[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 179 (Thursday, September 16, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 56558]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-23081]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of the Secretary: Combating Exploitative Child Labor by
Promoting Sustainable Livelihoods and Educational Opportunities for
Children in Egypt and Jordan
AGENCY: Bureau of International Labor Affairs, U.S. Department of
Labor.
ACTION: Notice of Intent to Solicit Cooperative Agreement Applications.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL), Bureau of International
Labor Affairs (ILAB), intends to award, through a competitive and
merit-based process, two or more cooperative agreements to
organizations to implement projects to combat exploitative child labor
by promoting educational and training opportunities for target children
and sustainable livelihoods for their households. In FY 2010, ILAB
received Congressional authority to fund subgrants and microfinance
activities.
ILAB intends to obligate up to $9.5 million for a child labor
elimination project(s) in Egypt and up to $4 million for a child labor
elimination project(s) in Jordan. Projects to be funded under these
solicitations will need to address the following five goals:
1. Reducing exploitative child labor, especially the worst forms
through the provision of direct educational services and by addressing
root causes of child labor, including innovative strategies to promote
sustainable livelihoods of target households;
2. Strengthening policies on child labor, education, and
sustainable livelihoods, and the capacity of national institutions to
combat child labor, address its root causes, and promote formal,
nonformal and vocational education opportunities to provide children
with alternatives to child labor;
3. Raising awareness of exploitative and hazardous child labor and
its root causes, and the importance of education for all children and
mobilizing a wide array of actors to improve and expand education
infrastructures;
4. Supporting research, evaluation, and the collection of reliable
data on child labor, its root causes, and effective strategies,
including educational and vocational alternatives, microfinance and
other income generating activities to improve household income; and
5. Ensuring the long-term sustainability of these efforts.
ILAB intends to solicit cooperative agreement applications from
qualified organizations (i.e., any commercial, international,
educational, or non-profit organization, including any faith-based,
community-based, or public international organization(s), capable of
successfully developing and implementing child labor projects) to
implement these projects. 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 (SGAs).
Key Dates: The forthcoming SGAs will be published on http://www.grants.gov and USDOL/ILAB's Web site. A brief synopsis of the
SGA(s), which will include Web site links to the full text
solicitation(s), will be published in the Federal Register. The SGA(s)
will remain open for at least 45 days from the date of publication. All
cooperative agreement awards will be made on or before December 31,
2010.
Submission Information: Applications in response to the forthcoming
SGAs may be submitted electronically via http://www.grants.gov or hard
copy by mail. Hard copy applications must be delivered to: U.S.
Department of Labor, Procurement Services Center, 200 Constitution
Avenue, NW., Room S-4307, Washington, DC 20210, Attention: Georgiette
Nkpa. Any application sent by other delivery methods, including e-mail,
telegram, or facsimile (FAX) will not be accepted.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mrs. Georgiette Nkpa. E-mail address:
[email protected]. All inquiries should make reference to the
USDOL Combating Exploitative Child Labor by Promoting Sustainable
Livelihoods and Educational Opportunities for Children in Egypt and
Jordan--Solicitations for Cooperative Agreement Applications.
Information on specific target groups, sectors, geographic regions, and
funding levels for the potential projects in the countries listed above
will be addressed in one or more solicitations for cooperative
agreement applications to be published prior to September 30, 2010.
Potential applicants should not submit inquiries to USDOL for further
information on these award opportunities until after USDOL's
publication of the solicitation(s). For a list of frequently asked
questions on ILAB's Solicitations for Cooperative Agreement
Applications (based on last year's solicitation, SGA 09-06), please
visit http://www.dol.gov/ilab/grants/20090624/SGAQandAs.pdf.
Background Information: Since 1995, the U.S. Congress has
appropriated over $780 million to ILAB for efforts to combat
exploitative child labor internationally. This funding has been used to
support technical cooperation projects to combat exploitative child
labor, including the worst forms, in more than 80 countries around the
world. Technical cooperation projects funded by USDOL range from
targeted action programs in specific sectors of work to more
comprehensive programs that support national efforts to eliminate the
worst forms of child labor, as defined by International Labor
Organization (ILO) Convention 182. USDOL-funded projects have withdrawn
or prevented over 1.4 million children from exploitative child labor.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 7th day of September, 2010.
Cassandra R. Mitchell,
Grant Officer.
[FR Doc. 2010-23081 Filed 9-15-10; 8:45 am]
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