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FOA-ILAB-21-12: Improving Respect for Workers' Rights in Agricultural Supply Chains in Honduras and Guatemala, and the Maquila Sector in El Salvador

Closed Closed September 30, 2021 Opportunity FOA-ILAB-21-12 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$5.0 million
• Total funding$5.0 million
• Expected awards1
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

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 200.1 and nonprofits from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past International Labor Programs awards averaged $3.9 million; this notice allows up to $5.0 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (64% over five years) went to nonprofits.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB), U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL, or the Department), announces the availability of approximately $5,000,000 total costs (subject to the availability of federal funds) for a cooperative agreement to fund one technical assistance project with the overarching objective of improving respect for workers’ rights in agricultural supply chains in Honduras and Guatemala and the maquila sector in El Salvador through a worker-centered approach. The project will prioritize underserved communities and include a focus on gender and racial equity. In particular, this project will address the systemic violation of internationally-recognized workers’ rights in the export-oriented agricultural sector in Honduras and Guatemala and the maquila sector in El Salvador. The project is expected to achieve the following outcomes: • Outcome 1: Increased collective action to exercise workers’ rights among agricultural and maquila workers, particularly those from underserved communities; • Outcome 2: Improved effectiveness of worker organizations to train, represent and advocate for agricultural and maquila workers to attain improved wages, working conditions and job security; and, • Outcome 3: Improved effective engagement by workers and worker organizations with government officials and employers to negotiate, address and resolve workers’ rights concerns. The project will work with 1) agricultural and maquila workers, particularly those not yet affiliated with unions and workers from underserved communities, including Afro-descendant, Garifuna, rural, non-Spanish speaking or indigenous populations, and women; 2) workers’ organizations that (currently or seek to) represent the collective interests of workers in agricultural supply chains in Honduras and Guatemala, and in El Salvador’s maquila sector and their members; and 3) private sector and public sector representatives and entities that serve, interact with, employ or otherwise depend upon agricultural and maquila workers in the region. To the extent possible, the project will strengthen information and knowledge management capabilities to help workers’ organizations and other stakeholders gather, collect, analyze, store, share and use data to better defend their rights, engage in dialogue, hold responsible parties accountable and enable workers to exercise their rights more effectively.

Category: Other.

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