Deadline: 6 December 2017
The U.S. Embassy Colombo, Sri Lanka is pleased to announce the call for abstracts for the 2018 Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) large grants program to support 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 Priorities
Applications for projects that directly support one or more of the following will receive additional consideration in Fiscal Year 2018:
- 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 seismically active and other disaster- prone areas
- Post-disaster cultural heritage recovery
- Preservation of inscribed World Heritage sites
Funding Information
Floor on Amount of Awards: US $200,000 per project.
Project Activities
Appropriate project activities may include:
- 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)
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants are invited to send project abstracts for large-scale, partnership-based projects to preserve significant cultural heritage sites in Sri Lanka and Maldives through this program.
- This opportunity is open to reputable and accountable non-commercial entities, such as non-governmental organizations, museums, ministries of culture, or similar institutions and organizations, including U.S.-based organizations subject to Section 501(c)(3) of the tax code, that are registered and active in SAM.gov and able to demonstrate that they have the requisite experience and capacity to manage projects to preserve cultural heritage.
How to Apply
- The application process consists of two rounds:
- Project Abstract (Round 1)
- Full Project Proposal (Round 2)
- Only those applicants whose abstracts are successfully reviewed will be eligible to develop and submit full proposals for round 2.
For more information, please visit AFCP Large Grants Program.