Assistance program
International Labor Programs
$630.2 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Bureau of International Labor Affairs, Labor, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants (Cooperative Agreements or Contracts)
- CFDA number
- 17.401
- What it does
- The Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) promotes a fair global playing field for workers and businesses in the United States by enforcing trade commitments; strengthening labor standards; and combating international child labor, forced labor, and human trafficking. ILAB combines trade and labor monitoring and enforcement, policy engagement, research, and technical cooperation to carry out the international responsibilities of the Department of Labor. ILAB partners with international organizations, non-governmental organizations, universities, research institutions, and others to advance workers' rights and livelihoods through technical assistance projects, research, and project evaluations. These activities are funded through grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts.
- Who benefits
- See available funding opportunities posted at https://www.grants.gov/search-grants.html?cfda=17.401. Individual listings contain information on eligible beneficiaries.
- Who applies
- See available funding opportunities posted at https://www.grants.gov/search-grants.html?cfda=17.401. Prospective applicants may, as a starting point, sort listings based on the general eligibility criteria listed on the menu at the left-hand-side of the page. Individual listings contain additional information on eligibility.
- Authorized by
- Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015
- Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014
- Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016
- Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017
- Public Law 118-47
- Program site
- Not Applicable
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how this program's money is paid out.
Grants
$138.5M
22%
Other
$491.7M
78%
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments