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Title Amount Grantee Start End

Project to Promote Workplace-Based Training for Vulnerable Youth in Argentina

The project is helping bridge the skills gap in Argentina by increasing the number and quality of on-the-job training programs, such as internships and apprenticeships, while ensuring these opportunities are accessible to the youth who need them the most. The project is supporting improvements in the legal and policy framework surrounding youth training, raising awareness about the benefits of work-based training, documenting and disseminating good apprenticeship practices in Argentina, and helping both public and private-sector youth training programs to increase their effectiveness.

$3,000,000 Desarrollo y Autogestión (DYA) 11/09/2016 07/31/2023

Youth Pathways to Leadership, Learning, and Livelihoods in Costa Rica

The project is helping bridge the skills gap in Costa Rica by increasing the number and quality of on-the-job training programs, such as internships and apprenticeships, while ensuring these opportunities are accessible to the youth who need them the most. The project is supporting improvements in the legal and policy framework surrounding youth training, raising awareness about the benefits of work-based training, documenting and disseminating good apprenticeship practices in Costa Rica, and helping both public and private-sector youth training programs to increase their effectiveness.

$3,750,000 YouthBuild International 09/30/2016 11/30/2022

EMPOWER: Increasing Economic and Social Empowerment for Adolescent Girls and Vulnerable Women in Zambia

The EMPOWER project will reduce child labor in Zambia’s eastern province by increasing adolescent girls and vulnerable women’s access to acceptable work and high-quality training opportunities. In addition, the project will increase public awareness on the importance of addressing child labor and strengthen efforts amongst government and the private sector towards gender equality through the promotion of acceptable work for adolescent girls and vulnerable women.

$5,000,000 Winrock International 11/01/2016 10/31/2020

Promoting Apprenticeship as a Path for Youth Employment in Argentina, Costa Rica, and Kenya through Global Apprenticeships Network (GAN) National Networks

The Promoting Apprenticeship as a Path for Youth Employment Project is working directly with employers, workers’ organizations, and governments to help increase the number of apprenticeship opportunities for vulnerable youth in Argentina, Costa Rica, and Kenya. The project will create and strengthen private sector networks in support of apprenticeship and other types of work-based training, such as internships, in all three countries, helping employers launch quality work training programs while ensuring these programs are accessible to disadvantaged youth.

$3,300,000 Global Apprenticeships Network (GAN) 09/01/2016 07/31/2023

Better Utilization of Skills for Youth (BUSY) through Quality Apprenticeships

The Better Utilization of Skills for Youth (BUSY) project will help build the capacity of government, employers, workers’ organizations, and civil society actors to establish and expand workplace-based training programs for vulnerable youth, including by identifying gaps in relevant laws and policies.

$3,000,000 International Labor Organization (ILO) 09/30/2016 06/30/2023

Promoting the Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work in Sri Lanka

To raise awareness and capacity of workers and employers to understand and exercise their rights and obligations in the workplace, increase the effectiveness of the labour administration/inspection systems, promote tripartite dialogue at different levels, and improve the capacity of the judiciary to process claims related to labour relations.

$1,402,500 International Labor Organization (ILO) 09/30/2009 09/30/2016

Uninterrupted Oversight of Public and Private Initiatives to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labor in the Cocoa Sector

To provide uninterrupted oversight of public and private investment to eliminate the worst forms of child labor in the cocoa sector in Coted’Ivoire and Ghana.

$1,200,000 Tulane University 09/30/2009 09/30/2011

Creating The Enabling Environment To Establish Models For Child Labor Free Areas In Kenya: Support To The Implementation Of The National Action Plan For The Elimination Of The Worst Forms Of Child Labor With Special Focus On Agriculture And Older Children

The project aims to reduce the incidence of the worst forms of child labor in Kenya.

$4,600,000 International Labor Organization's International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor (ILO-IPEC) 09/30/2009 11/30/2013

Nayo Bato Naya Paila (New Path New Steps)

$4,673,046 World Education 09/20/2009 04/30/2013

Cooperation to Address the Worst Forms of Child Labor in Agriculture: Support to the International Agricultural Partnership

The project will provide a conceptual and structural framework for a global effort, facilitated by ILO-IPEC and implemented through the IAP, to eliminate the worst forms of child labor in agriculture.

$1,500,000 International Labor Organization's International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor (ILO-IPEC) 09/30/2009 06/30/2013