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This training helps workers how to manage money and keeping financial records, making a budget and how to stay within budget.

This is a new Better Work training topic developed to address intercultural issues in garment and textile factories so that better communication and mutual cultural understanding can be reached.

It is a 2 hour training for factory operators/supervisors

Factories that understand and comply with the national labour laws and international labour standards tend to have good reputations, repeat orders and better relationships with buyers. This course is designed to give participants a strong understanding of Ethiopian Labour Law and how to apply it to day to day activities.

Good Occupational Health & Safety (OSH) is good for business. This course builds awareness of OSH as an integral part of factory management. Focusing on a preventative approach to OSH including risk mapping, it guides participants to spot hazards, meet national and international standards and the understand the role of the OSH committee.

The Personal Hygiene training introduces participants to how germs spread and how to prevent their transmission. The module also talks about the importance of hand washing, including how to properly wash hands to prevent the spread of germs and when hand washing is necessary. Additional tips are provided for healthy dental hygiene and hygiene in the toilet and kitchen. Specific tips will be provided for female workers on proper menstrual hygiene as well as how to better manage their monthly symptoms. Lastly, some tips will address common myths and misconceptions that may negatively affect women’s health or promote unhygienic behaviours.

It is a 2 hour awareness creation training for factory operators

This specially designed course aims to help participants to recognise there are different forms of sexual harassment in the workplace, understand why sexual harassment is prevalent in garment factories, its impacts on the working environment and especially the factory’s productivity. Taking the training also helps participants to develop strategies to address and prevent sexual harassment, steps to deal with cases of sexual harassment at factories.

Sexual Harassment Prevention (SHP) Training for Supervisors

Sexual Harassment Prevention (SHP) Training for top-level managers

This is a half day soft skills training designed for textile and garment factory operators/workers to equip them with required skills and to create awareness about the basic work place communication skills, Workplace harassment and abuse and working time)

The main objective of soft skills training is to equip factory workers with the social and interpersonal skills that enable them to cope with the demands of everyday life so that help them build self-confidence, encourage critical thinking, foster independence and help them to communicate and build inter personal relationship. What are the training Objectives? After successfully completing life skills training, participants will be able to: Develop emotional awareness & emotional management Develop effective communication and interpersonal relationship skills Become self-confident individuals by mastering inter-personal skills, team management skills, and leadership skills. Identify their social skills in terms of their ability to making friends Developing healthy eating habit

Strategic Human Resources Management

This training will give current and aspiring supervisors the tools they need to transform the workplace through improved supervision of and communication with workers. At the end of the course, participants will be more knowledgeable and adept in performing their supervision duties in areas such as motivating the workforce, maintaining discipline, delegating tasks and providing constructive feedback.

This training helps workers understand the importance of managing their time and the importance of prioritizing tasks and responsibilities.

The main objective is to equip potential trainers form BW registered factories with required training delivery and facilitation skills so that help them cascade down the Sexual Harassment and Prevention training at the operators level

The main aim of the women empowerment leadership training program is to provide textile and garment factory women workers with required skills and knowledge to undertake more senior roles/supervisory positions. Specifically, the women empowerment leadership intervention aims to:

• Enhance the capacity of potential women supervisors/ workers by providing leadership/soft skills and technical skills training necessary to take on supervisory roles;
• Offer career-progression opportunities for potential women supervisors/ workers in textile and garment factories
• Increase line-level productivity and reducing gender imbalances at management levels.

The overall aim of this Workplace Cooperation training is to equip enterprises with the tools needed to improve the business performance through better workplace cooperation and workplace practices. Specifically, after the participants have completed the training they will:

• Recognize the goals of the Better Work Service Model and the Workplace Cooperation Committee function within the Model.
• Be able to identify the role and responsibilities of management and worker representatives in the Workplace Cooperation Committee (WPC).
• Be able to start engaging and working as WPC members in the most optimal way.
• Be able to identify strategies in promoting an inclusive and representative WPC.

This course helps workers understand the importance of workplace communication, identify barriers of workplace communication and find creative solution to improve workplace communication and have more knowledge of grievance procedures in the workplace

Workplace Harassment Prevention Training