Deadline: 31-Mar-23
The U.S. Embassy Abuja is pleased to announce that funding is available through its Public Diplomacy Small Grants Program.
This is an Annual Program Statement, outlining the funding priorities, the strategic themes focus on, and the procedures for submitting requests for funding.
Purpose of Small Grants: The Public Diplomacy Section (PDS) invites proposals for programs that strengthen ties between the U.S. and Nigeria through cultural, information and exchange programming that highlights shared values and promotes bilateral cooperation. All programs must include an American cultural element, or connection with American expert/s, organization/s, or institution/s in a specific field that will promote increased understanding of U.S. policy and perspectives.
Priority Program Areas
- PDS will prioritize grant program proposals that:
- Promote democracy, good governance, and human rights through.
- Civic engagement at the state and local levels
- Youth activism
- Diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility of marginalized groups
- Strengthen human capital to promote inclusive economic growth and development through programs focused on.
- Women Empowerment
- Digital skills and green entrepreneurship
- Mentorship and skills building to increase employability and professional literacy
- Climate change: community service and public awareness campaigns
- Leadership and peacebuilding through sports
- Improve and expand English language learning through curriculum development and teacher training
- Promote the preservation, restoration, and protection of Nigeria’s diverse cultural heritage sites, objects, and traditions through:
- Training and capacity-building for local professionals
- Educational and cultural exchange for curators and art conservators
- Campaigns to improve public awareness.
- Promote democracy, good governance, and human rights through.
Funding Information
- Length of performance period: 12 to 24 months
- Award amounts: awards may range from a minimum of $5,000 to a maximum of $50,000.
Participants and Audiences: This funding opportunity focuses on programs for northern Nigeria and its audiences.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Public Affairs Section accepts applications from U.S. and Nigerian:
- Registered not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/non-governmental organizations with programming experience
- Individuals
- Non-profit or governmental educational institutions
- Governmental institutions
- For-profit or commercial entities are not eligible to apply.
- Other Eligibility Requirements
- Applicants are only allowed to submit one proposal per organization. If more than one proposal is submitted from an organization, all proposals from that institution will be considered ineligible for funding.
- To be eligible to receive an award, all organizations must be registered on SAM.gov. FromApril 2022, the federal government stopped using the DUNS number as an entity identifier and transitioned to the Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) issued by SAM.gov. Organizations should go to SAM.gov to complete their registration, a UEI will be generated as part of the SAM.gov registration process.
Ineligible
- The following types of programs are not eligible for funding:
- Programs relating to partisan political activity
- Charitable or social welfare projects
- Tuition support
- Individual travel to conferences
- Construction programs
- Programs that support specific religious activities
- Fund-raising campaigns
- Lobbying for specific legislation or programs
- Scientific research
- Programs intended primarily for the growth or institutional development of the organization; or
- Programs that duplicate existing programs.
For more information, visit PDS.