Apply! Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) Competition In Morrocco

The U.S. Embassy Morocco and the Cultural Heritage Center of the Department of State’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs are seeking proposals for its 2018 Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) 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.

Deadline
3 January 2018

Funding
The funding will take the form of a grant.
The lowest amount per project will be $10,000; the highest ceiling will be $200,000 per project.

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.

Priorities
Applications for projects that directly support one or more of the following will receive additional consideration in 2018:
-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
-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.
-The AFCP Program does NOT award grants to individuals, commercial entities, or to embassies or past award recipients which have not fulfilled the objectives or reporting requirements of previous AFCP awards.

Application
Proposals must be submitted in English, through an online application via given website.
For more information, please visit AFCP 2018 Competition.