The project will support workers in the electronics sector to improve their working conditions, including addressing occupational safety and health (OSH) hazards and sexual violence and harassment (GBVH).

The Bridging Barriers and Unlocking Potential (B-UP) project will increase the responsiveness of Cambodian Organizations of Persons with Disabilities and their key stakeholders to address labor exploitation and barriers that impede access to decent work.

Starting in Brazil, the project will enlist government, employers, and workers’ organizations in sector-specific pacts (“pactos”) to address the challenges of child labor and forced labor and to improve working conditions in supply chains. The project will work to enhance collaboration among the pactos members, build their capacity, and enhance engagement with local worker- and community-serving organizations and individuals, bringing them into dialogue and decision-making processes and increasing worker voice throughout select supply chains. Once activities begin in Brazil, the project will then explore expanding to additional countries in Latin America and the Caribbean upon approval.

The Watoto ni Hazina Project seeks to strengthen the capacity of key stakeholders in the Untied Republic of Tanzania to address child labor and promote acceptable conditions of work in artisanal and small-scale gold mining.

The project aims to prevent labor exploitation by improving the implementation of worker-driven social compliance systems that promote labor rights and acceptable conditions of work, including the elimination of forced labor in supply chains. The project will be piloted in the Indonesian palm oil sector to create a model for robust social compliance systems.

The Tatpartaa  (the Nepali word for commitment and ability to respond) project in Nepal will build the capacity of local communities to address child labor and forced labor, with a specific focus on confronting new challenges resulting from the impact of climate change.

The Strengthening Civil Society to Protect and Advocate for Migrant Workers project will provide civil society with the tools and training to protect migrant workers, particularly Mexican nationals participating in U.S. Temporary Foreign Worker programs, by supporting fair recruitment initiatives, building awareness of labor rights, and increasing the use of formal mechanisms for workers to exercise those rights.

The AgroJusto Project, implemented by Partners of the Americas, aims to improve compliance with international labor standards in the cut flower sector in Cotopaxi and the banana sector in El Oro. The project will use an area-based approach, reinforcing local ownership and building the capacity of local private, community, and government stakeholders. It will empower worker organizations, producer associations community and indigenous groups, and local entities to address labor violations.

The project will build capacity among municipal stakeholders, such as government officials, workers, worker organizations, labor unions, civil society organizations, community groups, and private-sector stakeholders, to work together to design and implement locally led actions to address child and forced labor in targeted municipalities in Chiapas and San Luis Potosi, Mexico.

The Research to Action II initiative will improve information-sharing between researchers and decision makers on child labor, forced labor, and other labor rights issues. It will strengthen statistical and research capacities of partner governments and other stakeholders, produce research and research tools, and coordinate with policy makers on a shared research agenda to advance labor rights, with a focus on child labor and forced labor.