Combating Child Labor Through Education in Brazil; Combating Child Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation Through Education in Cambodia; Combating Child Trafficking Through Education in Benin, Burkina Faso and Mali

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This notice contains all of the necessary information and forms needed to apply for cooperative agreement funding. The U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs will award up to U.S. $16 million through one or more cooperative agreements to an organization or organizations to improve access to quality education programs as a means to combat child labor in Brazil ($5 million), Cambodia ($3 million), and the West African countries of Benin ($2 million), Burkina Faso ($3 million) and Mali ($3 million). The activities funded will complement and expand upon existing projects and programs to improve basic education in these countries, and provide access to basic education to children in areas of high incidence of exploitative child labor. In Brazil the activities will strengthen the quality of existing child labor and education programs. The special focus in Cambodia will be to provide education to victims of, and children at risk of entering, child trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation, and in West Africa to victims of, and children at risk of entering, child trafficking. Applicants must submit a separate application for each country. If applications for c