Example in Action: Better Work Assessment Teams

Better Work is a joint project of the ILO and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) where governments, global brands, factory owners, unions, and workers work together to improve working conditions in the garment industry and make the sector more competitive. Better Work has several regulations in place for evaluation teams, requiring two “enterprise advisors” (auditors) to be present for each unannounced assessment. Better Work advisors are hired locally and receive extensive training. A new advisor is always paired with a more experienced colleague, and no two advisors are paired on consecutive visits to a particular factory. Advisors conducting assessments for a particular factory are never the same individuals providing remediation and advisory services to that factory. 

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to address child labor and forced labor.

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