Deadline: 10 December 2018

The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) Cultural Heritage Center (“the Center”) is accepting project applications/abstracts for the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) 2019 Small and Large Grants competitions for the Republic of Mauritius and the Republic of Seychelles.

Grant Information

• Small Grants Competition:
  • Floor on Amount of Individual Awards: US $10,000 per project
  • Ceiling on Amount of Individual Awards: US $200,000 per project
• Large Grants Competition:
  • Floor on Amount of Individual Awards: US $200,000 per project
  • Ceiling on Amount of Individual Awards: US $800,000 per project

Activities

AFCP will recommend for funding those applications that include project activities that adhere to the following guidelines and to international standards for the preservation of cultural heritage. These activities may include:

• CULTURAL SITES: 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: conservation treatment for an object or collection of objects 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; 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: documentation and audiovisual recording of traditional music, indigenous languages 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

Applications for projects that directly support one or more of the following will receive additional consideration in FY 2019:

• U.S. treaty or bilateral agreement obligations, such as cultural property agreements
• Disaster risk reduction for cultural heritage in seismically active and other disaster-prone areas
• Post-disaster cultural heritage recovery
• Preservation of inscribed World Heritage sites

Eligibility Criteria

The Center 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, including U.S.-based organizations subject to Section 501(c) (3) of the tax code, that are registered and active in SAM.gov and able to demonstrate that they have the requisite experience and capacity to manage projects to preserve cultural heritage.

How to Apply

All applications must be submitted via email at the address given on the website.

For more information, please visit https://mu.usembassy.gov/embassy-vpp/port-louis/grants/