Deadline: 18 November 2017
The U.S. Embassy in the Kyrgyz Republic has announced a call for grant proposals aimed at preservation of cultural heritage through the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) in the following two areas:
- CULTURAL OBJECTS AND COLLECTIONS-from a museum, site, or similar institution-that includes, but is not limited to, paintings, sculpture, manuscripts, and general museum conservation needs.
- Activities may include: conservation treatment for an object or collection of objects; needs assessment of a collection with respect to its condition and strategies for improving its state of conservation; inventory of a collection for conservation and protection purposes; the creation of safe environments for storage or display of collections; or specialized training in the care and preservation of collections;
- FORMS OF TRADITIONAL CULTURAL EXPRESSION-such as traditional music, indigenous languages, and ancient crafts.
- Activities may include: documentation and audiovisual recording of traditional music and dance forms for broad dissemination as the means of teaching and further preserving them, or support for training in the preservation of traditional applied arts or crafts in danger of extinction.
Funding Priorities
- Directly support U.S. treaty or bilateral agreement obligations, such as cultural property protection agreements;
- Support the preservation of inscribed UNESCO World Heritage sites;
- Support disaster risk reduction for cultural heritage and post-disaster cultural heritage recovery in seismically active and other disaster-prone areas; and
- Engage women, youth, or under-served communities.
Eligibility Criteria
- AFCP will consider project proposals from non-governmental, non-commercial organizations, museums, ministries of culture or similar institutions and organizations.
- AFCP will not consider projects from individuals, commercial entities, embassies or past award recipients which have not fulfilled the objectives or reporting requirements of previous AFCP awards.
Eligible Country: Kyrgyz Republic
For more information, please visit U.S. Embassy in the Kyrgyz Republic.