Describe the main features of the measure/initiative:
- Providing grants to cultural enterprises to produce, innovate and add value to cultural products and services including music, dance, artistic designs etc. Cultural enterprises involve women from indigenous minority groups and youth groups
- Advocating for better conditions of work for women and youth artists locally, to access local markets, bank financing and accessing available technical support from local authorities
- Organise competitions (involving short videos and paintings) among young people to illustrate traditional practices and how these are creatively relevant in the contemporary context
- Providing technical support in regard to managing cultural enterprises in particular aspects of finance management, marketing and publicity, value addition of cultural goods and services
- Supporting interaction and exposure of artists to collectively discuss issues relating to collective markets, issues affecting their constituents and discussing mitigation measures; and adding value to cultural goods and services
Website of the measure/initiative, if available:
What are the results achieved so far through the implementation of the measure/initiative?:
1. Expression and appreciation of challenges relation to artistic freedoms of the artists involved has been achieved. With this measure, a platform for solutions, sharing of ideas and advocating for artistic related freedoms have been achieved
2. Improved cultural goods and services as a result of the grants that are disbursed to the cultural enterprises and artists involved
3. Support of some local authorities in supporting artists to create content has been evident, especially where artists involved have asserted the demand of their rights, however in certain instances, this has not been achieved due to lack of support of some responsible government departments