Since May 2020 MFO has been publishing a blog almost every week with updates from our Diaries interviews with 1,300 garment workers in Bangladesh. The blogs cover a wide variety of topics including:
- Wage digitization,
- Health of workers,
- Impact of Covid-19 on various aspects of their lives
- Financial tools
You can find a list of the blogs from May to September below. Also please visit our dashboard to take a deep dive into the data we have collected.
Wage payments and digitization
- Alleviating Digital Headaches
- Mixing it Up: The Co-existence of Cash and Digital Financial Services
- Gender and Wage Digitization
- Eid Bonus Payments
- Shift to Digital Wage Payments from April to May
- Who got paid in April
Health
Impact of Covid-19
- Migration and Remittances During Covid-19
- Two months in: the impact of Covid-19 on workers
- Three months in: back to work in the time of Covid-19
- Four months on and business as usual during Covid-19/
- Working Through the Pandemic, Five Months In
- Covid-19 Safety Measures in the Factories
Inside Garment Workers’ Households
- Another Look Inside Garment Workers Households, July 2020
- A Look Inside a Garment Worker’s Household, April to June 2020
- Household Gender Dynamics



