{"id":279159,"date":"2019-06-07T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMicWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lmp1c3Qtc3R5bGUuY29tL25ld3MvbmV3LXByb2plY3QtdG8tY3JlYXRlLWEtdHJhbnNwYXJlbnQtZ2FybWVudC12YWx1ZS1jaGFpbi1pbi1ldGhpb3BpYV9pZDEzNjM1Ni5hc3B40gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-27T11:18:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:18:30","slug":"an-eu-funded-project-aimed-to-help-about-17000-ethiopian-garment-workers-through-a-clearer-supply-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/279159","title":{"rendered":"An EU-funded project aimed to help about 17,000 Ethiopian garment workers through a clearer supply chain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 just-style reported that a new EU-funded project was launching to benefit roughly 17,000 garment workers in Ethiopia by building a more sustainable and transparent clothing value chain.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-423532\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Textile-and-garment-workers-in-Hawassa-industrial-Park.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"An EU-funded project aimed to help about 17,000 Ethiopian garment workers through a clearer supply chain\" \/>\n<p>The project sat inside Ethiopia\u2019s push to grow export apparel while facing buyer pressure on wages, safety, and traceability, so the worker-count target still matters for labor and industry researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as industry and labor archive, the just-style brief dates the mid-2019 launch framing for that transparent garment-chain effort.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.just-style.com\/news\/new-project-to-create-a-transparent-garment-value-chain-in-ethiopia_id136356.aspx\">just-style<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New project to create a transparent garment value chain in Ethiopia&nbsp;&nbsp;just-style.comA new EU-funded project is set to launch today (7 June) in a move aimed at benefitting some 17000 garment workers in Ethiopia by creating a sustainable, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":423532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Textile-and-garment-workers-in-Hawassa-industrial-Park.jpg?fit=500%2C333&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aCz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755068,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279159\/revisions\/755068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}