Mr. Peter Reinhold is a student of product design at the Niederrhein University of Applied Science / Faculty of Design. His diploma work deals with the development of an emergency shelter for a flooded area adapted to the location and specific conditions in Bangladesh. He copes with this issue because his main study focus lies on a sub-division named social design which deals with the problems of those who have no lobby, taking care of their needs and interests. The leading thought behind this idea is to live with the inescapable, means to live with the water and not against it. To view an animated picture of this idea, please click here.

Seal - Social Standards Exchange of Experience in Southeast Asia and Practical Learning - is a program of training and support established in order to implement and maintain social standards in companies of different economic sectors with the additional target to improve working conditions for employees. The program is tailored specifically to the need of Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SME), trainers and consultants as well as governmental and non-govermental organisations and unions. The E-learning software is a joint concept based on the long lasting experiences of the 3p Institute, InWEnt and the consultancy organisation INCCAS. Within this E-learning domain, copanies from all over the world will get the opportunity to work with different tools in order to improve their performance and to learn more about social standards.

At the beginning of this year, 3p, BCAS and DEG started a new joint remediation project within the garment sector in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The project is on a very good way and improvements within social and environmental areas can be seen. In this context it is innovative that a compliance corner has been arranged to inform about compliance issues. Furthermore a housekeeping award was implemented, what is supposed to be a motivation for floor managers to keep their area of duty in a good condition. This innovation arises to be very effective, as it is connected to an incentive.