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Lilongwe Workshop.jpg The 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions in action

UNESCO held a Training Workshop on Cultural Diversity Programming Lens, in Malawi from 16 to 17 August 2011.

The Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions is a legally-binding international agreement that ensures artists, cultural professionals, practitioners and citizens worldwide can create, produce, disseminate and enjoy a broad range of cultural goods, services and activities, including their own. The Convention was adopted in 2005 by the 33rd General Conference and entered into force in 2007.

Within the framework of UNESCO’s action on promoting the mainstreaming of culture in national development policy frameworks and common country programming exercises, UNESCO Harare and Windhoek Cluster Offices organized a Training Workshop on Cultural Diversity Programming Lens. The workshop took place at Korea Garden Lodge in Lilongwe, Malawi from 16 to 17 August 2011.

The objectives of the workshop were:

  • To raise awareness on the role of Culture in Development;
  • To build capacity to support culturally sensitive planning and integration of
    cultural concerns into national programmes and policy documents; and
  • To expose participants to first-hand experience of the UNESCO Cultural
    Diversity Lens, a tool for all stages of policy and programme development.

    Participants to the workshop were mainly Directors of Culture from Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The workshop served as a platform for capacity building of the Departments of Culture to support their sister departments in culturally sensitive planning and integration of concerns into their programmes and policy documents.
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    Auteur(s) UNESCO Office Windhoek
    Source UNESCO Office Windhoek
    Site Web 1 (URL) Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
    Contact éditorial : Damir Dijakovic
    - Email d.dijakovic@unesco.org
    Date de publication 25 Aug 2011
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