Deadline: 28-Feb-21
The U.S. Embassy Libya is pleased to announce the opening of FY21 Cultural Property Agreement Implementation Grants. The U.S. embassy seeks Concept Notes for projects that advance the aims of a bilateral agreement to protect Libya’s cultural heritage.
Activities may include training, inventories, site security and protection, public education and outreach for crime prevention, and/or livelihood support. Activities that promote cultural preservation should also promote stability, economic development, and good governance in other countries while denying financing to terrorist organizations and other criminal networks that engage in illicit trade of cultural property.
Special consideration will be given to proposals with a multi-country or regional focus and that encourage linkages with government agencies, universities or educational institutions, and/or the private sector.
Funding Areas
- Training: Build capacity of foreign law enforcement and cultural property managers to protect sites and objects.
- Inventories: Support the creation and/or maintenance of centralized, digital, and secure inventories of cultural objects and/or sites to better support resource allocation, aid in recovery in cases of theft, and promote public appreciation for cultural heritage preservation and protection.
- Site security and protection: Support practical and sustainable measures to more effectively secure archaeological sites (on land or underwater), museums, libraries, archives, and other collecting institutions against looting, thefts, and vandalism.
- Public education and outreach for crime prevention: Support strategies to prevent looting and trafficking through heightened public awareness and outreach.
- Supporting sustainable livelihoods: Support the protection of cultural heritage through economic development and sustainable alternative sources of livelihood to looting and trafficking.
Eligible Projects
- This competition is organized through U.S. embassies in countries with which the United States has a signed bilateral cultural property agreement or where emergency import restrictions on archaeological and ethnological material are in effect under the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act (19 U.S.C. 2601 et seq).
- Projects advancing U.S. national interests by addressing threats to cultural heritage in the following countries will be considered: Algeria, Belize, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Libya, Mali, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, Syria, Turkey, and Yemen.
Eligible Project Implementers
- Reputable non-governmental organizations, museums, relevant government ministries, or similar institutions and organizations, including U.S.-based organizations subject to Section 501(c)(3) of the tax code, would be possible grantees.
For more information, visit https://ly.usembassy.gov/cultural-property-agreement-implementation-grants-2021/