Migrant Worker Capacity Building and Better Factory Project

EDC HHD Asia together with adidas and the Foreign Capital Project Management Center State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development (FCPMC), designed a Migrant Worker Capacity Building and Better Factory Pilot Project based on the results of a needs assessment conducted in 8 supplier factories in Shanghai and Guangdong areas in early 2008. We have successfully engaged Asia Foundation, Oxfam, GTZ, Right to Play to participate in the two-year pilot project. The pilot project aims to promote migrant labor well-being and capacity as well as resolve labor shortage and reduce high turnover rate in factories. In November 2008, EDC HHD Asia together with adidas and FCPMC conducted a public-private partnership working group meeting where all partners including GTZ, public training centers and supplier factories attended to identify annual work plan and officially start the project intervention.