Deadline: 16 December 2016
The U.S. Embassy Morocco and the Cultural Heritage Center of the Department of State’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs are seeking applications for its U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) 2017 Competition.
The AFCP-supported projects for Morocco include the restoration of ancient and historic buildings, assessment and conservation of rare manuscripts and museum collections, preservation and protection of important archaeological sites, and the documentation of vanishing traditional craft techniques of the Moroccan cultural heritage.
Funding Information
- The funding will take the form of a grant.
- The lowest amount per project will be $10,000; the highest ceiling will be $200,000 per project.
Funding Priorities
- Cultural Sites: such as, but not limited to, conservation of an ancient or historic building, preservation of an archaeological site, or documentation of cultural sites in a region for preservation purposes.
- Cultural Objects and Collections: from a museum, site, or similar institution—that include, but are not limited to, archaeological and ethnographic objects, paintings, sculpture, manuscripts, and general museum conservation needs; conservation treatment for an object or collection of objects; needs for 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, and crafts; 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.
Proposals for projects that meet one or more of the following criteria will receive additional consideration:
- 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;
- Engage women, youth, or under-served communities.
Eligibility Criteria
- Moroccan non-governmental organizations, museums, the Ministry of Culture, similar institutions and organizations that is able to demonstrate that they have the requisite experience and capacity to manage projects to preserve cultural heritage.
- The AFCP Program does NOT award grants to individuals, commercial entities, or to embassies or past award recipients which have not fulfilled the objectives or reporting requirements of previous AFCP awards.
How to Apply
Proposals must be submitted in English, through an online application available on the given website.
Eligible Country: Morocco
For more information, please visit AFCP 2017 Competition.