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

Priorities

• 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.
  • Support post-disaster cultural heritage recovery.
  • Complement other ECA or PD programs.

Funding Information

• The AFCP Grants Program supports the preservation of archaeological sites, historic buildings and monuments, museum collections, and forms of traditional cultural expression, such as indigenous languages and crafts. Eligible applicants may submit concept notes for funding ranging from $10,000 to $500,000.

Eligible Projects

• Project implementers are reputable and accountable non-commercial entities that can demonstrate they have the requisite capacity to manage projects to preserve cultural heritage. Eligible implementers may include non-governmental organizations, museums, educational institutions, ministries of culture, or similar institutions and organizations. 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.

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)

Application Requirements

• Each concept note submitted must include:
  • Project Basics, including working title, anticipated project length (Note: Applicants may propose project periods of up to 60 months), location/site, and project cost estimate (amount requested from AFCP; in U.S. dollars).
  • Project Implementer.
  • Project Scope of Work summarizing (1000 words maximum):
    • preservation activities and goals
    • related host country or community goals (i.e., what they hope to gain from the project beyond preserving heritage and how these goals will be achieved)
    • anticipated strategic outreach activities to build awareness and engage communities and stakeholders.
  • Rationale for AFCP Support, explaining why it’s in the interests of the U.S. government to fund the project, specifically:
    • how the project relates to specific National Security Strategy plans, Integrated Country Strategy goals, existing bilateral agreements (if applicable), or any other U.S. foreign policy objectives (400 words maximum)
    • the projected public diplomacy benefits of the project (300 words maximum).
  • Five (S) high quality digital images (JPEGs) or audiovisual files that convey the nature and condition of the site, collection, or tradition and show the urgency or need for the proposed project (collapsing walls, water damage, etc.).
• Please strictly adhere to the stipulated words limitations.

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