FUNDING-ILAB
- Building the Capacity of Civil Society to Combat Child Labor and Forced Labor
and Improve Working Conditions: October 11, 2017
Agency
Department
of Labor
Bureau
of International Labor Affairs
Description
The
Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB), U.S. Department of Labor
announces the availability of approximately $6,000,000 total costs for up to
three cooperative agreements of up to $2,000,000 total costs each to fund
technical assistance projects to improve the capacity of civil society to
better understand and address child labor and/or forced labor abuses and
promote acceptable conditions of work in a sector and/or supply chain. The
project should achieve the following outcomes: (1) Improved capacity of civil
society to identify and document accurate, independent, and objective
information on the nature and scope of child labor and/or forced labor, and
violations of acceptable conditions of work in a sector and/or supply chain;
(2) Improved capacity of civil society to raise awareness for the protection of
workers from child labor and/or forced labor abuses, and violations of
acceptable conditions of work; and (3) Improved capacity of civil society to
implement initiatives to address child labor and/or forced labor and violations
of acceptable conditions of work, including facilitated access to grievance
mechanisms and/or remedy for victims of labor exploitation. The duration of the
project will be a maximum of 4 years (48 months) from the effective date of the
award. Applicants must propose one (1) country, and at least one (1) sector
and/or supply chain within that country where there is evidence of child labor
and/or forced labor in the production of a good in that particular sector or
supply chain. Applicants must propose a country covered in the DOL’s Findings
on the Worst Forms of Child Labor in accordance with the Trade and Development
Act of 2000 or on the List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor as
mandated by Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005.
Proposals for working in the fisheries sector in the Asia-Pacific region will
not be considered. Out of the three awards to be funded through this FOA, a
minimum of one cooperative agreement will fund the strongest, technically sound
application for a project focused on the coffee sector in one of the following
countries in the Latin America/Caribbean region: Colombia, Costa Rica, El
Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, or Nicaragua. The other two cooperative
agreements will be awarded in a country and sector and/or supply chain to be
proposed by applicants, based upon the criteria contained in this announcement.
DOL will make no more than one award for the same combination of country and
sector/supply chain.
Announcement
Number:
FOA-ILAB-17-10
Closing
Date:
Oct 11, 2017
Link
to Full Announcement
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=297298
Contact
Information
Dorjan
Chaney