The U.S. Embassy Kabul Public Affairs Section (PAS) of the U.S. Department of State is pleased to announce funding is available through the embassy’s Public Diplomacy Grants program.
1. Expand media engagement.
2. Build communication capacity of the Afghan people and government.
3. Counter extremist voices that recruit, mislead, and exploit.
4. Strengthen people-to-people ties to deepen the partnership between communities within Afghanistan and between Afghanistan and the United States.
Funding is available for projects that increase the scope, capacity, and participation of civil society in building up the media and communications sectors in Afghanistan, that serve to support and develop Afghan voices and new leaders capable of contradicting extremism, and that support civil society and boost institutional capacity.
The deadline to apply is 4 November 2010. For more information, visit this link.
