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Latin America 

• Latin America has a large multifaceted heritage, both in terms of built heritage and intangible cultural heritage, due to the multiple layers of history from several pre-Colombian civilizations, which form a sense of shared cultural identity within the region.
• Latin American cultural policies highly value indigenous cultures and biodiversity, constituting a distinctive policy model that is focused on cultural rights and cultural diversity for socio-economic integration.
• A recent policy shift towards exploring the full economic potential of the culture sector is opening up new opportunities for cultural expressions and new pathways for civil society and private sector involvement.
• National cultural policy frameworks have been reinforced in recent years, in large part thanks to the resolute impetus through several robust regional organizations, which have a long history.
• Strong regional cooperation can facilitate harnessing the 2030 Agenda to integrate culture into strategies to tackle challenges, such as urbanization, increasing inequalities, environmental degradation and climate change

The Caribbean

• The Caribbean is characterised by distinctive regional cultural expressions that have gained global recognition and that are inspired notably by the aspiration for emancipation.
• Due to the sub-region’s shared history of slavery and forced displacement of African, Indian and Chinese populations, culture has a fundamental place in Caribbean society due to its specific conceptualization.
• Evolving from an early approach to cultural policies that focused on the conservation of often colonial heritage, large-scale cultural events, such as festivals, opened up new pathways to an approach that takes into account the economic aspect of culture, as well as its social function.
• The strong regional dynamic provides great potential for innovative policymaking in culture.
• Whilst the integration of culture into broader public policy remains limited, the 2030 Agenda provides opportunities for culture to reinforce its contribution to sustainable development, particularly in sectors such as cultural tourism and the creative economy.

Key documents and publications