Saving for change Partner Name: Coalition of Cambodia Apparel Workers Democratic Union (C.CAWDU)

CAWDU was established in the year 2000 with the support of Labor NGO#s call Cambodia Labor Organization ( CLO), in the purpose of defending the right of the garment workersand promotebetter working condition. Currently C.CAWDU have more than 50 thousands members from one city and three provinces.

C.CAWDU affiliated with Cambodia Labor Confederation ( CLC) and affiliated with ITGLWF
In general context of garment industry in Cambodia, since the 1990#s, Cambodia#s garment industry has established itself as central to the nation#s economy. The garment industry is concentrated in and around the capital city, Phnom Penh, with a smaller number of factories scattered throughout the provinces. An estimated 85% of the garment factories are foreign controlled, mostly by Chinese, Taiwanese, Singaporean and Malaysian investors, who moved to the country in the 1990s to take advantage of the low-cost labour market and the country#squota-free access to US and EU markets. The top five brands sourcing from Cambodia are H<(>&<)>M, GAP, Levi Strauss <(>&<)> Co, Adidas and Target.

C.CAWDU play very crucial role in for strengthen and improvement of garment industry in Cambodia especially improve working condition and Labour justice for Cambodian garment workers as whole. In order to accomplish and achieved aim, goal, vision and mission, C.CAWDU has to set up strategic plan for annual year and four years program.  C.CAWDU has three pillars of program including organizing, training and legal settlement. What#s more, from year to year ,our trade organization try the best to accomplish our short term and long term goal in aim of sustainable organization development and prosperity and happiness of Cambodian garment workers. To do so, C.CAWDU especially leadership play very important role to pushing and lead to ensure sustainable progress and achievement. In addition, they have to perform their best in national level in term of lobby, negotiation, persuasion in their social dialogue as well as tripartite meeting in manycrucial topics including minimum wage campaign, draft union law, social protection and social security, short term contract, and organizing .Last but least, C.CAWDU still accomplish common journey together regarding with wage, social protection, short term contract, organizing and draft union law.

Project Tittle: Supporting opportunities for garment workers to generate sustainable financial security through assessing financial management training manual

Improving and strengthening self-financial ownership through behavior change, self-confidence, more social capital, women leadership, among garment workers which primary focus women and youth. The Cambodia general population censusin2008 indicates that Cambodian youth comprise 33 percent of total population. Cambodians people, especially women and youth are built and improved their livelihood through life skill trainings for better future income and reduce economic shocks in their family as well as their own-self.

Overall Project Objective:
1. Garment workers able to possess financial security again shock, Enhanced solidarity and collective voice community. To response project outcome 1, and 2, and ensure project successfully. Project team need to identify project goal, outcome, clear activities, and project strategies especially ensure project sustainability and contribute positive impact in garment community. Based on previous project achievement in 15 months period, 682 old saving for change members, 516 people are female members which are equal to 76%. Moreover, among the 152 saving for change group#smanagement committees, 67 of them are women. As a critical and analysis of scope of C.CAWDU membership and union members, there arearound 100 unions are on board and 70 active unions which approximately 40,000 active members. At this meantime, lack of self-financial management, lack of women team building, lack of life skill training on community business enterprise developmentskill (C-BED skill) and saving led microfinance training. Therefore, C.CAWDU must expense the working scope of project area by developed second new project grant. However, financial urgent need and financial un-acknowledgement are crucial problem that C.CAWDU must take in to account and response the urgent need of garment workers in specific identified factories including Top world, E-garment, Sky, Digterkity, First Garone, I-Cheng, Sabrina, Daiyoung, Quin-Major and C.Quare.