The Tracker Culture & Public Policy
This monthly Tracker is produced by UNESCO to monitor evolutions on culture in public policy within the UN global Sustainable Development Agenda. It highlights developments within national and regional contexts, as well as emerging debates on culture's impact on sustainable development. It draws on a variety of sources to provide a broad overview of cultural policy trends worldwide at the national, regional and international level that looks at ways in which countries integrate culture into other policy areas.
At a Glance l Public Policy Highlights l Cutting Edge Regional Perspectives l Culture in sustainable development policies l Find Out More
AT A GLANCE
Despite the continued state of turbulence in the cultural sector, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, there have been many developments in the past few months that have instigated an renewed dynamism in cultural policies.
As we see in this month's Policy Highlights section, at the national level new measures and initiatives continue to reinforce countries' response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As countries switch into longer term recovery planning, there have also been several developments that aim to reinforce national cultural sectors in the longer term.
The future of multilateralism is a major theme as the United Nations’ General Assembly that opened on the 22 September, celebrating 75 years since its foundation. We explore in Cutting Edge what responses culture can bring to multilateralism at a crossroads.
Strengthened cooperation on culture in regional and sub-regional organizations, as well as regional development banks, continues to rejuvenate multilateralism. As part of UNESCO’s ongoing monitoring and support, this issues' Regional Perspectives section covers the latest developments.
Finally, the section Culture and Sustainable Development Policies explores multifaceted approaches in which countries capture culture's cross-cutting role in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular through international cooperation. This follows the latest High-Level Political Forum held in July, at which 47 more countries submitted (VNRs) as part of monitoring progress towards the SDGs. Also, see Find Out More for the latest publications.