Cooperative Agreement SKZ10022CA0047

This Project Grant award of $155,000 from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs under the AEECA/ESF PD Programs (CFDA 19.900) aims to increase diverse, high-quality media content and strengthen English proficiency among journalists and content creators in Kazakhstan. The awardee, Next Level English, a for-profit sole proprietorship, will provide tailored English language training courses designed to improve the professional skills of journalists, enhance their...

The Department of State Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs awarded Next Level English a $180,000 project grant under the AEECA/ESF PD Programs (CFDA 19.900) to provide English language training for professional journalists in Kazakhstan. The grant period runs from October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2023. The AEECA/ESF PD Programs aim to support civil society and democracy building initiatives in Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia, including Kazakhstan, through public diplomacy. Under...

The U.S. Department of State, through its AEECA/ESF Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.900), awarded a $1,499,999 Cooperative Agreement to World Learning Inc. to prepare at least 200 early-career English-language teachers from Central Asian countries to teach quality English language programming for adult and youth audiences. The award date is July 31, 2024, with a completion date of July 31, 2026. Under this Cooperative Agreement, World Learning Inc. will manage the C5 + ONE (Opening Networks...

The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded a $300,000 cooperative agreement to Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees for the project "MEDIA AND INFORMATION LITERACY FOR FUTURE TEACHERS" from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2023. The project aims to provide civil society and democracy building public diplomacy programs within Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia under the AEECA/ESF PD Programs (CFDA 19.900) federal grant program. Specifically, the funding will...

The Department of State Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs awarded a $100,000 cooperative agreement to Zeraina, Of under the AEECA/ESF PD Programs (CFDA 19.900) to provide a foundation of English language skills and EL teaching methodology to 18-20-year-old students from economically disadvantaged families in Nur-Sultan, Semey, Karaganda, and Atyrau, Kazakhstan. The two-year award beginning June 14, 2021 aims to deliver civil society and democracy building public diplomacy programs...

The Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs awarded $121,460 under the Educational and Cultural Exchange Programs Appropriation Overseas Grants (CFDA 19.022) federal grant program to ZG Dig-Ed Skopje, a non-profit organization, for a cooperative agreement providing a TechCamp focused on training teachers in media literacy and cybersecurity skills. The TechCamp will deliver training to teachers from across the United States from June 2023 to January 2025, with the goal of...

The U.S. Department of State Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs has awarded a $173,000 Project Grant to the Public Foundation For Innovation Education "Lingua", a non-profit organization in Kyrgyzstan, under the Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.900). The grant will fund the implementation of a teacher training program for English and STEM teachers in seven regions and Bishkek in 2023-2024. The program aims to strengthen democratic institutions,...

The Department of State Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs will provide $360,000 through March 2024 via a Cooperative Agreement to support five partnership projects under the AEECA/ESF PD Programs (CFDA 19.900) between U.S. and Kazakhstani universities. Funded activities will focus on delivering products and services in the areas of good governance, financial planning and management, joint research publications, and curricula revision. American Councils For International Education: Actr /...

This $107,662 cooperative agreement from the Department of State Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs to Kloop Media Public Foundation supports the delivery of satellite building trainings and development of satellite building curriculum in Kyrgyzstan from October 1, 2021 through December 31, 2022. As part of the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) grant program, the foundation will conduct hands-on trainings to teach satellite construction techniques and develop accompanying...

The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, awarded a $194,970 Cooperative Agreement on October 2, 2023 to Kazakhstan Amcorners Network, OO, a non-profit organization, to develop and implement five nationwide skills-building programs, as well as local programs, supplies, and technology to support the operation of nine American Corners in Kazakhstan. This award was made under the ECA - American Spaces program (CFDA 19.441), which provides funding to promote...