The Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB), U.

S.

Department of Labor (USDOL, or the Department), announces the availability of approximately $8,000,000 total costs (subject to the availability of federal funds) for two cooperative agreements of $4,000,000 each to fund one technical

credit:

assistance project in Côte d’Ivoire and one in Ghana to increase the number of cocoa cooperatives demonstrating a reduction of child labor in the cocoa supply chain.

The projects will aim to achieve the following outcomes:Outcome 1:
Improved accountability of cocoa cooperatives to monitor child labor in the cocoa supply chain.Outcome 1. 1:
Strengthened capacity of enforcement agencies to enforce child labor laws within cooperatives.Outcome 1. 2:
Strengthened capacity of cocoa cooperatives to monitor child labor.Outcome 2:
Increased support to vulnerable cocoa households within cocoa cooperatives.Outcome 2. 1:
Strengthened capacity of cocoa cooperatives to provide sustainable assistance and support to prevent child labor.Outcome 2. 2:
Increased access to social protection and child labor remediation programs.The duration of the project will be a maximum of 4. 5 years (54 months) from the effective date of the award.