1. Professional Fellows

   The U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has long-standing partnerships with organizations that advance foreign relations and people-to-people diplomacy.

2. Protecting Native American Heritage

   The Cultural Heritage Center supports Native American efforts to recover items held in foreign museums or offered for sale in foreign countries.

3. Monitoring Data for ECA (MODE) Framework

   In 2019, the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) Evaluation Division led an initiative to redesign the performance monitoring process across the Bureau.

4. MECEA Section 108A FAQs

   FAQs for USG Employees on Foreign Government-Sponsored Exchange Programs Authorized under Section 108A of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (FGSP-A).

5. TechCamp

   TechCamp was a public diplomacy program hosted in the Bureau of Educational & Cultural Affairs (ECA) at the U.S. Department of State.

6. Red Lists of Antiquities at Risk

   Red Lists of Antiquities at Risk are compact, illustrated booklets designed for customs officials, police officers, museums, art dealers, and collectors, to help them recognize the general types of archaeological, ethnographic, and ecclesiastical objects that have been looted from cultural sites, stolen from museums and churches, and illicitly trafficked.

7. Arequipa Colonial Church Project, Peru

   A U.S. Embassy initiative in cooperation with the Peruvian Ministry of Culture and the Archdiocese of Arequipa supported a three-day workshop on “Security and Preservation of Colonial Cultural Heritage Objects and Sites in Southern Peru,” held in Arequipa, Peru.

8. Repatriation to Haiti Photo Gallery

   

   CATF Members Support Repatriation to Haiti

9. MECEA Section 108A: USG Employees on Foreign Government-Sponsored Exchange Programs

   The information below provides a primer on Section 108A of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (MECEA) and the process related to establishing a cultural exchange program under this statute. It covers the basic technical points that need to be addressed in a letter of request to set up a program under Section 108A of MECEA.

10. MECEA Section 108A

    The information below provides a primer on Section 108A of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (MECEA) and the process related to establishing a cultural exchange program under this statute. It covers the basic technical points that need to be addressed in a letter of request to set up a program under Section 108A of MECEA.

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