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The WLMS 2027 Call for Proposals aims to strengthen the Worker-Led Monitoring System by advancing methodological development, scaling worker-led monitoring approaches, and enhancing their application across diverse labour rights contexts worldwide. This global initiative supports comparative, transnational, and cross-country projects that improve the quality, consistency, and safeguarding-sensitive use of worker-led monitoring methodologies. Target beneficiaries include civil society organisations engaged in supply chain accountability, workers and worker leaders in garment supply chains across Brazil, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Türkiye, and Vietnam, as well as institutional decision-makers addressing forced labour regulation, due diligence, remediation, and supply chain accountability.

Funding will support activities such as mapping worker-led monitoring models, developing methodological guidance, adapting monitoring tools (e.g., Uwazi, Tella) to country contexts, piloting and learning, facilitating peer knowledge exchange, and strengthening the use of worker-reported evidence for advocacy and remediation. Expected outputs include comparative analysis reports, methodological toolkits, safeguarding and data protection guidance, workflow recommendations, pilot learning notes, peer-learning activities, dissemination materials, and a final methodology report with lessons learned. The maximum grant size per selected project is up to EUR 60,000, with project durations tailored to the scope of proposed activities.

Eligibility

Eligible applicants are civil society organisations, trade unions, worker organisations, labour rights organisations, research institutes, worker centres, and global labour networks with demonstrated expertise in worker-led monitoring, participatory labour rights monitoring, worker-driven social responsibility, forced labour research, or transnational labour rights advocacy. Applicants must show experience collaborating with trade unions, worker organisations, or civil society groups and possess strong methodological capacity. Proposals will be evaluated based on methodological rigor, safeguarding-sensitive approaches, capacity to adapt WLMS tools across diverse contexts, and potential to generate evidence for advocacy, remediation, and regulatory alignment.

Post Date: July 17, 2026