3WE good practice guide.pdf
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… and apparel. By 2022, these two export sectors were earning almost half a billion dollars in foreign revenue a year [1,2] and contributed to Ethiopia’s status as one of the continent’s top destinations for foreign direct investment [3]. When you buy a men’s shirt from Tommy Hilfiger or a rose from Interflora, then, there is a good chance that your purchase will have passed through the hands of some of the approximately 62,000 workers in Ethiopia's foreign-owned apparel firms [4] or the 200,000 … of female workers employed in Ethiopia's foreign- owned horticultural and apparel firms. We did this primarily by interviewing and surveying frontline workers themselves; we supplemented this data by interviewing and conducting a series of workshops with firm managers, advisors, officials from key government ministries, and civil society stakeholders (see p. 15 for further information on our methodology and data). Introduction 02 The 3WE Project ggbbn October 2023 Improving female worker … 64 female frontline workers in the same sectors and 3) a survey carried out among 2,515 women in two floriculture clusters and two industrial parks. Data collection was carried out between April 2020 and June 2022, with interviews taking place either online (due to the Coronavirus pandemic) or in-person where possible. Survey data was collected in person by trained local surveyors and all data collected from frontline workers was done so in local languages (Amharic and Affan-Oromo). Ethical …