Building the Capacity of the Peruvian Labor Inspectorate

Funding Opportunity Number: SCA-14-24 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: Employment, Labor and TrainingCFDA Number: 17.401Eligible Applicants Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Agency Name: DOL-ETA-ILABClosing Date: Oct 31, 2014Award Ceiling: $2,000,000Expected Number of Awards: 1Creation Date: Sep 30, 2014Funding Opportunity Description: USDOL/ILAB intends to award up to USD 2 million for one cooperative agreement to fund a technical assistance project in Peru. The purpose for funding this project is to help build the labor law enforcement capacity of the Peruvian labor inspectorate, with a focus on the Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion (MTPE)?s newly-formed National Superintendency of Labor Inspection or Superintendencia Nacional de Fiscalizaci?n Laboral (SUNAFIL). The project will help the MTPE in its transition from a decentralized to a more centralized labor law enforcement system and will help ensure more effective labor law enforcement at the national and regional levels. The project will focus particularly on improving the MTPE's enforcement of laws, regulations, and other legal instruments governing subcontracting/outsourcing and the use of short-term employment contracts, especially in the nontraditional export sectors (e.g., mining, agriculture, fishing, and textiles). The duratio...
Source: Grants.gov - Category: Research Tags: Employment, Labor and Training Source Type: funding