Library Learning Centres for Factory Workers

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Library Learning Centres for Factory Workers

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July 25, 2018
Factory learning centres to expand
Sixteen new Library Learning Centres, organised by the Sipar NGO, are being set up starting this month in rural areas to fight against illiteracy and to develop the social and economic well-being of garment workers.

Sipar yesterday said the16 libraries, part of a three-year project, would be extensions of factories for self-learning and soft-skill development of garment workers in rural factories.

“There will be an additional 16 libraries in 16 factories in four new provinces, Prey Veng, Svay Rieng, Takeo, and Pursat,” it said.

“This project aims to increase opportunities for self-learning and access to the documents, information, and training on soft skills for garment workers and will fight against illiteracy as well as contribute to the well-being and the socio-economic development of the workers and their families.”

It said the project budget was about $750,000. Half of this will be paid by the French Development Agency, with 30 percent from the Weave Our Future Foundation, five percent from the new factories and the rest from other donors.

Puth Sovann, president of Trade Union Federation for Workers, said the manufacturing sector has developed in Cambodia, but garment workers were still in need of education.

“I fully support the project creating libraries for garment workers in these four provinces because all of them can get some understanding of living in safety in areas such as health and traffic,” he said.

He did not think all garment workers liked reading, but by having a library in the factory, workers would get information from those who read.​ “I hope that the project will continue to set up libraries in all the provinces across the country to improve the education of garment workers,” he added.

Sipar, a French NGO focused on reducing the country’s illiteracy rate, began the push for libraries in factories in 2013 when it opened its first library in a British-owned factory in Phnom Penh.
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Good Practice on “Factory Literacy Program in Cambodia”
January 24, 2020

Cambodia has one of the fastest rates of urbanization in Asia: in the last decades, Phnom Penh’s population has doubled and the urban population is now 21 percent (Hut, 2016). Many of these rural-urban migrants are women migrating to work in factories; many have low literacy levels. Lessons learnt from Cambodia’s 2015 National Literacy Campaign of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) suggest that most of the young literacy learners in the Community Literacy Program aged between 15-24 years had moved to urban areas to benefit from employment and better economic opportunities in garment and manufacturing industries. The 2013 report by the Ministry of Planning on Women and Migration in Cambodia showed that 85 percent of the 605,000 workers in garment and footwear factories were women, of whom 14 percent were illiterate and 29 percent demonstrated low levels of literacy.

The Factory Literacy Programme (FLP) was initiated with support from UNESCO’s Capacity Development for Education Programme (CapED) Programme, formerly known as Capacity Development for Education for All (CapEFA) and subsequently funded through the UNESCO Malala Fund for Girls’ Right to Education. The FLP aims to enable young women and girls working in factories aged between 15 to 45 years to acquire basic functional literacy skills and empower them to better understand their own fundamental rights. At the same time, this programme supports the government and factories to engage in Public Private Partnerships (PPP) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Cambodia.

With the implementation of the FLP for over two years since 2016 until December 2019, the following achievements have been made and recognized by MoEYS. The programme has prepared 47 teachers (25 female), 1,300 learners (95% female) have completed the programme, and 12 MoEYS (2 female) and 12 PoEYS officials (3 female) and 25 (8 female) managers in 25 factories received an orientation (in Phnom Penh, Kandal, Kampong Speu, Kampong Chhanng, Kampong Cham, Thbong Khmom, Prey Veng, Svay Rieng and Siem Reap provinces). Recognizing these results, MoEYS has further encouraged other factories to implement the classes and has offered to allocate 24 contract teachers. As part of the initiative, MoEYS has currently provided 19 contract teachers already, a number that will grow as more factories implement literacy classes in the future.

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Re: Library Learning Centres for Factory Workers

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UNESCO, GMAC join hands to support adult literacy for factory workers

03 Apr '21

UNESCO and the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) recently joined hands to support lifelong learning among garment factory workers across the country. The strategic partnership through GMAC’s Cambodian Garment Training Institute (CGTI) will help ensure that the accredited Factory Literacy Programme (FLP) developed by the ministry of education Youth and Sport (MoEYS) and UNESCO will involve GMAC’s participation in its implementation.

The Cambodian garment sector employs a large number of female workers with low levels of literacy and skills. The Factory Literacy Programme was launched by UNESCO and the Cambodian ministry in 2016 as a targeted initiative to upskill these workers and help close the skill gap in the garment, footwear and apparel industry.

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