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DOS-KAZ-NS-PAS-21-009: Cultural Program Projects to Preventing Gender Based Violence

Closed Closed July 22, 2021 Opportunity DOS-KAZ-NS-PAS-21-009 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: Austrian-American Partnership Fund (AAPF) (OFOP0002825). Status: Closes January 1, 2099 (26353 days left). It is in our archive of U.S. Mission to Kazakhstan notices from 2021.

• Award ceiling$50,000
• Award floor$10,000
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeGrant

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

The following Kazakhstani and U.S. organizations are eligible to apply: Non-profit organizations, Civil society/non-governmental organizations, Public and private cultural institutions, Public and private educational institutions, Think tanks, Unions or professional associations.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Public Diplomacy Programs awards averaged $26,570; this notice allows up to $50,000 per award.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

PAS is seeking proposals from Kazakhstani and U.S. non-profit or non-governmental organization partners. Applicants should pay close attention to the Public Affairs Section’s goals, objectives, and target audiences (listed below) when developing their proposals, and proposals must contain an American element. Examples of programs with strong American cultural or U.S. expertise components could include, but are not limited to: Academic and/or professional lectures, seminars, or training; Speaking tours/public talks and trainings by U.S. experts or roundtable discussions between U.S. experts and their counterparts in Kazakhstan; and Artistic and cultural workshops, joint performances, exhibitions or campaigns. We encourage creative ideas for blended and remote/online content delivery, online/virtual promotional activities, and virtual participant/audience follow-up. Applicants should submit two separate budgets which reflect different costs for in-person/blended and exclusively virtual programs, pending the COVID-19 situation at the time of project implementation. Please carefully consider all instructions below. Competitive projects will: Demonstrate implementer’s proven track record on executing superior cultural and educational events, exchanges, and/or programs. Include long-term sustainability of the project and/or outcomes. Address gender parity among participants/target audiences and include engagement with underserved communities and participants located in regions outside of Nur-Sultan and Almaty. Project Goals: Increase public awareness of and reduce gender-based violence in Kazakhstan and increase the capacity of human rights activists through the sharing of U.S. models and expertise. Project Objectives: Project should address one or more of the following objectives: Raise awareness and instruct participants on basic themes of human rights, human dignity, gender equity, project management, or community work. Promote and facilitate linkages between U.S. and Kazakhstani audiences, through U.S. best practices and standard policies addressing unfair treatment, disrespect, or violence based on gender. Promote positive experiences, if possible, from U.S. counterparts, through sharing stories through discussion or through television, films, music, dance, theater, etc.

Category: Other.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, OFOP0002825, which is open now.

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