Cultural and creative industries are driving innovation, creating jobs and forging social cohesion.
Despite a global economic crisis, cultural and creative industries are alive and growing in the region and across the globe.
Their high-level expertise assists these countries in ongoing efforts to strengthen human and institutional capacities to develop policies that support the emergence of dynamic cultural and creative industries.
The declaration includes a set of objectives to integrate culture into national policies, promote cultural and creative industries, collect and share information, and ensure civil society participation in decision making.
These missions provide beneficiary countries with high-level expertise to assist them in ongoing efforts to strengthen human and institutional capacities to develop policies that suport the emergence of dynamic cultural and creative industries.
From 22 to 26 October 2012, in partnership with the NGO, the African Arts Institute (AFAI), UNESCO will be carrying out a training workshop for 17 African experts on the cultural and creative industries in Cape Town, South Africa.
Conducted by professional trainers and the 2005 Convention Secretariat, the workshop will cover priority areas such as policy-making skills and approaches to strengthening the cultural and creative industries at the national and regional levels, as well as the 2005 Convention Periodic Reports.
"This is why Africa has been selected to pilot this Programme, which aims at developing the expertise and know-how necessary to effectively implement the 2005 Convention over the medium term through the elaboration of targeted policies that can strengthen the cultural and creative industries at the national level, " she adds.
The Programme aims to provide Parties with a network of experts on the cultural and creative industries in Africa, who can support their ongoing efforts to effectively implement the 2005 Convention through targeted policy measures that foster the development of the cultural and creative industries at the national as well as the regional levels.
When the expansion was announced in March, the university said it was aiming to add up to 1, 200 students to its School of Creative and Cultural Industries.
In the Lords (from 2.30pm) it's quite a heavy legislating day - but first, there's an eclectic selection of questions to ministers, with peers asking about cultural diversity in the media and creative industries, progress in discontinuing funding for the Republic of Ireland's aids to navigation, discussions with energy providers about recent price increases and the shortage of midwives.
"We must pay greater attention to the scale of new opportunities: a new economy is emerging, " which focuses more on creative industries and the cultural sector.
The Creative Industries Support Programme (CISP) was established in Cambodia to improve the capacity of national institutions to preserve and develop Cambodia's cultural heritage and living arts, and to improve employment opportunities and income generation in the creative industries, with a special focus on empowering women and indigenous peoples.
This document will play an integral role in mapping out cultural resources and identifying potential agents and partners for the development of creative industries in the country.
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