Call for Applications: UNESCO International Fund for Cultural Diversity 2025 (Up to $100,000 Grant)

Do you have a project that aims to empower the creative sectors? UNESCO is launching the sixteenth call for applications to the International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD). Through this open and competitive process, the IFCD seeks projects with the ability to generate concrete and lasting results in the development of the creative sectors in the Global South.

Project proposals should contribute to:

• The implementation and/or elaboration of policies and measures that have a direct, structural impact on the creation, production, distribution and access to a diversity of cultural goods and services, and/or

• The strengthening of capacities in public institutions and civil society organizations to support viable local and regional cultural industries and markets.

Public institutions and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from eligible countries from the Global South are invited to submit their proposals, as well as international NGOs registered in countries that are Parties to the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.

Since 2010, the IFCD has invested US$ 12.6 million through 164 projects in 76 developing countries. These initiatives have contributed to the development and implementation of cultural policies and have strengthened professional training and cultural entrepreneurship. The funded projects have also supported access to new markets and expanded the participation and inclusion of vulnerable groups in cultural life. 

Through the IFCD’s 2025 call for applications, UNESCO strengthens international cooperation and solidarity in a spirit of partnership to enhance the capacities of developing countries, in line with the 2005 Convention’s objective. 

The call for applications opens on 19 March 2025 and closes on 21 May 2025, noon Paris time.

For any inquiries, please contact the Secretariat of the 2005 Convention: [email protected]

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