At a glance: A coalition-building project that scaled lessons from individual factory partnerships into sector-wide standards.
The starting problem
Individual factory compliance partnerships, like NUK's work with Anowara Group, produced real gains — but those gains stayed contained to single factories unless deliberately shared and replicated across the sector.
What the project built
NUK helped found the Social Compliance Initiative Bangladesh (SCIB), bringing together NGOs, factory representatives, and labour advocates to coordinate compliance standards collectively, rather than leaving each organisation to negotiate separately with individual factories.
How the coalition operates
- Shared training curricula for in-house compliance and HR officers, usable across member-affiliated factories.
- Coordinated grievance-mechanism standards.
- Regular coalition meetings to review progress and update shared tools.
Where it stands now
SCIB continues to coordinate closely with the Bangladesh Garment Workers Protection Alliance, with overlapping membership and joint advocacy priorities.