{"id":25763,"date":"2020-03-24T15:56:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T15:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=25763"},"modified":"2020-03-24T15:56:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T15:56:03","slug":"british-council-new-cultural-protection-funding-announced-for-2020-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=25763","title":{"rendered":"British Council: New Cultural Protection funding announced for 2020-2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-25764\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/british_council_240320-263x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"300\" \/>The Cultural Protection Fund is continuing into 2021, to build on from the success of the last four years, with new funding, reports The British Council.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The British Council writes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Cultural Protection Fund is a fund that supports efforts to protect cultural heritage at risk in in twelve target countries in the Middle East and North Africa.<\/li>\n<li>The fund aims to\u00a0<strong>help to create sustainable opportunities for economic and social development<\/strong>\u00a0through building capacity to\u00a0<strong>foster, safeguard and promote cultural heritage\u00a0<\/strong>affected by conflict.<\/li>\n<li>Grants are available to applicants working with local partners in one or more of the fund\u2019s target countries:\u00a0<strong>Afghanistan, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Iraq, Occupied Palestinian Territories, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey and Yemen<\/strong>.\u00a0 NB CPF is funded through ODA grant which limits the Fund to ODA countries.<\/li>\n<li>The Cultural Protection Fund accepts applications from organisations globally, but applicants must either be based in, or have a partner in one of the fund&#8217;s target countries (see above).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As part of our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishcouncil.org\/arts\/culture-development\/current-projects\">wider work in culture and development<\/a>, we manage the Cultural Protection Fund in partnership with\u00a0<a title=\"Opens in a new tab or window.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/department-for-culture-media-sport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DCMS\u00a0<\/a>.\u00a0The fund is administered by a UK-based team (and not the British Council offices based with our target countries).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishcouncil.org\/arts\/culture-development\/cultural-protection-fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cultural Protection Fund is continuing into 2021, to build on from the success of the last four years, with new funding, reports The British Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25765,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25763\/revisions\/25765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}