Deadline: 15-Jan-25
Are you engaged in the preservation of historic buildings, archaeological sites, manuscripts, museum collections, or forms of traditional cultural expression such as indigenous languages and crafts in Eswatini? The U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) is offering grants to partner in supporting your work and celebrating the richness of Eswatini’s cultural heritage.
Funding Information
- Total available funding: $6 million (estimated)
- Award amounts: Awards may range from a minimum of $25,000 to a maximum of $500,000
- Length of performance period: 12 to 60 months
Desired Activities
- Anastylosis: Reassembling a site using its original parts.
- Conservation: Treating or otherwise addressing damage or deterioration to an object or site.
- Consolidation: Reconnecting elements of an object or site.
- Documentation: Recording the condition and important features of an object, site, or tradition in analog or digital format.
- Inventory: Listing objects, sites, or traditions by location, feature, age, or other unifying characteristics. Preventive Conservation: Addressing conditions that threaten or damage a site, object, collection, or tradition.
- Restoration: Replacing missing elements to recreate the original appearance of an object or site, usually appropriate for fine arts, decorative arts, and historic buildings.
- Stabilization: Reducing the physical disturbance or increasing the stability of an object or site.
Ineligible Activities
- Privately or Commercially Owned Property: Preservation or purchase of privately or commercially owned cultural objects, collections, or real property, including those whose transfer from private or commercial to public ownership is envisioned, planned, or in process but not complete at the time of application.
- Natural Heritage: Preservation of natural heritage (physical, biological, and geological formations, paleontological collections, habitats of threatened species of animals and plants, fossils, etc.) unless the natural heritage has a cultural heritage connection or dimension.
- Human Remains: Preservation of Hominid or human remains.
- News Media: Preservation of news media (newspapers, newsreels, radio and TV programs, etc.).
- Published Materials: Preservation of published materials available elsewhere (books, periodicals, etc.).
- Mandated Educational Materials: Development of curricula or educational materials for required classroom use.
- Archaeological Research: Archaeological excavations or exploratory surveys for research purposes.
- Historical Research: Historical research, except in cases where the research is justifiable and integral to the success of the proposed project.
- New Exhibits or Collections: Acquisition or creation of new exhibits, objects, or collections for new or existing museums.
- New Construction: Construction of new buildings, building additions, or permanent coverings (over archaeological sites, for example).
- New Works of Art: Commissions of new works of art or architecture for commemorative or economic development purposes.
Participants and Audiences
- Local communities, government agencies, educational institutions, tourists, and others interested in cultural heritage and its preservation.
Who can apply?
- Only these types or organizations may apply:
- Foreign Institutions of Higher Education
- Foreign-Based Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
- Foreign Public Entities (where permitted)
- Public International Organizations and Governmental Institutions
- U.S. Institutions of Higher Education
- U.S. Non-Profit Organizations (IRS section 501(c)(3))
For more information, visit U.S. Embassy Eswatini.