Project

Improving the status of Gambian artists and cultural professionals through women empowerment and a sound and evidence-based legal environment

The project was implemented in partnership with the National Centre for Arts and Culture (NCAC).
Photographer Lena Nian

The project, implemented in partnership with the National Centre for Arts and Culture (NCAC), supported the elaboration of a regulation operationalizing the National Endowment Fund for Arts and Culture, and contributed to improving the status of female artists and cultural professionals through data collection for evidence-based policymaking and the capacity building of 100 women cultural professionals on economic and labour rights of artists, fair contracts, intellectual property, resources mobilization, and protection from gender-based violence.