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Engaging Cocoa Cooperatives to Combat Child Labor
The Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB), U. S. Department of Labor (USDOL, or the Department), announces the availability of approximately $8,000,000 total costs (subject to the availability of federal funds) for two cooperative agreements of $4,000,000 each to fund one technical assistance
project in Côte d’Ivoire and one in Ghana to increase the number of cocoa cooperatives demonstrating a reduction of child labor in the cocoa supply chain.
The projects will aim to achieve the following outcomes:Outcome 1:
Improved accountability of cocoa cooperatives to monitor child labor in the cocoa supply chain.Outcome 1. 1:
Strengthened capacity of enforcement agencies to enforce child labor laws within cooperatives.Outcome 1. 2:
Strengthened capacity of cocoa cooperatives to monitor child labor.Outcome 2:
Increased support to vulnerable cocoa households within cocoa cooperatives.Outcome 2. 1:
Strengthened capacity of cocoa cooperatives to provide sustainable assistance and support to prevent child labor.Outcome 2. 2:
Increased access to social protection and child labor remediation programs.The duration of the project will be a maximum of 4. 5 years (54 months) from the effective date of the award.
project in Côte d’Ivoire and one in Ghana to increase the number of cocoa cooperatives demonstrating a reduction of child labor in the cocoa supply chain.
The projects will aim to achieve the following outcomes:Outcome 1:
Improved accountability of cocoa cooperatives to monitor child labor in the cocoa supply chain.Outcome 1. 1:
Strengthened capacity of enforcement agencies to enforce child labor laws within cooperatives.Outcome 1. 2:
Strengthened capacity of cocoa cooperatives to monitor child labor.Outcome 2:
Increased support to vulnerable cocoa households within cocoa cooperatives.Outcome 2. 1:
Strengthened capacity of cocoa cooperatives to provide sustainable assistance and support to prevent child labor.Outcome 2. 2:
Increased access to social protection and child labor remediation programs.The duration of the project will be a maximum of 4. 5 years (54 months) from the effective date of the award.
Agency: Department of Labor
Office: Bureau of International Labor Affairs
Estimated Funding: $8,000,000
Office: Bureau of International Labor Affairs
Estimated Funding: $8,000,000
Who's Eligible
Obtain Full Opportunity Text:
Pool Safely Grant Program (PSGP)
Additional Information of Eligibility:
The following organizations are eligible to apply: U. S. organizations: • Nonprofits, including any faith-based organizations or community-based organizations • Public/State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education • Private Institutions of Higher Education • For-Profit Organizations; Non-U. S. organizations: • Non-US Entities, including PIOs as described in 2 CFR 200.46.
Full Opportunity Web Address:
https://www.grantsolutions.gov/gs/preaward/previewPublicAnnouncement.do?id=77281
Contact:
Agency Email Description:
Nguyen.Tam-Thao.H@dol.gov
Agency Email:
Date Posted:
2020-07-13
Application Due Date:
Archive Date:
2020-09-26
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