Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO)
Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation – Uganda 2025
Bureau of African Affairs/U.S. Embassy Kampala
Opportunity quantity: DOS-PDS-FY25-AFCP
Application deadline: January 10, 2025
Contents
- Basic Information. 3
- Eligibility. 4
- Program Description. 5
- Application Contents and Format. 6
- Submission Requirements and Deadlines. 9
- Application Review Information. 12
- Award Notices. 13
- Post-Award Requirements and Administration. 14
- Other Information. 16
U.S Department of State
Bureau of African Affairs/ U.S. Embassy KAMPALA
Notice of Funding Opportunity
A. Basic Information
1. Overview
| Funding Opportunity Title | Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation – Uganda 2025 |
| Funding Opportunity Number | DOS-PDS-FY25-AFCP |
| Announcement Type | Initial Announcement |
| Deadline for Applications | January 10, 2025, 5pm GMT+3 |
| Assistance Listing Number | 19.025 |
| Length of efficiency interval | 12 to 60 months |
| Number of awards anticipated | 1 award (depending on quantities) |
| Award quantities | Awards could vary from a minimal of $10,000 to a most of $500,000 |
| Total obtainable funding | $500,000 pending availability of funds. |
| Type of Funding | FY25 AFCP funds |
| Anticipated challenge begin date | No later than September 30, 2025 |
Funding Instrument Type: Grant or Cooperative Agreement
Project Performance Period: Proposed applications needs to be accomplished in 60 months or much less.
This discover is topic to availability of funding.
2. Executive Summary
Priority Region: All areas
The U.S. Mission Uganda Public Affairs Section is happy to announce the beginning of the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) 2025 Grants Program. The United States Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) seeks to protect cultural heritage in eligible international locations, together with Uganda, supported by the Cultural Heritage Center (“the Center”) within the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the Department of State. The U.S. Mission is now accepting ideas of not greater than 3 pages for the primary spherical of the 2025 Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation competitors. Successful ideas ought to determine tasks that help the folks of Uganda in preserving their cultural heritage. Awards will vary from $10,000 to $500,000. The Center anticipates funding 20 to 30 tasks worldwide on this yr’s competitors.
The software course of entails two rounds. Interested candidates ought to submit idea notes for Round One by January 10, 2025, at 5pm GMT+3 to KampalaGrants@state.gov.
Selected candidates will likely be invited to submit full challenge functions for Round Two, by April 17, 2025.
For extra info on AFCP tasks in Uganda and the worldwide program:
History of the Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation in Uganda – U.S. Embassy in Uganda (usembassy.gov)
B. Eligibility
1. Eligible Applicants
Only these varieties or organizations could apply:
- Foreign Institutions of Higher Education
- Foreign-Based Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
- Foreign Public Entities (the place permitted)
- Public International Organizations and Governmental Institutions
- U.S. Institutions of Higher Education
- U.S. Non-Profit Organizations (IRS part 501(c)(3))
- Cost Sharing or Matching
There is not any minimal or most share of value sharing required for this competitors. When an applicant provides value sharing, it’s understood and agreed that the applicant should present the quantity of value sharing as stipulated in its software and later included in an permitted settlement. The applicant will likely be accountable for monitoring and reporting on any value share or exterior funding, which is topic to audit per 2 CFR 200. Cost sharing be within the type of allowable direct or oblique prices.
3. Other Eligibility Requirements
All organizations will need to have a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) issued by way of SAM.gov in addition to a sound registration in SAM.gov. Please see Section D.3 for extra info. Individuals will not be required to have a UEI or be registered in SAM.gov.
C. Program Description
1. Goals and Objectives
The U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) helps shield historic buildings, archaeological websites, museum collections, and conventional cultural expressions like indigenous languages and crafts around the globe.
Desired Activities
- Anastylosis: Reassembling a web site utilizing its unique elements.
- Conservation: Treating or in any other case addressing injury or deterioration to an object or web site.
- Consolidation: Reconnecting parts of an object or web site.
- Documentation: Recording the situation and essential options of an object, web site, or custom in analog or digital format.
- Inventory: Listing objects, websites, or traditions by location, function, age, or different unifying traits.
- Preventive Conservation: Addressing situations that threaten or injury a web site, object, assortment, or custom.
- Restoration: Replacing lacking parts to recreate the unique look of an object or web site, normally applicable for effective arts, ornamental arts, and historic buildings.
- Stabilization: Reducing the bodily disturbance or rising the soundness of an object or web site.
Participants and audiences
Local communities, authorities companies, instructional establishments, vacationers, and others eager about cultural heritage and its preservation.
- Substantial Involvement
An AFCP award could also be a cooperative settlement with substantial involvement that will embrace, however will not be restricted to, the choice or approval of challenge members, topics, or programs of motion.
D. Application Contents and Format
Please observe all directions beneath rigorously. Proposals that don’t meet the necessities of this announcement or fail to adjust to the acknowledged necessities will likely be ineligible.
Round One (by 5pm GMT+3 on January 10, 2025)
Your Round 1 Concept Note should embrace:
- Project fundamentals: Include the implementer’s title, a working title of the challenge, anticipated challenge size (between 12-60 months), challenge location, and a challenge value estimate (quantity requested from AFCP, in U.S. {dollars}).
- Project abstract description: Provide a abstract (3,000 characters most) that outlines the challenge actions, deliverables (outputs), and supposed outcomes (outcomes).
Round 1 Concept be aware: attachments
File restrict: 5
Your Round 1 Concept Note should additionally embrace:
- Visual or audiovisual documentation: Include 5 (5) high-quality digital photos (JPEGs or PNGs) or audiovisual recordsdata that convey the character and situation of the positioning, assortment, or custom and present the urgency or want for the challenge (e.g., collapsed partitions, water injury).
Round 2 full software: proposal
Page restrict: 20
If your Round 1 Concept Note advances to Round 2, the U.S. Embassy will ask you to submit a full software.
Your proposal ought to comprise adequate info in order that anybody not acquainted with your challenge will perceive precisely what you need to do. You could use your individual format, nevertheless it should embrace all of the gadgets beneath.
- Updated challenge description: Expand on the challenge abstract offered within the Round 1 idea be aware. Clearly describe the targets of the challenge. Explain the outputs and outcomes the challenge will produce to attain every aim, and the actions that may generate these outputs and outcomes. Do this for each major targets (similar to restoring part of a monument) and secondary targets (similar to enhancing financial alternatives). Successful AFCP Round 2 functions describe a transparent, logical pathway from actions to targets, together with the mandatory steps in between. Unsuccessful functions state broad targets however omit particulars on how they are going to be achieved. In addition to the outline, you might embrace an inventory, desk, or Gantt chart of actions in chronological order, together with main outputs and outcomes and goal dates for attaining them.
- Key personnel: Names, titles, roles and expertise/{qualifications} of key personnel concerned within the challenge.
- Statement of significance: Highlight the historic, architectural, inventive, or cultural (non-religious) values of the cultural heritage.
- Maintenance plan: Outline the steps or measures that you’ll take to take care of the positioning, object, or assortment in good situation after the AFCP-supported challenge is full; or, within the case of types of conventional cultural expression, protect and disseminate the documentation, information, or expertise gained from the challenge.
- Public outreach plan: Describe how you’ll construct consciousness and interact communities and stakeholders. Awareness-building actions sometimes embrace social media posts, ribbon-cutting occasions, and information tales. Community and stakeholder engagement actions could embrace community-led or community-produced workshops, brief movies, documentary movies, oral histories, storytelling or interpretive reveals, and academic or enrichment occasions tailor-made for particular audiences, similar to younger folks. Successful Round 2 functions function robust and revolutionary public outreach actions.
- Data and data entry plan: Outline how you’ll share, as applicable, uncooked knowledge or processed info, similar to publications, generated from the challenge with the general public and the Department of State.
Round 2 full software: detailed price range and price range narrative
Page restrict: None
- Detailed challenge price range: Provide an in depth challenge price range that lists all prices in separate classes (Personnel, Fringe Benefits, Travel [including Per Diem], Equipment, Supplies, Contractual, Other Direct Costs, Indirect Costs) and signifies funds from different sources. The classes and subtotals ought to match these within the SF-424A Budget (see Mandatory Application Forms, beneath).
- Budget narrative: Explain how the prices within the detailed price range had been estimated (amount x unit value, annual wage x share of time spent on challenge, and so forth.) and any giant price range line gadgets. You could mix the detailed price range and price range narrative in a single file. See the part, Other Information: Guidelines for Budget Submissions (beneath), for extra price range info.
Round 2 full software: attachments
File restrict: None
- Resumes or CVs: Provide resumes or CVs of the proposed challenge director and different key personnel.
- Support letters: If relevant, letters of assist from challenge companions describing the roles and tasks of every companion.
- Proof of official permission: Official permission letters, if required for challenge actions.
- Relevant supporting documentation: Provide related supporting documentation, similar to historic construction studies, restoration plans and research, conservation wants assessments and suggestions, architectural and engineering information, and so forth., compiled in preparation for the proposed challenge.
- Additional visible or audiovisual documentation: As requested or as applicable, present extra high-quality digital photos (JPEGs or PNGs) or audiovisual recordsdata that convey the character and situation of the heritage and present the urgency or want for the proposed challenge (e.g., collapsing partitions, in depth water injury).
- NICRA: If your group has a Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreement (NICRA) and contains NICRA fees within the price range, embrace your newest NICRA as a PDF file.
Mandatory software types
You might want to full some customary types. You can discover the usual types and their directions at Grants.gov forms.
| Form | Description |
| SF-424 | Application for Federal Assistance—Organizations |
| SF-424A | Budget Information for Non-Construction Programs |
| SF-424B | Assurances for Non-Construction Programs [Note: The SF-424B is only required for individuals and for organizations not registered in SAM.gov.] |
E. Submission Requirements and Deadlines
1. Address to Request Application Package
Application types required above can be found at U.S. Embassy Kampala web site and www.grants.gov
2. Department of State Contacts
If you have got any questions in regards to the grant software course of, please contact: kampalagrants@state.gov
1. Unique entity identifier and System for Award Management (SAM.gov)
Required Registrations
All organizations, whether or not primarily based within the United States or abroad, will need to have a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) and an energetic registration in SAM.gov. A UEI is without doubt one of the knowledge parts mandated by Public Law 109-282, the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA), for all Federal awards. An applicant should preserve an energetic registration whereas it has a proposal underneath assessment by the Department and should proceed to maintain the registration energetic for the whole period of the interval of efficiency of any Federal award that outcomes from this NOFO.
The 2 CFR 200 requires subrecipients to acquire a UEI. Please be aware the UEI for subrecipients will not be required on the time of software however will likely be required earlier than an award is processed and/or directed to a subrecipient.
Note: The technique of acquiring or renewing a SAM.gov registration could take anyplace from 4-8 weeks. Please start your registration as early as attainable.
- Organizations primarily based within the United States or that pay staff throughout the United States will want an Employer Identification Number (EIN) from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and a UEI previous to registering in SAM.gov.
- Organizations primarily based exterior of the United States and that don’t pay staff throughout the United States don’t want an EIN from the IRS however do want a UEI previous to registering in SAM.gov.
- Organizations primarily based exterior of the United States that don’t intend to apply for U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) awards are now not required to have a NATO Commercial and Government Entity (NCAGE) code to apply for non-DoD international help funding alternatives. If an applicant group is mid-registration and needs to take away an NCAGE code from their SAM.gov registration, the applicant ought to submit a help desk ticket (“incident”) with the Federal Service Desk (FSD) on-line at fsd.gov utilizing the next language: “I do not intend to seek financial assistance from the Department of Defense. I do not wish to obtain an NCAGE code. I understand that I will need to submit my registration after this incident is resolved in order to have my registration activated.”
Organizations primarily based exterior of the United States and that DO NOT plan to do enterprise with the DoD ought to observe the beneath directions:
Step 1: Proceed to SAM.gov to acquire a UEI and full the SAM.gov registration course of. SAM.gov registration should be renewed yearly.
Organizations primarily based exterior of the United States and that DO plan to do enterprise with the DoD along with Department of State ought to observe the beneath directions:
Step 1: Apply for an NCAGE code by following the directions on the NSPA NATO web site linked beneath:
NCAGE Homepage:
https://eportal.nspa.nato.int/AC135Public/sc/CageList.aspx
NCAGE Code Request Tool (NCRT):
NCAGE Code Request Tool (nato.int)
Exemptions
An exemption from the UEI and sam.gov registration necessities could also be permitted on a case-by-case foundation. See 2 CFR 25.110 for a full record of exemptions.
Organizations requesting exemption from UEI or SAM.gov necessities should e-mail the purpose of contact listed within the NOFO not less than two weeks previous to the deadline within the NOFO offering a justification of their request. Approval for a SAM.gov exemption should come from the warranted Grants Officer earlier than the appliance may be deemed eligible for assessment.
3. Submission Dates and Times
Applications are due no later than January 10, 2025, 5:00P.M., +3GMT
4. Funding Restrictions
The AFCP doesn’t assist the next actions or prices, and functions involving any of the actions or prices beneath will likely be deemed ineligible:
- Privately or Commercially Owned Property: Preservation or buy of privately or commercially owned cultural objects, collections, or actual property, together with these whose switch from non-public or industrial to public possession is envisioned, deliberate, or in course of however not full on the time of software.
- Natural Heritage: Preservation of pure heritage (bodily, organic, and geological formations, paleontological collections, habitats of threatened species of animals and vegetation, fossils, and so forth.) except the pure heritage has a cultural heritage connection or dimension.
- Human Remains: Preservation of hominid or human stays.
- News Media: Preservation of stories media (newspapers, newsreels, radio and TV applications, and so forth.).
- Published Materials: Preservation of revealed supplies obtainable elsewhere (books, periodicals, and so forth.).
- Mandated Educational Materials: Development of curricula or instructional supplies for required classroom use.
- Archaeological Research: Archaeological excavations or exploratory surveys for analysis functions.
- Historical Research: Historical analysis, besides in instances the place the analysis is justifiable and integral to the success of the proposed challenge.
- New Exhibits or Collections: Acquisition or creation of recent reveals, objects, or collections for new or present museums.
- New Construction: Construction of recent buildings, constructing additions, or everlasting coverings (over archaeological websites, for instance).
- New Works of Art: Commissions of recent artistic endeavors or structure for commemorative or financial growth functions.
- New or Modern Adaptations: Creation of recent or fashionable adaptation of present conventional dances, songs, chants, musical compositions, performs, or different performances.
- Conjectural Reconstructions: Creation of conjectural reconstructions of cultural objects or websites that now not exist.
- Relocation: Relocation of cultural websites from one bodily location to a different except underneath imminent risk of irreversible injury or destruction.
- Removal: Removal of cultural objects or parts of cultural websites from the nation for any cause.
- Digitization: Digitization of cultural objects or collections, except a part of a clearly outlined conservation, documentation, or PD effort.
- Conservation Plans or Studies: Conservation plans or different research, except they’re one part of a bigger challenge to implement the outcomes of these research.
- Cash Reserves or Endowments: Cash reserves, endowments, or revolving funds (funds should be expended throughout the award interval [up to five years] and will not be used to create an endowment or revolving fund).
- Fund-Raising Campaigns: Costs of fund-raising campaigns.
- Contingency Costs: Contingency, unexpected, or miscellaneous prices.
- Pre-Award Costs: Costs of labor carried out previous to the announcement of the award except allowable per 2 CFR 200.458 and permitted by the Grants Officer.
- International Travel: International journey exterior the challenge nation, besides in instances the place journey is justifiable and integral to the success of the proposed challenge or to supply challenge leaders with studying and trade alternatives with cultural heritage consultants.
- Project Cost Limits: Individual tasks which value lower than US $25,000 or greater than $500,000.
- Independent U.S. Projects: Independent U.S. tasks abroad.
5. Other Submission Requirements
All software supplies should be submitted by e-mail to kampalagrants@state.gov
F. Application Review Information
1. Review Criteria
Each software will likely be evaluated and rated primarily based on the standards outlined beneath:
Strategic Value (5 factors): The challenge ought to deal with the precedence areas outlined on this AFCP name.
Project Idea and value (2 factors): The challenge ought to embrace a robust drawback assertion and be revolutionary, well-developed, and have an inexpensive implementation timeline.
Project Goals and Objectives (3 factors): Goals and goals are clearly acknowledged and are particular, measurable, attainable, related, and time-bound (SMART).
Grant Management Capacity (5 factors): Applicant has organizational and personnel experience in its acknowledged discipline. It has accounted for satisfactory staffing to handle the challenge.
Evaluation and Project Impact (2 factors): The monitoring and analysis plan clearly identifies outputs, outcomes, and influence. It evaluates challenge success throughout and on the finish of the challenge. The plan identifies potential dangers and provides mitigation methods.
Sustainability (1 factors): Activities may proceed to have optimistic influence after the tip of the challenge. Impact may embrace adjustments in particular person or neighborhood perceptions or potential.
Budget and Budget Narrative (2 factors): The price range is properly developed, with itemized price range traces, and aligns with OMB pointers (Please discuss with the “Guidelines for Budget Justification” underneath part H). The price range justification is detailed with itemized prices. Budget gadgets are cheap, allocable, and allowable. The price range accounts for all forecasted bills in keeping with proposed actions.
2. Review and Selection Process
A grants assessment panel will consider all eligible proposals in opposition to the standards listed above. Proposals are reviewed individually in opposition to the standards and never in opposition to competing functions. The panel could present situations and/or suggestions on shortlisted proposals to boost the proposed challenge. Conditions should be addressed, and suggestions needs to be addressed, in a full proposal software as a part of spherical two.
3. Risk Review
- Risk elements – should embrace
Under the advantage assessment as required by 2 CFR 200.206, prior to creating a Federal Award the Department will assessment and contemplate the next threat elements:
- Financial stability
- Management programs and requirements
- History of efficiency
- Audit studies and findings
- Ability to successfully implement necessities
- If there are any program particular threat elements that will likely be thought-about, describe them right here.
- Responsibility/Qualification Information in SAM.gov
The Federal awarding company, prior to creating a Federal award with a complete quantity of Federal share larger than the simplified acquisition threshold, is required to assessment and contemplate (see 41 U.S.C. 2313);
An applicant can assessment and touch upon any info within the accountability/qualification information obtainable in SAM.gov.
Before making selections within the threat assessment required by 2 CFR 200.206, the Department will contemplate any feedback by the applicant, together with info obtainable within the accountability/qualification information in SAM.gov.
G. Award Notices
The award or cooperative settlement will likely be written, signed, awarded, and administered by the Grants Officer. The award settlement is the authorizing doc, and it is going to be offered to the recipient for assessment and counter-signature. The recipient could solely begin incurring challenge bills starting on the beginning date proven on the award doc signed by the Grants Officer.
If a proposal is chosen for funding, the Department of State has no obligation to supply any extra future funding. Renewal of an award to extend funding or lengthen the interval of efficiency is on the discretion of the Department of State.
Issuance of this NOFO doesn’t represent an award dedication on the a part of the U.S. authorities, nor does it commit the U.S. authorities to pay for prices incurred within the preparation and submission of proposals. Further, the U.S. authorities reserves the correct to reject all or any proposals acquired.
Unsuccessful candidates: Unsuccessful candidates will likely be notified by August 10, 2025, by way of e-mail.
Payment Method: Recipients will likely be required to request funds by finishing type SF-270—Request for Advance or Reimbursement and submitting the shape to the Grants Officer.
H. Post-Award Requirements and Administration
1. Administrative and National Policy Requirements
Before submitting an software, candidates ought to assessment all of the phrases and situations and required certifications which can apply to this award, to make sure that they’ll be capable of comply.
These embrace:
In accordance with the Office of Management and Budget’s steerage situated at 2 CFR half 200, all relevant Federal legal guidelines, and related Executive steerage, the Department of State will assessment and contemplate functions for funding, as relevant to particular applications, pursuant to this discover of funding alternative in accordance with the next: NOTE:
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Guidance for Grants and Agreements in Title 2 of the Code of Federal Regulations (2 CFR), as up to date within the Federal Register’s 89 FR 30046 on April 22, 2024, notably on:
- Selecting recipients more than likely to achieve success in delivering outcomes primarily based on this system goals by an neutral technique of evaluating Federal award functions (2 CFR half 200.205),
- Promoting the liberty of speech and non secular liberty in alignment with Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty (E.O. 13798) and Improving Free Inquiry, Transparency, and Accountability at Colleges and Universities (E.O. 13864) (§§ 200.300, 200.303, 200.339, and 200.341),
- Providing a choice, to the extent permitted by regulation, to maximise use of products, merchandise, and supplies produced within the United States (2 CFR half 200.322), and
- Terminating agreements pursuant to the U.S. Department of State Standard Terms and Conditions, together with, to the best extent approved by regulation, if an award now not effectuates this system targets or company priorities (2 CFR half 200.340).
2. Reporting
Reporting Requirements: Recipients will likely be required to submit monetary studies and program studies. The award doc will specify what studies are required and the way usually these studies should be submitted.
Foreign Assistance Data Review: As required by Congress, the Department of State should make progress in its efforts to enhance monitoring and reporting of international help knowledge by the Foreign Assistance Data Review (FADR). The FADR requires monitoring of international help exercise knowledge from budgeting, planning, and allocation by obligation and disbursement. Successful candidates will likely be required to report and draw down federal funding primarily based on the suitable FADR Data Elements, indicated inside their award documentation. In instances of a couple of FADR Data Element, sometimes program or sector and/or areas or nation, the profitable applicant will likely be required to take care of separate accounting information.
Applicants ought to concentrate on the put up award reporting necessities mirrored in 2 CFR 200 Appendix XII—Award Term and Condition for Recipient Integrity and Performance Matters.
I. Other Information
Guidelines for Budget Justification
Personnel and Fringe Benefits: Describe the wages, salaries, and advantages of short-term or everlasting employees who will likely be working straight for the applicant on this system, and the share of their time that will likely be spent on this system.
Travel: Estimate the prices of journey and per diem for this program, for program employees, consultants or audio system, and members/beneficiaries. If this system entails worldwide journey, embrace a short assertion of justification for that journey.
Equipment: Describe any equipment, furnishings, or different private property that’s required for this system, which has a helpful lifetime of a couple of yr (or a life longer than the period of this system), and prices not less than $10,000 per unit.
Supplies: List and describe all of the gadgets and supplies, together with any laptop gadgets, which can be wanted for this system. If an merchandise prices greater than $10,000 per unit, then put it within the price range underneath Equipment.
Contractual: Describe items and providers that the applicant plans to accumulate by a contract with a vendor. Also describe any sub-awards to non-profit companions that may assist perform this system actions.
Other Direct Costs: Describe different prices straight related to this system, which don’t match within the different classes. For instance, transport prices for supplies and gear or relevant taxes. All “Other” or “Miscellaneous” bills should be itemized and defined.
Indirect Costs: These are prices that can not be linked on to this system actions, similar to overhead prices wanted to assist hold the group working. If your group has a Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate (NICRA) and contains NICRA fees within the price range, connect a duplicate of your newest NICRA. Organizations which have by no means had a NICRA could request oblique prices of 15% of Modified Total Direct Costs as outlined in 2 CFR 200.1.
“Cost Sharing” refers to contributions from the group or different entities aside from the U.S. Embassy. It additionally contains in-kind contributions similar to volunteers’ time and donated venues.
Alcoholic Beverages: Please be aware that award funds can’t be used for alcoholic drinks.
