Culture for Development Directory

Good practice guides

| 2010-
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: International federation of arts councils and culture agencies (IFACCA)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: arts, funds, management, reference materials
This 'good practices guides' site providing links to resources aims assist to arts councils and arts funding agencies to review, inform and improve their key functions including: running grant programmes, undertaking strategic activities, managing an agency, and information provision.

Culture in development

| 2010-
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Culture in development (CiD)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: cultural heritage, cultural property preservation, disaster preparedness
Culture in Development is an advise agency that works in the field of the protection and conservation of cultural heritage. This website presents information on the Agengy's work and gives access to their publications (books, reports, articles & interviews), and news.

Culture and development in EU cooperation with its partners in the ACP countries

| 2009]
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: European commission
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: cultural development, cultural co-operation, africa, caribbean region, pacific islands (trust territory)
Culture is essential for the well-being of humanity. It plays a key role both in the identity and stability of societies and in fostering economic development: indeed cultural industries can constitute an important economic sector in developed and partner countries.

Artfully AWARE's blog : sustainable empowerment through the arts

| 2009-
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Artfully AWARE
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: arts, culture, sustainable development
Artfully AWARE (AfA) seeks to implement a range of educational arts programmes throughout societies worldwide, in order to promote empowerment and enable sustainable development.

Theatre for development : participatory learning in action in northern Laos

| 2009-
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Theatre for development
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: theatre, development, educational aspects, performing arts, cultural development, laos
In this period of economic and social change, the challenge is to keep the best of Lao culture, traditions and values alive, while everyone improves their standard of living. Theatre for Development work helps to keep the wealth of traditional culture in Laos alive.
 

About this portal

The portal provides access to selected free, full-text electronic documents on culture for development. It is also an unique entry point for all other internet resources, including newsletters, discussion groups, websites, bibliographic databases, and directories of organizations and projects. Our ambition is to provide (almost) full coverage on the aforementioned themes.