26K75IL000024
Cooperative Agreement
Overview
Grant Description
Winrock International,
Secure: Strengthen labor enforcement and compliance to unlock resilient and ethical nickel supply chains
Purpose. Building on 40 years’ experience in Indonesia and global programs combating child and forced labor in more than 30 countries, Winrock will lead Secure, a 4-year, $4 million initiative to strengthen labor governance in nickel supply chains.
Secure will address the unfair cost advantages of exploitative practices by advancing policies and systems that align with U.S. investor expectations and international standards.
Targeting Central and Southeast Sulawesi, which produce 70 percent of Indonesia’s nickel, the project will engage 20,000 workers and 50 institutions while linking provincial interventions to national reforms and leveraging global investor pressure, industry collaboration, and civil society monitoring to manage compliance and reputational risks.
By generating credible evidence and triangulating survey data with reporting, Secure will build accountability in a high-risk sector.
These reforms will benefit American workers and businesses by leveling the playing field, reducing risks, and ensuring reliable access to ethically sourced critical minerals.
Activities to be performed. At national and provincial levels, Secure will close legal gaps by enforcing prohibitions on forced and child labor, and advance new decrees and labor frameworks.
The project will expand inspection capacity through advocacy, worker-led monitoring, and stronger linkages between private sector standards, audits, and grievance systems to reduce reputational risks.
An independent, multilingual grievance mechanism will be piloted in target provinces, while paralegal networks, courts, and Komnas HAM are trained to secure remedies—including repayment of recruitment fees, wages owed, and precedent-setting litigation.
Complementary research will combine fieldwork, data analytics, and CSO input to map risks, trace investment flows, and strengthen U.S. supply-chain accountability.
Expected outcomes. Secure will strengthen policies and systems in Indonesia’s nickel supply chains to reduce forced and child labor and build a more regulated industry that meets U.S. investor standards.
It will pursue three outcomes: 1) State policies and industry standards strengthened and enforced to ensure labor protections; 2) The capacity and systems for government, industry, and worker institutions to monitor, enforce, and remediate violations expanded; and 3) Understanding of the drivers, scale, risk factors of forced labor increased and used to inform policy and industry responses.
These outcomes will reinforce labor governance, improve corporate compliance, extend protections to Indonesian and Chinese workers, and help American workers and businesses by leveling the playing field, reducing risks, and ensuring reliable access to critical minerals—delivered through Winrock’s tested approaches in reform, supply chain monitoring, and enforcement training.
Intended beneficiaries. The key beneficiaries are the institutions with influence to address labor abuses, workers directly affected in Indonesia’s nickel supply chains, and U.S. industries indirectly exposed to risks.
Direct beneficiaries include Indonesian and Chinese nickel workers, while institutional beneficiaries include the industry, Ministry of Manpower, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Komnas HAM, provincial parliaments, industrial relations courts, worker organizations, and CSOs.
Indirect beneficiaries are American workers and businesses.
Subrecipient activities. TUK Indonesia, the primary subrecipient, will co-lead policy advocacy, multi-stakeholder dialogue, and supply chain research while strengthening Indonesian actors to monitor and remediate forced labor.
Additional subrecipients will be selected upon award and collaborate to deliver research and traceability analytics, labor monitoring and legal remedies, migrant outreach, and grievance.
Secure: Strengthen labor enforcement and compliance to unlock resilient and ethical nickel supply chains
Purpose. Building on 40 years’ experience in Indonesia and global programs combating child and forced labor in more than 30 countries, Winrock will lead Secure, a 4-year, $4 million initiative to strengthen labor governance in nickel supply chains.
Secure will address the unfair cost advantages of exploitative practices by advancing policies and systems that align with U.S. investor expectations and international standards.
Targeting Central and Southeast Sulawesi, which produce 70 percent of Indonesia’s nickel, the project will engage 20,000 workers and 50 institutions while linking provincial interventions to national reforms and leveraging global investor pressure, industry collaboration, and civil society monitoring to manage compliance and reputational risks.
By generating credible evidence and triangulating survey data with reporting, Secure will build accountability in a high-risk sector.
These reforms will benefit American workers and businesses by leveling the playing field, reducing risks, and ensuring reliable access to ethically sourced critical minerals.
Activities to be performed. At national and provincial levels, Secure will close legal gaps by enforcing prohibitions on forced and child labor, and advance new decrees and labor frameworks.
The project will expand inspection capacity through advocacy, worker-led monitoring, and stronger linkages between private sector standards, audits, and grievance systems to reduce reputational risks.
An independent, multilingual grievance mechanism will be piloted in target provinces, while paralegal networks, courts, and Komnas HAM are trained to secure remedies—including repayment of recruitment fees, wages owed, and precedent-setting litigation.
Complementary research will combine fieldwork, data analytics, and CSO input to map risks, trace investment flows, and strengthen U.S. supply-chain accountability.
Expected outcomes. Secure will strengthen policies and systems in Indonesia’s nickel supply chains to reduce forced and child labor and build a more regulated industry that meets U.S. investor standards.
It will pursue three outcomes: 1) State policies and industry standards strengthened and enforced to ensure labor protections; 2) The capacity and systems for government, industry, and worker institutions to monitor, enforce, and remediate violations expanded; and 3) Understanding of the drivers, scale, risk factors of forced labor increased and used to inform policy and industry responses.
These outcomes will reinforce labor governance, improve corporate compliance, extend protections to Indonesian and Chinese workers, and help American workers and businesses by leveling the playing field, reducing risks, and ensuring reliable access to critical minerals—delivered through Winrock’s tested approaches in reform, supply chain monitoring, and enforcement training.
Intended beneficiaries. The key beneficiaries are the institutions with influence to address labor abuses, workers directly affected in Indonesia’s nickel supply chains, and U.S. industries indirectly exposed to risks.
Direct beneficiaries include Indonesian and Chinese nickel workers, while institutional beneficiaries include the industry, Ministry of Manpower, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Komnas HAM, provincial parliaments, industrial relations courts, worker organizations, and CSOs.
Indirect beneficiaries are American workers and businesses.
Subrecipient activities. TUK Indonesia, the primary subrecipient, will co-lead policy advocacy, multi-stakeholder dialogue, and supply chain research while strengthening Indonesian actors to monitor and remediate forced labor.
Additional subrecipients will be selected upon award and collaborate to deliver research and traceability analytics, labor monitoring and legal remedies, migrant outreach, and grievance.
Funding Goals
OUTCOME(S) PROJECT OUTCOMES WILL BE DEVELOPED POST AWARD THROUGH ILAB S STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT AND STRATEGY VALIDATION
Grant Program (CFDA)
Awarding Agency
Funding Agency
Place of Performance
Indonesia
Geographic Scope
Foreign
Related Opportunity
Winrock International Institute For Agricultural Development was awarded
Secure Nickel Supply Chains: Strengthening Labor Governance Ethical Sourcing
Cooperative Agreement 26K75IL000024
worth $7,000,000
from the Bureau of International Labor Affairs in December 2026 with work to be completed primarily in Indonesia.
The grant
has a duration of 4 years 6 months and
was awarded through assistance program 17.401 International Labor Programs.
The Cooperative Agreement was awarded through grant opportunity Securing Fair and Reliable Critical Mineral Supply Chains.
Status
(Ongoing)
Last Modified 2/23/26
Period of Performance
12/31/25
Start Date
6/30/30
End Date
Funding Split
$7.0M
Federal Obligation
$0.0
Non-Federal Obligation
$7.0M
Total Obligated
Activity Timeline
Subgrant Awards
Disclosed subgrants for 26K75IL000024
Transaction History
Modifications to 26K75IL000024
Additional Detail
Award ID FAIN
26K75IL000024
SAI Number
1605:1605:IL:26K75IL000024:1:2
Award ID URI
SAIEXEMPT
Awardee Classifications
Nonprofit With 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other Than An Institution Of Higher Education)
Awarding Office
1630GM DOL (ETA) GRANTS MANAGEMENT
Funding Office
160901 DOL- BUR INTERNATIONAL LABOR AFFAIR
Awardee UEI
KZ2UGRDKFNJ6
Awardee CAGE
3K3G8
Performance District
Not Applicable
Modified: 2/23/26