There is a lack of rigorous research on child labor, forced labor, and human trafficking that, along with fragmentation in research efforts, suggests a need to bring researchers and policy actors together around a common research agenda that creates interdisciplinary consensus building. To be sustainable, this process needs to work across disciplinary, country, and generational gaps to generate research-to-practice products that are based on high-quality, context-specific research. To address the need to produce high-quality data that can be used by researchers, policy actors, and decision-makers, the United States Department of Labor (USDOL) provided grant funding to the International Labour Organization (ILO) to implement two projects. On August 3, 2018, USDOL awarded a cooperative agreement grant to the ILO to implement the Research to Action (R2A) project at the global level. On December 12, 2019, USDOL awarded another grant to the ILO to implement the Evidence to Action (E2A) project, which operated in Argentina and Madagascar.
Final Evaluation Brief for the From Research to Action: Using Knowledge to Accelerate Progress in the Elimination of Child Labor and Forced Labor (R2A) and Evidence to Action: Increasing the Impact of Research to Mobilize Efforts Against Forced Labor in Madagascar and Argentina (E2A) programs.
Funding for this evaluation was provided by the United States Department of Labor under contract number 47QRAA20D001Z with Institute for Development Impact. This material does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the United States Department of Labor, nor does the mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the United States Government.
