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Participatory policy-making and monitoring

UNESCO supports knowledge sharing and capacity building to improve the policies and measures taken to enhance the diversity of cultural expressions across the world. It does this by providing technical assistance to countries to design, implement and monitor policies for creativity, encouraging the involvement of a diversity of actors, from government and civil society stakeholders to artists and creatives.

Improving policy-making for the cultural and creative industries through participatory mapping

Since 2014, Sweden has partnered with UNESCO to implement a pioneering global cooperation programme at the interface of culture, policymaking, and development. Funded through the Swedish International Cooperation Development Agency (Sida), the programme has developed and advanced participatory, transparent, and evidence-based methodologies to design and monitor policies for creativity at both national and global levels. Over the past decade, 30 countries have received capacity building support to advance policies for creativity and to pioneer knowledge-sharing tools that will inspire good practices around the world. This successful methodology has been expanded to other countries, including in Africa and Small Island Developing States (SIDS), with complementary sources of funding. This important programme aims to bring about positive transformation in the systems of governance for culture that can benefit the cultural and creative sectors globally and contribute to building inclusive, fair, and peaceful societies.

Swedish International Cooperation Development Agency (Sida)

UNESCO supports Parties to implement the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, engage in policy dialogue with a wide range of stakeholders on ever-evolving trends and challenges facing the cultural and creative sectors, and engage in a participatory multi-stakeholder review of cultural policies and measures to advance creativity and strengthen the creative economy through preparation of a national Quadrennial Periodic Report (QPR) . This exercise constitutes a strategic priority setting tool for future policy design and contributes to advancing knowledge of policies for creativity at the global level. The QPRs serve as the primary data source for the UNESCO Global Report Series on ReIShaping Policies for Creativity (see editions of the Global Report Series). Key data, measures and policies reported by Parties are also featured on the Policy Monitoring Platform, a unique global index on policies for creativity.

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Flagship UNESCO reports

on global trends for policies for creativity

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informed policy-making and inclusive dialogue

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Phase I - Enhancing Fundamental Freedoms through the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
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Phase II - ReIShaping Cultural Policies for the Promotion of Fundamental Freedoms and the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
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Phase III - ReIShaping Policies for Creativity and Artistic Freedom
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Methodology

The elaboration of a national Quadrennial Periodic Report (QPR) is an opportunity for countries to develop participatory policy monitoring and policy making mechanisms. Beyond its elaboration, establishing and strengthening a participatory process is a milestone in the creation of a sustainable system for the governance of culture. The process itself is at least as important (if not more) as the report that results.

Policymaking is understood as a cyclical process. Monitoring and reporting constitute key steps within the policy cycle, helping countries to grasp the state of their cultural and creative sectors and both understand and define priority actions for the future. Participatory is a general approach to facilitate the inclusion of individuals and groups, especially from civil society, in the monitoring and design of policies through consultations to advance accountability,

Re|Shaping Policies for Creativity: Addressing Culture as a Global Public Good
UNESCO
2022
The UNESCO Global Report, Re|Shaping Policies for Creativity – Addressing culture as a global public good, is the third edition of a series designed to monitor the implementation of the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.
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Gender & creativity : progress on the precipice, special edition
UNESCO
2021
Unesco - Publication supported by Sweden
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Freedom & creativity: defending art, defending diversity
UNESCO
2020
Building on the recommendations put forth in the 2018 Global Report, this special edition provides an overview of current advances and challenges in the legal protection of artistic freedom and the protection of the social and economic rights of artists and cultural professionals at the national, regional and international levels.
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Cultural and creative industries in the face of COVID-19: an economic impact outlook
2008
Unesco
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Re|Shaping cultural policies: advancing creativity for development
UNESCO
2017
The Global Report series monitors the implementation of the 2005 Convention. The 2018 edition examines how the 2005 Convention has inspired policy change at the global and country level and puts forward a set of policy recommendations for the future.
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Re|shaping cultural policies: a decade promoting the diversity of cultural expressions for development
UNESCO
2015
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