English Language Small Grants Program | TASHKENT PAS FY21 02

Opportunity Information: Apply for TASHKENT PAS FY21 02

The English Language Small Grants Program (Funding Opportunity Number: TASHKENT PAS FY21 02) is a discretionary grant opportunity offered by the U.S. Mission to Uzbekistan (CFDA 19.900) aimed at raising the overall quality of English language teaching and learning across Uzbekistan. The program is designed to support Uzbekistan's national English education reform goals by encouraging practical, modern improvements in how English is taught and how students engage with the language. At its core, the opportunity is looking for projects that move beyond traditional classroom instruction and instead promote innovative, interactive approaches that make English learning more effective, motivating, and connected to real-world outcomes, including economic growth and workforce development.

A central theme of the grant is creativity and student engagement through structured extracurricular or co-curricular programming. The opportunity specifically encourages English language educators and institutions to establish or expand centers, clubs, and programs that help university and secondary-school students strengthen English proficiency while also building higher-order skills like critical thinking, decision-making, innovation, and public speaking. The grant recognizes that many talented students in universities and schools can benefit from extracurricular spaces where they can practice English in meaningful contexts, demonstrate their potential, and even take leadership roles by developing ideas that motivate peers to participate and improve.

The primary audiences and beneficiaries are English language learners and English educators working at the secondary school and university levels. The program encourages broad geographic participation, welcoming applications from all regions of Uzbekistan, and it is open to both female and male applicants, with an explicit interest in activities that particularly support female students' growth in confidence, leadership, and analytical skills through English-medium programming.

Proposed projects are expected to accomplish one or more of three main objectives. First, proposals may focus on professional development for university English teachers, especially training that helps instructors adopt and integrate modern interactive teaching methods into their classes. Second, projects may directly target student language outcomes, aiming to improve core English skills such as speaking, writing, reading, and listening among secondary and university students. Third, proposals may emphasize broader student development, using English as the language of instruction to strengthen innovative thinking, public speaking abilities, and critical thinking, with particular encouragement to include and elevate female students in these activities.

The opportunity provides several examples of the kinds of activities that fit the program's intent, while still leaving room for applicants to propose their own locally relevant ideas. Suggested activities include establishing conversation clubs, drama-in-English programs, debate clubs, American literature groups, or American film clubs. Other eligible concepts include English camps for students, training workshops for teachers, programs that connect English learning with STEM themes, and initiatives that develop English for specific career pathways such as hospitality management and tourism. Overall, the emphasis is on active learning environments where students use English to collaborate, solve problems, present ideas, and build confidence in authentic communication.

Eligibility is limited to Uzbekistan-based entities and professionals. Applicants must be an accredited school, institute, teacher training center, university, or a non-profit organization fully based in Uzbekistan. Individual applications are also allowed, but only from English language professionals who are employed full-time at an accredited school or university. Relevant academic departments, including English, journalism, and international relations departments, are specifically noted as eligible to apply. The award ceiling listed for this opportunity is $50,000, and the original closing date for the posted cycle was May 27, 2021 (created April 22, 2021).

• The U.S. Mission to Uzbekistan in the other sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "English Language Small Grants Program" 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 2021-04-22.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2021-05-27. (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.
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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