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
Strengthening Social Compliance Project01/01/2024 - 12/31/2026 The project aims to prevent labor exploitation by improving the implementation of worker-driven social compliance systems that promote labor rights and acceptable conditions of work, including the elimination of forced labor in supply chains. The project will be piloted in the Indonesian palm oil sector to create a model for robust social compliance systems. |
International Labor Organization (ILO) |
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Elevating Women’s Participation in the Workplace in West Africa12/15/2022 - 12/14/2026 The Elevating Women’s Participation in the Workplace in West Africa project seeks to address discrimination and gender-based violence and harassment in the world of work in the mining, palm oil, and rubber sectors in Liberia, and in the oil sector in Nigeria. |
Solidarity Center |
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MY Voice: Project to Combat Forced Labor and Child Labor in the Production of Goods in Malaysia12/15/2021 - 06/14/2026 The MY Voice project will combat forced labor and child labor in the garment and palm oil industries in Malaysia in three main ways: 1) building the capacity of workers and civil society organizations to advocate for labor rights; 2) elevating the role of worker voice in private sector social compliance systems in these industries; and 3) increasing access to remedies for workers exploited for forced labor or child labor. |
Social Accountability International |
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Improving Respect for Workers’ Rights in Agricultural Supply Chains in Honduras and Guatemala, and the Maquila Sector in El Salvador12/15/2021 - 08/14/2026 Photo by Luis Fuentes Part of the Root Causes of Migration Strategy for northern Central America, this project seeks to improve workers’ rights in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador by supporting workers’ organizations in the banana, melon, palm oil, and pineapple sectors in Honduras; the banana and palm oil sectors in Guatemala; and in the garments (maquila) sector in El Salvador. |
Solidarity Center |
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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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Palma Futuro: Preventing and Reducing Child Labor and Forced Labor in Palm Oil Supply Chains01/01/2019 - 12/31/2024 This project works to improve the implementation of social compliance systems that promote acceptable conditions of work and the prevention and reduction of child and forced labor in palm oil supply chains in Colombia and Ecuador. It also disseminates best practices in social compliance systems in these and other palm oil producing countries, particularly Brazil and Peru. |
Partners of the Americas |
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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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Eliminate Exploitive Child Labor through Education and Economic Development (EXCEED)09/30/2009 - 03/31/2014 The goal of the project was to reduce the overall number of children involved in and at risk of engaging in exploitive child labor. |
Save the Children |
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Strengthening Social Compliance Project01/01/2024 - 12/31/2026 The project aims to prevent labor exploitation by improving the implementation of worker-driven social compliance systems that promote labor rights and acceptable conditions of work, including the elimination of forced labor in supply chains. The project will be piloted in the Indonesian palm oil sector to create a model for robust social compliance systems. |
International Labor Organization (ILO) |
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Elevating Women’s Participation in the Workplace in West Africa12/15/2022 - 12/14/2026 The Elevating Women’s Participation in the Workplace in West Africa project seeks to address discrimination and gender-based violence and harassment in the world of work in the mining, palm oil, and rubber sectors in Liberia, and in the oil sector in Nigeria. |
Solidarity Center |
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MY Voice: Project to Combat Forced Labor and Child Labor in the Production of Goods in Malaysia12/15/2021 - 06/14/2026 The MY Voice project will combat forced labor and child labor in the garment and palm oil industries in Malaysia in three main ways: 1) building the capacity of workers and civil society organizations to advocate for labor rights; 2) elevating the role of worker voice in private sector social compliance systems in these industries; and 3) increasing access to remedies for workers exploited for forced labor or child labor. |
Social Accountability International |
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Improving Respect for Workers’ Rights in Agricultural Supply Chains in Honduras and Guatemala, and the Maquila Sector in El Salvador12/15/2021 - 08/14/2026 Photo by Luis Fuentes Part of the Root Causes of Migration Strategy for northern Central America, this project seeks to improve workers’ rights in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador by supporting workers’ organizations in the banana, melon, palm oil, and pineapple sectors in Honduras; the banana and palm oil sectors in Guatemala; and in the garments (maquila) sector in El Salvador. |
Solidarity Center |
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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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Palma Futuro: Preventing and Reducing Child Labor and Forced Labor in Palm Oil Supply Chains01/01/2019 - 12/31/2024 This project works to improve the implementation of social compliance systems that promote acceptable conditions of work and the prevention and reduction of child and forced labor in palm oil supply chains in Colombia and Ecuador. It also disseminates best practices in social compliance systems in these and other palm oil producing countries, particularly Brazil and Peru. |
Partners of the Americas |
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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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Eliminate Exploitive Child Labor through Education and Economic Development (EXCEED)09/30/2009 - 03/31/2014 The goal of the project was to reduce the overall number of children involved in and at risk of engaging in exploitive child labor. |
Save the Children |
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