Resources
Report
A new evaluation of Business for Social Responsibility (BSR)’s HERhealth model, conducted by the Evidence Project/Population Council, offers important evidence and recommendations for effective programming to improve the health of women workers in garment factories in Bangladesh and elsewhere. Bangladesh’s ready-made garment sector – an important contributor to the global garment industry and to Bangladesh’s […]
Q&A
The health and well-being of workers, particularly women workers, are vital for development and ripe for management innovation for their factories, farms and other industrial operations in low and middle income countries. Yet there is an enduring mystery: Why do managers of these formal workplaces see no problem with their onsite doctors, nurses or medics […]
Toolkit
This toolkit was developed by Business for Social Responsibility in partnership with the Evidence Project to produce better health and business results from existing workplace health and wellness investments, allocate resources more effectively, and address high priority needs of women and men workers. The toolkit is focused on both the quality of health services provided […]
Brief
BSR’s HERproject is a collaborative initiative that strives to empower low-income women working in global supply chains in 14 countries worldwide. One of the HERproject’s three pillars is HERhealth, which seeks to improve the health-related knowledge and behaviors and access to health services and products of low-income working women. In Bangladesh, HERhealth specifically addresses reproductive […]
Report
Women’s rights are often addressed in limited ways, if at all, in corporate or workplace codes of conduct. To redress this, BSR—with support from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and expertise of the Evidence Project/Meridian Group International, Inc.—has developed the Gender Equality in Codes of Conduct Guidance.