Trade
Title | Location | Grantee | Amount | Start Sort ascending | End |
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Towards Effective Courts and Coordinated Labor JusticeThe Towards Effective Courts and Coordinated Labor Justice (TECLAB) project aims to support independent state labor courts created by Mexico’s 2019 Labor Law Reform to administer labor justice in an effective, efficient, and consistent manner.
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Mexico | The Ergo Group, Inc. | $10,000,000 | 01/23/2023 | 07/23/2027 |
Worker Empowerment in South AmericaThe Worker Empowerment in South America project seeks to improve respect for labor rights in Brazil, Colombia, and Peru by strengthening democratic, independent workers' organizations in the agricultural, platform (gig) economy, manufacturing, and mining sectors.
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Brazil, Colombia, Peru | Solidarity Center | $12,000,000 | 12/15/2022 | 12/14/2026 |
Strengthening Worker Engagement, Empowerment, and Trust in the Dominican Sugar Sector (SWEET)The SWEET project empowers sugarcane field workers in the Dominican Republic to improve their working and living conditions through increased use of formal and informal mechanisms, including legal assistance, social services, and grievance processes.
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Dominican Republic | Impactt Limited | $3,000,000 | 12/15/2022 | 12/14/2026 |
Building an Independent & Democratic Labor Movement to Protect Worker Rights in MexicoThis project will strengthen the capacity of unions to organize by legitimizing collective bargaining agreements, supporting internal leadership elections, building partnerships, and providing independent unions with legal support and training for lawyers. The project will operate in the Mexican states of Guanajuato, San Luis Potosi, Queretaro, Estado de Mexico and Mexico City, as well as Mexico’s northern states by promoting authentic collective bargaining in the automotive, auto parts, aerospace, call centers, electronics, garment, industrial bakeries, logistics and mining sectors.
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Mexico | Solidarity Center | $10,000,000 | 07/19/2022 | 07/18/2024 |
ALFA: Addressing Labor Exploitation in Fishing in ASEANThe ALFA project will strengthen the capacity of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) sectoral bodies and member countries to coordinate and collaborate to address forced labor and abusive working conditions in the region’s fishing industry. ALFA will focus on ASEAN regional policy implementation, and increased engagement with the private sector, worker organizations, and civil society to mitigate forced labor and trafficking, and improve working conditions for a more sustainable, responsible and resilient fishing sector.
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Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam | Development Alternatives Incorporated (DAI) | $2,500,000 | 12/15/2021 | 06/14/2026 |
Improving Respect for Workers’ Rights in Agricultural Supply Chains in Honduras and Guatemala, and the Maquila Sector in El SalvadorPhoto by Luis Fuentes Part of the Root Causes of Migration Strategy for northern Central America, this project seeks to improve workers’ rights in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador by supporting workers’ organizations in the banana, melon, palm oil, and pineapple sectors in Honduras; the banana and palm oil sectors in Guatemala; and in the garments (maquila) sector in El Salvador.
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El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras | Solidarity Center | $5,050,000 | 12/15/2021 | 08/14/2025 |
Support the Promotion of Labor Standards in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)This project seeks to promote greater compliance with labor law and standards for acceptable conditions of work, including occupational safety and health, hours of work, and wages in the DRC’s mining, distribution, and construction/public works sectors.
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Congo, Democratic Republic of the (DRC) | International Labour Organization | $3,000,000 | 12/15/2021 | 04/14/2025 |
Strengthening Workers’ Ability to Exercise their Labor Rights in MexicoTo 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.
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Mexico | Solidarity Center | $10,000,000 | 12/31/2020 | 06/30/2025 |
Improving Workers’ Rights in the Rural Sectors of the Indo Pacific with a Focus on WomenDespite the significance of the agriculture, fishing, and mining industries to the US’ trade relations with Philippines and Indonesia, these sectors are characterized by poverty and poor working conditions, especially at the lower tiers of the supply chain in rural areas.
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Indonesia, Philippines | International Labor Organization (ILO) | $4,000,000 | 12/01/2020 | 11/30/2024 |
Better Work - EthiopiaBetter Work is a comprehensive program that brings together all levels of the apparel industry to improve working conditions and respect of labor rights for workers, while boosting the competitiveness of apparel businesses. As a result of their participation with Better Work, export apparel factories in Ethiopia have improved compliance with labor law including issues of compensation, contracts, occupational safety and health and working time. By enhancing working conditions, Better Work Ethiopia increases the factories’ productivity and profitability.
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Ethiopia | International Labor Organization (ILO) | $1,477,095 | 11/19/2020 | 12/31/2025 |