Our international grants support projects to combat some of the most abusive labor practices, including the use of child labor, forced labor, and human trafficking in global supply chains. ILAB-funded projects also promote trade partners’ compliance with the labor requirements of U.S. trade agreements and preference programs – helping to ensure a fair global playing field for workers in the United States and around the world.
Results
Research Project on Efforts to Eliminate Child Labor and Forced Labor in the Cocoa Sector12/23/2022 - 03/26/2024 The goal of this project was to research, identify, and develop indicators of progress being made in high-risk countries to eliminate child labor and forced labor in the cocoa sector; to research best practices utilized by the governments and the cocoa and chocolate industry, and to research the participation of worker organizations in addressing child labor and forced labor in the cocoa sector. |
American Institutes for Research |
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Global Accelerator Lab Project: Intensifying Action Against Forced Labor and Child Labor12/01/2021 - 10/15/2025 ILAB’s Global Accelerator Lab project will support broader and more effective action under Alliance 8.7, a global partnership to assist United Nations (UN) member States to end child labor, forced labor, human trafficking and modern slavery by 2030. |
International Labor Organization (ILO) |
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CACAO: Cooperatives Addressing Child Labor Accountability Outcomes12/10/2020 - 06/09/2025 The CACAO project seeks to strengthen capacity, connections, and accountability across child labor enforcement and monitoring within cocoa cooperatives; build the capacity of cocoa cooperatives to provide support to vulnerable households and access to social protection; and pilot a farm to cooperative cocoa traceability system. |
Save the Children |
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MATE MASIE – Making Advances to Eliminate Child Labor in More Areas with Sustainable Integrated Efforts12/07/2020 - 05/06/2025 The MATE MASIE project seeks to strengthen capacity, connections, and accountability across child labor enforcement and monitoring within cocoa cooperatives. It is working to build the capacity of cocoa cooperatives to support vulnerable member households directly and by linking their members with other service providers. |
Winrock International |
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Adwuma Pa11/16/2018 - 11/15/2023 The Adwuma Pa project worked to reduce the risk of child, forced, and exploitive labor practices of vulnerable women aged 18+ and adolescent girls aged 15–17 within 80 cocoa-producing communities across four districts in Ghana. |
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE) |
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Combating Forced Labor and Labor Trafficking of Adults and Children12/01/2017 - 12/01/2025 This project builds the capacity of the government and businesses to expand and better coordinate ongoing labor trafficking enforcement efforts in Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, and Benin. By putting the right tools in the hands of labor inspectors, business owners, workers, and service providers, the project will advance greater supply chain transparency and accountability. |
Verité |
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Assessing Progress in Reducing Child Labor in Cocoa-Growing Areas of Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana12/01/2015 - 11/30/2021 The overall objective of this project is to identify the various interventions carried out since the signing of the Declaration in 2010, assess their relative effectiveness, and measure progress towards the achievement of the various goals and targets outlined in the Declaration and Framework, including the goal of a 70 percent reduction in aggregate of the worst forms of child labor in the cocoa sectors of Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana by 2020. |
National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago (NORC) |
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Eliminating Child Labor in Cocoa (ECLIC)11/16/2015 - 11/15/2019 |
International Cocoa Initiative |
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Mobilizing Community Action and Promoting Opportunities for Youth in Ghana's Cocoa-Growing Communities (MOCA)11/06/2015 - 11/06/2019 |
Winrock International |
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Survey Research on Child Labor in West African Cocoa Growing Areas09/30/2012 - 02/15/2017 |
Tulane University |
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Research Project on Efforts to Eliminate Child Labor and Forced Labor in the Cocoa Sector12/23/2022 - 03/26/2024 The goal of this project was to research, identify, and develop indicators of progress being made in high-risk countries to eliminate child labor and forced labor in the cocoa sector; to research best practices utilized by the governments and the cocoa and chocolate industry, and to research the participation of worker organizations in addressing child labor and forced labor in the cocoa sector. |
American Institutes for Research |
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Global Accelerator Lab Project: Intensifying Action Against Forced Labor and Child Labor12/01/2021 - 10/15/2025 ILAB’s Global Accelerator Lab project will support broader and more effective action under Alliance 8.7, a global partnership to assist United Nations (UN) member States to end child labor, forced labor, human trafficking and modern slavery by 2030. |
International Labor Organization (ILO) |
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CACAO: Cooperatives Addressing Child Labor Accountability Outcomes12/10/2020 - 06/09/2025 The CACAO project seeks to strengthen capacity, connections, and accountability across child labor enforcement and monitoring within cocoa cooperatives; build the capacity of cocoa cooperatives to provide support to vulnerable households and access to social protection; and pilot a farm to cooperative cocoa traceability system. |
Save the Children |
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MATE MASIE – Making Advances to Eliminate Child Labor in More Areas with Sustainable Integrated Efforts12/07/2020 - 05/06/2025 The MATE MASIE project seeks to strengthen capacity, connections, and accountability across child labor enforcement and monitoring within cocoa cooperatives. It is working to build the capacity of cocoa cooperatives to support vulnerable member households directly and by linking their members with other service providers. |
Winrock International |
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Adwuma Pa11/16/2018 - 11/15/2023 The Adwuma Pa project worked to reduce the risk of child, forced, and exploitive labor practices of vulnerable women aged 18+ and adolescent girls aged 15–17 within 80 cocoa-producing communities across four districts in Ghana. |
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE) |
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Combating Forced Labor and Labor Trafficking of Adults and Children12/01/2017 - 12/01/2025 This project builds the capacity of the government and businesses to expand and better coordinate ongoing labor trafficking enforcement efforts in Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, and Benin. By putting the right tools in the hands of labor inspectors, business owners, workers, and service providers, the project will advance greater supply chain transparency and accountability. |
Verité |
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Assessing Progress in Reducing Child Labor in Cocoa-Growing Areas of Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana12/01/2015 - 11/30/2021 The overall objective of this project is to identify the various interventions carried out since the signing of the Declaration in 2010, assess their relative effectiveness, and measure progress towards the achievement of the various goals and targets outlined in the Declaration and Framework, including the goal of a 70 percent reduction in aggregate of the worst forms of child labor in the cocoa sectors of Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana by 2020. |
National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago (NORC) |
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Eliminating Child Labor in Cocoa (ECLIC)11/16/2015 - 11/15/2019 |
International Cocoa Initiative |
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Mobilizing Community Action and Promoting Opportunities for Youth in Ghana's Cocoa-Growing Communities (MOCA)11/06/2015 - 11/06/2019 |
Winrock International |
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Survey Research on Child Labor in West African Cocoa Growing Areas09/30/2012 - 02/15/2017 |
Tulane University |
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