Opportunity Information: Apply for FOA ILAB 19 05
The Equal Access to Quality Jobs for Women and Girls (EQUAL) opportunity (FOA-ILAB-19-05) is a U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) discretionary funding announcement tied to the Women s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative (W-GDP). It offers up to approximately $5,000,000 in total costs, contingent on the availability of federal funds, to support a single cooperative agreement. The intent is to fund one technical assistance project in Mexico focused on the economic empowerment of vulnerable women and girls in agriculture, with a clear labor-rights protection goal rather than purely income generation. Because the award mechanism is a cooperative agreement, the Department of Labor is expected to have substantial involvement in the project s implementation, coordination, and oversight compared with a standard grant.
The core purpose of the project is to reduce vulnerability to child labor, forced labor, and other labor rights violations affecting women and girls in the agricultural sector, including occupational safety and health infractions. The opportunity frames economic empowerment as a pathway to prevention: when women and adolescent girls can access safer, better quality work and understand their rights, they are less likely to be trapped in exploitative labor arrangements. The program is designed to address both individual-level constraints (skills, knowledge, access to opportunities) and the broader enabling environment (government and private-sector practices that shape working conditions and compliance).
The project is structured around two main outcomes. Outcome 1 targets improved economic participation in quality jobs within agriculture for women and adolescent girls who are identified as vulnerable to child labor, forced labor, and or labor rights violations. This outcome is broken into three practical sub-outcomes: first, participants improve their understanding of labor rights and their ability to access protections related to child labor, forced labor, and occupational safety and health; second, participants enhance their skills, implying training or capacity-building that increases employability and job quality; and third, participants gain increased opportunities for economic advancement, which can include better job placement, progression into higher-value roles, or improved access to income-generating opportunities within agricultural value chains.
Outcome 2 focuses on systems-level change by improving the practices of government and private-sector actors to reduce the vulnerability of women and girls of legal working age to labor exploitation and unsafe conditions in agriculture. This points to engagement beyond direct services, such as strengthening workplace compliance expectations, improving awareness and implementation of labor standards, reinforcing occupational safety and health practices, and encouraging better recruitment and employment practices that can reduce the likelihood of coercion, abuse, or hazardous work. In effect, the opportunity asks applicants to work simultaneously with affected workers and the institutions and market actors that influence labor conditions.
Geographically and sectorally, the project must operate in Mexico and must work within coffee and sugarcane production, though it may include other agricultural goods as a secondary focus. Implementation is limited to one or more of the following states: Oaxaca and or Veracruz. The performance period can be up to four years (48 months) from the effective date of the award, indicating ILAB is seeking a multi-year effort long enough to establish partnerships, deliver sustained technical assistance, and demonstrate measurable progress on both participant outcomes and practice changes among key actors.
Administrative details in the source information show this opportunity was created June 17, 2019, with an original application closing date of August 26, 2019, and only one award expected. The award ceiling is listed as $5,000,000. The CFDA number is 17.401, the activity category is listed as Other, and eligibility is described broadly as Others with additional eligibility details referenced in the full announcement. Overall, EQUAL is best understood as a targeted, single-award technical assistance initiative meant to improve access to safe, rights-respecting, quality employment for vulnerable women and girls in specific agricultural supply chains in southern Mexico, while also pushing institutional and private-sector practices toward stronger labor protections.Apply for FOA ILAB 19 05
- The Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs in the other (see text field entitled explanation of other category of funding activity for clarification) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Equal Access to Quality Jobs for Women and Girls (EQUAL)" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 17.401.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jun 17, 2019.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 26, 2019 Applications must be received no later than 40000 p.m. Eastern Time.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $5,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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