The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) conducted a study to examine labour conditions, governance challenges, and compliance with international standards in Bangladesh’s shrimp industry value chain using a Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD) framework. The research assessed economic, labour, social, environmental, and governance conditions across key stages from production to processing, distribution, and export, with particular focus on corporate preparedness for the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). dRi was engaged as the primary survey firm and successfully implemented the full field-level data collection. dRi conducted enterprise surveys with the management of all 46 active shrimp processing factories and 30 selected depots, along with worker surveys covering 366 workers (including permanent, contractual, and third-party contractual workers) across processing factories and depots. The study was carried out in Khulna, Chattogram, and Cox’s Bazar. dRi handled enumerator recruitment and training, pilot testing, field supervision and monitoring, data entry, coding, cleaning, and delivered the final cleaned dataset and all the deliverables.
Serial No: 321
Theme: Governance and Legal Issues
Research Method: Quantitative
Partner: Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD)
Starting Year: 2026
Study Area: Khulna, Chattogram, and Cox’s Bazar
