Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation in Nigeria

Deadline: 10-Jan-2025

The U.S. Mission to Nigeria is accepting proposals from eligible organizations for project funding through the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP).

The Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) Grants Program supports U.S. foreign policy and public diplomacy (PD) goals and are highly valued by local leaders and communities.

AFCP supports the preservation of historic buildings, archaeological sites, manuscripts, museum collections, and traditional cultural expressions, including indigenous languages and crafts, in Nigeria.

Funding Information

• Amount: $25,000-$500,000

Duration

• Proposed projects should be completed in 60 months or less.

Funding Priorities

• The most successful AFCP projects have been designed as part of a greater PD programming arc promoting specific U.S. policy goals and host-country or community goals. Accordingly, in Fiscal Year 2025, ECA will prioritize projects that do one or more of the following:
  • Directly support U.S. treaty or bilateral agreement obligations.
  • Directly support U.S. policies, strategies, and objectives as stated in the National Security Strategy, Integrated Country Strategy, or other U.S. government planning documents.
  • Directly support host country or community goals beyond preserving cultural heritage.
  • Support risk reduction and resilience for cultural heritage in disaster-prone or politically unstable and economically disadvantaged areas.
  • Complement other ECA or public diplomacy programs.
  • Support post-disaster cultural heritage recover.

Funding Areas

• Appropriate project activities may include:
  • Anastylosis (reassembling a site from its original parts).
  • Conservation (addressing damage or deterioration to an object or site).
  • Consolidation (connecting or reconnecting elements of an object or site).
  • Documentation (recording in analog or digital format the condition and salient features of an object, site, or tradition).
  • Inventory (listing of objects, sites, or traditions by location, feature, age, or other unifying characteristic or state).
  • Preventive Conservation (addressing conditions that threaten or damage a site, object, collection, or tradition).
  • Restoration (replacing missing elements to recreate the original appearance of an object or site, usually appropriate only with fine arts, decorative arts, and historic buildings).
  • Stabilization (reducing the physical disturbance of an object or site).

Eligibility Criteria

• The U.S Mission to Nigeria defines eligible project applicants as reputable and accountable non-commercial entities that are able to demonstrate they have the requisite capacity to manage projects to preserve cultural heritage.
• These may include non-governmental organizations, museums, educational institutions, ministries of culture, or similar institutions and organizations, including U.S.-based educational institutions and organizations subject to Section 501(c)(3) of the tax code.
• The AFCP will not award grants to individuals, commercial entities, or past award recipients that have not fulfilled the objectives or reporting requirements of previous awards.

For more information, visit Grants.gov.