Deadline: 14 December 2018

The U.S. Embassy Morocco and the Cultural Heritage Center of the Department of State’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs have announced the call for proposals for the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) 2019 Competition.

The AFCP supports the restoration of ancient and historic buildings, and the conservation of rare manuscripts museum collections and Morocco’s unique cultural heritage.

Award Information

The lowest amount per project will be $10,000; the highest ceiling will be $200,000 per project.

Funding Areas

The AFCP Program gives priority to project activities in adherence to the following guidelines and to international standards for the preservation of cultural heritage in the following three areas, these activities may include:

• Cultural Sites: such as, 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: 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.

Funding Priorities

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

Criteria

Moroccan non-governmental organizations, museums, the Ministry of Culture, similar institutions and organizations that are able to demonstrate that they have the requisite experience and capacity to manage projects to preserve cultural heritage and are interested to submit proposals for the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation.

How to Apply

Applicants can apply via given website.

For more information, please visit https://ma.usembassy.gov/education-culture/exchanges-programs/cultural-programs/