Deadline: 30 November 2018
The U.S. Embassy has announced the launch of the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) Large Grants 2019 Competition.
The AFCP Large Grants Program supports the preservation of major ancient archaeological sites, historic buildings and monuments, and major museum collections that are accessible to the public and protected by law in the host country.
Funding Information
Vietnamese non‐commercial entities may submit proposals of $200,000 to $800,000 for projects to preserve cultural heritage in Vietnam.
Funding Priorities
Applications for projects that directly support one or more of the following will receive additional consideration in FY 2019:
- U.S. treaty or bilateral agreement obligations, such as cultural property agreements
- U.S. Embassy Integrated Country Strategy (ICS) goals
- Disaster risk reduction for cultural heritage in disaster‐prone areas
- Post‐disaster cultural heritage recovery
- Preservation of inscribed World Heritage sites
Program Activities
- preventive conservation (addressing conditions that damage or threaten the site)
- stabilization (reducing the physical disturbance [settling, collapse, etc.] of a site)
- conservation (addressing damage or deterioration to a collection or sites)
- consolidation (connecting or reconnecting elements of a site)
- anastylosis (reassembling a site from its original parts)
- restoration (replacing missing elements to recreate the original appearance of a site, usually appropriate only with fine arts, decorative arts, and historic buildings)
Criteria
- Grants may be made to Vietnamese non‐commercial entities, such as non‐governmental organizations, museums, ministries/departments of culture, or similar institutions and organizations that are able to demonstrate that they have the requisite experience and capacity to manage projects to preserve cultural heritage.
- AFCP does not award grants to individuals, commercial entities, or past award recipients which have not fulfilled the reporting requirements of previous AFCP awards.
How to Apply
- This Opportunity consists of two application rounds:
- Round 1 (Project Abstract)
- Round 2 (Full Proposal)
- All Round 1 project abstracts must be submitted electronically via email at the address given on the website.
Eligible Country: Vietnam
For more information, please visit AFCP Large Grants 2019.