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National policy for culture”

Where
Cambodia
When
2016
Who
Ministry of culture and fine arts, relevant government’s ministries. at the same time, civil society and art organizations
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Description of the policy/measure

The npc was developed in accordance with the unesco framework particularly the 2005 convention to address the links between culture and development by integrating aspects such as education, environment, science, media and health, supporting the improvement of quality of life by involving an inclusive approach, the promotion of public private and public civil partnerships. this important document has served as key guidelines for development of measures and mechanism to promote arts and culture nationally and internationally while the periodic reporting is an opportunity for re-evaluating and re-thinking policy and measures – taking into consideration their feasibility and acceptability for the society. it also opens for wider dialogues between government’s institutions and civil societies through arts forum. the recent arts forum organization was directly a result from the implementation of the 2014 cambodian national policy for culture as agreed during the road map discussions by all cultural partners involved. the first arts forum was taken place in september dedicated to “creative industries in cambodia”, meaning those industries that have their origin in individual creativity, skill and talent with a potential for wealth and job creation through the generation and exploitation of intellectual property in different disciplines (visual arts, film, design and crafts, music, dance, theatre, literature,  publishing, television and broadcasting services:..). these are linked to a growing creative economy, highly transformative and creating new social and cultural links. 
2005 Convention Monitoring Framework Goal(s)
Area(s) of Monitoring
Sustainable Development Goal(s)

Results achieved

The document and its implementation enable for more of cambodia’s creative sectors such as cinema, music, fashion, design, etc. to increase, and also encourage the government’s agencies and full participations of artists, art organizations and civil society to start dialoguing. this situation represents an opportunity to capitalize on the potential of the culture sector by sustaining it with the appropriate means, and to link culture to cambodia’s development strategies. it is also an opportunity to provide a framework for development of action plans for the cultural sector, to recognise culture as a key sector for cambodia due to its strategic importance for: economic and social development, strength the national identity of cambodia in its diversity, maintain traditional knowledge and forms of work as forms of sustainable development as part of recognition of creative industries, and identification of means and objectives. it also contributes to the government’s rectangular strategy and the national objectives by:-          increasing the role of culture in public activities moving up culture in the government’s agenda,-          facilitating a global view of the cultural sector in cambodia that will allow to develop unified strategies and action plans for the government at a central and provincial level,-          engaging with other ministries, providing a unified vision of culture for the nation by setting the bases for discussion and agreement with other ministries about the key issues affecting the economic and social development of the country,-          involving all in an inclusive and welcoming way, taking into special consideration the needs and diversity of indigenous peoples and the provision of opportunities for the younger generations,-          providing planning for sustainable setting of priorities, and-          recognising stakeholders, engaging agents in public-private partnerships, and creating alliances among the main actors.

Financial resources allocated to the policy

Mcfa also has finaincial challenges. however it has tried to allocate as much as its can through the involved departments of ministries. the governement is full aware of the need for financing through open public call, which was the main one, expressed by private actors and civil society of the cambodian cultural creative sector in order to facilitate their initiatives: finance for creative efforts, for travels as well as insurance to artists. the mcfa in collaboration with ministry of finance has developped a mechanism to support the artists and art organization through assistance of free tax for imports and exports of art equipment. 

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