BP4GG Learning Brief 8- Leveraging Digital Tools to Support Factories and Garment workers

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Business Partnerships for Global Goals COVID-19 Vulnerable Supply Chain Facility Business Partnerships as a Force for Good Learning Series

Business Partnerships as a Force for Good Leveraging Digital Tools to Support Factories and Garment workers Learning Brief No. 8 By Nicola Doody, Business Innovations Advisor, BP4GG and Rahul Malik, Garments Projects Lead, BP4GG Business Partnerships for Global Goals is a UK Aid funded programme implemented by Mott MacDonald, with support from Accenture Development Partnerships and IIED. We partner with UK and international retail brands, not-for-profit organisations, farms, and factories to provide economic, social, environmental, and health benefits to more than 1 million vulnerable women and men impacted by COVID-19 in 7 countries across Africa and Asia.

Reflecting on the four garments projects run as part of the Vulnerable Supply Chains Facility (VSCF) (which is set up under BP4GG), this paper shares the key benefits found in leveraging digital tools. It also shares some of the lessons learnt on delivering projects with digital components in a time of crisis. Three key points highlighted are: 1. In a time of crisis, starting with what you have can fast track impact, 2. Digital alone is often not the answer and 3. Developed the right way, digital tools can help build digital literacy. These lessons can be used by donors, businesses, or not-for-profit organisations in future project delivery.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on the way we interact and work. Lockdowns, social distancing and remote working—for those privileged to have access to digital tools and infrastructure—have made us value the connectivity and flexibility it brings even more. For organisations working to deliver programmes in low- or middle-income countries digital tooling has, at times, been a lifeline. Travel restrictions and mandated lockdowns have meant many not-for-profit organisations (NFPs) have had to rely even further on digital tools and technology to ensure initiatives, designed to help protect and support those that have been most marginalised in society, can continue to be delivered.

Learnings presented at BP4GG garments sector learning event on 29 June 2021, attended by the following Vulnerable Supply Chain Facility partners: • • • • • • • • • • • •

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