Deadline: 19-Jun-2020
The Public Affairs Section of U.S. Embassy in Ghana is seeking proposals to carry out a program focused on strengthening existing ties and fostering new collaborations between U.S. and African universities.
Project activities must take place in Ghana and the United States and be directed primarily at Ghanaian audiences/participants. Proposals should address how relationships between institutions will be sustained after U.S. government funded efforts are concluded.
Focus Areas
- Promote U.S. – Ghana students and faculty exchanges, including in-person and virtual exchange opportunities
- Facilitate joint research, especially in agriculture, food security, and STEM
- Provide training and transfer skills in all aspects of university education through subject matter exchange programs
- Explore public-private partnerships, with an emphasis on commercialization, technology transfer, and job creation.
The following activities to do not qualify for Public Affairs funding:
- Fees and travel costs to attend conferences in the United States
- Organizational start-up costs
- Ongoing salaries, operating costs or capital improvements
- Office equipment
- Paying to complete activities begun with other funds
- Projects of a commercial or profit-making nature
- Projects that are inherently political in nature or that contain the appearance of partisanship or support to individual or single party electoral campaigns
- Projects that support specific religious activities
- Fundraising campaigns
- Academic or analytical research (if not part of a larger project)
- Construction projects
- Vehicles
- Scholarships
- Projects whose primary aim is the institutional development of the organization itself
- Soli, or any fees for news coverage
- Representational expenses, such as receptions (Exceptions: expenses for coffee breaks and working lunches can be funded; alcohol, however, cannot)
Funding Information
- Minimum Award Amount: $50,000
- Maximum Award Amount: $300,000
Eligibility Criteria
The Public Affairs Section encourages proposals from:
- Registered not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/nongovernmental organizations with programming experience
- Individuals
- Non-profit or governmental educational institutions
For-profit or commercial entities are not eligible to apply.
For more information, visit https://gh.usembassy.gov/education-culture/public-affairs-small-grants/