Title | Location | Grantee | Start | End |
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Adwuma PaThe Adwuma Pa project works to reduce the risk of child and forced labor, and other exploitative labor practices by improving the economic participation and empowerment of women and girls within cocoa-producing communities in Ghana. |
Ghana | Cooperative for Relief and Assistance Everywhere Inc. (CARE) | 11/16/2018 | 11/15/2022 |
Measurement, Awareness-Raising, and Policy Engagement (MAP 16) Project on Child Labor and Forced LaborThe United States supports the goal of bringing meaningful change to the lives of the 152 million child laborers and the 25 million adults and children in forced labor around the world by eradicating child labor, forced labor and human trafficking. |
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Panama, Kosovo, Serbia, Turkey, Global, Jordan, Morocco, India, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste, Mauritania, Niger | International Labor Organization (ILO) | 12/09/2016 | 09/30/2022 |
Combatting Child Labor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Cobalt IndustryThe Cobalt project works to address child labor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) cobalt supply chain, with a focus on artisanal and small-scale mining. It supports key stakeholders to develop and implement strategies to reduce child labor and improve working conditions in artisanal and small-scale mines as well as in the broader cobalt supply chain. |
Congo, Democratic Republic of the (DRC) | International Labor Organization (ILO) | 10/01/2018 | 11/14/2021 |
Combating Forced Labor and Labor Trafficking of Adults and Children in GhanaThis project will build the capacity of the government and businesses to expand and better coordinate ongoing labor trafficking enforcement efforts in Ghana. By putting the right tools in the hands of labor inspectors, business owners, organizations providing social services and workers, the project will help promote supply chains free of exploitative labor and a fair playing field for workers in the United States around the world. |
Ghana | Verité | 12/01/2017 | 05/30/2021 |
EMPOWER: Increasing Economic and Social Empowerment for Adolescent Girls and Vulnerable Women in ZambiaThe EMPOWER project will reduce child labor in Zambia’s eastern province by increasing adolescent girls and vulnerable women’s access to acceptable work and high-quality training opportunities. In addition, the project will increase public awareness on the importance of addressing child labor and strengthen efforts amongst government and the private sector towards gender equality through the promotion of acceptable work for adolescent girls and vulnerable women. |
Zambia | Winrock International | 11/01/2016 | 10/31/2020 |
Better Utilization of Skills for Youth (BUSY) through Quality ApprenticeshipsThe Better Utilization of Skills for Youth (BUSY) project will help build the capacity of government, employers, workers’ organizations, and civil society actors to establish and expand workplace-based training programs for vulnerable youth, including by identifying gaps in relevant laws and policies. |
Kenya | International Labor Organization (ILO) | 09/30/2016 | 09/30/2020 |
Supporting Sustainable and Child Labor Free Vanilla-Growing Communities in SAVA (SAVABE)The SAVABE project will aim to reduce child labor in the production of vanilla in the Sava region of Madagascar. The project will assist the vanilla industry to eliminate child labor in Madagascar’s vanilla supply chain and will build the capacity of Madagascar’s law enforcement to enforce child labor laws. The project also will work with local communities to provide an education to children engaged in or at risk of child labor and will help impoverished families by teaching adults marketable skills to increase family income and access to credit through village savings and loan associations. |
Madagascar | International Labor Organization (ILO) | 11/01/2016 | 07/31/2020 |
Building a Generation of Safe and Healthy Workers: SafeYouth@Work |
Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay, Burma, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Global, Cote d'Ivoire | International Labor Organization (ILO) | 12/31/2014 | 12/31/2019 |
Closing the Child Labor and Forced Labor Evidence Gap: Impact EvaluationsOur impact evaluation projects use “gold standard” quantitative techniques to evaluate the impact of interventions on reducing child labor, forced labor and human trafficking—part of a broader ILAB effort to build rigorous evidence on what works to secure and protect the rights of children and adults. Such evaluations support our partner governments’ evidence-based policymaking efforts, and also help identify proven strategies to inform ILAB’s future investments in class-leading global programs to combat child labor and forced labor. |
Global, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia | UNICEF | 12/15/2014 | 12/14/2019 |
Closing the Child Labor and Forced Labor Evidence Gap: Impact EvaluationsOur impact evaluation projects use rigorous quantitative techniques to evaluate the impact of interventions on reducing child labor, forced labor and human trafficking—part of a broader ILAB effort to build rigorous evidence on what works to secure and protect the rights of children and adults. Such evaluations support our partner governments’ evidence-based policymaking efforts, and also help identify proven strategies to inform ILAB’s future investments in global programs to combat child labor and forced labor. |
Costa Rica, Ecuador, Global, India, Malawi, Rwanda | IMPAQ International | 12/15/2014 | 12/14/2019 |
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