The African film Industry: trends,challenges and opportunities for growth
For the first time, a complete mapping of the film and audiovisual industry in 54 States of the African continent is available, including quantitative and qualitative data and an analysis of their strengths and weaknesses at the continental and regional levels.The report proposes strategic recommendations for the development of the film and audiovisual sectors in Africa and invites policymakers, professional organizations, firms, filmmakers and artists to implement them in a concerted manner.
Cities, culture, creativity: leveraging culture and creativity for sustainable urban development and inclusive growth
‘Cities, Culture, and Creativity’ (CCC) provides guiding principles and a CCC Framework, developed by UNESCO and the World Bank, to support cities in unlocking the power of cultural and creative industries for sustainable urban development, city competitiveness, and social inclusion. Drawing from global studies and the experiences of nine diverse cities from across the world, the CCC Framework offers concrete guidance for the range of actors — city, state, and national governments; creative industry and related private-sector organizations; creatives; culture professionals and civil society— to harness culture and creativity with a view to boosting their local creative economies and building resilient, inclusive, and dynamic cities.
Culture in crisis: policy guide for a resilient creative sector
Through this guide, UNESCO provides practical guidance to policymakers as they fight for the inclusion of the cultural and creative industries in social and economic recovery plans. In order to comply with health and safety measures, and to adapt to new business models, both financial and technical support has been and will continue to be necessary. However, it is important to recognize the support mobilized thus far has been multifaceted. This guide is an attempt to provide a comprehensive overview of the range of emergency measures adopted by States in support of cultural workers, institutions and industries and a tool for strengthening the resilience of the sector.
Online Meeting of Ministers of Culture: Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Cultural Sector and the Public Policy Response
The Report of the Online Meeting of Ministers of Culture, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the cultural sector and public policy response, gathers the Ministers' reflections on the impact of the health crisis on the cultural sector in their respective countries.
Culture and Public Policy for Sustainable Development, Forum of Ministers of Culture, 2019
Presented on the occasion of the Forum, this publication –produced incollaboration with regional and sub-regional intergovernmental organizations –provides an overview ofthe priorities, trends and perspectives of cultural policies in the light of the challenges of sustainabledevelopment. It encourages us to place culture at the heart of the political project to forge the societiesof tomorrow, that more inclusive and sustainable, echoing the founding mandate of UNESCO.
Culture 2030: Rural-Urban Development: China at a glance; the Meishan experience, conference edition
This publication aims to provide an overview of recent policy innovations introduced in the People’s Republic of China to enhance rural-urban linkages and to foster the revitalization of rural areas through culture. Rural regeneration experiences where this has materialized are presented through various cases across the country.
CURE: Culture in City Reconstruction and Recovery: position paper
As urban growth and development continue at a breath-taking pace across the world, cities are increasingly bearing the brunt of conflicts, crises and disasters, which themselves are growing in number, magnitude and com-plexity. The convergence of these two trends – increasing urbanization and growing crises – demands an enhanced approach to city reconstruction and recovery, one that puts culture at its heart.
Culture | 2030 Indicators
The UNESCO Thematic Indicators for Culture in the 2030 Agenda (Culture|2030 Indicators) is a framework of thematic indicators whose purpose is to measure and monitor the progress of culture’s enabling contribution to the national and local implementation of the Goals and Targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Culture for the 2030 Agenda
The relevance of culture to the 2030 Agenda is paramount. No development is sustainable without considering culture. The 2030 Agenda has opened up new avenues to integrate culture into policies for social and economic inclusion and environmental sustainability with innovative solutions that are state-owned. This means harnessing the power of culture to envisage and shape a more inclusive, just and equitable world. Culture, as a resource and a transversal tool, is crucial to achieving this transformative vision.
Re|shaping Cultural Policies: advancing creativity for development
The 2018 Global Report analyses further progress achieved in implementing the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (2005) since the first such report was published in 2015. It is the work of ten independent experts, who have worked together with the Secretary of the Convention and her colleagues, as well as BOP Consulting and the Principal Editor.
Culture: Urban Future; global report on Culture for Sustainable Urban Development
In 2015, with the adoption of the 17 United Nations’ Sustainabledevelopment Goals (SdGs), the international community committed toending poverty, fighting inequality and injustice, and fosteringenvironmental sustainability by 2030. Building on several decades of advocacy and operational programmeson the ground, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable development acknowledges the integral role of culture across manyof the SdGs, including those that commit to quality education, economic growth, sustainable consumption andproduction patterns, and peaceful and inclusive societies. Significantly, culture is directly addressed in Goal 11, whichaims to ‘Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable’.
Re|shaping cultural policies: a decade promoting the diversity of cultural expressions for development
The current report, which presents best practices and also analyses global trends, adds real value to the reports prepared by the Parties themselves. The formulation of shared problems identified with the help of indicators could well represent an opportunity to generate comparative information similar to that produced by the OECD peer reviews, which make longitudinal analysis possible for national reviews of cultural policy. The present report series will allow UNESCO to play an active observatory role at the international level and is likely to be a key contribution to the improvement of cultural policy across the world
Cultural Times: the first global map of cultural and creative industries
The idea behind this report is that the economic weight of cultural and creative industries (CCI) in mature and emerging economies is partially described, misunderstood and undervalued. This is why the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC — the body representing authors’ societies worldwide) — decided to commission a global study of the economic and social impact of CCI, focusing especially upon revenues and employment.
Post-2015 dialogues on Culture and Development
The elaboration of the Post-2015Development Agenda has been a unique intergovernmental policy process informed by a comprehensive global consultation, reaching large numbers of individuals and policymakers, academics, experts, the private sector and interested citizens. The United Nations Development Group (UNDG) and many UN Country Teams around the world have guided this unprecedented effort, which has already infl uenced key reports that have contributed to the shaping of the Post-2015 Development Agenda.
Knowledge Management for Culture and Development
People are at the heart of Knowledge Management as Knowledge Management aims at converting/translating personal knowledge into organizational knowledge. Capturing and documenting processes or, in other words, the ‘how’ something was achieved, is also a core component of Knowledge Management. It is the very ‘recipe’ that can be transferred to others and that can inform future practices. It is crucial in Knowledge Management’s quest to transfer, translate but also update existing processes and information. Technologies have developed as an essential pillar of Knowledge Management as the latter needs vectors that allow for an effective and timely information flow. Under the MDG-F knowledge management project, UNESCO seeks to gather information and knowledge generated through the culture and development thematic window which can serve toinform future programming in this field
UNESCO Culture for Development Indicators: Implementation Toolkit
This Toolkit is designed expressly to assist in the collaborative and successful implementation of the CDIS Methodology Manual for the construction of 22 indicators examining the multidimensional role of culture in sustainable development. It describes the recommended sequence of actions for achieving optimal results at the national level, while ensuring a certain comparable understanding at the international level.The methodology for calculating the UNESCO CDIS indicators was developed with extensive input and participation of experts and stakeholders. The tips, tools and trouble-shooting advice hereby provided stems from the lessons learned from two test phases carried out from 2011 to 2013 in 11 countries.
UNESCO Culture for Development Indicators: Methodology Manual
The UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (2005) calls for the integration of culture in development policies at all levels in order to create a favourable environment for sustainable development and foster the diversity of cultural expressions. The UNESCO Culture for Development Indicators (CDIS) project proposes a novel methodology to demonstrate through empirical data culture’s role as both a driver and enabler of sustainable development processes, as acknowledged by several Resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly.
The Hangzhou Declaration: Placing Culture at the Heart of Sustainable Development Policies
The Hangzhou Declaration entitled “Placing Culture at the Heart of Sustainable Development Policies” is the outcome document of the UNESCO International Congress, “Culture: Key to Sustainable Development” . The Congress was held in the city of Hangzhou (China) from 15 to 17 May 2013, with the generous support of the Government of the People’s Republic of China.As the first international congress specifically focusing on the linkages between culture and sustainable development organized by UNESCO since 1998, the Hangzhou Congress provided a global forum to discuss the role of culture in sustainable development in view of the United Nations post-2015 development agenda
The Power of Culture for Development
Culture, in all its dimensions, is a fundamental component of sustainable development.As a sector of activity, through tangible and intangible heritage, creative industries and various forms of artistic expressions, culture is a powerful contributor to economic development, social stability and environmental protection. As a repository of knowledge, meanings and values that permeate all aspects of ourlives, culture also defines the way human beings live and interact both at local and global scales.
Tourism, culture and sustainable development, 2006
"This is the purpose of this publication: to open a debate on the complex questions that surround the relations between culture and tourism, tourism and development, tourism and dialogue among cultures; questions that every decision-maker and actor engaged in tourism should address before a tourism project is launched. This report presents several of the operational projects implemented by, or with the support of, UNESCO, to illustrate how cultural tourism policies developed in the spirit of the principles and values contained in the texts, standard-setting instruments, declarations and recom-mendations adopted by UNESCO, are put into practice."
UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity: a vision, a conceptual platform, a pool of ideas for implementation, a new paradigm, 2002
The dialogue between culture and development needs fresh energy and purpose. Much progress has been made in the last fifty years, through a variety of resolutions and initiatives at the level of communities, states and multilateral organizations, mainly in the United Nations system. Of these, UNESCO has been especially important in advocating and renewing the global commitment to cultural diversity, tolerance and pluralism as non-negotiable principles.To address this challenge requires a revitalized dialogue between culture and development, which UNESCO is uniquely positioned to lead. The following ideas are based on the principles enunciated in the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity adopted by the 31st session of UNESCO’s General Conference in Paris on 2 November 2001.
World Culture Report, 2000: cultural diversity, conflict and pluralism
The World Culture Report 2000 appears at a time ofgrowing awareness that the dimensions of globaliz-ation are not only economic and technological. Thesearch for ways to influence – or invent – the social and ethical dimensions of globalization leads inevitably to questions of culture. These questions ofcultural identity and expression, cultural diversity and pluralism, cultural development and heritage go to the heart of UNESCO’s mandate in the field of culture.The topicality of such issues will, I hope, make this World Culture Report a particularly useful tool for allthose interested in the trends, statistical data, policies, research and debate on culture.
Culture counts: towards new strategies for culture in sustainable development, 1999
Building bridges between the worlds of culture and of finance was the novel aim of an international conference held in Florence from 4 to 7 October 1999, and co-organised by the World Bank and the Government of Italy in co-operation with UNESCO.UNESCO has long been a leading advocate of the need to broaden the development paradigm in ways that embrace the fullness of the human and cultural dimensions of development. As the custodians of a considerable proportion of the cultural heritage of humanity, the people and the Government of Italy have for their part adopted and applied policies which demonstrate a profound sympathy with this broader understanding.
World culture report, 1998: culture, creativity and markets, 1998
The publication by UNESCO of a World Culture Report was the first recommendation of the Report of the World Commission on Culture and Development, Our Creative Diversity, its task is to survey recent trends in culture and edvelopment,monitor events affectig the state of cultures worldwide, construct quantitative cultural indicators,highlight good cultural practicies and policies and analyse specific themes of general importance accompanied by policy suggestions.
Intergovernmental Conference on Cultural Policies for Development,final report, 1998
The Intergovernmental Conference on Cultural Policies for Development was held at the City Conference Centre in Stockholm from 30 March to 2 April 1998. The conference brought together some 2,400 participants representing 149 governments, 23 international inter-governmental organizations, some 135 non-governmental organizations, foundations, voluntary associations and other civil society entities, as well as many individual artists, scholars and experts.
Cultural Indicators of Development, 1997:
Culture is the way that people live together, interact and co-operate - together with how they justify such interaction through beliefs, values and norms. This implies that culture does not define a separate category of human activities but covers a whole range of activities. Furthermore, it is not a normative term, but a descriptive one. These considerations raise a number of problems that must be resolved in order to devise Ucultural indicators of development”.
Towards a World Report on Culture and Development: Constructing Cultural Statistics and Indicators, 1997:
Behind this report lies the motivation that “the major problem facing individuals and communities in a rapidly changing world is that of promoting and adjusting to equitable change without denying the valuable elements in their traditions”. Our Creative Diversity is therefore about “providing present and future generations of humanity with the tools to meet this challenge, to broaden their knowledge, to discover the world in its diversity, and to allow all individuals to lead a life that is decent, dignified and wise, without losing their identity and sense of community, and without betraying their heritage”.’
Culture, Human Development and Economic Growth, 1997
The Commission, composed of distinguished specialists from all regions of the world and presided by Javier Perez de Cuellar, held a series of consultations with scholars, policy makers, artists and NGO activists on specific regional perspectives and concerns. The ideas and data gathered during this process have provided new and powerful insights into the relationship between culture and development worldwide. Our Creative Diversity, the report of the Commission presented to the General Conference of UNESCO and the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1995, recommended that an “annual Report on Culture and Development be published as an independent statement addressed to policy makers and other interested parties”.
Cultural Indicators of Well-being: some conceptual issues 1997
Culture is both the context for development as well as the missing factor in policies for development. Although such interactions have long been recognized as essential, there has been no worldwide analysis in this field on which new policies could be based. The independent World Commission on Culture and Development (WCCD) was therefore established jointly by UNESCO and the United Nations in December 1992 to prepare a policy-oriented report on the interactions of culture and development
Our Creative Diversity: Report of the World Commission on Culture and Development, 1995
Development divorced from its human or cultural context is growth without a soul. Economic development in its full flowering is part of a people’s culture. This is not a view commonly held. A more conventional view regards culture as either a help or a hindrance to economic development, leading to the call to take “cultural factors into account in development”. But the argument advanced in this Report is that development embraces not only access to goods and services, but also the opportunity to choose a full, satisfying, valuable and valued way of living together, the flourishing of human existence in all its forms and as a whole.
Progress of the World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997
In its resolution 411187 of 8 December 1986, the General Assembly proclaimed the period 1988-1997 the World Decade for Cultural Development, to be observed under the auspices of the United Nations and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. In the same resolution, the Assembly requested the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to report biennially to the Assembly, through the Economic and Social Council at its second regular session, on the progress of the World Decade for Cultural Development.
Culture for All People, for All Times
UNESCO's World Conference on Cultural Policies—Mondiacult—took place in Mexico City from 26 July to 6 August 1982. It brought together ministers and other high officials concerned with their governments' policies in the cultural field. As well as reviewing what had been accomplished since the first such conference in Venice in 1970, Mondiacult allowed its participants, who came from 129 countries, to think aloud on major problems of culture today and spell out fresh guidelines for strengthening the cultural dimension in development and for facilitating international cultural cooperation.
World Conference on Cultural Policies: Final Report (Mexico City, 1982)
The World Conference on Cultural Policies took place in Mexico City, at the kind invitation of the Mexican Government, from 26 July to 6 August 1982. This conference at ministerial level was convened by the Director-General of Unesco in pursuance of resolution 4.01 adopted by the General Conference at its twenty-first session. The composition of the conference, which falls into category II of Unesco-sponsored meetings, was determined by the Executive Board at its 113th and 114th sessions, in accordance with the provisions of Article 21, paragraph 1, of the Regulations for the General Classification of the various categories of meetings convened by UNESCO.