Opportunity Information: Apply for DOS KAZ AST AEECA 24 002
The U.S. Mission to Kazakhstan is offering a small-grants program aimed at expanding the availability of high-quality Kazakh-language content online. The opportunity is framed as support for Kazakhstan's national language and cultural development while also encouraging a more competitive, professional, and free media environment. The underlying idea is that as the number of Kazakh speakers grows, so does demand for trustworthy, engaging digital content in Kazakh, and targeted grants can help creators and organizations meet that demand in ways that strengthen media integrity and resilience.
The main goal of the grant is to increase access for Kazakh-speaking audiences to reliable, high-quality information by directly supporting Kazakh-language online content creators. The program is intentionally broad about what "content" can look like, welcoming proposals that develop or produce media in many formats such as animation, documentaries, apps, reporting projects, podcasts, and video series. Proposals are expected to show a clear connection to improving Kazakh-language media and to reflect strong standards around accuracy, integrity, and responsible production, especially in online spaces where misinformation can spread quickly.
Applicants are encouraged to align their projects with one or more core objectives. The first objective focuses on building a supportive ecosystem for content creators by strengthening skills and professional practices, including fact-checking methods, critical thinking and analysis, audience engagement approaches, and visual storytelling techniques. The second objective emphasizes technological advancement by helping creators incorporate emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, into their workflows in ways that improve production quality, efficiency, reach, or innovation. The third objective prioritizes integrity and accuracy, specifically supporting the creation of content that counters disinformation and misinformation and addresses issues like historical manipulation, with the intent of raising overall standards and trust in Kazakh-language media.
The target audiences include Kazakh-language content creators and social media creators, as well as technology professionals working on innovation in the media space. The scope also leaves room for academic or cultural institutions and organizations that promote Kazakh language, history, and culture, particularly when they are positioned to produce or enable online content. In other words, the grants are not limited to traditional journalism alone; they can support capacity-building, new tools, creative formats, and culturally grounded educational or informational media, as long as the work clearly benefits Kazakh-speaking audiences and strengthens the broader information environment.
Eligibility includes Kazakhstan-based not-for-profit organizations that promote Kazakh language and culture through online media, NGOs including media-focused organizations, for-profit organizations or small businesses developing innovative technologies or platforms that support Kazakh-language content creation and distribution, and individual creators such as independent journalists, writers, and educators producing Kazakh-language content for online publication. A key restriction is that only Kazakhstan-based organizations are eligible to apply under this announcement, which effectively centers local capacity and locally grounded projects.
In practical grant terms, this is a discretionary U.S. government grant (CFDA 19.900) with an award ceiling of $50,000. The program anticipated making about five awards. The opportunity was issued by the U.S. Mission to Kazakhstan under funding opportunity number DOS KAZ AST AEECA 24 002, with an original closing date of May 20, 2024, and a posting/creation date of March 20, 2024.Apply for DOS KAZ AST AEECA 24 002
- The U.S. Mission to Kazakhstan in the other sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Media-related small grants to bolster Kazakh language online content" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 19.900.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2024-03-20.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-05-20. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $50,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 5 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others.
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