Evidence to Action: Increasing the Impact of Research to Mobilize Efforts against Forced Labor

The Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) intends to award a cooperative agreement of $3,000,000 to an organization to increase the use of forced labor research in policy and programmatic decision-making to eliminate forced labor around the world. The project aims to achieve two outcomes: increased knowledge of the nature and extent of forced labor where scarce research exists, and increased mobilization of decision-makers in the private sector, government, and civil society to act against forced labor. The project must use the International Conference of Labor Statisticians’ Guidelines Concerning the Measurement of Forced Labor to produce a minimum of two rigorous, informative research studies and regularly engage with key decision-making stakeholders during the process. • The project will aim to increase the use of forced labor research in policy and programmatic decision-making. • The project will aim to eliminate forced labor around the world. • The project must use the International Conference of Labor Statisticians’ Guidelines Concerning the Measurement of Forced Labor. • The project must produce a minimum of two rigorous, informative research studies. • The project must regularly engage with key decision-making stakeholders during the process.