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Women Empowerment
Initiatives in DBL Group
• Family business
• Diversified conglomerate
• Vertically integrated
apparel & textile
operations
• Started in 1991
• Turnover: US$ 455 million
(2017-18)
• 35,000 employees
Our Buyers
Our Knowledge Partners
Sustainability Pillars
www.dbl-group.com/Sustainability
Preventing Sexual Harassment in DBL
• Anti-harassment policy
• Awareness training for workers on sexual harassment
• Anti harassment committee
• Grievance mechanism regarding sexual harassment for
female employees
• Confidentiality of case handling
• Promoting Female Leadership and Gender Equality
Women Empowerment at DBL
• Female Supervisor Leadership
Program: DBL
• Women in Factories Initiative:
CARE
• Women Health Initiative
(WHI): DBL
• Nirapod (SRHR): Phulki,
Embassy of the Kingdom of
the Netherlands
• Financial literacy: CARE
• Mothers@Work: UNICEF,
BRAC
• Creating new fields of
employment: Circular Knitting
Machine Operator and Female
Security Guards
• Sexual Harassment Awareness
Program: Better Work, ILO
Female Supervisor Leadership Program Topic Duration
Counselling & Motivation 4 hours
Work Study 11 hours
Machine Maintenance 2 hours
Roles of Supervisor 1.5 hours
Soft Skills (self-analysis and development, time
management, motivation, communication)
6 hours
Quality 4 hours
Common Code of Conduct 1.5 hours
Total 30 hours
Sample-making 15 days
Female Supervisors’ Business Case • 150 pcs production per sewing line X 10 hours = 1,500 pcs/day
• 1,500 pcs/day X 3% extra production = 45 pcs extra/day/Female
Supervisor
• 45 pcs extra X 42 Female Supervisors X 26 days X 12 months =
589,680 extra pcs/year
• 589,680 extra pcs X 2.5 USD = 1,474,200 USD, i.e. 1.47 million
USD
1.47 million USD worth of extra revenue by Female Supervisor
led sewing lines per year
• Guided by the Institute of
Public Health and
Nutrition (IPHN), MoHFW
Bangladesh, supported
by UNICEF, ILO Better
Work
• Training: management,
pregnant and lactating
mothers
• Breastfeeding space and
breastfeeding breaks
MoHFW: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Considering FOB price of a garment is USD 2.00
Reject 1 piece * 1 hour * 100 mothers * 26 days * 12
months
31,200
pieces
Value of rejected 31,200 pieces * $ 2.00 $ 62,400
Less: Mothers@Work investment $ 7,013
Saving per year for 100 Pregnant & Lactating
Mothers
$ 55,392
Factory sample size: 2,000 workers and 5% pregnant & lactating
: The Business Case
SRHR Initiatives
ABSENTEEISM
(from 8% in 2011)
30% Female using sanitary napkins (from 11% in 2014)
6,500 Female workers trained up on SRHR
12¢ Cost per pack of sanitary napkins
3.6%
Summary of Business Benefits
62.6% Continued jobs after returning from maternity leave in 2016-17
(up from 30.3% in 2014-15)
2% Female employee turnover (from about 6% in 2011)
$1.4 MM Extra production annually
Women Empowerment Recognitions
Social and Environmental Excellence (SEE) Award, 2014
UN Global Compact SDG Industry Matrix,
2016
The Changemakers in Bangladesh