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USAID/Bangladesh issued this Request for Information (RFI) to gather ideas and market intelligence for a future labor-focused activity centered on private sector engagement in Bangladesh, particularly in the ready-made garment (RMG) sector. The agency is signaling that it sees private sector partnerships as a practical way to expand the scale and long-term staying power of worker-focused development work, because programs can be embedded into existing brand-supplier business relationships, increase access to training through commercial networks, and leverage cost sharing that brings more total investment to the table. USAID is looking for input from private companies (including brands and other private firms) as well as national and international NGOs and development partners that have relevant experience designing or implementing similar efforts.
At its core, the RFI is meant to help USAID better understand the needs and realities of Bangladeshi garment workers and to identify concrete opportunities to improve worker skills, health, livelihoods, workplace conditions, and workplace culture. A major emphasis is on women workers: USAID specifically wants to learn what would most effectively improve womens productivity, health, and empowerment, and what approaches might shift factory environments in ways that support gender equality and inclusion. This is not a request for proposals or applications; it is a pre-solicitation information-gathering step that USAID may use to shape a later formal solicitation.
USAID asks respondents to share evidence-based initiatives and lessons learned that are relevant to improving skills and working conditions for Bangladesh RMG workers, especially initiatives that have successfully empowered women. Respondents are encouraged to include insights from comparable country contexts, not just Bangladesh. USAID also wants examples of public-private partnership models that have advanced worker safety, skills, productivity, and working conditions, with a focus on what partnership mechanisms worked best, how partners structured their collaboration, and whether results continued after external funding or the formal program ended. In addition, USAID invites respondents to identify remaining programming and research gaps in the RMG sector related to womens empowerment, gender inclusion, and gender equality, essentially highlighting where the biggest unanswered questions and under-served needs remain.
To guide responses, USAID lists several specific topic areas and questions it would like organizations to address, in whole or in part. On womens position in the RMG workforce, USAID seeks information on whether female workers have realistic pathways to regular wage increases, what share of women advance into middle management, and what typical employment patterns look like across a career (such as how many factories women work in, average tenure, and the reasons for switching factories). On empowerment and leadership, USAID asks how gender-inclusive the sector is, especially for mid-level management roles, what factors help or block women from becoming leaders at work, and what strategies could expand advancement opportunities. USAID also asks about work-life balance challenges women face and what community or factory-based supports exist to help with those pressures.
USAID further requests information that maps the broader ecosystem of investments and coordination in this space. It asks which donors and brands are currently investing in worker skill improvements and whether donor projects and funding levels are aligned with the kinds of changes stakeholders want to see in workers lives. Finally, USAID directly solicits brand and private firm perspectives: what worker issues brands most want to address, whether they are interested in co-designing a private sector engagement activity with USAID, and what form of engagement they would prefer (for example, partnership structure and roles).
The submission instructions are straightforward and restrictive: responses had to be submitted by email only (no phone calls or hard copies), limited to five pages, written in English, and formatted in 11-point Times New Roman (or similar), single spaced, on 8.5 x 11 inch pages with consecutive page numbers. Respondents could include relevant reports via embedded links when possible, or attach documents if not available online; reference documents could be in Bangla even though the narrative response had to be in English. USAID explicitly states that applications, proposals, and resumes should not be submitted and will be discarded, and it notes that submissions will be treated as confidential but should not include proprietary information. USAID also clarifies that it will not acknowledge submissions or provide responses, and it may use the information received without obligation. The RFI closed March 31, 2020 at 4:30 p.m. Bangladesh time, with submissions directed to sadiahumayun@usaid.gov and abakbar@usaid.gov.Apply for 72038820RFI00001
- The Bangladesh USAID-Dhaka in the other sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Request for Information (RFI) Labor Program focused on Private Sector Engagement" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 98.001.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2020-03-15.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2020-03-31. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Eligible applicants include: Others.
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