Liberia Child Labor Project: Up to $6M for Rubber Sector Impact
Posted: July 16, 2012
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Summary
This initiative offers up to $6 million in funding to organizations working to reduce child labor in Liberia's rubber-growing regions. Projects should focus on policy improvements, enhanced monitoring, and direct support services for children and their families.
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Full Description
In FY 2012, the U.S. Department of Labor’s (USDOL) Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) will award up to $6 million for one or more cooperative agreement(s) to fund a technical assistance project(s) to support efforts to reduce child labor in rubber growing areas of Liberia. The project will promote improved policies to address child labor in rubber producing areas and enhanced monitoring and enforcement of such policies, with a focus on company-owned or operated rubber plantations. The project will also support the direct delivery of services to children engaged in or at-risk of various forms of child labor and their households in communities where livelihoods are largely dependent on smallholder rubber production.