Good Practice Sheets

Better Factories Cambodia provides a variety of training opportunities for Cambodia’s garment industry. In our training we focus on improving working conditions, productivity and quality through workplace cooperation.

Currently training opportunities are:
With an increasing global interest in working conditions, allied to a competitive international environment, there is a strong need to provide quality training that allows participants the chance to identify issues of concern and find practical solutions for themselves. Consequently, ILO Better Factories Cambodia training always adopts a participatory methodology, which ensures that all learners have the opportunity to share their views and build on their own experiences by learning more from the experiences of others in the industry.

The majority of our training activities tend to involve bi-partite stakeholders (management and union representatives). Nearly all of Cambodia’s garment factories are unionised. As workplace cooperation is the basis of all our training initiatives, Better Factories Cambodia believes that providing management and workers the opportunity to learn together and from each other will have positive impact on workplace cooperation through improved communication and mutual understanding.

Many of our training activities also include follow-up factory visits to ensure that learners are able to transfer classroom based learning back to their places of work. ILO Better Factories Cambodia staff assists these initiatives, although the ultimate responsibility for improvements in the factories rests with the training participants and factory constituents themselves.

While certain aspects of our training activities require facilitators with significant International and technical experience, ILO Better Factories Cambodia, supports developing the skills of local trainers and training institutions. If Cambodia’s garment industry is going to be sustainable in the longer-term, the need to develop a large pool of locally based training experts is crucial.

Training schedule 2010

There are other relevant  training providers in Cambodia. See a list.

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