Launched last week, digital platform, the Asia Garment Hub aims to help industry stakeholders understand, promote, and operationalize decent work and sustainable business practices across the supply chain. As per a Spin Off report, the online forum was set up by GIZ Fabric in collaboration with International Labor Organization’s ‘’Decent Work in the Garment Sector Supply Chains in Asia’ project’ to address critical challenges in the industry. The platform not only addresses manufacturers, brands, trade unions, employer organizations and development partners, but also journalists, civil society, policymakers, and individuals interested in a more sustainable and socially fair future for the industry.

Access to the Hub is free of charge. Its navigation and content is offered in English and 10 other languages including Amharic, Bahasa, Bengali, Burmese, Chinese, Hindi, Khmer, Sinhalese, Urdu, and Vietnamese. A regional project implemented by the German Development Cooperation Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, the GIZ Fabrics aims to to foster sustainability in the Asian textile and garment industry.

Funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), International Labor Organization’s (ILO) ‘Decent Work in Garment Supply Chains Asia’ project aims to improve the working conditions and rights of workers, and supports a social dialogue, productivity, gender equality and environmental sustainability in the garment sector in Asia.