This grant from USDOL/ILAB offers up to $10 million for impact evaluations to address evidence gaps on child labor and forced labor globally. Proposals can cover full evaluations, supplemental funding for ongoing evaluations, or additional analysis. Projects must be outside the U.S., focus on key intervention areas, leverage partnerships, and adhere to set evaluation guidelines. Subgrants may be provided, and study results can be independently published. Funding is designated for evaluation design, implementation, analysis, and dissemination only. Proposals should contribute to informing project designs and policies related to child labor and forced labor, utilize partnerships, and comply with international standards. The closing date for applications is Nov 07, 2014.
Opportunity ID: 264018
General Information
| Document Type:: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number:: | SCA-14-22 |
| Funding Opportunity Title:: | Closing the Child Labor and Forced Labor Evidence Gap: Impact Evaluations |
| Opportunity Category:: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation:: | CategoryExplanation |
| Funding Instrument Type:: | |
| Category of Funding Activity:: | Employment, Labor and Training |
| Category Explanation:: | |
| Expected Number of Awards:: | |
| Assistance Listings Number(s):: | 17.401 — International Labor Programs |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:: | No |
| Version:: | Synopsis 3 |
| Posted Date:: | Sep 04, 2014 |
| Last Updated Date:: | Oct 21, 2014 |
| Original Closing Date for Applications:: | Nov 07, 2014 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications:: | Nov 07, 2014 |
| Archive Date:: | Dec 07, 2014 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding:: | $ 10,000,000 |
| Award Ceiling:: | $ |
| Award Floor:: | $ |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants:: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility:: | Any commercial, international, educational, or non-profit organization(s), including any faith-based, community-based, or PIOs, capable of successfully fulfilling the objectives identified in the Funding Opportunity Description is eligible to apply. Organizations applying for this award must demonstrate a proven ability to manage complex evaluations in developing countries. This SCA is for the award of a new cooperative agreement with the specific objectives and outcomes outlined in this SCA. As such, Applicants may not submit applications to renew or supplement an existing project.
PIOs are eligible to apply. However, USDOL requires that PIOs and all other entities that elect to apply for this grant opportunity adhere to the specific requirements outlined in this SCA concerning monitoring and evaluation, audits and counter-terrorism. In negotiating an award with a PIO, USDOL will discuss the inclusion of appropriate language acknowledging the rights and privileges as currently established and afforded to PIOs by the U.S. Government in accordance with U.S. law. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name:: | Bureau of International Labor Affairs |
| Description:: | USDOL/ILAB intends to award up to $10 million for multiple cooperative agreements to organizations to implement impact evaluations globally to expand the evidence base on child labor and forced labor. Applicants may submit proposals to cover the cost of a full impact evaluation, to request supplemental funding for ongoing evaluations, or for additional analysis on completed evaluations, including survey costs. In general, USDOL would expect proposed full evaluations to range in cost from approximately $250,000 to $1 million; requests for supplemental funding for ongoing evaluations, including support of a survey, to range in cost from approximately $10,000 to $250,000; and requests for supplemental funding for additional analysis on completed evaluations to range in cost from approximately $10,000 to $50,000. It should be noted that these guidelines are not absolute; proposals for impact evaluations must describe and justify the level of funding for each evaluation or additional analysis being requested. Applications must propose impact evaluations outside of the United States that address key evidence gaps regarding child labor or forced labor program interventions in the areas outlined in this solicitation, and must demonstrate how they would leverage partnerships with implementing organizations to build upon existing, planned or completed interventions and/or impact evaluations, or secure separate funding for the intervention(s) itself. Subgrants may be made to academics or academic institutions, and study results may be published independently after the cooperative agreement has closed. Applicants may propose multiple studies. Funding through this cooperative agreement must only be used to fund impact evaluation design, implementation, analysis, and dissemination and must not be used to fund projects or interventions. Proposed impact evaluations must: 1) provide evidence that will be relevant to informing the design and effectiveness of a project or government policy that has direct or indirect effects on child labor or forced labor; 2) utilize partnerships between researchers, contractors, and/or non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and local organizations in the country where the proposed impact evaluation will take place; 3) ensure that impact evaluation results will be available within the time-period of the cooperative agreement; 4) build the evidence base on child labor or forced labor in OCFTs intervention areas and/or outcomes of interest; 5) test interventions or combinations of interventions; 6) examine interventions that are relevant and promising; 7) ensure that study designs, surveys, and analysis conform to international and national definitions and standards on child labor and forced labor; and 8) use RCT designs. |
| Link to Additional Information:: | |
| Grantor Contact Information:: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact: |
Version History
| Version | Modification Description | Updated Date |
|---|---|---|
| Synopsis 3 | The link to the transcript from ILAB’s October 2nd and October 16th web chats are http://www.dol.gov/dol/chat/chat-ilab-20141002.htm and http://www.dol.gov/dol/chat/chat-ilab-20141016.htm. Additional Q&A’s for the web chat are posted as an attachment under the Full Announcement tab. ILAB will also post the transcript and supplemental questions to the ILAB grants page: http://www.dol.gov/ilab/grants/ | Oct 21, 2014 |
| Synopsis 2 | On Thursday, October 16th, 2014, between 09:00 and 10:00 a.m. (EST) ILAB will hold a second web chat for SCA 14-22: Closing the Child Labor and Forced Labor Evidence Gap: Impact Evaluations, published on September 4, 2014, to answer additional questions that potential Applicants were not able to ask during the first web chat on October 9th, 2014.
To access the web chat for SCA 14-22, please click here: http://www.dol.gov/dol/chat/chat-ilab-20141016.htm The transcript of the web chat will be available on http://www.dol.gov/dol/chat/chat-ilab-20141016-static.htm and the ILAB website after the session ends. |
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| Synopsis 1 |
Package Status
Below are CLOSED Opportunity Package(s) no longer available for this Funding Opportunity:
Package No: 1
| Assistance Listings: | 17.401 |
| Competition ID: | |
| Competition Title: | |
| Opportunity Package ID: | PKG00205043 |
| Opening Date: | Sep 04, 2014 |
| Closing Date: | Nov 07, 2014 |
| Agency Contact Information:: | Bruce Yoon |
| Who Can Apply:: | Organization Applicants |
| mendatory_forms |
Application for Federal Assistance (SF-424) [V2.1] Key Contacts [V1.0] Project Narrative Attachment Form [V1.1] Other Attachments Form [V1.1] Budget Narrative Attachment Form [V1.1] Budget Information for Non-Construction Programs (SF-424A) [V1.0] |
| optional_forms | Attachments [V1.1] |
Packages
| Assistance Listings | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions | Who Can Apply: | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17.401 | PKG00205043 | Sep 04, 2014 | Nov 07, 2014 | View | Bruce Yoon | Organization Applicants |