Hello all,
I am in Uganda for three months this summer, working with a district archive in its nascent stages of progress. I'm casting about for any and all sources of funding, both public and private, so as to keep the project going. Caveat: The documents are the property of the local government, but the local university has reached an agreement with the government to act as caretakers. Thus, I'm not quite sure what sort of organization we would qualify as in terms of grant applications.
We are not an established CSO (there are only five employees right now, four of whom are contract employees and the fifth being a lecturer at the university), nor would we be applying for funding on behalf of the local government. The Ugandan government does not view archival records as a particularly important item on their priority list, and so obtaining money from local/federal governmental sources right now is near impossible. (This is a large impetus behind the project; we are hoping that this work and our additional work with the Ugandan National Archives will serve to show the government the vast importance of preserving these resources.)
Thoughts?
Thanks!
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