Deadline: 31-May-22
The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) announces an open competition for organizations interested in submitting applications for a project to develop a consortium of implementing partners to promote internationally recognized labor standards in Latin America and the Caribbean.
DRL will award one cooperative agreement to a consortium of implementing partners to expand space for freedom of association and promote internationally recognized labor rights in Latin America and the Caribbean. The consortium will strengthen workers’ ability to pursue evidencebased strategic advocacy for decent rights at work and claim their legal rights and protections in line with international standards. The proposal should focus primarily on the consortium design, management structure and programmatic approach as well as the role and unique capability of each the proposed consortium partners. Detailed country-specific workplans will be developed in coordination with DRL.
Successful proposals will demonstrate the ability of consortium partners to deliver assistance along the following lines of effort:
- Documentation and Advocacy: Enable labor rights defenders and their organizations to document and denounce labor rights violations at the national, transnational, regional and international level. Increase the effectiveness of civil society-led evidence-based labor rights advocacy in holding governments and multinational corporations accountable for labor rights violations.
- Accountability and Justice: Empower workers and their organizations to hold governments, employers, and other stakeholders to account for violations of their rights, including for the use of tactics to suppress freedom of association and freedom of speech.
- Security and Resilience: Assistance and support should be provided to improve the resilience and security, both digital and physical, of labor rights advocates and worker organizations in the region. Support should be user-focused, and demand-driven. Strategies that improve the likelihood that security practices will be sustainably implemented are encouraged.
Project proposals must ensure access and opportunity for marginalized worker voices to participate in program activities and support networking and knowledge exchange among project stakeholders throughout the region. The project should also engage with journalists and use media, when appropriate, to enhance the effectiveness of its efforts.
Funding Information
Applicants should submit a detailed budget for year one and notional budgets for years two through five. The total anticipated value of a fully executed program will be up to $4,850,000, pending availability of funding in future year appropriations:
- Year one – up to $850,000
- Year two – up to an additional $1,000,000
- Year three – up to an additional $1,000,000
- Year four – up to an additional $1,000,000
- Year five – up to an additional $1,000,000
Eligibility Criteria
- DRL welcomes applications from U.S.-based and foreign-based non-profit organizations/nongovernment organizations (NGO) and public international organizations; private, public, or state institutions of higher education; and for-profit organizations or businesses.
- DRL’s preference is to work with non-profit entities; however, there may be some occasions when a for-profit entity is best suited.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=339545
