Deadline: 30 November 2018
The U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia is currently accepting project proposals for the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) 2019 Large Grant Competition.
The Department of State has led efforts to support cultural heritage preservation worldwide through the implementation of the AFCP program.
Funding Information
Applicants may submit proposals for individual awards ranging from USD $200,000 to USD $800,000.
Funding Areas
The AFCP Large Grants Competition 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. 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 building)
Funding Priorities
Project proposals that meet one or more of the following criteria will receive additional consideration in FY 2019:
- Directly support U.S. treaty or bilateral agreement obligations, such as cultural property agreements;
- U.S. Embassy Integrated Country Strategy (ICS) goals;
- Support disaster risk reduction for cultural heritage in seismically active and other disaster-prone areas;
- Post-disaster cultural heritage recovery; and
- Preservation of inscribed World Heritage sites
Eligible Project Applicants
The AFCP defines eligible project applicants as reputable and accountable non-commercial entities, such as non-governmental organizations, museums, ministries 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.
Ineligible Project Applicants
The AFCP does not award grants to individuals, commercial entities, or past award recipients, which have not fulfilled the objectives or reporting requirements of previous AFCP awards.
How to Apply
All proposals must be submitted by e-mail at the address given on the website.
For more information, please visit 2019 AFCP Large Grants Competition.