[Federal Register: November 30, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 230)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of the Secretary
Combating Exploitive Child Labor Trough Education in Angola
AGENCY: Bureau of International Labor Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor
Announcement Type: New. Notice of Availability of Funds and Intent
for Solicitation of Limited Competition for Cooperative Agreement
Applications.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL), Bureau of International
Labor Affairs (ILAB), intends to obligate up to approximately U.S. $3.5
million through a Cooperative Agreement to organization(s) to improve
access to and quality of education programs as a means to combat
exploitive child labor in Angola. The project(s) funded under this
award should address gaps and challenges to basic education found in
Angola.
ILAB intends to solicit cooperative agreement applications through
a limited competition of organizations qualified to implement a project
that focuses on innovative ways to provide educational services to
children engaged, or at risk of engaging, in exploitive labor in
Angola. Qualified organizations include any commercial, international,
educational, or non-profit organization that is capable of successfully
developing and implementing education projects in Angola and that meets
the following criteria--qualified organizations must have (1) an
established presence in Angola (i.e., one or more offices and
employees) and be legally recognized and permitted to operate by the
Government of Angola, and (2) direct and current experience
implementing technical cooperation programs for children-in-need in
Angola that aim to combat exploitive child labor and/or promote
educational and training opportunities for children-in-need who are
under the age of 18 years. Among the organizations deemed eligible
based on this criteria are the Christian Children's Fund, Save the
Children--UK, and World Vision.
Other organizations wishing to be considered under this limited
competition must submit to USDOL, at the contact address provided below
and within 10 working days of this announcement, a formal request for
funding consideration, providing verifiable evidence that the
aforementioned criteria are met. Such requests will be evaluated by
USDOL, which will add any additional organizations found eligible to
the list of those organizations to be considered under this limited
competition.
This limited competition involves the re-granting of funds
remaining from SGA 05-05 for ``Combating Exploitive Child Labor through
Education in Angola,'' published in the Federal Register on May 27,
2005. Please refer to http://www.dol.gov/ILAB/grants/main.htm for
examples of previous notices of availability of funds and solicitations
for cooperative agreement applications. Further information on the
specific sectors, geographical regions, and funding levels for the
potential project(s) in Angola, as well as the selection criteria to be
used, will be addressed in the solicitation for cooperative agreement
applications that will be made available to those organizations found
to be eligible for consideration under the limited competition. For a
list of frequently asked questions on Child Labor Education Initiative
Solicitations for Cooperative Agreement Applications, please visit
http://www.dol.gov/ILAB/faq/faq36.htm.
Key Dates: Organizations--other than those specifically referenced
by name in this Notice of Intent--wishing to be considered under this
limited competition must submit to USDOL, at the contact address
provided below, a formal request within 10 working days of the date of
this announcement.
A specific solicitation for cooperative agreement applications will
be provided to those organizations deemed eligible for the limited
competition within 20 working days of this announcement. The
solicitation will remain open for at least 30 calendar days.
To Request Consideration Under This Limited Competition or For
Further Information Contact: Ms. Lisa Harvey. E-mail address:
harvey.lisa@dol.gov. All formal requests for consideration and other
inquiries should make reference to the USDOL Child Labor Education
Initiative--Solicitations for Cooperative Agreement Applications.
Background Information: Since 1995, USDOL has supported a worldwide
technical assistance program implemented by the International Labor
Organization's International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor
(ILO-IPEC). ILAB has also supported the efforts of other organizations
involved in efforts to combat child labor internationally through the
promotion of educational opportunities for children-in-need. In total,
ILAB has provided over U.S. $530 million to ILO-IPEC and other
organizations for international technical assistance to combat abusive
child labor around the world.
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USDOL's Child Labor Education Initiative seeks to nurture the
development, health, safety, and enhanced future employability of
children around the world by increasing access to basic education for
children removed from child labor or at risk of entering it.
Eliminating child labor depends, in part, on improving access to,
quality of, and relevance of educational and training opportunities for
children less than 18 years of age. Without improving such
opportunities, children withdrawn from exploitive forms of labor may
not have viable alternatives to child labor and may be more likely to
return to such work or resort to other hazardous means of subsistence.
In addition to increasing access to education and eliminating
exploitive child labor through direct withdrawal and prevention
services to children, the Child Labor Education Initiative has the
following four strategic goals:
1. Raise awareness of the importance of education for all children
and mobilize a wide array of actors to improve and expand education
infrastructures;
2. Strengthen formal and transitional education systems that
encourage working children and those at risk of working to attend
school;
3. Strengthen national institutions and policies on education and
child labor; and
4. Ensure the long-term sustainability of these efforts.
When working to increase access to quality basic education, USDOL
strives to complement existing efforts to eradicate the worst forms of
child labor, to build on the achievements of and lessons learned from
these efforts, to expand impact and build synergies among actors, and
to avoid duplication of resources and efforts.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 20th day of November, 2006.
Lisa Harvey,
Grant Officer.
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