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8 April 2008
[Federal Register: April 8, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 68)]
[Notices]
[Page 19103-19104]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of the Secretary
Combating Exploitive Child Labor Through Education
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 obligate approximately USD 21 million
to support cooperative agreement awards to organizations to address
exploitive child labor and forced labor internationally. ILAB intends
to award, through a competitive and merit-based process, cooperative
agreements to organizations to develop and implement formal, non-
formal, and vocational education projects as a means to combat
exploitive child labor in the following five countries: Guinea, Jordan,
Madagascar, Nicaragua, and Yemen. ILAB intends to fund projects that
focus on withdrawing and preventing children who are engaged in, or at
risk of engaging in, exploitive child labor through the provision of
direct educational services. The projects should propose innovative
ways to provide these educational services to target populations and
address the gaps and challenges to basic education found in the
countries mentioned above. ILAB also intends to award a cooperative
agreement to an organization(s) to conduct research on forced labor in
selected countries to be determined. 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
organizations(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.
Information on the specific sectors, geographical regions, and
funding levels for the potential projects in the countries listed above
will be addressed in a solicitation(s) for cooperative agreement
applications to be published prior to September 30, 2008. Potential
applicants should not submit inquiries to USDOL for further information
on these award opportunities until after USDOL's publication of the
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solicitations. For a list of frequently asked questions on
Solicitations for Cooperative Agreement Applications (based on last
year's solicitations, SGAs 07-10 and 07-11), please visit http://
www.dol.gov/ilab/faq/faq0710.htm.
Key Dates: The forthcoming solicitation(s) for cooperative
agreement applications will be published on http://www.grants.gov and
USDOL/ILAB's Web site. A brief synopsis of the solicitation(s) for
cooperative agreement applications (SGA) and Web site links to the
full-text SGAs will be published in the Federal Register. The SGA will
remain open for at least 30 days from the date of publication. All
cooperative agreement awards will be made on or before September 30,
2008.
Submission Information: Applications in response to the forthcoming
solicitation must be submitted via http://www.grants.gov. Any
application sent by mail or other delivery services, e-mail, telegram,
or facsimile (Fax) will not be accepted.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Lisa Harvey. E-mail address:
harvey.lisa@dol.gov. All inquiries should make reference to the USDOL
Combating Child Labor through Education--Solicitations for Cooperative
Agreement Applications.
Bidders' Meeting: USDOL intends to hold a bidders' meeting on April
24, 2008, in Washington, DC at the Department of Labor from 1:30 p.m.
to 3:30 p.m. The purpose of this meeting is to provide potential
applicants with the opportunity to ask questions concerning this
Solicitation for Cooperative Agreement Applications process. To
register for the meeting, please call or email Ms. Doris Senko (Phone:
202-693-4843; E-mail: senko.doris@dol.gov) by April 17, 2008. Please
provide Ms. Senko with attendees' contact information, including name,
organization, address, phone number, and e-mail address.
Background Information: Since 1995, USDOL has supported technical
cooperation programming to combat exploitive child labor
internationally through the promotion of educational opportunities for
children in need. In total, the U.S. Congress has appropriated to USDOL
over U.S. $660 million to support activities to combat exploitive child
labor internationally. In turn, ILAB has signed cooperative agreements
with various organizations to support international technical
assistance projects to combat exploitive child labor in over 75
countries around the world.
USDOL international programming to combat exploitive child labor
through education seeks to nurture the development, health, safety, and
enhanced future employability of children around the world by
withdrawing or preventing children from involvement in exploitive labor
and providing them with access to basic education, vocational training
and other services. Eliminating exploitive child labor depends, in
part, on improving access to, quality of, and relevance of educational
and training opportunities for children under 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.
International projects funded by USDOL to combat exploitive child
labor seek to:
1. Withdraw or prevent children from involvement in exploitive
child labor through the provision of direct educational and training
services;
2. Strengthen policies on child labor and education, the capacity
of national institutions to combat child labor, and formal and
transitional education systems that encourage working children and
those at risk of working to attend school;
3. Raise awareness of the importance of education for all children
and mobilize a wide array of actors to improve and expand education
infrastructures;
4. Support research and the collection of reliable data on child
labor; and
5. Ensure the long-term sustainability of these efforts.
When working to eradicate exploitive child labor, USDOL strives to
complement existing efforts, 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 1st day of April, 2008.
Lisa Harvey,
Grant Officer.
[FR Doc. E8-7231 Filed 4-7-08; 8:45 am]
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