The project aims to build up the skills and technical know-how of Zimbabwe’s cultural professionals, thus allowing them to be more actively involved in the development of local cultural industries. Targeting managers of Zimbabwe’s top arts and culture festivals and the leaders of the country’s most prominent cultural industries organizations, the project will carry out capacity-building workshops on management and corporate governance in order to strengthen their critical skills and knowledge on resource mobilization, industrial and labour legislation. Moreover, the project will raise awareness of the role of Zimbabwe’s cultural industries as a vector for sustainable development and poverty reduction amongst participants.

Established in 2003, Nhimbe Trust is a Zimbabwean non-profit organization, which is committed to arts education, cultural policy research, advocacy and the promotion of the freedom of creative expression. It trains young people in the arts and builds their capacities to use the arts as a source of income. It enables dialogue between civil society organizations and policy-makers and promotes an active participation in the development of cultural policies. Nhimbe Trust has recently facilitated the formulation of 2012-2015 national action plan for Zimbabwe’s civil society operating in the cultural and creative sector, which consists of a needs assessment and an outline of clear strategies for developing the creative sector.