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TA 4131: Preventing Poverty and Empowering Female Garment Workers Affected by the Changing International Trade Environment - Cambodia
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| Type: | Study; Policy/ Strategy Formulation; Pilot |
| Duration: | 20 June 2003 – 31 December 2004 |
| Executing Agency: | Ministry of Commerce |
| Person Responsible: | L. Ding, Southeast Asia Governance, Finance and Trade Division |
| Amount: | $ 400,000 |
The TA will address the potential problem that Cambodia will face in the advent of the phasing out quota restrictions in garment industry by the end of 2004. It will help the government in understanding, examining, and addressing social, poverty and gender through the studies, monitoring and piloting projects. Thus, finding effective ways of creating alternative employment opportunities and ways of protecting retrenched garment workers as a result of the transition.
Specifically, the TA has five (5) components, namely:
A similar TA in Bangladesh is being carried out, and experience will be exchanged between the two countries.
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