Assessing Progress in Reducing Child Labor in Cocoa Producing Areas of C╙te dмIvoire and Ghana

Post Date

May 21st 2015

Application Due Date

November 30th -0001

This is a Notice of Intent (NOI) and not a request for funding applications.

Funding Opportunity Number

NOI-ILAB-15-07

CFDA Number(s)

17.401

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Other

This is a Notice of Intent (NOI) and not a request for funding applications.

Eligibility Categories

Other

This is a Notice of Intent (NOI) and not a request for funding applications. Any commercial, international, educational, or non-profit organization(s), including any faith-based, community-based, or public international organization(s) capable of successfully conducting evaluation, assessment and survey work related to child labor. Lack of past experience with USDOL cooperative agreements, grants, or contracts does not bar eligibility.

Funding

• Award Range:

  $None - $3000000

Grant Description

This Notice of Intent (NOI) is not a request for funding applications. Subject to the availability of funds, USDOLмs Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) intends to award, through a competitive and merit-based process, one or more cooperative agreements to organizations to conduct research on child labor in the cocoa sectors of Ghana and C╙te dмIvoire. The proposed objective of the research is to assess progress in reducing the worst forms of child labor (WFCL) in cocoa-producing areas of the two countries. The project will include the following three components: (1) a mapping of stakeholder interventions to reduce WFCL in the cocoa sector; (2) an assessment of the effectiveness of funded efforts in reducing WFCL; and (3) a survey of incidence of child labor in cocoa production in C╙te dмIvoire and Ghana in the 2018/19 growing season. The Employment and Training Administration (ETA)мs Office of Grants Management anticipates publishing the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) before the end of September 2015 (this date is subject to change). Please refer to: http://www.dol.gov/ilab/grants/ and http://www.dol.gov/ilab/grants/SGAguidelines.htm for general guidelines and examples of previous cooperative agreement applications. This NOI does not include an FOA or any attachments. It only constitutes a notice of USDOLмs intent to publish an FOA at a later date. Interested applicants are encouraged to monitor www.grants.gov for the FOA because this is the method by which it will be made available to the public. No email or paper copies will be provided.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Labor

• Office:

  Employment and Training Administration

• Agency Contact:

  NOTE: This is an NOI. There is not an announcement related to this notice.
  Mr. Dorjan Chaney
  Grants Management Specialist

• Agency Mailing Address:

  chaney.dorjan@dol.gov

• Agency Email Address:

  chaney.dorjan@dol.gov

• Location:

  Bureau of International Labor Affairs

• More Information:

  ILAB website