Funding Opportunity Number: SCA-14-25
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Funding Instrument Type: Cooperative Agreement
Category of Funding Activity: Employment, Labor and Training
Eligible Applicants: Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Agency Name: DOL-ETA-ILAB
Closing Date: 2014-11-07
Award Ceiling: $1,389,000
Expected Number of Awards: 1

Description: USDOL/ILAB intends to award up to USD 1,389,000 for one cooperative agreement to fund a technical assistance project in Mexico.  The purpose of this project is to assist the Government of Mexico in combating discrimination in employment and occupation (labor discrimination).  The project will support efforts to enforce the strengthened discrimination clause in the Federal Labor Law (FLL) Reform of 2012, with emphasis on combating gender discrimination, discrimination based on sexual orientation, sexual harassment, and forced pregnancy testing.  The duration of the project funded by this announcement is up to 3 years (36 months) from the effective date of award.  The project start date will be negotiated upon award of the individual cooperative agreement, but will be no later than December 31, 2014.
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Funding Opportunity Number: ECA-ECAAE-15-010

Opportunity Category: Discretionary

Funding Instrument Type: Cooperative Agreement

Category of Funding Activity: Other (see text field entitled "Explanation of Other Category of Funding Activity" for clarification)

Eligible Applicants Public and State controlled institutions of higher education | Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education | Private institutions of higher education | Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Agency Name: DOS-ECA

Closing Date: 2014-12-08

Award Ceiling: $960,000

Description: The Study of the U.  S.  Branch, Office of Academic Exchange Programs, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), invites proposal submissions for the design and implementation of four (4) Study of the U.  S.  Institutes for Student Leaders on U.  S.  History and Government, pending the availability of FY 2015 funds.  The Institutes will target student leaders from the Western Hemisphere: three Institutes will be conducted entirely in Spanish, and one Institute will be conducted in English.  Each academic Institute will be five weeks in duration, approximately four weeks at an academic institution and approximately one week on an integrated educational study tour, and should be organized for a group of 20 undergraduate students from mostly indigenous, Afro-Latino, and underserved communities in the Western Hemisphere.  More information on participants and country groupings can be found in Section I.  5 of the RFGP.

All Institutes should focus on U.  S.  history, government, society, and culture.  More information on the Institutes theme can be found in Section I.  4 of the RFGP.

Applicants may submit only one proposal to design, implement and/or monitor all four Institutes under this competition.  If multiple proposals are received from the same applicant, all submissions will be declared ineligible and receive no further consideration in the review process.

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