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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of the Secretary
Combating Exploitive Child Labor
Trough Education in Angola
Bureau of International Labor
Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor
Announcement Type: New. Notice of
Availability of Funds and Intent for
Solicitation of Limited Competition for
Cooperative Agreement Applications.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Labor
(USDOL), Bureau of International Labor
Affairs (ILAB), intends to obligate up to
approximately U.S. $3.5 million through
a Cooperative Agreement to
organization(s) to improve access to and
quality of education programs as a
means to combat exploitive child labor
in Angola. The project(s) funded under
this award should address gaps and
challenges to basic education found in
Angola.
ILAB intends to solicit cooperative
agreement applications through a
limited competition of organizations
qualified to implement a project that
focuses on innovative ways to provide
educational services to children
engaged, or at risk of engaging, in
exploitive labor in Angola. Qualified
organizations include any commercial,
international, educational, or non-profit
organization that is capable of
successfully developing and
implementing education projects in
Angola and that meets the following
criteria—qualified organizations must
have (1) an established presence in
Angola (i.e., one or more offices and
employees) and be legally recognized
and permitted to operate by the
Government of Angola, and (2) direct
and current experience implementing
technical cooperation programs for
children-in-need in Angola that aim to
combat exploitive child labor and/or
promote educational and training
opportunities for children-in-need who
are under the age of 18 years. Among
the organizations deemed eligible based
on this criteria are the Christian
Children’s Fund, Save the Children—
UK, and World Vision.
Other organizations wishing to be
considered under this limited
competition must submit to USDOL, at
the contact address provided below and
within 10 working days of this
announcement, a formal request for
funding consideration, providing
verifiable evidence that the
aforementioned criteria are met. Such
requests will be evaluated by USDOL,
which will add any additional
organizations found eligible to the list of
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those organizations to be considered
under this limited competition.
This limited competition involves the
re-granting of funds remaining from
SGA 05–05 for ‘‘Combating Exploitive
Child Labor through Education in
Angola,’’ published in the Federal
Register on May 27, 2005. Please refer
to https://www.dol.gov/ILAB/grants/
main.htm for examples of previous
notices of availability of funds and
solicitations for cooperative agreement
applications. Further information on the
specific sectors, geographical regions,
and funding levels for the potential
project(s) in Angola, as well as the
selection criteria to be used, will be
addressed in the solicitation for
cooperative agreement applications that
will be made available to those
organizations found to be eligible for
consideration under the limited
competition. For a list of frequently
asked questions on Child Labor
Education Initiative Solicitations for
Cooperative Agreement Applications,
please visit https://www.dol.gov/ILAB/
faq/faq36.htm.
Key Dates: Organizations—other than
those specifically referenced by name in
this Notice of Intent—wishing to be
considered under this limited
competition must submit to USDOL, at
the contact address provided below, a
formal request within 10 working days
of the date of this announcement.
A specific solicitation for cooperative
agreement applications will be provided
to those organizations deemed eligible
for the limited competition within 20
working days of this announcement.
The solicitation will remain open for at
least 30 calendar days.
To Request Consideration Under This
Limited Competition or For Further
Information Contact: Ms. Lisa Harvey.
E-mail address: harvey.lisa@dol.gov. All
formal requests for consideration and
other inquiries should make reference to
the USDOL Child Labor Education
Initiative—Solicitations for Cooperative
Agreement Applications.
Background Information: Since 1995,
USDOL has supported a worldwide
technical assistance program
implemented by the International Labor
Organization’s International Program on
the Elimination of Child Labor (ILO–
IPEC). ILAB has also supported the
efforts of other organizations involved
in efforts to combat child labor
internationally through the promotion
of educational opportunities for
children-in-need. In total, ILAB has
provided over U.S. $530 million to ILO–
IPEC and other organizations for
international technical assistance to
combat abusive child labor around the
world.
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USDOL’s Child Labor Education
Initiative seeks to nurture the
development, health, safety, and
enhanced future employability of
children around the world by increasing
access to basic education for children
removed from child labor or at risk of
entering it. Eliminating child labor
depends, in part, on improving access
to, quality of, and relevance of
educational and training opportunities
for children less than 18 years of age.
Without improving such opportunities,
children withdrawn from exploitive
forms of labor may not have viable
alternatives to child labor and may be
more likely to return to such work or
resort to other hazardous means of
subsistence.
In addition to increasing access to
education and eliminating exploitive
child labor through direct withdrawal
and prevention services to children, the
Child Labor Education Initiative has the
following four strategic goals:
1. Raise awareness of the importance
of education for all children and
mobilize a wide array of actors to
improve and expand education
infrastructures;
2. Strengthen formal and transitional
education systems that encourage
working children and those at risk of
working to attend school;
3. Strengthen national institutions
and policies on education and child
labor; and
4. Ensure the long-term sustainability
of these efforts.
When working to increase access to
quality basic education, USDOL strives
to complement existing efforts to
eradicate the worst forms of child labor,
to build on the achievements of and
lessons learned from these efforts, to
expand impact and build synergies
among actors, and to avoid duplication
of resources and efforts.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 20th day of
November, 2006.
Lisa Harvey,
Grant Officer.
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ACTION:
Notice.
SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as
part of its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent burden
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conducts a pre-clearance consultation
program to provide the general public
and Federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on proposed
and/or continuing collections of
information in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA95) [44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)]. This
program helps to ensure that requested
data can be provided in the desired
format, reporting burden (time and
financial resources) is minimized,
collection instruments are clearly
understood, and the impact of collection
requirements on respondents can be
properly assessed. The Employment and
Training Administration (ETA) is
soliciting comments regarding an
extension of a current Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
clearance for a series of quick
turnaround surveys in which data will
be collected from state workforce
agencies and local workforce investment
areas.
DATES: Submit comments on or before
January 29, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Richard
Muller, Employment and Training
Administration, U.S. Department of
Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW.,
Room N–5637, Washington, DC 20210;
(202) 693–3680 (this is not a toll-free
number); e-mail:
Muller.Richard@dol.gov; fax: (202) 693–
2766 (this is not a toll-free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Employment and Training
Administration (ETA) is soliciting
comments regarding an extension of a
current Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) clearance for a series of
quick turnaround surveys in which data
will be collected from state workforce
agencies and local workforce investment
areas. The surveys will focus on issues
relating to the governance,
administration, funding, service design,
and delivery structure of workforce
programs authorized by the Workforce
Investment Act (WIA). Enacted in 1998,
WIA has sought to redesign the
workforce development system by
linking over a dozen separately funded
Federal programs and streamlining
services, and establishing new
accountability requirements.
ETA has developed quick turnaround
surveys on several aspects of WIA
services and outreach to businesses,
under the current OMB clearance. Other
surveys are also under consideration at
this time.
The agency has a continuing need for
information on WIA operations and is
seeking a further extension of the
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clearance for conducting a series of
eight (8) to twenty (20) separate surveys
over the next three years. Each survey
will be relatively short (10–30
questions) and, depending on the nature
of the survey, may be administered to
state workforce agencies, local
workforce boards, One-Stop Centers,
employment service offices, or other
local-area WIA partners. Each survey
will be designed on an ad hoc basis and
will focus on emerging topics of
pressing policy interest. Each survey
will either cover the universe of
respondents (for state level information)
or a properly drawn random sample (for
local level information). Examples of
broad topic areas include:
• Local management information
system developments
• New processes and procedures
• Services to different target groups
• Integration and coordination with
other programs
• Local workforce investment board
membership and training
Quick turnaround surveys are needed
for a number of reasons. The most
pressing concerns the need to
understand key operational issues in
light of challenges deriving from the
Administration’s policy priorities and
from the coming reauthorization of WIA
and of other partner programs.
Timely information, that identifies the
scope and magnitude of various
practices or problems, is needed for
ETA to fulfill its obligations to develop
high quality policy, administrative
guidance, regulations, and technical
assistance.
The data that will be requested in the
quick turnaround surveys is not
otherwise available. Other research and
evaluation efforts, including case
studies or long-range evaluations, either
cover only a limited number of sites or
take many years for data to be gathered
and analyzed. Administrative
information and data are too limited:
The five-year Workforce Investment
Plans, developed by states and local
areas, are too general in nature to meet
ETA’s specific informational needs and
are updated infrequently. Quarterly or
annual data reporting by states and local
areas do not provide information on key
operational practices and issues. Thus,
ETA has no alternative mechanism for
collecting information that both
identifies the scope and magnitude of
emerging WIA implementation issues
and provides the information on a quick
turnaround basis.
ETA will make every effort to
coordinate the quick turnaround
surveys with other research it is
conducting, in order to ease the burden
on local and state respondents, to avoid
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of the Secretary
Combating Exploitive Child Labor Trough Education in Angola
AGENCY: Bureau of International Labor Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor
Announcement Type: New. Notice of Availability of Funds and Intent
for Solicitation of Limited Competition for Cooperative Agreement
Applications.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL), Bureau of International
Labor Affairs (ILAB), intends to obligate up to approximately U.S. $3.5
million through a Cooperative Agreement to organization(s) to improve
access to and quality of education programs as a means to combat
exploitive child labor in Angola. The project(s) funded under this
award should address gaps and challenges to basic education found in
Angola.
ILAB intends to solicit cooperative agreement applications through
a limited competition of organizations qualified to implement a project
that focuses on innovative ways to provide educational services to
children engaged, or at risk of engaging, in exploitive labor in
Angola. Qualified organizations include any commercial, international,
educational, or non-profit organization that is capable of successfully
developing and implementing education projects in Angola and that meets
the following criteria--qualified organizations must have (1) an
established presence in Angola (i.e., one or more offices and
employees) and be legally recognized and permitted to operate by the
Government of Angola, and (2) direct and current experience
implementing technical cooperation programs for children-in-need in
Angola that aim to combat exploitive child labor and/or promote
educational and training opportunities for children-in-need who are
under the age of 18 years. Among the organizations deemed eligible
based on this criteria are the Christian Children's Fund, Save the
Children--UK, and World Vision.
Other organizations wishing to be considered under this limited
competition must submit to USDOL, at the contact address provided below
and within 10 working days of this announcement, a formal request for
funding consideration, providing verifiable evidence that the
aforementioned criteria are met. Such requests will be evaluated by
USDOL, which will add any additional organizations found eligible to
the list of those organizations to be considered under this limited
competition.
This limited competition involves the re-granting of funds
remaining from SGA 05-05 for ``Combating Exploitive Child Labor through
Education in Angola,'' published in the Federal Register on May 27,
2005. Please refer to https://www.dol.gov/ILAB/grants/main.htm for
examples of previous notices of availability of funds and solicitations
for cooperative agreement applications. Further information on the
specific sectors, geographical regions, and funding levels for the
potential project(s) in Angola, as well as the selection criteria to be
used, will be addressed in the solicitation for cooperative agreement
applications that will be made available to those organizations found
to be eligible for consideration under the limited competition. For a
list of frequently asked questions on Child Labor Education Initiative
Solicitations for Cooperative Agreement Applications, please visit
https://www.dol.gov/ILAB/faq/faq36.htm.
Key Dates: Organizations--other than those specifically referenced
by name in this Notice of Intent--wishing to be considered under this
limited competition must submit to USDOL, at the contact address
provided below, a formal request within 10 working days of the date of
this announcement.
A specific solicitation for cooperative agreement applications will
be provided to those organizations deemed eligible for the limited
competition within 20 working days of this announcement. The
solicitation will remain open for at least 30 calendar days.
To Request Consideration Under This Limited Competition or For
Further Information Contact: Ms. Lisa Harvey. E-mail address:
harvey.lisa@dol.gov. All formal requests for consideration and other
inquiries should make reference to the USDOL Child Labor Education
Initiative--Solicitations for Cooperative Agreement Applications.
Background Information: Since 1995, USDOL has supported a worldwide
technical assistance program implemented by the International Labor
Organization's International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor
(ILO-IPEC). ILAB has also supported the efforts of other organizations
involved in efforts to combat child labor internationally through the
promotion of educational opportunities for children-in-need. In total,
ILAB has provided over U.S. $530 million to ILO-IPEC and other
organizations for international technical assistance to combat abusive
child labor around the world.
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USDOL's Child Labor Education Initiative seeks to nurture the
development, health, safety, and enhanced future employability of
children around the world by increasing access to basic education for
children removed from child labor or at risk of entering it.
Eliminating child labor depends, in part, on improving access to,
quality of, and relevance of educational and training opportunities for
children less than 18 years of age. Without improving such
opportunities, children withdrawn from exploitive forms of labor may
not have viable alternatives to child labor and may be more likely to
return to such work or resort to other hazardous means of subsistence.
In addition to increasing access to education and eliminating
exploitive child labor through direct withdrawal and prevention
services to children, the Child Labor Education Initiative has the
following four strategic goals:
1. Raise awareness of the importance of education for all children
and mobilize a wide array of actors to improve and expand education
infrastructures;
2. Strengthen formal and transitional education systems that
encourage working children and those at risk of working to attend
school;
3. Strengthen national institutions and policies on education and
child labor; and
4. Ensure the long-term sustainability of these efforts.
When working to increase access to quality basic education, USDOL
strives to complement existing efforts to eradicate the worst forms of
child labor, to build on the achievements of and lessons learned from
these efforts, to expand impact and build synergies among actors, and
to avoid duplication of resources and efforts.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 20th day of November, 2006.
Lisa Harvey,
Grant Officer.
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