Proposals for project financing through the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) for FY 2025 are being accepted by the U.S. Mission to Nigeria from qualified groups. Local leaders and communities place a great importance on the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) award program, which was created in 2001 at the request of Congress and promotes U.S. foreign policy and public diplomacy (PD) goals. In Nigeria, AFCP promotes the preservation of traditional cultural manifestations, such as native languages and crafts, historical structures, archaeological sites, manuscripts, and museum collections.
Funding Areas:
Eligible project activities may include:
a) Anastylosis (reassembly of a site from its original parts). b) Conservation (treatment of damage or deterioration of an object or place). c) Consolidation (connection or reconnection of elements of an object or place). d) Documentation (recording in analog or digital form the state and salient features of an object, place or tradition). e) Inventory (listing of objects, places or traditions according to location, features, age or characteristics or other unifying conditions). f) Preventive conservation (addressing conditions that threaten or damage a place, object, collection or tradition). g) Restoration (replacing missing elements to recreate the original appearance of an object or place, generally suitable only for art, decorative arts and historic buildings). h) Stabilization (reducing physical disturbance to an object or place).
Opportunity number: AFABJ-25-01 Application deadline: JANUARY 10, 2025, at 11:59 PM
For more details and to apply, go to: https://ng.usembassy.gov/u-s-mission-to-nigeria-ambassadors-fund-for-cultural-preservation-afcp-2025/
