Publications
The COVID-19 pandemic and the crisis it created have had a devastating effect on the cultural and creative industries, revealing and magnifying their pre-existing volatility. Drawing on policies and measures adopted during the crisis, this practical guide highlights emergency measures that have been deemed effective and beneficial, assesses emerging trends, identifies new and existing gaps and offers practical advice to help policymakers position the cultural and creative industries in social and economic recovery plans.
2005 Convention Goals
Sustainable Development Goals
The Global Report series monitors the implementation of the 2005 Convention and provides new and valuable evidence to inform cultural policy making and advance creativity for development. The 2018 edition examines how the 2005 Convention has inspired policy change at the global and country level and puts forward a set of policy recommendations for the future, addressing the adaptation of cultural policies to rapid change in the digital environment, based on human rights and fundamental freedoms of expression.
2005 Convention Goals
Sustainable Development Goals
This brief highlights the impact of COVID-19 on the media and culture sector, hit hard by unemployment and closed productions. It analyses how the sector’s diversity in terms of contract types and occupations creates challenges in accessing social protection, safety and health, and economic relief programmes. The brief also offers policy options, drawing from countries’ examples and initiatives from workers’ and employers’ organizations, to mitigate the economic impact of the pandemic on the sector.
2005 Convention Goals
Sustainable Development Goals
The 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions calls for innovative approaches to international cooperation by promoting equitable access, openness and balance in the flow of cultural goods and services, and greater mobility for artists and other cultural professionals from developing countries. The goal is not to attain parity in the trade of cultural goods and services but dynamic and balanced exchanges.
2005 Convention Goals
Sustainable Development Goals
This publication provides the basic texts of the 2005 Convention, including the Operational Guidelines, the Rules of Procedure of the Conference of Parties, the Rules of Procedure of the Intergovernmental Committee and the Financial Regulations of the Special Account for the International Fund for Cultural Diversity.
2005 Convention Goals
Sustainable Development Goals
The 2005 Convention Monitoring Framework is a dynamic tool that informs policy making on creativity for development. It determines a set of expected results, indicators and means of verification to assess progress and challenges over time. In guiding the collection of data and information, it also provides evidence for the implementation of relevant United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
2005 Convention Goals
Sustainable Development Goals
The provision on preferential treatment for developing countries (Article 16) is known to be one the most binding and powerful of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (2005). The goal of preferential treatment measures is to facilitate the mobility and exchange of artists and cultural professionals from the global South, through, for example, simplified procedures for visas or lower visa costs.
2005 Convention Goals
Sustainable Development Goals
Civil society organizations (CSOs) play a pivotal role in the 2005 Convention’s implementation. The Convention requires Parties to involve civil society in its ratification, implementation and monitoring.
2005 Convention Goals
Sustainable Development Goals
The Open Roadmap is a tool to help Parties to the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions meet the challenges and seize the opportunities offered by the digital environment. Following the unanimous adoption of Operational Guidelines on the Implementation of the Convention in the Digital Environment in 2017, the Secretariat developed this flexible framework that offers a range of possibilities to promote and protect the diversity of cultural expressions in the digital environment.
2005 Convention Goals
Sustainable Development Goals
The 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions calls for the establishment of sustainable systems of governance for culture that are based on informed, participatory and transparent policy processes. Since 2014, UNESCO has been running a capacity development programme on policy monitoring, supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).
2005 Convention Goals
Sustainable Development Goals