Creativity
Support programme to cultural industries in ACP countries
The ACP Secretariat has elaborated a programme to support cultural industries of the 79 ACP countries. The programme, managed and implemented by the ACP Secretariat and a programme management unit, is funded under the 9th European Development Fund (EDF).
The programme aims at reinforcing the capacities of policy decision-makers and cultural operators through an:
- ACP Cultural Observatory to improve the policy, legal and institutional frameworks of the cultural sector in ACP Member States;
- Intra-ACP Support Fund for Culture to reinforce and professionalise ACP cultural operators;
- ACP/ILO/UNCTAD/UNESCO-joint project to strengthen the creative industries in five countries (Fiji, Mozambique, Senegal, Trinidad and Tobago, and Zambia).
“This programme” is the culminating point of a process begun with the Dakar Declaration of ACP Ministers of Culture who in 2003 fixed objectives for the ACP cultural industries,” says Aya Kasasa, programme responsible at the ACP Secretariat. “There was a great expectation between ACP operators, because information spread a lot through the ACP Cultural Festival, which was the first concrete result of Dakar Declaration. Now we are working to a semi-annual work programme that will fix the objectives and the calendar for the Fund. A call for proposals will be published in May 2008.”
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