The Global Trace Protocol Project by ELEVATE seeks to increase downstream tracing of goods made by child labor and forced labor. The project is designed to address the barriers in supply chain traceability, and result in the development and sharing of open, accessible and replicable tools that can advance the knowledge base on supply chain tracing and scale the adoption of traceability solutions by various actors in different sectors.

Implementation of the International Labor Organization’s community-based training model, including:

• Developing community structures for microfinance support programs, management systems of community enterprises, and capital support for community corporations/cooperatives
• Providing skills training opportunities through needs-based vocational training and enterprise literacy and entrepreneurial programs
• Developing partnership agreements with government and non-government organizations and corporate linkages between the communities and the formal sector, especially with business corporations
• Implementing rural economic and income-generating policies and strategies at the grassroots level
• Creating public awareness of programs and strategies