Strengthening Compliance with International Labor Standards in Colombia

NOTE: This is a Notice of Intent (NOI). There is not an announcement related to this notice. We are not accepting applications at this time. Subject to the availability of funds, USDOL’s ILAB intends to award, through a competitive selection process, a cooperative agreement of up to $1,400,000 to fund a project over the next 3 years to strengthen compliance with international labor standards in Colombia. The project will: establish four Workers’ Rights Centers (WRCs) that will provide advice to workers and assist them to file well-supported complaints to the Ministry of Labor and/or the Prosecutor General’s Office and strengthen the capacity of local organizations and community leaders to educate and provide advice to workers about the scope and applicability of relevant labor and criminal laws. The Employment and Training Administration (ETA)’s Office of Grants Management anticipates publishing the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) before the end of June 2016 (subject to change). Please refer to: http://www.dol.gov/ilab/grants/ and http://www.dol.gov/ilab/grants/SGAguidelines.htm for general guidelines and examples of previous cooperative agreement applications. This NOI 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 this is the method by which the FOA will be made available to the public. No email or paper copies of the FOA will be provided.