U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation Grants Program (Botswana)

AFCP supports the preservation of historic buildings, archaeological sites, manuscripts, museum collections, and forms of traditional cultural expression such as indigenous languages and crafts in more than 120 countries around the world.

Funding Information

• Grants range from U.S. $10,000 to $500,000.

Duration

• Length of Performance Period: 12 to 60 months

Eligible Activities

• 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 following entities are eligible to apply:
  • Foreign Institution of Higher Education
  • Foreign-based non-profit organizations/nongovernment organizations (NGO)
  • Foreign Public Entity, where permitted
  • U.S. Non-Profit Organization
  • U.S. Institution of Higher Education

Ineligible

• AFCP does not support the following activities, and applications involving any of the activities or costs below will be deemed ineligible:
  • Preservation or purchase of privately or commercially owned cultural objects, collections, or real property, including those whose transfer from private or commercial to public ownership is envisioned, planned, or in process but not complete at the time of application.
  • Preservation of natural heritage (physical, biological, and geological formations, paleontological collections, habitats of threatened species of animals and plants, fossils, etc.) unless the natural heritage has a cultural heritage connection or dimension.
  • Preservation of hominid or human remains.
  • Preservation of news media (newspapers, newsreels, radio and TV programs, etc.).
  • Preservation of published materials available elsewhere (books, periodicals, etc.).
  • Development of curricula or educational materials for classroom use.

For more information, visit U.S. Embassy in Botswana.