Final_ADDENDUMONESUPPLYUNCHAINED_5_27_2016.pdf

Supply Unchained: Countering Human Trafficking in Global Supply Chains Addendum #1 to The United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID)

Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA) Broad Agency Announcement

(BAA) for Promoting Rights and Accountability through Responsible Business Conduct

Background/Development Challenge

USAID is interested in identifying opportunities for co-creation, co-design and co-investment that support the utilization of innovative approaches that focus on eliminating human trafficking in particular sectors and geographies. The sector and geography of primary focus is fishing in Southeast Asia.

Globally, the marine capture fishery is estimated to legally employ over 30 million fishers, who work aboard 4 million fishing vessels. Estimates of illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) products are equivalent to approximately 20% of the legal catch. This suggests that the crews involved in IUU fishing likely number in the thousands or more. IUU fishing vessels are inherently operating for financial gain, and seek to avoid costs associated with license fees, ship maintenance, minimum standards of crew treatment, as well as safety and sanitary conditions. Further, a growing list of examples highlight that crew on IUU fishing vessels work under conditions that are consistent with the ILO definition of forced labor, and are subject to egregious human rights abuses, including excessive working hours (e.g.

18-20 hours/day), physical abuse, lack of food and water, coerced indebtedness, abandonment in remote locations, and in some instances, homicide. The interconnected relationships between human rights abuses, illegal fishing, and marine biodiversity, highlight the benefits of an integrated approach in responding to these issues.

Solutions Sought

Responses should engage seafood supply chain stakeholders to safely include and leverage the voice of individuals and civil society organizations closest to the problems.

We seek concepts that:

● safely collect real-time information from individuals and communities connected to the fishing/seafood sector;

● develop ways to use existing data sources, or pilot new data collection, to determine overall prevalence of human trafficking on fishing vessels;

● make such information accessible and usable by multiple end-users, including workers, local human rights and labor organizations, employers and corporate actors in the seafood supply chain, as well as relevant government agencies working to counter the inter-related criminalities in the fishing sector;

● apply knowledge and data in new ways to address root causes and ultimately prevent new cases of human trafficking in the fishing/seafood sector; and

● connect information regarding human trafficking to efforts to monitor, track and reduce IUU fishing through Maritime Domain Awareness and related approaches.

Proposed research should enable the collection of new data, particularly real-time information about conditions for workers aboard fishing vessels, and utilize accumulated data to enable interventions at key points along the supply chain and also seek to identify and address root causes of trafficking, building from specific cases and interventions to a broader data set that can indicate points of vulnerability and thereby promote interventions that disrupt overall trafficking patterns.

Submitters should be prepared to participate in co-creation and co-design meetings that may take place in the Southeast Asia region.

Guidance for Concepts

Proposed concepts may be at any of the following stages of development:

(1) proof of concept - introduction of a solution in a developing country context to gain an early, real-world assessment of technical, organization, distribution, and financial viability of the solution.

(2) testing impact and delivery - testing a proven concept toward improved outcomes and/or viability, as well as operational refinement to build paths to sustainability and scale.

(3) scaling-up - adaptation of a rigorously evaluated innovation to new contexts and geographies and engagement of additional partners who will help scale the project beyond USAID support, but for whom more evidence of success and track record are needed.

Submission Instructions

Please submit your Expression of Interest indicating the research or development idea which will work towards discovering potential solutions to the Solutions Sought above, by increasing knowledge and understanding of potential solutions;

exploiting scientific discoveries or improvements in technology, materials, processes, methods, devices, or techniques; advancing the state of the art; or using scientific and technical knowledge in the design, development, testing, or evaluation of a potential new product or service (or of an improvement in an existing product or service). Organizations are encouraged to consider collaborating with peer organizations that bring differing perspectives and/or comparative advantages.

Expressions of Interest will:

1. Be submitted in English

2. Not exceed 1500 words, excluding header and optional graphic(s)

3. Be submitted as e-mail attachment in Word or

PDF to supplyunchained@usaid.gov

4. Contain a header with the following information, not counted in word count:

a. Respondent Name/Group and Contact Information:

b. Response Title:

c. BAA Addendum Name/Number:

5. Be in .docx or .pdf format

Your Expression of Interest, if accepted, will result in your participation in one or more co-creation events with other successful applicants, to jointly develop programs and activities for funding. All applicants are encouraged to read the full announcement closely for guidance on the co-creation process.

Review of Submissions

Criteria The following criteria will be applied to all Expressions of Interest:

1. Idea/Approach: USAID will focus on how the applicant contributes fresh, informed, and realistic thinking, and how the applicant uses supporting evidence and analysis to clearly demonstrate how the proposed idea will reduce human trafficking and contribute to the reduction of IUU fishing. Equally important are the unique qualities that the applicant would bring to the discussion.

2. Partnership Expectations and Value: Strengths of your organization as a partner, including your ability to make a unique contribution to the critical development challenge. Please provide specific examples of collaboration or co- creation with other parties or partners.

3. Diversity of Perspectives and Capabilities: USAID seeks to bring together a diverse set of co-creators in collaboration in order to enable mailto:supplyunchained@usaid.gov broader thinking and innovation. The selection of individual applicants will be made with the goal of achieving this diversity.

4. Impact and goals of the program: Indicate broad and discrete goals of the concept and how they relate to USAID’s Counter Trafficking in Persons Policy.

5. Private-sector partnerships: Indicate specific relationships with private sector actors, and any pre-existing company/ industry partnership commitments to identify and address trafficking and labor exploitation in the target sector.

Information Protection

USAID’s goal is to facilitate the research and development that will lead to innovative, and potentially commercially viable, solutions. Understanding the sensitive nature of submitters’ information, USAID will work with organizations to protect intellectual property.

Expressions of interest should be free of any intellectual property that the submitter wishes to protect, as the Expressions of Interest will be shared with other USAID co- creation partners as part of the review and concept development process.

However, once submitters have been invited to engage in further discussions, submitters will work with USAID to identify proprietary information that requires protection.

Therefore, organizations making submissions under this BAA grant to USAID a royalty- free, nonexclusive, and irrevocable right to use, disclose, reproduce, and prepare derivative works, and to have or permit others to do so to any information contained in the Expressions of Interest submitted under the BAA. If USAID engages with the organization regarding its submission, the parties can negotiate further intellectual property protection for the organization’s intellectual property.

Organizations must ensure that any submissions under this BAA are free of any third party proprietary data rights that would impact the license granted to USAID herein.

Selection Process USAID will review and select Expressions of Interest submitted in accordance with the guidelines and criteria set forth in this Addendum. USAID reserves the right not to review any Expressions of Interest that do not meet the guidelines.

● Stage 1: Selected groups will be invited to join the co-development process which will consist of one or more co-creation workshop(s) that may take place in Southeast Asia, in Washington, DC or remotely, where USAID, partners and selected groups will gather to collaboratively develop http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PDACT111.pdf http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PDACT111.pdf program(s) designed to achieve the objectives articulated here. This will result in one or more concept papers of 5-7 pages each, outlining a concrete programmatic plan, focus areas, goals, timelines, etc. Travel costs for participants will not be reimbursed by USAID.

● Stage 2: Final concept papers will be submitted to USAID’s Peer and

Scientific Review Board. Approved concept papers for programs will be further refined (co- design) and potentially implemented, based on a decision at that time whether to proceed to implementation.

USAID is not obligated to issue a financial instrument or award as a result of this Addendum. Approved concept papers may potentially lead to an award or other instrument, as appropriate, to be determined by the Agreement Officer for this BAA.

Response Date Please submit your expression of interest to supplyunchained@usaid.gov no later than 11:59pm EST June 17, 2016.

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