The fight against child labour, forced labour, modern slavery and human trafficking includes a wide array of stakeholders including different government institutions, such as Ministries of Labour, Education, Social Development, Statistics Offices, protection and prevention programmes, workers’ and employers’ organizations, civil society organizations, among others. Effective responses to end these human rights violations require a great deal of coordination between all these stakeholders.
WORTH
- Financial Support: USD 30,000 to develop and implement the proposed solution. One winning digital innovation proposal will be chosen to receive additional support from the from Research to Action Project to implement their project of up to USD 20,000 if it includes a compelling plan for innovative financing or shows the greatest potential for scaling up to other national contexts, through innovation financing mechanisms.
- Access to Technical Support: winning proposals will receive technical support to turn their ideas into ready-to-implement prototypes.
- Pilot: Once the prototype is developed, innovators and partners will test the solution through a pilot test in selected countries.
- Visibility: winning proposals will benefit from global communication efforts including an invitation to a global event at the end of the year where the innovative idea will be presented to a wide range of stakeholders and to the next Global Conference on Child Labour in May 2022.
ELIGIBILITY
- Alliance 8.7 welcomes applications from its partners and from any individual or any formally constituted and registered organization/company. By organizations, they mean government agencies, NGOs and civil society organizations, public and private enterprises, regional and sectoral bodies and research organizations, cooperatives, education and training institutions including universities.
- The idea to be submitted can be a joint collaborative effort by several stakeholders.
- Ideas and solutions at any stage of development are welcome.
- Solutions can come from any country in the world; they should, however, target pathfinder countries.
DEADLINE: August 15 2021
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