Strengthening Worker Engagement, Empowerment, and Trust (SWEET) in the Dominican Sugar Sector

The Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) announces the availability of approximately $3,000,000 for one cooperative agreement to fund a technical assistance project with the objective to increase field workers and their families’ use of formal and informal mechanisms to improve working and living conditions in the Dominican sugar sector. The project must achieve two or more outcomes: strengthened networks among workers, their communities, and civil society advocates, and increased availability of local resources and capacity to use mechanisms for improving working and living conditions. • The project should increase field workers and their families’ use of formal and informal mechanisms to improve working and living conditions. • The project must be designed to achieve two or more outcomes that are considered both necessary and sufficient to achieve the project objective. • Any commercial, international, educational, or non-profit organization(s) capable of successfully implementing the project is eligible to apply. • Lack of past experience with USDOL cooperative agreements, grants, or contracts does not bar eligibility.