The Responsible Recruitment project

NOTE: This is a Notice of Intent. An announcement is not related to this notice. We are not accepting applications at this time. Subject to the availability of funds, USDOL’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) intends to award, through a competitive process, one cooperative agreement to an organization to reduce forced labor and human trafficking in the recruitment of workers in a sector and/or supply chain. The project should achieve the following outcomes: (1) Improved understanding of the nature of forced labor and human trafficking in the recruitment of workers; (2) Improved company-led approaches to address forced labor and human trafficking in the recruitment process; (3) Improved compliance with recruitment policies and procedures by third-party recruiters; and (4) Increased action on promoting responsible recruitment policies and practices among private sector actors. Applicants must propose to work with at least one (1) company and its/their labor recruiters, in at least one (1) country, and at least one (1) sector and/or supply chain. The selection of the country(ies) and supply chain(s) must be based on evidence of recruitment-related forced labor and/or human trafficking in that particular sector or supply chain. In addition, the country(ies) and sector(s) and/or supply chain(s) proposed must be covered in DOL’s Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, on the List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor, or in a sector or supply chain in a country not covered in one of these reports but where the applicant has substantive evidence of indicators of recruitment-related forced labor and/or human trafficking. The Employment and Training Administration (ETA)’s Office of Grants Management anticipates publishing a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) as soon as possible and not later than August 2018 (this timing is subject to change). Please refer to: http://www.dol.gov/ilab/grants/ for general guidelines and examples of previous cooperative agreement applications. This notice does not include an FOA or any attachments. It only constitutes a notice of USDOL’s intent to publish an FOA at a later date. Interested applicants are encouraged to monitor www.grants.gov for the FOA because, if an FOA is published, grants.gov is the method by which the FOA will be made available to the public. No email or paper copies of any FOA will be provided.