The context

As a partnership between the UN’s International Labour Organization and the International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group, Better Work brings diverse groups together – governments, global brands, factory owners, and unions and workers – to improve working conditions in the garment industry and make the sector more competitive. We designed a prototype platform to collect and categorize data in different datasets from factories according to global/local reach and specificity, purpose and legal reference. Goal 1: Employers and workers and their representatives uphold and are protected by national labour laws and fundamental principles and rights at work; enterprises in the sector that have emerged from the COVID-19 crisis are more sustainable, resilient and inclusive. Goal 2: Better Work’s impact on workers, businesses and compliance is sustained by national institutions that leverage the programme’s approaches, data and evidence. Goal 3: Enterprises that participate in Better Work have adopted policies and practices on responsible business conduct that support the realization of decent work. Goal 4: By 2027, Better Work’s learnings and methods have created positive social and environmental impacts beyond the programme as they are adopted in other countries and sectors. Relief Applications team chose to renew their previous system, STAR, by creating a new modular system with a total rebrand of the design and better user experience. This led to better performance, a more user-friendly website and overall a faster system.