ILAB has an important mandate within the U.S. government to contribute to a more prosperous and inclusive global economy through our initiatives to protect worker rights and support broad-based economic growth. Read More
Our work around the world includes:
- Projects to promote the rights of workers worldwide
- Administration of the labor provisions of trade agreements and preference programs
- Country-specific as well as global research relating to child labor, forced labor, human trafficking, and the employment impacts of trade agreements, among other topics
- Multilateral engagement through a variety of global and regional fora
- Bilateral labor cooperation agreements and labor diplomacy with multiple countries
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| Title | Grantee |
Project Start Date |
Project End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
RICHESThe RICHES project aims to integrate the issues of child labor alleviation and acceptable conditions of work into women’s economic empowerment initiatives. By putting a new toolkit directly in the hands of policy makers and service providers who work with women entrepreneurs, RICHES seeks to ensure women-led enterprises can improve livelihoods responsibly without resorting to child labor or other harmful labor practices. |
The Grameen Foundation | 12/01/2017 | 05/31/2021 |
Measurement, Awareness-Raising, and Policy Engagement (MAP 16) Project on Child Labor and Forced LaborThe United States supports the goal of bringing meaningful change to the lives of the 152 million child laborers and the 25 million adults and children in forced labor around the world by eradicating child labor, forced labor and human trafficking. |
International Labor Organization (ILO) | 12/09/2016 | 09/30/2022 |
Promoting Apprenticeship as a Path for Youth Employment in Argentina, Costa Rica, and Kenya through Global Apprenticeships Network (GAN) National NetworksThe Promoting Apprenticeship as a Path for Youth Employment Project is working directly with employers, workers’ organizations, and governments to help increase the number of apprenticeship opportunities for vulnerable youth in Argentina, Costa Rica, and Kenya. The project will create and strengthen private sector networks in support of apprenticeship and other types of work-based training, such as internships, in all three countries, helping employers launch quality work training programs while ensuring these programs are accessible to disadvantaged youth. |
Global Apprenticeships Network (GAN) | 09/01/2016 | 12/31/2019 |
M&E Toolkit: OCFT Sectors & ThemesThe project will help enhance the sustainability of child labor and forced labor program efforts by contributing to the overall body of knowledge on how best to assess child labor and forced labor interventions. The project will undertake assessments and develop practical tools, templates, and guidelines for monitoring cross-cutting sectors related to child labor and forced labor, including occupational safety and health of youth, youth employment, strengthened technical and institutional capacity on labor issues, gender and diversity, persons with disabilities, migration, and sustainability. |
JBS International | 09/01/2016 | 08/31/2018 |
CARING Gold Mining Project |
International Labor Organization (ILO) | 12/11/2015 | 04/10/2019 |
From Protocol to Practice: A Bridge to Global Action on Forced Labor (The Bridge Project) |
International Labor Organization (ILO) | 09/30/2015 | 09/02/2019 |
Closing the Child Labor and Forced Labor Evidence Gap: Impact EvaluationsOur impact evaluation projects use rigorous quantitative techniques to evaluate the impact of interventions on reducing child labor, forced labor and human trafficking—part of a broader ILAB effort to build rigorous evidence on what works to secure and protect the rights of children and adults. Such evaluations support our partner governments’ evidence-based policymaking efforts, and also help identify proven strategies to inform ILAB’s future investments in global programs to combat child labor and forced labor. |
Innovations for Poverty Action | 07/24/2015 | 10/31/2018 |
Building a Generation of Safe and Healthy Workers: SafeYouth@Work |
International Labor Organization (ILO) | 12/31/2014 | 12/31/2019 |
Closing the Child Labor and Forced Labor Evidence Gap: Impact EvaluationsOur impact evaluation projects use rigorous quantitative techniques to evaluate the impact of interventions on reducing child labor, forced labor and human trafficking—part of a broader ILAB effort to build rigorous evidence on what works to secure and protect the rights of children and adults. Such evaluations support our partner governments’ evidence-based policymaking efforts, and also help identify proven strategies to inform ILAB’s future investments in global programs to combat child labor and forced labor. |
University of Notre Dame | 12/15/2014 | 12/14/2019 |
Closing the Child Labor and Forced Labor Evidence Gap: Impact EvaluationsOur impact evaluation projects use rigorous quantitative techniques to evaluate the impact of interventions on reducing child labor, forced labor and human trafficking—part of a broader ILAB effort to build rigorous evidence on what works to secure and protect the rights of children and adults. Such evaluations support our partner governments’ evidence-based policymaking efforts, and also help identify proven strategies to inform ILAB’s future investments in global programs to combat child labor and forced labor. |
American University | 12/15/2014 | 05/14/2019 |