Reducing Child Labor in Mica‐Producing Communities of Madagascar (DOL)

• Published date: 06 August 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31225
• Date: 06 August 2020

Page 6 Federal Grants & Contracts ■ August 6, 2020

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Grants alert (cont.)

implementation of the agricultural Worker Protection

Standard (WPS) and the Certication of Pesticide

Applicators (CPA) regulations.

Deadline: Sept. 16, 2020.

Funds: $6 million total for one award with a ve-year

project period.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; nonprot

organizations; and state, local and Native American

tribal governments; among others.

Areas: EPA said projects can be materials development,

outreach activities, technical assistance, training and

education, or other program or activity. Objectives

include increasing the number, availability and quality

of opportunities to advance the safe use of pesticides,

such as developing or updating materials, conducting

outreach programs, providing technical assistance and/

or carrying out education and training activities to assist

in the implementation of the WPS and CPA regulations

so that pesticides are used safely and correctly, and the

risk of exposure is minimized.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# EPA-HQ-OPP-2020-002

Helping Protect Armenians’ Rights Together

(DOL)

Scope: The Labor Department’s Bureau of International

Labor Affairs seeks applications for the Helping Protect

Armenians’ Rights Together announcement for a

technical assistance project(s) in Armenia to improve the

government’s enforcement and promotion of labor laws

and standards that are consistent with international labor

standards, in one or more specic economic sectors.

Deadline: Sept. 10, 2020.

Funds: $2 million total for one award.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities, for-prot

organizations and nonprot organizations.

Areas: DOL said outcomes include: improved systems

in appropriate government institutions for enforcing and

promoting Armenia’s labor laws and standards in one

or more specic economic sectors, increased access to

judicial and nonjudicial remedies related to labor laws

and standards, and increased workplace use of tools

and resources available for compliance with labor laws

or standards in one or more specic economic sectors.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# FOA-ILAB-20-03

Reducing Child Labor in Mica-Producing

Communities of Madagascar (DOL)

Scope: The Labor Department’s Bureau of International

Labor Affairs seeks applications for the Reducing Child

Labor in Mica-Producing Communities of Madagascar

announcement for a technical assistance project in

Madagascar to reduce child labor in mica-producing

communities.

Deadline: Sept. 18, 2020.

Funds: $4.5 million total for one award.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities, for-prot

organizations and nonprot organizations.

Areas: DOL said project outcomes include increased

resiliency of members of vulnerable households in

mica-producing communities, increased capacity

of government officials to address child labor in the

mica supply chain and increased engagement of

nongovernmental stakeholders to address child labor in

the mica supply chain.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# FOA-ILAB-20-02

Strengthening Community Colleges Training

Grants (DOL)

Scope: The Labor Department’s Employment and

Training Administration seeks applications for the

Strengthening Community Colleges Training Grants

announcement to build the capacity of community

colleges to collaborate with employers and the public

workforce development system to meet local and

regional labor market demand for a skilled workforce.

Deadline: Oct. 8, 2020.

Funds: $40 million total for up to 16 awards of up to $5

million.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities.

Areas: DOL said successful applicants will work to:

increase the capacity and responsiveness of community

colleges to address the skill-development needs of

employers and dislocated and unemployed workers,

incumbent workers and new entrants to the workforce;

offer this spectrum of workers and other individuals

accelerated career pathways that enable them to

gain skills and transition from unemployment to (re)

employment quickly; and address the new challenges

associated with the COVID-19 health crisis that

necessitate social distancing practices and expanding

online and technology-enabled learning and migrating

services to a virtual environment.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# FOA-ETA-20-07

SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 and Diseases and Organ

Systems of Interest (NIDDK)

Scope: The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive

and Kidney Diseases seeks (R01) research project

grant applications for the Mechanistic Studies of the

Interaction between SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 and

Diseases and Organ Systems of Interest to NIDDK

announcement to support basic and clinical mechanistic

research on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

Coronavirus 2 and COVID-19 susceptibility, routes of

infection, course of disease, morbidity and mortality

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