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The Cultural Heritage Center in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and the U.S. Embassy in Libya are pleased to announce the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) Grants Program (Round I).

Funding Areas

• The AFCP Program supports the preservation of major ancient archaeological sites, historic buildings and monuments, and major museum collections that are accessible to the public and protected by host country law.

• Priority will be given to applications that clearly demonstrate the impact of the grant on local communities, Libya’s socioeconomic development, and cultural preservation.

Funding Information

• Award Amounts: Awards may range from a minimum of $10,000 to a maximum of $500,000. This notice is subject to availability of funds and an approved Congressional spending plan.

• Length of Performance Period: 12 to 60 months

Activities

• Appropriate project activities may include:

  • Preventive conservation (addressing conditions that damage or threaten the site)

  • Stabilization (reducing the physical disturbance [settling, collapse, etc.] of a site)

  • Conservation (addressing damage or deterioration to a collection or sites)

  • Consolidation (connecting or reconnecting elements of a site)

  • Anastylosis (reassembling a site from its original parts)

  • Restoration (replacing missing elements to recreate the original appearance of a site, usually appropriate only with fine arts, decorative arts, and historic buildings)

  • 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)

Ineligible Activities

• AFCP will not support the following activities or costs:

  • 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.)

  • 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.)

Ineligible

• The AFCP will not award grants to individuals, commercial entities, or past recipients that have not fulfilled the objectives or reporting requirements of previous AFCP awards.

Eligibility

• The Cultural Heritage Center defines eligible project implementers as 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, or similar institutions and organizations, including U.S.-based education institutions and organizations subject to Section 501(c)(3) of the tax code.

Post Date: November 28, 2023