ILAB in the Americas

Americas

Projects

Title Amount Location Grantee Start End

Project to Promote Workplace-Based Training for Vulnerable Youth in Argentina

The project is helping bridge the skills gap in Argentina by increasing the number and quality of on-the-job training programs, such as internships and apprenticeships, while ensuring these opportunities are accessible to the youth who need them the most. The project is supporting improvements in the legal and policy framework surrounding youth training, raising awareness about the benefits of work-based training, documenting and disseminating good apprenticeship practices in Argentina, and helping both public and private-sector youth training programs to increase their effectiveness.

$3,000,000 Argentina Desarrollo y Autogestión (DYA) 11/09/2016 07/31/2023

Youth Pathways to Leadership, Learning, and Livelihoods in Costa Rica

The project is helping bridge the skills gap in Costa Rica by increasing the number and quality of on-the-job training programs, such as internships and apprenticeships, while ensuring these opportunities are accessible to the youth who need them the most. The project is supporting improvements in the legal and policy framework surrounding youth training, raising awareness about the benefits of work-based training, documenting and disseminating good apprenticeship practices in Costa Rica, and helping both public and private-sector youth training programs to increase their effectiveness.

$3,750,000 Costa Rica YouthBuild International 09/30/2016 11/30/2022

Promoting Apprenticeship as a Path for Youth Employment in Argentina, Costa Rica, and Kenya through Global Apprenticeships Network (GAN) National Networks

The Promoting Apprenticeship as a Path for Youth Employment Project is working directly with employers, workers’ organizations, and governments to help increase the number of apprenticeship opportunities for vulnerable youth in Argentina, Costa Rica, and Kenya. The project will create and strengthen private sector networks in support of apprenticeship and other types of work-based training, such as internships, in all three countries, helping employers launch quality work training programs while ensuring these programs are accessible to disadvantaged youth.

$3,300,000 Argentina, Costa Rica, Global, Kenya Global Apprenticeships Network (GAN) 09/01/2016 07/31/2023

Campos de Esperanza (Fields of Hope)

Campos de Esperanza (Fields of Hope) is a project in Mexico that involves multiple stakeholders in government, the private sector and civil society working together to reduce child labor in migrant agricultural communities, particularly in the coffee and sugarcane sectors in Veracruz and Oaxaca. The project will link children and youth to existing educational programs and refer vulnerable households to existing government programs to improve income and reduce the need for child labor.

$11,000,000 Mexico World Vision 11/11/2016 09/30/2023

My Rights Matter (Nuyatalil-Woklen: Mis Derechos son Importantes)

$4,199,601 Guatemala Catholic Relief Services (CRS) 09/30/2009 10/31/2013

Combating the Worst Forms of Child Labor Through Horizontal Cooperation in South America

To contribute to the elimination of the worst forms of child labor among racially and socially excluded populations — primarily Afro-descendants and indigenous— through horizontal cooperation.

$6,750,000 Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay International Labor Organization's International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor (ILO-IPEC) 09/30/2009 09/30/2013

"Stop Child Labor in Agriculture:" Contribution to the Prevention and Elimination of Child Labor in Mexico in the Agricultural Sector, with Special Focus on Migrant Indigenous Children

$4,750,000 Mexico International Labor Organization's International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor (ILO-IPEC) 09/30/2009 02/28/2014

ÑAUPAQMAN PURIY KEREIMBA: Combating Exploitive Child Labor Through Education in Bolivia

Development Objective: To reduce the number of children working in exploitive conditions in Bolivia by increasing their enrollment in educational activities, reducing their hours of work or removing them from exploitive work, assisting families with increased livelihood opportunities, and promoting economic empowerment among communities. The project will develop its strategies in conjunction with indigenous organizations and work within the framework of indigenous cultural values, organizational structure and language.

$6,000,000 Bolivia Desarollo y Autogestión 12/30/2010 02/28/2015

Eliminating Child Labour in El Salvador Through Economic Empowerment and Social Inclusion

Project Objective: Contribute to the elimination of child labor in El Salvador, in particular the worst forms.

$11,340,000 El Salvador International Labor Organization's International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor (ILO-IPEC) 12/31/2010 03/31/2016

Proyecto Semilla (Seed Project): Combating Exploitative Rural Child Labor in Peru

$16,250,000 Peru Desarollo y Autogestión 12/31/2011 12/31/2019