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Founding of a division for media, culture, the creative industries and sport within the federal ministry for economic cooperation and development, 2017
Where
Germany
Germany
When
2020
2020
Who
Federal ministry for economic cooperation and development
Federal ministry for economic cooperation and development
Website of the policy/measure
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Description of the policy/measure
Main aims: establishing culture, the creative industries, media and sport as an independent action area within german development cooperation target groups: partners (esp. young people and entrepreneurs) in selected countries of the global south expected results: making use of the potential that media, culture, the creative industries and sport have for achieving the goals of the 2030 agenda, i.e. (inter alia): enabling political participation and good governance through free media; creating more jobs and raising incomes in the future-oriented cultural sector; education, employment, health and integration through sport; developing and establishing new strategic programme priorities, particularly regarding education, training, income and employment potential of young people
2005 Convention Monitoring Framework Goal(s)
Area(s) of Monitoring
Transversal Priority(ies)
Results achieved
General: division at the ministry established with three desk officers. culture/creative industries: global project "culture and creative industries - drivers of development" started in africa (senegal, kenya, south africa) and the near east (lebanon, jordan, iraq), to run from 2018 to 2020 (planned continuation till at least 2023; cf. section 3.2.2.); 2017-2021 pilot project "culture for development" with unesco to promote the value chain in the music industry in morocco, funding via bmz funds-in-trust (see below), expansion to tunisia planned; study on promoting the creative industries in africa through germany development cooperation carried out in collaboration with the institute of african studies at the university of bayreuth; since may 2020: study on "fair culture as a contribution to sustainable development" with the german commission for unesco, focusing on sustainable and fair value chains in the cultural and creative industries (incl. options for german development cooperation), cf. section 2.2. media: "future. market. film." initiative started in cooperation with, inter alia, tom tykwer (kenya) and volker schlondorff (rwanda), to improve training and distribution (incl. high-level events with the minister and deutsche welle on "african film on the rise"); market survey of the earnings potential of african film productions on the international market in cooperation with rushlake media distribution company
Financial resources allocated to the policy
Eu8 million for the global project by deutsche gesellschaft fur internationale zusammenarbeit (giz) gmbh (2018 to 2020); eu905,000 in funds-in-trust transferred to unesco (2017 to 2021); studies amounting to approx. eu140,000