Our international grants support projects to combat some of the most abusive labor practices, including the use of child labor, forced labor, and human trafficking in global supply chains. ILAB-funded projects also promote trade partners’ compliance with the labor requirements of U.S. trade agreements and preference programs – helping to ensure a fair global playing field for workers in the United States and around the world.
Results
MATE MASIE – Making Advances to Eliminate Child Labor in More Areas with Sustainable Integrated Efforts12/07/2020 - 05/06/2025 The MATE MASIE project seeks to strengthen capacity, connections, and accountability across child labor enforcement and monitoring within cocoa cooperatives. It is working to build the capacity of cocoa cooperatives to support vulnerable member households directly and by linking their members with other service providers. |
Winrock International |
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Pilares: Building the Capacity of Civil Society to Combat Child Labor and Improve Working Conditions in Colombia12/15/2017 - 05/30/2025 This project is building the capacity of civil society organizations to more effectively detect and combat child labor and other unacceptable working conditions (OUWC) in artisanal and small-scale mines in Colombia. Pilares formed networks of civil society organizations and empowered local communities to build grassroots movements to improve working conditions and reduce the risk that children will be used in this harmful work.
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CACAO: Cooperatives Addressing Child Labor Accountability Outcomes12/10/2020 - 06/09/2025 The CACAO project seeks to strengthen capacity, connections, and accountability across child labor enforcement and monitoring within cocoa cooperatives; build the capacity of cocoa cooperatives to provide support to vulnerable households and access to social protection; and pilot a farm to cooperative cocoa traceability system. |
Save the Children |
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Madagascar Shines: Reducing Child Labor in Mica-Producing Communities of Madagascar02/14/2022 - 06/09/2025 The Madagascar Shines project aims to reduce child labor in mica-producing communities in the Anôsy region of Madagascar through community engagement, coordination, and capacity building. |
Pact |
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Mexico Awareness Raising01/01/2021 - 06/30/2025 The Mexico Awareness Raising project aims to support the government of Mexico, including the federal and state-level Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare, to design, execute, and sustain effective communication strategies that inform workers, unions, and employers of the legal ramifications of the country’s labor law reforms. |
Partners of the Americas |
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Strengthening Workers’ Ability to Exercise their Labor Rights in Mexico12/31/2020 - 06/30/2025 To build the capacity of workers, support worker engagement and organizing, and strengthen democratic worker organizations in the aerospace, mining, and call center industries, such that they become protagonists in fulfilling the potential of Mexico’s historic labor reform. The project will offer workers and their organizations expert technical assistance, ongoing skills development, and pro bono advisory and legal services. Additionally, the project will create spaces for analysis, exchange, reflection, and the development of recommendations to improve labor law reform implementation. |
Solidarity Center |
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From Protocol to Practice: A Bridge to Global Action on Forced Labor, Phase II (Bridge II)12/01/2022 - 06/30/2025 |
International Labor Organization (ILO) |
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My-PEC: Myanmar Program on the Elimination of Child Labor12/31/2013 - 09/30/2025 The goal of the project is to reduce child labor in Burma through the establishment of a comprehensive, inclusive, and efficient multi-stakeholder response. |
International Labor Organization (ILO) |
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Global Accelerator Lab Project: Intensifying Action Against Forced Labor and Child Labor12/01/2021 - 10/15/2025 ILAB’s Global Accelerator Lab project will support broader and more effective action under Alliance 8.7, a global partnership to assist United Nations (UN) member States to end child labor, forced labor, human trafficking and modern slavery by 2030. |
International Labor Organization (ILO) |
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Helping Protect Armenians’ Rights Together11/12/2020 - 12/31/2025 This project will promote greater compliance with labor law and increase workers’ access to judicial and non-judicial remedies for labor violations in Armenia, with a focus on the mining and service sectors. |
International Labor Organization (ILO) |
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MATE MASIE – Making Advances to Eliminate Child Labor in More Areas with Sustainable Integrated Efforts12/07/2020 - 05/06/2025 The MATE MASIE project seeks to strengthen capacity, connections, and accountability across child labor enforcement and monitoring within cocoa cooperatives. It is working to build the capacity of cocoa cooperatives to support vulnerable member households directly and by linking their members with other service providers. |
Winrock International |
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Pilares: Building the Capacity of Civil Society to Combat Child Labor and Improve Working Conditions in Colombia12/15/2017 - 05/30/2025 This project is building the capacity of civil society organizations to more effectively detect and combat child labor and other unacceptable working conditions (OUWC) in artisanal and small-scale mines in Colombia. Pilares formed networks of civil society organizations and empowered local communities to build grassroots movements to improve working conditions and reduce the risk that children will be used in this harmful work.
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CACAO: Cooperatives Addressing Child Labor Accountability Outcomes12/10/2020 - 06/09/2025 The CACAO project seeks to strengthen capacity, connections, and accountability across child labor enforcement and monitoring within cocoa cooperatives; build the capacity of cocoa cooperatives to provide support to vulnerable households and access to social protection; and pilot a farm to cooperative cocoa traceability system. |
Save the Children |
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Madagascar Shines: Reducing Child Labor in Mica-Producing Communities of Madagascar02/14/2022 - 06/09/2025 The Madagascar Shines project aims to reduce child labor in mica-producing communities in the Anôsy region of Madagascar through community engagement, coordination, and capacity building. |
Pact |
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Mexico Awareness Raising01/01/2021 - 06/30/2025 The Mexico Awareness Raising project aims to support the government of Mexico, including the federal and state-level Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare, to design, execute, and sustain effective communication strategies that inform workers, unions, and employers of the legal ramifications of the country’s labor law reforms. |
Partners of the Americas |
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Strengthening Workers’ Ability to Exercise their Labor Rights in Mexico12/31/2020 - 06/30/2025 To build the capacity of workers, support worker engagement and organizing, and strengthen democratic worker organizations in the aerospace, mining, and call center industries, such that they become protagonists in fulfilling the potential of Mexico’s historic labor reform. The project will offer workers and their organizations expert technical assistance, ongoing skills development, and pro bono advisory and legal services. Additionally, the project will create spaces for analysis, exchange, reflection, and the development of recommendations to improve labor law reform implementation. |
Solidarity Center |
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From Protocol to Practice: A Bridge to Global Action on Forced Labor, Phase II (Bridge II)12/01/2022 - 06/30/2025 |
International Labor Organization (ILO) |
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My-PEC: Myanmar Program on the Elimination of Child Labor12/31/2013 - 09/30/2025 The goal of the project is to reduce child labor in Burma through the establishment of a comprehensive, inclusive, and efficient multi-stakeholder response. |
International Labor Organization (ILO) |
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Global Accelerator Lab Project: Intensifying Action Against Forced Labor and Child Labor12/01/2021 - 10/15/2025 ILAB’s Global Accelerator Lab project will support broader and more effective action under Alliance 8.7, a global partnership to assist United Nations (UN) member States to end child labor, forced labor, human trafficking and modern slavery by 2030. |
International Labor Organization (ILO) |
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Helping Protect Armenians’ Rights Together11/12/2020 - 12/31/2025 This project will promote greater compliance with labor law and increase workers’ access to judicial and non-judicial remedies for labor violations in Armenia, with a focus on the mining and service sectors. |
International Labor Organization (ILO) |
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