| Project Duration |
7 Years (2013 to 2019) |
| Funding organization |
SUSA – ALDI |
| Project Goal |
The AFA Project seeks to improve working conditions at key producers through dialogue trainings that help workers and managers jointly address issues in their factories. |
| Project Purpose |
- Improve the working conditions in factories
- Help producers by providing the right methods for improvement
- Build up capacity within the ALDI supply chain
- Strengthening supplier relations
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| Project Output |
- Working atmosphere will improve: employees work more happily
- Problems/conflicts can be solved at an early stage before they escalate
- Increase workers’ sense of belonging to factory
- Decrease turnover rates
- Prevention of severe accidents
- Productivity gains through workers’ higher motivation
- Reduction of overtime hours
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| Project working areas |
Savar, Gazipur |
| Beneficiary/Stakeholder |
Factory Workers – Managers and Supplier |
| Short description |
The AFA Project is a training program designed for a specific Brand supplying factory workers and managers.
AFA Project uses a dialogue training approach. Workers and managers learn how to tackle their problems in the workplace jointly and to find effective solutions. |
| Major Achievements |
- AFA Project changed the mentality in the worker management relation through dialogue
- Involved workers in the decision making process
- Improved internal communication channel
- Improved productivity of the factory
- Promoted female workers in the supervisory level
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