Deadline- 30 June 2013
International Fund for Cultural Diversity offers funding opportunity for projects and preparatory assistance requests that aim to foster the emergence of a dynamic cultural sector. The objective of this program is to focus on wide range of areas, from the development and implementation of cultural policies, to capacity-building of cultural entrepreneurs, mapping of cultural industries and the creation of new cultural industry business models. All funding requests submitted to the Secretariat of the Convention must be either in English or French.
Fourth call to projects aims at capacity building for cultural policies, understood as those policies designed to have a direct effect on the creation, production, dissemination, distribution of and access to cultural activities, goods and services.
Eligibility & Criteria-
- all developing countries that are Parties to the Convention
- all Parties to the Convention that have determined the existence of special situations on their territory in conformity with Articles 8 and 17 of the Convention and related operational guidelines
- non-governmental organizations coming from developing countries that are Parties to the Convention
- international non-governmental organizations, which meet the definition of civil society and criteria
- representatives of vulnerable groups and other social groups identified in Article 7 of the 2005 Convention (i.e. women and other social groups, including persons belonging to minorities and indigenous peoples) from developing countries that are Parties to the 2005 Convention.
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