Jukta Hoe Mukta (United We Stand)

Project Duration

February, 2016 â€“ January, 2019

Funding organization

European Union

Project Goal

Potential and already migrant adolescent girls and young women working in RMG sector experience safe, secure and enabling working environment and fulfilling social conditions.

Project Purpose

Potential and already migrant adolescent girls/young women from marginalized communities and slums make informed choices (social, economic and professional) regarding migration and work in the RMG sector.
Organized women workers of the RGM sector and slum-based adolescent girls/young women actively participating in the decision-making process and advocating for their interests.

Project Output

Migrated girls and young women continue to receive social, informational and rights based support.

Project working areas

Gazipur

Beneficiary/Stakeholder

Children aged 2-6 years
Working women and adolescent girls from project areas.

Short description

Main Expected outputs:

a) Contact community people including working mothers with children 2-6 years to share Phulkis available services (Daycare, Womens Cafe, and Helpline) to form and activate Centre Management Committee (CMCs)

b) Establish cluster-wise daycare centers along with a learning center

c) Establish womens cafes as a meeting place for adolescent girls and working women to learn about SRHR, health & hygiene and rights-based issues

d) Further develop the Helpline services for adolescent girls and working women in vulnerable situation (violation of rights, health hazards and work place safety)

Major Achievements

97% of the mothers whose children were attending the DCCs are working. 95% of them said not to have anybody at home to take care of their children while they are working.

From the documents review of Phulki by external M& E, 35% of the mothers of the enrolled children could start working after bringing their children in the DCCs. As per a FGD conducted with 12 working women at the end of the project, 97% of the respondents were involved in an income generating activity, in almost all the cases in the RMG sector. In addition, 95% of them said to have nobody to take care of their children at home, if the DCCs would have not existed, reason why they could have not been able to work for long hours inside the factories.

All over the three years of the project, the number of children enrolled in the clusters progressively increased (from 49.3% in the first year to 91.4% in the third one) altogether with the working mothers’ acquaintance with this concept. However, the total target of 240 children (30 per cluster) has been achieved only for few months in the third year, with a yearly average of 220.
The graphics below show the children’s enrolment rate, both average frequency and percentage, over the three years of the project, considering six clusters in the first year (which opened 6 months after the project started) and eight clusters in the second and third years:
Women Café Users –

Project Year Garments worker Adolescent Girl Home Makers

Year -1 199 163 126

Year-2 341 191 151

Year-3 289 131 96