Opportunity Information: Apply for NOI ILAB 17 08
This opportunity is a Notice of Intent from the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL), Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB), signaling that the agency plans to release a future Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for projects focused on combating forced labor and labor trafficking affecting both adults and children. The notice is not the actual funding announcement, and no applications are being accepted at this time. In other words, it is an early heads-up that a competitive funding opportunity may be opened later, depending on the availability of funds, and interested organizations are expected to watch for the official FOA on Grants.gov.
If funded, ILAB anticipates awarding up to three cooperative agreements, with each award capped at $2,000,000, for a total potential funding pool of up to $6,000,000. The funding instrument is a cooperative agreement, which typically means USDOL expects to be more actively involved in project oversight and implementation than it would be under a standard grant. The opportunity is categorized as discretionary funding and is listed under CFDA 17.401. The public record shows the notice was created on August 11, 2017, and mentions an anticipated FOA publication timeline before September 30, 2017 (with the caveat that timelines can change).
The central purpose of the planned program is to improve the ability of labor stakeholders to recognize and respond to indicators of forced labor and labor trafficking. The notice uses "labor stakeholders" broadly, covering a wide range of actors connected to work and employment systems, including employers, government officials, workers, community leaders, and civil society organizations. Each cooperative agreement would support a project implemented in a single country selected and proposed by the applicant, rather than the country being pre-selected by ILAB in the notice.
Country eligibility is a key requirement. Applicants would need to propose work in a country that appears either in the Department of Labor's Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor (issued under the Trade and Development Act of 2000) or on the List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor (required under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005). This effectively narrows the field to countries where child labor and/or forced labor concerns have already been formally identified in USDOL reporting. At the same time, the notice excludes a specific slice of potential projects: proposals focused on the fisheries sector in the Asia-Pacific region will not be considered under this opportunity because ILAB indicated it planned a separate notice of intent for that topic.
Projects proposed under the future FOA are expected to drive three country-level outcomes. First, they should improve understanding of the indicators of forced labor and labor trafficking, which implies awareness-building and practical knowledge among relevant actors about what warning signs look like in real workplaces and recruitment channels. Second, projects should improve monitoring of working conditions by labor stakeholders so they can better identify and address indicators and actual incidents of forced labor and trafficking; this points toward strengthening systems for observation, reporting, and corrective action, not just training. Third, projects should strengthen the capacity of the labor inspectorate to address forced labor and labor trafficking, suggesting a particular emphasis on government enforcement functions such as inspection protocols, investigative capability, case referral pathways, and the overall ability to act when risks or violations are found.
Finally, the notice emphasizes process and where to find future details. It explicitly states that there is no FOA or attachments included with this notice and that it only communicates ILAB's intent to publish an FOA later. Interested applicants are directed to ILAB's grants pages for general guidance and examples of prior cooperative agreement applications, and they are advised to monitor Grants.gov because that is where the official FOA would be posted if and when it is released. The agency also clarifies that it will not distribute the FOA by email or on paper, so tracking the posting online is essential for anyone who wants to apply when the competition opens.Apply for NOI ILAB 17 08
- The Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs in the other (see text field entitled explanation of other category of funding activity for clarification) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Combating Forced Labor and Labor Trafficking of Adults and Children" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 17.401.
- This funding opportunity was created on Aug 11, 2017.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Sep 30, 2017 NOTE This is a Notice of Intent. An announcement is not related to this notice. We are not accepting applications at this time.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $2,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 3 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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