Description
The U.S. Mission Uganda Public Affairs Section is pleased to announce the start of the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) 2025 Grants Program. The program seeks to preserve cultural heritage in eligible countries, including Uganda. The AFCP helps protect historic buildings, archaeological sites, museum collections, and traditional cultural expressions like indigenous languages and crafts around the world.
Key activities and requirements for the grant include:
• Anastylosis: Reassembling a site using its original parts.
• Conservation: Treating or otherwise addressing damage or deterioration to an object or site.
• Consolidation: Reconnecting elements of an object or site.
• Documentation: Recording the condition and important features of an object, site, or tradition in analog or digital format.
• Inventory: Listing objects, sites, or traditions by location, feature, age, or other unifying characteristics.
• 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 for fine arts, decorative arts, and historic buildings.
• Stabilization: Reducing the physical disturbance or increasing the stability of an object or site.
Applicants must submit concept notes for Round One by January 10, 2025, at 5pm GMT+3 to [email protected]. Selected applicants will be invited to submit full project applications for Round Two, by April 17, 2025.