Benchmark Report: Living Wage Report and 2024 Update for Rural Uganda, Lake Victoria Basin
2024 Living Wage Update Report: Living Wage Report for Rural Uganda, Lake Victoria Basin
Abstract
This report provides updated estimates of family living expenses and living wages for the Lake Victoria Basin in rural Uganda. The update for 2024 takes into account inflation and changes in payroll deductions since the original Anker living wage study carried out in September 2019 (Khan and Buyinza, 2019).
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Original Report
2019 Benchmark Report: Living Wage Report for Rural Uganda, Lake Victoria Basin
Introduction
The report presents an estimate of a living wage for workers employed in the floriculture sector in Uganda. This benchmark living wage study was commissioned by Fairtrade International (FI). The study was undertaken amid increasing concerns of the consumers, labour activists, and the global community at large that the production process, environmental stewardship and working conditions be held to a certain standard. For their part, Fairtrade commissioned the research as part of their larger strategy to enable workers to earn a living wage—with specific attention to conditions in certain sectors such as East African floriculture. Besides this study for Uganda, Fairtrade has also funded Living Wage benchmarking relevant to flower production in Ethiopia, Kenya and recently Tanzania. It is the intention of the report also to support and further the work of the Global Living Wage Coalition (GLWC) and thus, promote the idea of paying a living wage to workers in the global supply chains participating in the certification systems, which it endorses.
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