Deadline: 17-Jul-23
The U.S. Embassy in Mozambique of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for organizations to submit proposals to advance U.S. government stabilization goals through support for the youth arts program at the Provincial Cultural Center in Pemba in Cabo Delgado Province.
This support is essential to providing the growing number of children and young adults living in the provincial capital with life skills and a safe outlet for self-expression, in the face of violent extremism ongoing in the region. This award will support the existing music, dance, and visual arts classes for youth in Pemba and will expand the classes to youth in Metuge. Part of the support includes furnishing the center to ensure proper equipment and conditions are in place for programming.
Objectives
- The overarching long-term goal of the U.S. Government’s Strategy to Prevent Conflict and Promote Stability (SPCPS) is: Mozambican individuals, communities, and institutions are strengthened and empowered to foster enduring stability through the development of open political participation and governance, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, accountable security and justice sectors, and resilient social cohesion. To achieve this goal, this award seeks to increase the number of young Mozambicans aged 7 to 21 years old who participate in the Cultural Center’s arts classes, which teach life skills, offer a path towards economic selfsufficiency, promote self-expression for all, and use arts as a way to help heal from trauma.
- The Provincial Cultural Center currently accommodates children and youth between the ages of 7 and 21 for various cultural activities and lessons including: music, dance, and visual arts. However, the Center is facing the following challenges: shortage of musical instruments for music lessons, shortage of materials for lessons of visual arts and crafts, lack of a recording studio, damaged classroom furniture, no access to internet, and no proper storage facility for books and equipment. Interventions should respond to these challenges, to include training for staff to maintain the updated spaces and new equipment.
- This award would cover the costs to:
- Refurbish outdoor seating.
- Refurbish the stage platform.
- Outfit three arts classrooms, a storage room, and recording studio with the equipment needed to improve arts teaching.
- Launch the “Artistical Movel” initiative that allows already-trained Center staff to conduct art therapy activities for the thousands of internally displaced children and young adults in Metuge.
Funding Information
- Total available funding: $400,000
- Length of performance period: 18 months.
Priority Region: Cabo Delgado – Pemba.
Participants and Audiences: Children and youth aged 7-21 who frequent the Provincial Cultural Center in Cabo Delgado.
Eligibility Criteria
- The following organizations are eligible to apply:
- Not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/nongovernmental organizations;
- For-profit organizations;
- Public and private educational institutions;
- Public International Organizations and Governmental institutions; and
- U.S., international, and Mozambican organizations are eligible to apply.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.