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Improving access to cultural services
Where
Mongolia
Mongolia
When
2016
2016
Who
Ministry of education, culture and science, mongolian national song and dance ensemble, national academic drama theatre, state philharmonic orchestra, morin khuur ensemble, national academic theatre of opera and ballet, national puppet theatre, mongolian
Ministry of education, culture and science, mongolian national song and dance ensemble, national academic drama theatre, state philharmonic orchestra, morin khuur ensemble, national academic theatre of opera and ballet, national puppet theatre, mongolian
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Description of the policy/measure
Best of repertoires of cultural organizations were performed for residents of remote rural areas and districts.mobile library services have been providing regular mobile library services to 聽the elderly, disabled people and prisoners in women鈥檚 detention center and children鈥檚 detention center. in 2015 alone, over 20,000 people in 20 locations benefitted from these services. in the scope of the mobile library,the national library, the union of mongolian writers, the children鈥檚 book palace and the 鈥減en鈥 center of children鈥檚 writers organized 36 events for children including literature days 鈥渂eauty of meaning鈥, 鈥渂est reader teams鈥 competition, 鈥渂est reader - d.natsagdorj medal鈥 award winner competition, and a competition on 鈥渂est character from literature鈥 competition.a software named 鈥渕onbiblio鈥 was developed with an aim to improve information system in the cultural sector and enable easy and fast reporting by national and sub-national level cultural organizations (theatres, ensembles, libraries, museums etc). this software is serving as a main tool for collecting data, statistics and reports of the cultural sector.
2005 Convention Monitoring Framework Goal(s)
Area(s) of Monitoring
Cultural Domain(s)
Results achieved
The following investments have been made in establishing class libraries with 100-150 books in 3,020 classes of 755 schools in ulaanbaatar, supplying books worth over 700 million togrogs to 450 state owned kindergartens as training materials, expansion of the public library in akhangai aimag in 2013, children鈥檚 book palace, expansion of the central library in bayan-ulgii aimag in 2014, expansion of the central library 聽in dornod aimag and construction of the new building of the national library.聽鈥渃ity streets 鈥 my home鈥 street fair is an event that promotes diversity of cultural expressions, mentioned in 1.a provision of article 7 of the current convention. in 2015, a flash-mob and a parade involving 1,000 students were organized in the street. also cultural performances were presented to the public on the chinggis square. all these measures enabled community participation and have become a regular event.聽聽鈥渕onbiblio鈥 software is serving as a main tool for collecting data, statistics and reports of the cultural sector.聽
Financial resources allocated to the policy
During the reporting period, 145 activities of 27 different types were implemented in the fields of: cultural services, cultural education and promotion of national cultural heritages. a total of 11,741,920,100 mongolian national currency (tugrug) were spent on these activities.