Culture for Development Directory

Arts in Africa : discover art in Africa

| 2009-
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: ARTerial network]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: arts, cultural development, cultural participation, africa
The website is about African arts, culture, heritage and creative industries listed by country and discipline. It includes information on UNESCO branches, funding agencies, e-newsletters, cultural policy, creative industries, events, conferences, and training institutions.

ACP cultures.eu : EU-ACP support programme to ACP cultural industries

| 2009-
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: African, Caribbean and Pacific group of states (ACP)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: culture, arts, international co-operation, cultural exchanges, acp, eu, europe, africa, caribbean region, oceania
The Programme contributes to poverty reduction and sustainable development through the promotion of an enabling environment for creativity, cooperation and exchanges, independence and viability of the cultural sector in the ACP States, and the safeguarding of cultural diversity and cultural values.

ICR : International committee for regional museums

| 2009-
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: International committee for regional museums (ICR)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: museums, regional organizations, international co-operation
The committee is interested in the role of regional museums in their communities with respect to culture, history, environment, social development and [language].

Object ID : [an international standard for describing art

| 2009-
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Council for the prevention of art theft (CoPAT)]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: arts, cataloguing, standards, cultural property protection
Object ID is an international standard for describing art, antiques and antiquities. The project has been developed through the collaboration of the museum community, police and customs agencies, the art trade, insurance industry, and valuers of art and antiques. It helps to combat art theft.

Partners in India : projects

| 2009-
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Pro Helvetia New Delhi
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: cultural co-operation, cultural exchanges, cultural development, performing arts, music, visual arts, india
A list of current and past cultural exchange projects of ProHelvetia
 

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.