USDOL/ILAB is offering up to $1 million for a cooperative agreement(s) to develop a Child Labor Beneficiary Monitoring Toolkit. The toolkit aims to establish a monitoring system for organizations combating child labor, tracking service provision, children’s education, and labor status. It will provide guidelines, tools, and innovative practices for effective data collection, analysis, and reporting. The grant will also include a prototype electronic-based system for beneficiary monitoring. Managed by ILAB’s OCFT and administered by USDOL’s Employment and Training Administration, the project(s) will span three years with a start date no later than December 31, 2014. Closing date for applications is October 31, 2014.
Opportunity ID: 265848
General Information
| Document Type:: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number:: | SCA-14-23 |
| Funding Opportunity Title:: | Child Labor Beneficiary Monitoring Toolkit |
| 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 4 |
| Posted Date:: | Sep 18, 2014 |
| Last Updated Date:: | Oct 24, 2014 |
| Original Closing Date for Applications:: | Oct 31, 2014 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications:: | Oct 31, 2014 |
| Archive Date:: | Nov 30, 2014 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding:: | $ 1,000,000 |
| Award Ceiling:: | $1,000,000 |
| 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 public international organization(s), capable of successfully fulfilling the objectives identified in the Funding Opportunity Description is eligible to apply. This SCA is for the award of one or more new cooperative agreements with the specific objectives and outputs outlined in this SCA. As such, Applicants may not submit applications to renew or supplement an existing project.
Public International Organizations (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. See Section III for complete information. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name:: | Bureau of International Labor Affairs |
| Description:: | USDOL/ILAB intends to award up to $ 1 million for a cooperative agreement(s) to one or more qualifying organizations for a project to develop a Child Labor Beneficiary Monitoring Toolkit. The project will provide guidelines and resources for developing a direct beneficiary monitoring system (to track service provision and childrens education and labor status) for organizations implementing child labor elimination projects. The toolkit will include the following: (1) guidelines and tools on the types of data needed to effectively track service provision and childrens labor and education status, (2) guidelines on data sources and frequency of data collection, and (3) guidelines and tools for establishing a well-functioning data collection and reporting system, including proper data storage and tabulation and analysis capabilities. Finally, the toolkit will (4) identify good/innovative practices and lessons learned in beneficiary monitoring, and provide a menu of options for operationalization of such a system (available software options, database systems, etc.) and the necessary parameters (requirements) of such a system and (5) provide a prototype electronic-based system that grantees may utilize for beneficiary monitoring.ILABs OCFT will technically manage cooperative agreement(s) awarded under this SCA, and USDOLs Employment and Training Administration will administer the cooperative agreement(s). The duration of the project(s) funded by this SCA is three (3) years. The project start date will be negotiated upon award of individual cooperative agreement(s) but will be no later than December 31, 2014. |
| 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 4 | This amendment to the SCA: 1) removes non-applicable language relating to host country presence and support in Section V.B. and Appendix D, 2) corrects two SCA references in Appendix D, 3) amends two deadlines in the Project Deliverables table, 4) provides clarification relating to project partners, 5) adjusts the evaluation criteria, and 6) provides further detail relating to budgeting for travel and training costs. | Oct 24, 2014 |
| Synopsis 3 | The link to the transcript from ILAB’s October 14th web chat is http://www.dol.gov/dol/chat/chat-ilab-20141014.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/ | |
| Synopsis 2 | This amendment to the SCA adds a new appendix (Appendix H, attached to the amendment) entitled “Baseline Requirements for a Direct Beneficiary Monitoring System Prototype” and revises references to this appendix in Section I of the SCA. | |
| 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: | PKG00206264 |
| Opening Date: | Sep 18, 2014 |
| Closing Date: | Oct 31, 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 | PKG00206264 | Sep 18, 2014 | Oct 31, 2014 | View | Bruce Yoon | Organization Applicants |