ILAB in the Sub-Saharan Africa

Projects
Title | Amount | Location | Grantee | Start Sort ascending | End |
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Project to Expand and Assess the Fair Food Program (FFP) Model for Promotion of Human Rights and Labor Rights Protections in International Agricultural Supply Chains |
$2,500,000 | Chile, Global, Mexico, South Africa | Fair Food Standards Council | 12/30/2022 | 12/29/2025 |
Action against Child Labor in Agriculture in West Africa |
$4,000,000 | Nigeria | International Labour Organization | 12/15/2022 | 12/14/2026 |
Elevating Women’s Participation in the Workplace in West AfricaThe Elevating Women’s Participation in the Workplace in West Africa project seeks to address discrimination and gender-based violence and harassment in the world of work in the mining, palm oil, and rubber sectors in Liberia, and in the oil sector in Nigeria. |
$5,000,000 | Liberia, Nigeria | Solidarity Center | 12/15/2022 | 12/14/2026 |
Madagascar Shines: Reducing Child Labor in Mica-Producing Communities of MadagascarThe 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. |
$4,500,000 | Madagascar | Pact | 02/14/2022 | 06/09/2025 |
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. |
$3,000,000 | Congo, Democratic Republic of the (DRC) | International Labour Organization | 12/15/2021 | 04/14/2025 |
Catalyzing Civil Society to Accelerate Progress Against Child Labor (Catalyst)The project aims to build the capacity of civil society organizations around the world to advance the fight against child labor by raising the voices of workers, advocates, and other civil society representatives. |
$4,000,000 | Global, Nepal, Peru, Uganda | Global March Against Child Labor | 12/15/2021 | 12/14/2025 |
Global Accelerator Lab Project: Intensifying Action Against Forced Labor and Child LaborILAB’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. |
$10,000,000 | Ghana, Global, Malaysia, Nigeria, Regional, Somalia | International Labor Organization (ILO) | 12/01/2021 | 10/15/2025 |
Eliminating Child Labor in Mica-Producing Communities and Promoting Responsible Mica Sourcing in Madagascar and Globally (MICA)The goal of the UNDP’s MICA project is to eliminate child labor in four communes in Madagascar and to promote environmentally- and socially-responsible mica mining by bolstering the resiliency of vulnerable households in mica producing communities, building government capacity, and increasing engagement with stakeholders. |
$4,500,000 | Madagascar | United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | 12/16/2020 | 09/15/2021 |
CACAO: Cooperatives Addressing Child Labor Accountability OutcomesThe 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. |
$4,000,000 | Côte d'Ivoire | Save the Children | 12/10/2020 | 06/09/2025 |
Global Trace Protocol ProjectThe Global Trace Protocol Project by ELEVATE seeks to increase downstream tracing of goods made by child labor and forced labor. The project is designed to address the barriers in supply chain traceability, and result in the development and sharing of open, accessible and replicable tools that can advance the knowledge base on supply chain tracing and scale the adoption of traceability solutions by various actors in different sectors. |
$4,000,000 | Congo, Democratic Republic of the (DRC), Global, Pakistan | ELEVATE Limited | 12/10/2020 | 12/09/2024 |
Title | Amount | Location | Grantee | Start Sort ascending | End |
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Project to Expand and Assess the Fair Food Program (FFP) Model for Promotion of Human Rights and Labor Rights Protections in International Agricultural Supply Chains |
$2,500,000 | Chile, Global, Mexico, South Africa | Fair Food Standards Council | 12/30/2022 | 12/29/2025 |
Action against Child Labor in Agriculture in West Africa |
$4,000,000 | Nigeria | International Labour Organization | 12/15/2022 | 12/14/2026 |
Elevating Women’s Participation in the Workplace in West AfricaThe Elevating Women’s Participation in the Workplace in West Africa project seeks to address discrimination and gender-based violence and harassment in the world of work in the mining, palm oil, and rubber sectors in Liberia, and in the oil sector in Nigeria. |
$5,000,000 | Liberia, Nigeria | Solidarity Center | 12/15/2022 | 12/14/2026 |
Madagascar Shines: Reducing Child Labor in Mica-Producing Communities of MadagascarThe 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. |
$4,500,000 | Madagascar | Pact | 02/14/2022 | 06/09/2025 |
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. |
$3,000,000 | Congo, Democratic Republic of the (DRC) | International Labour Organization | 12/15/2021 | 04/14/2025 |
Catalyzing Civil Society to Accelerate Progress Against Child Labor (Catalyst)The project aims to build the capacity of civil society organizations around the world to advance the fight against child labor by raising the voices of workers, advocates, and other civil society representatives. |
$4,000,000 | Global, Nepal, Peru, Uganda | Global March Against Child Labor | 12/15/2021 | 12/14/2025 |
Global Accelerator Lab Project: Intensifying Action Against Forced Labor and Child LaborILAB’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. |
$10,000,000 | Ghana, Global, Malaysia, Nigeria, Regional, Somalia | International Labor Organization (ILO) | 12/01/2021 | 10/15/2025 |
Eliminating Child Labor in Mica-Producing Communities and Promoting Responsible Mica Sourcing in Madagascar and Globally (MICA)The goal of the UNDP’s MICA project is to eliminate child labor in four communes in Madagascar and to promote environmentally- and socially-responsible mica mining by bolstering the resiliency of vulnerable households in mica producing communities, building government capacity, and increasing engagement with stakeholders. |
$4,500,000 | Madagascar | United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | 12/16/2020 | 09/15/2021 |
CACAO: Cooperatives Addressing Child Labor Accountability OutcomesThe 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. |
$4,000,000 | Côte d'Ivoire | Save the Children | 12/10/2020 | 06/09/2025 |
Global Trace Protocol ProjectThe Global Trace Protocol Project by ELEVATE seeks to increase downstream tracing of goods made by child labor and forced labor. The project is designed to address the barriers in supply chain traceability, and result in the development and sharing of open, accessible and replicable tools that can advance the knowledge base on supply chain tracing and scale the adoption of traceability solutions by various actors in different sectors. |
$4,000,000 | Congo, Democratic Republic of the (DRC), Global, Pakistan | ELEVATE Limited | 12/10/2020 | 12/09/2024 |