CALL FOR APPLICATIONS : OPEN FOR THE 11th INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR CULTURAL DIVERSITY

The International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD) has opened a call for funding. The main objective of IFCD is to invest in projects that lead to structural change through the introduction and/or elaboration of policies and strategies that have a direct effect on the creation, production, distribution of and access to a diversity of cultural expressions including cultural goods, services and activities, as well as through the reinforcement of institutional infrastructures deemed necessary to support viable cultural industries at the local and regional levels.

The call is open to non-governmental organisations; micro, small and medium enterprises; international non-governmental organisations which meet the definition of civil society.

The funding is up to US$100,000 per project (Approximately – R1,6 mil).

Colleagues are requested to distribute the above information to respective stakeholders.

Each applicant should first create an account for the on-line application platform at:

https://en.unesco.org/creativity/ifcd/apply

Attached documents with this email are:

·       11^th IFCD call

·       IFCD annotated guide

All funding requests must be submitted online through the IFCD website and therefore will not be accepted in paper format or by email. The deadline for applicants to submit their funding requests is Wednesday, 27 May 2020 (midnight, Paris time).

Pre-selection process

• In accordance with the Guidelines on the use of IFCD resources (para. 12), you are asked to form a pre-selection panel made up of representatives of the Ministries of Culture and/or other Ministries responsible for the cultural industries and of civil society organizations specializing in the field of culture to evaluate and pre-select funding requests to be submitted to the UNESCO Secretariat. Kindly note that National Commissions and any other organizations participating in the pre-selection of funding requests to the IFCD are not eligible for IFCD funding.

•  The pre-selection procedure will be conducted online. After 10 June 2020, each National Commission will receive an e-mail containing instructions for the next pre-selection.

• National Commissions will be asked to finalize their pre-selection activities online by Monday, 10 July 2020 (midnight, Paris time). Please recall that a maximum of four (4) applications can be submitted per country: a maximum of two from public authorities/institutions and a maximum of two (2) from NGOs.

Please make sure that you present the pre-selected applications well in advance of the deadline in order to avoid any potential technical problems with the upload of documents to the online platform.

Eligible requests will be evaluated by an independent panel of experts before being submitted to the fourteenth session of the Intergovernmental Committee in February

2021.

For more information visit https://en.unesco.org/creativity/calls/call-applications-open-international-fund-cultural or info@unescoghana.org