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Solution Overview

Solution Name

Women in Tech RMG (ready made garment) factory

One-line solution summary.

App that delivers online training for machine operation and maintenance for all machines used in garment industry.

The trainings offered are gamified and machine manuals converted to short videos.

Elevator pitch

What is your solution?

Women in Tech RMG is a solution for women in RMG factories, it is an app that delivers online training for machines operation and maintenance for all the machines used in garment factories.

The trainings offered are gamified and documents of machine manuals are converted into short videos that explains how machine works. The manuals are from legit manufactures

The machines operation manuals short videos training are translated from English to other languages for example Bengali and Hindu. This makes it easier for non English speaker to understand.

We are providing female garment workers with technical skills training for professional advancement in RMG, ( ready made garment) factories.

What specific problem are you trying to solve?

Women workers have been at the forefront of RMG (ready made garment ) industry work force in Bangladesh and India. In recent years there has been a decrease in their proportion, with women having less access to technical skills and training.

Women having less access to getting technical skills and training. There are clear gender based difference in the capability to operate machines, where more male workers are able to operate multiple machines due to access to education and training.

Bangladesh and India are one of the countries where the shift to new technology across the ready made garment factory floor has started. The question of whether workers are at risk of losing their jobs has become critical, especially for female workers who historically have had limited access to training and upskilling in the industry.

That's why we have proposed an app that delivers online training for machine operation and maintenance for all the machines used in garment factories

The app delivers online training to women in RMG (ready made garment) factories in Bangladesh and India.

Who does your solution serve? In what ways will the solution impact their lives?

We are targeting women in RMG ( ready made garment) factories in Bangladesh and India.

The garment industry account for 80% of Dhaka and Mumbai total export earning, and India and Bangladesh employ 95% of female worker in the RMG industry.

Women workers have been at the forefront of the RMG work force in India and Bangladesh. In recent years, there has been decrease in their proportion, with women having less access to getting technical skills and training. And the shift to new technology across the factory floor has started, women are at risk of losing their jobs because they have limited technical skills

Our solution, Women in Tech RMG platform will empower women in RMG with technology, the platform will help upskill women with technical skills that will help with professional advancement in Bangladesh and India RMG factories.

What steps have you taken to understand the needs of the population you want to serve?

We have done research with our target users, the research was done online.

Which aspects of the Challenge does your solution most closely address?

Improving financial and economic opportunities for all (Economic Prosperity)

Our solution's stage of development:

Concept: An idea being explored for its feasibility to build a product, service, or business model based on that idea

Explain why you selected this stage of development for your solution—in other words, what have you accomplished to date?

Our solution is in idea stage, it is a well researched idea. For now we do not have fund to build women in Tech RMG app for online training. But hopefully if we raise fund we will use it to build the platform.

Where our solution team is headquartered or located:

Nairobi, Kenya

Team Lead:

Diana Anyango ouma