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Capacity-Building

Capacity-building activities and programmes seek to support Parties in creating institutional and professional environments favourable to promote the diversity of cultural expressions and to raise broad public knowledge and support for the Convention’s principles and objectives. 
 
Capacity-building takes the form of training, technical assistance, mentoring or coaching through projects tailored to the specific needs of the beneficiary country, aiming to address the most urgent requirements such as: 
  • revision of policies and legislation;
  • strengthening of institutional systems of governance for culture; and 
  • enhancement of professional skills and capacities required for the emergence of dynamic creative and cultural industries sectors. 
 
In the long term, the objective is to bring about positive transformations in the systems of governance that can benefit the cultural and creative sectors by enhancing the competences of governmental and non-governmental stakeholders through training and technical assistance programmes.  
 

Background

The Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions that oversees the implementation of the Convention has encouraged the UNESCO Secretariat to develop and implement a capacity-building programme worldwide. A global capacity-building strategy was designed to that effect, and presented to the Intergovernmental Committee at its 7th session, in December 2013.

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Mobilizing for capacity-building

In the context of the Complementary Additional Programme (CAP) for UNESCO’s Programme and Budget 2014-2017 (37/C5), two concept notes have been prepared for potential donors and included in UNESCO’s ‘Pipeline of Priority Proposals’. These two proposals serve as the main vehicle for mobilising funds to support the 2005 Convention.