ethical Recruitment
First Look: Intervention Effectiveness in Bangladesh
Under a partnership with the U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office, GFEMS funded three individual interventions, led by implementing partners ELEVATE, aimed at disrupting the prevalence of forced labor in India and Bangladesh. For each of the three interventions, GFEMS partnered with Athena-ITAD to conduct “First-Look” case studies. These case studies represent a snapshot of …
Read this postMarch 31, 2021
Commercial Sexual Exploitation
Law and Policy Compendium on Commercial Sexual Exploitation (CSE) in Bangladesh and India
A GFEMS-funded law and policy review conducted by The Rights Lab, University of Nottingham has been produced as a precursor document to upcoming notes and manuals on rehabilitation, livelihoods, and cross-border coordination for return and repatriation of CSE survivors. The compendium provides an overview of legislative and policy frameworks on rehabilitation and reintegration in India …
Read this postMarch 31, 2021
Commercial Sexual Exploitation
First Look: Empowering families to end child sex trafficking
GFEMS has partnered with Seefar and My Choices Foundation to design and implement an awareness campaign to test and build evidence for what works best in promoting positive knowledge, attitude and practices among children, parents and communities to prevent Child Trafficking (CT) and Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC). The goal of this experimental campaign …
Read this postMarch 31, 2021
Apparel
First Look: Improving Buyer-Supplier Engagement to Disrupt Forced Labor in Apparel
GFEMS is working with Social Accountability International (SAI) to develop an innovative buyer-supplier engagement platform to improve buyer purchasing practices and supplier capacity/production planning in India’s ready-made garment industry, with the intent of interrupting factors that drive forced and bonded labor. GFEMS has partnered with the Athena-Itad consortium to review this intervention. Within this project, …
Read this postMarch 21, 2021
Commercial Sexual Exploitation
First Look: Supporting Survivors of Trafficking in India
GFEMS is funding International Justice Mission (IJM) to strengthen systems that protect victims of commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) and sustain their freedom in Maharashtra, India. In this project, the IJM team is working towards strengthening the institutions in place for the care and protection of CSEC victims across 10 districts in Maharashtra. GFEMS …
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