Project Tag: “Research”

Strengthening Workers’ Ability to Exercise their Labor Rights in Mexico

12/31/2020 - 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.

Evidence to Action: Increasing the Impact of Research to Mobilize Efforts against Forced Labor

12/15/2019 - 12/14/2023

This project aims to promote increased use of forced labor research in policy and programmatic decision-making to help eliminate forced labor around the world. The project will achieve this by increasing knowledge through robust research on forced labor in the textile and garment sector and engaging decision makers and stakeholders to use this knowledge to take actions against forced labor.

BuildCA2P: Building Capacity, Awareness, Advocacy and Programs Project

10/01/2018 - 03/31/2024

The BuildCA2P Project works to build the capacity of Filipino civil society to more effectively detect and combat child labor and other labor abuses in the agricultural sector in Mindanao, Philippines. It leverages partnerships with academic and advocacy organizations to build a grassroots movement, empower vulnerable families, connect survivors to grievance mechanisms and services, and reduce the risk that children will be harmed by performing hazardous work in agriculture.

From Research to Action (R2A)

08/03/2018 - 03/31/2023

The Research to Action (R2A) Project applies rigorous research methods in an effort to accelerate global action against child labor and forced labor. The project seeks to help policymakers and practitioners access relevant research and evaluation tools, identifies key knowledge gaps, and facilitates the development of a global research agenda to guide new policy-relevant research efforts. To that end, the project also seeks to broaden and diversify the researcher pool, increasing both the number and capacity of researchers working to shed light on these abusive labor practices.

Administrative Data Research and Analysis (ADRA) Project Child Labor Research - Resources for Quantitative Surveys

09/30/2015 - 09/30/2018

In 2016, the Department of Labor (DOL) Chief Evaluation Office (CEO) partnered with the Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking (OCFT) in the Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB), and funded contractor Mathematica to develop Resources for Quantitative Surveys on Child Labor. The goal of this project was to identify challenges and develop accessible guidance related to sampling, data collection and analysis for researchers.

My-PEC: Myanmar Program on the Elimination of Child Labor

12/31/2013 - 03/31/2024

The goal of the project is to reduce child labor in Burma through the establishment of a comprehensive, inclusive, and efficient multi-stakeholder response.

Research on Labor Conditions in the Production of Electronic Goods in Malaysia

11/28/2012 - 11/30/2014

Survey Research on Child Labor in West African Cocoa Growing Areas

09/30/2012 - 02/15/2017

Global Action Program (GAP) on Child Labor Issues

10/31/2011 - 11/30/2017

Global Evaluation and Monitoring (GEM) Project

09/30/2011 - 04/30/2016