A/HRC/29/3 E/CN.6/2015/6 Integrating the private sector into prevention efforts 39. Globally, 53 per cent of women are employed in vulnerable jobs — either informal or unpaid — which can increase the risk of experiencing violence. This problem is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, where more than 80 per cent of women are in this type of employment. 8 In addition, 79 countries still have laws that restrict the types of jobs women can perform. 9 A recent publication commissioned by the World Bank asserts that the private sector has been insufficiently involved in efforts to prevent and address violence against women. In order for this situation to change, workplaces need to adopt anti -harassment codes and guidelines to make the workplace a safe space for women and establish alliances with women’s rights organizations. 10 40. The Trust Fund invests in programmes that address these challenges and that aim to fully integrate the private sector as a key stakeholder in ending violence against women. 41. Trust Fund grantee CARE International in Cambodia helped to create safe workplaces and communities. Building on a successful initiative previously supported by the Trust Fund, the project is working to scale up effective participatory community and workplace interventions in the garment, tourism and hospitality industries to promote safer workplaces. The project continued to work with police, for example, building on its collaboration with the Ministry of the Interior and training police focal points. It focused on initial engagement methods with garment factory workers to create effective policies within factories to reduce sexual harassment and gender-based violence and to ensure that workers can report abuse if it does occur. A curriculum for garment factory workers was developed for specific workplaces by adapting the International Labour Organization publication entitled Equality and non-discrimination at work in Cambodia: Manual. This was piloted with 71 garment factory workers and 87 hospitality workers. The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia agreed to support CARE’s efforts to end harassment at the workplace. 42. Trust Fund grantee the Fair Wear Foundation adopted a holistic appro ach, including awareness-raising and training, to address harassment and violence against women in export-orientated garment factories in Bangladesh and India. Over 3,500 workers in India and Bangladesh received direct training in 24 factories, while another 15,000 workers were trained via peer-to-peer education as part of the preventing workplace violence project. Twenty anti-harassment committees, composed of workers’ representatives, factory management and non-governmental organization representatives, were operational in Bangladesh and India in 2014. The programme also completed supervisors’ training in at least six factories, reaching 121 participants. Advanced training for anti-harassment committee members was conducted at nine factories reaching nearly 100 people — 82 women and 17 men. 43. One of the project’s major achievements was the higher level of reporting of harassment cases in the anti-harassment committees and via a telephone helpline. __________________ 8 9 10 10/13 UN-Women, Progress of the World’s Women 2011-2012: In Pursuit of Justice (New York, 2011). World Bank, Women, Business and the Law 2014: Removing Restrictions to Enhance Gender Equality — Key Findings (London: Bloomsbury, 2014). Jennifer L. Solotaroff and Rohini Prabha Pande, Violence against Women and Girls: Lessons from South Asia (Washington, D.C., World Bank, 2014). 14-67252