Transcript Cultural Entrepreneurship, ECOSOC and the AU`s Agenda

Cultural Policy Reading Group
JUNE 2015
Presentation by Belisa Rodrigues
Topics covered
• Brief introduction to African Arts Institute
• Recap of the last CPRG : AU, Agenda
2063,ECOSOCC
• Brief Feedback from AU’s Pan African Cultural
Congress (25-27 May 2015)
• Cultural Entrepreneurship presentation
prepared for World Economic Forum side
event (3 June 2015)
African Arts Institute
The African Arts Institute (AFAI) is a South
African (training and research) NGO based in
Cape Town. Its overall objective is to promote
participatory democracy, respect for
fundamental human rights and freedoms and
equitable social and human development in
African countries by affirming the cultural
dimension of development.
African Union
AGENDA 2063
=Vision, Strategy and Implementation plan for Africa
ECOSOCC (www.auecosocc.org)
AU’s Pan African Cultural Congress
• Organised by AUC - platform
• Theme “Unity in Cultural Diversity for Africa’s
development”
• Attendees: AU-CSO-Business
• Complex programme covering numerous
subthemes
• Many recommendations put forward from the
congress
• Follow up meeting to be convened
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side event
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Hosted by the DAC
Not part of the main WEF programme
3 panel sessions
NAC, BASA, CCIFSA, AFAI + Minister
Main focus on the economic potential of the
arts
• Conversation, not presentation
Challenges, priorities and
possibilities of Entrepreneurship
models in the cultural sector in
Africa
Belisa Rodrigues
Business Development Manager
African Arts Institute
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Overall Context
• Democracy
and human
rights
challenges
• Freedom of
expression
violations
• Lack of
political will
• Poor
institutional
contexts
• Education and
development
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IN GENERATIONAL TERMS
• 2 GENERATIONS ONLY
•1.5 GENERATIONS
•1.2 GENERATIONS
•1 GENERATION ONLY
•BIRTH
Nadine Botha graphics based on Mike van Graan Creative Economy
lecture
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African Development Context
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51% live in poverty, on less than $2 per day
50% of children not in school, are in Africa
1 in 7 African children die by age of 5
African maternal mortality: 1 in 30 women
2/3 of world’s 33m HIV-positive people live in
Africa
Child dies of malaria every 45 secs: 90% Africa
Average life expectancy in Africa less than 55
69% of sub-Saharan Africans lack basic
sanitation
Economic growth phenomenal according to
GDP figures
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IMF: Ten fastest-growing economies
globally, 2001-2010
Annual GDP growth
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Angola 11,1%
China
10,5%
Myanmar 10,3%
Nigeria* 8,9%
Ethiopia
8,4%
Kazakhstan
Chad
Mozambique*
Cambodia
Rwanda
8,2%
7,9%
7,9%
7,7%
7,6%
*Distribution of wealth is a core issue
(limitations of GDP indicator for sustainable /
inclusive development)
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UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
50%+: Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
40%+: Kenya, Senegal, Swaziland
30%+: Equatorial Guinea
20%+: Gabon, South Africa, Nigeria
10%+: Algeria, Tunisia, Zambia
9%-: Botswana, Ghana, Egypt
McKinsey Report: 28% of Africans have stable, wage
paying jobs (implication: 72% unemployed,
underemployed, engaged in informal sector)
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LIMITATIONS OF HDI
Libya ranked among highest,
but had a dictatorship with
limited human freedoms,
hence the overthrow of the
regime
Similarly, other highly ranked
African countries – other
than Mauritius – were North
African – Tunisia and Algeria
with limited human rights
and freedoms
Nadine Botha graphics based on Mike van Graan Creative Economy
lecture
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Culture and Development
• Development as an act of culture
• Culture as inhibitor and enabler
• “The ongoing generation and application of
resources (financial, human, infrastructural, etc)
to create the optimal conditions (political,
cultural, social, economic, etc) in which all human
beings enjoy the full range of human rights and
freedoms enshrined in the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights”.
• Arts as an expression of culture in development
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Arterial Network Art Fundraising Toolkit
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African Cultural Leadership
Currently runs an African Cultural Leadership
Programme with 5 regional partners (Courses range
from Entrepreneurship, Train-the-trainer and
Cultural Leadership)
• NEXT COURSE: Cultural Entrepreneurship 20-29 July
2015
Course is full – selected 22 Entrepreneurs from 14
African countries - however public forums will be
held with local Capetonians during that week – email
me: [email protected])
Research question
“The Challenges, priorities and possibilities of
entrepreneurship models in the cultural
sector in my country, and what needs to be
done in these areas to realise the sector’s
potential.”
(1000 words max)
133 responses received in May 2015
86 responses analysed
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Research sample and limitations
• Research response rate 133 cultural entrepreneurs
• Countries covered: 24/53 = 44% of entire potential sample
• Limitations /challenges:
- Language bias targeting English-speaking countries
- Uneven response rate across countries ranges: 32 – 1
- Some unusable data sets
• Qualitative data
• Basic exploratory research using clustering technique focus on
8 key countries with >5 responses (86 respondents analysed)
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Regional spread of
respondents
4%
11%
North Africa
Southern Africa
Central Africa
28%
East Africa
53%
West Africa
4%
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Age ratio
14%
3%
41%
18-25
25-35
42%
35-45
45+
Gender ratio
• 67%
• 33%
Sectors Analysis
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Position Types
15%
6%
MIDDLE MANAGEMENT
26%
TOP MANAGEMENT
INDEPENDENT ARTIST
OTHER (Teachers, lecturers,
consutltants, journalists etc.)
consultants
53%
Country Spread
86 Respondents covering:
SOUTH AFRICA (21)
ZIMBABWE (16)
UGANDA (15)
MALAWI (8)
KENYA (8)
ZAMBIA (8)
CAMEROON (5)
NIGERIA (5)
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CROSS CUTTING ISSUES
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Training for professionals / artists
Education
Value of arts
Role of media
Donor environment
Individual versus community / collective
Sustainable and inclusive growth
"Splash" by Annemieke Mein
COUNTRY
CAMEROON (5)
ETHICS
MEDIA
DIGITAL
NIGERIA (5)
FINANCE
SAFETY
LOCAL MARKET
ZAMBIA (8)
POLICY / MINISTR/IES
DESIGN
VOCATION
KENYA (8)
STORYTELLING
ASSET-BASED
MALAWI (8)
EQUIPMENT/
TAX
TEVETA incl ART
WOMEN
UGANDA (15)
DYING CULTURES
ADVOCATE HERITAGE
LOCAL CAN BE GLOBAL
ZIMBABWE (16)
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
NEW MINISTRY
GROUP MARKETING OPP
SOUTH AFRICA (21)
EDUCATION
NETWORKS
IDENTITY
ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN SA
• SEDA - >100 organisations / assistance
programmes for women-owned SMMEs
• 2014 GEM Report = notes declining
entrepreneurship rate in SA as compared to
other similar SADC
• However female entrepreneurship increasing
(mainly due to govt stimulus)
(SOCIAL)INNOVATIONS / POTENTIAL
• Maayan Entrepreneuship model in Mali
(Festival sur le Niger)
• Time/Art bank in Senegal
• Heva - creatives accelerator Fund in Kenya
• Maboneng Township Art Galleries in SA
• Social Enterprise / Hybrid models : Pamberi
Trust + Book Cafe in Zimbabwe
• Thunderfund – crowd fund in South Africa
• Rise of social impact investment – artsculture
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Maaya Entrepreneurship - Mali
“Festival Sur Le Niger”
Based on social values
Sustainability principles
Democratising culture
The three community
principles of Maaya
Entrepreneurship:
·Serve the community
·Organize the company as
a community
·Gain the community’s
support for the company
Artbank - Senegal
CONCLUSION
Total holistic development (including economic
development) requires that at the end PEOPLE &
CULTURE are at the centre of development
practice. This means that their well being,
fundamental freedoms and human rights are
protected and guaranteed. Creative Industries
and cultural entrepreneurship strategies that
have proven track record in global north contexts
require interrogation and possibly alternative
(socio-economic-cultural) innovations, hybridity
structures, strategies and approaches in the
varying and often trying African contexts as
inferred through this exploratory paper.
Fall states that:
"Before a Renaissance, Africa might need a
collective continental Cultural Revolution: a
radical change in state of mind, attitude and
strategy. African Renaissance cannot and will
not rise and shine without a complicit
partnership between African governments,
business related individuals and companies,
creative thinkers and art communities across
the continent."
N'Goné Fall, Independent Sengalese Art Curator
(PACC4, May 2015)
THANK YOU
Belisa Rodrigues, Business Development Manager
[email protected]
www.afai.org.za
021 465 9027
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