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Your 1% Counts for Creativity

Exchange and Debate Session
Monday 10 June 2013, 10.00 a.m. to 12.00 p.m. CET
Room II, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris

Watch the video of the session: English | French | Spanish | Floor (no interpretation)
The interpretation of proceedings serves to facilitate communication and does not constitute an authentic record of the proceedings. Only the original speech is authentic.
 

On 10 June, beneficiaries of the International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD) shared experiences and discussed about the opportunities their projects are opening at the local level and the impact they are achieving in developing countries at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.

Mike van Graan, Executive Director of the African Arts Institute, moderated this conversation between Claudia Billourou, Co-director of Escuela de Artes y Oficios del Teatro Argentino de la Plata, Argentina; Diego Padilla, Joint Director of Instituto de Relaciones Internacionales e Investigaciones para la Paz, Guatemala; Oumar Sall, coordinator of Groupe 30 Afrique, Senegal; and Michelle Constant, Chief Executive Officer of Business and Arts South Africa, South Africa. (read their short biographies).

The IFCD, the fund established by the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, invests in creativity and supports projects that spark transformational change in developing countries.

This event marked the launch of the "Your 1% Counts for Creativity" fundraising campaign and was followed by the fourth Conference of the Parties of the 2005 Convention (11 - 14 June 2013).

Watch the videos produced for this event:

The audience could follow and participate in the conversation through Twitter @UNESCO and Facebook UNESCO.

For more information on the IFCD projects featured during the exchange and debate session:

  • A vocational school creates new job options for young Argentinians
  • New training centre helps indigenous youth gain cultural industry jobs
  • Training Senegalese cultural managers in cultural policy implementation
  • Unlocking funding to support cultural industries in South Africa