The Secretariat of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP Secretariat) has
elaborated a Programme to support cultural industries of the 79 countries that constitute
it. The programme, managed and implemented by the ACP Secretariat with the assistance
of a Programme Management Unit (PMU), is funded under the 'Intra-ACP Funds' of the 9th
European Development Fund (EDF).

The overall objective of the programme is to contribute to the development and
restructuring of the cultural sector in the ACP member states, through the promotion of an
enabling environment for enhancing creativity, cooperation and exchanges, independency
and viability, as well as the safeguarding of cultural diversity and fundamental cultural
values.

The programme aims at reinforcing the capacities of policy and decision makers, cultural
operators and certain domains of culture and cultural industries in the ACP countries. It is structured around three complementary components:

• the establishment of an ACP Cultural Observatory as a mechanism for providing
  technical advice and information in order to improve the policy, legal and
  institutional frameworks of the cultural sector in ACP member states;
• an intra-ACP support Fund for Culture to reinforce funding possibilities, and to
  structure and professionalize ACP cultural operators;
• an ACP/ILO/UNCTAD/UNESCO joint project to strengthen the creative industries in
  5 selected ACP countries (Fiji, Mozambique, Senegal, Trinidad and Tobago and
  Zambia).

With a total budget of 6.3 million euro for the period 2007 – 2012, 2 million euro will be
allocated to the Fund. The beneficiaries will be the cultural sector professionals in the 79
ACP countries.

Further information relating to the activities of the ACP Cultural Observatory and the call
for proposals will be published in the programme web-site during the second trimester
2008, as well as in the ACP Secretariat web-site (www.acp.int).

Contacts:
Programme Management Unit (PMU)
Chaussée de la Hulpe, 150
1170 Brussels - Belgium
Coordination in ECO: Ms. Nina Hoffmann, [email protected]
Senior expert for the Fund: Ms. Marta Carrascosa, [email protected]
Senior expert for the Observatory: Mr.Burama Sagnia, [email protected]

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