On 4 December, 2009, a roundtable meeting of the Migrant Worker Capacity Building and Better Factory Project was conducted in Guangzhou. A total of 20 representatives from different cooperation partners such as Adidas Sourcing Limited, the National Poverty Alleviation Office, GTZ, and Oxfam.attended.

The meeting was held to present the results from the last project monitoring and evaluation. The project approach was reviewed and lessons learned were discussed. In addition, it also focused on brainstorming and refining the project design, scope of work, resources required, roles and responsibilities, and on developing a work plan for 2010.

The representatives from the migrant worker training schools in Sichuan, the Nanchong Vocational Training School and the pilot supplier enterprises - YY Company and Evervan Company - presented their results and progress one year after implementation as well as lessons learned and challenges faced. The representatives from the EDC consultancy based in Thailand and the Labour Education and Service Network presented their monitoring and evaluation results as well as advising participants about some existing problems. A passionate  open discussion on resource needs, roles and responsibilities was conducted after the presentations. Mr. Shengan Liu from the national FCPMC moderated the meeting and summarized the findings and implementation work for the next steps.

The Migrant Worker Capacity Building and Better Factory Project is a two-year pilot project. It is designed to address the lack of relevant training and information prior to migration, through bridging the information and needs gap between training schools in migrant-sending provinces and garment supplier factories in migrant-receiving provinces. The project provides needs-based training to migrant workers prior to migration and facilitates trained migrants’ employment in factories.