Transcript Challenges and Opportunities for the Unesco

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Challenges and Opportunities for the Unesco 2005
Convention
Africalia ‘s experience
Frederic Jacquemin
DG– Africalia
Framework
 Culture is not listed as one of the SDG
 Deeply entreched in the cooperation field
 “Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die
Moral!" ”
 Yet culture = a driver and an enabler of
sustainable development
 Many explicit references with the 100 +
targets = tools for Africalia to work with
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Culture as an economic driver : tapping in the economic potential of creativity
 2.5 : uilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge
 8.3 : decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation
 8.4 : decouple economic growth from environmental degradation
Culture in education
 4.7 develop appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution
to sustainable development
Tangible and intangible Heritage
 8.9 and 12.b on tourism
 11.4 : cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
 16.4 recovery and return of stolen assets
The Convention for Africala
• recognize the difference of cultural and
creative goods and service
– Has a “social” value but is by far, more effective
and than all other major industries
– And more “future proof” than many others
• unllimited ressources
• Non polluting
• Vector for peace
• In the North
– in 2012 4,2% of Total Europan GDP (536 Billions)
– 3rd larger employer in EU
– France : 57,8 Billions ( 2 x Télecoms, 7x Car
insdustries
• In the South :
– 2,8% of active population ( 2012) in BF
-Challenges-
• « Low intensity warfare » : China
• Diversity : from 80/20 to 90/10
• Oligopolistic structure of the market
– Corbis (photos)
– Cartel : Sotheby’s, Christie’s
• Need for a global contract
- Increasing immateriality of the products and of
the exchanges
• Need for an independant and global coalition
-Opportunities-
• Legal force of the Convention:
– Quoted in international disputes ( increasing)
– Preferential Treatment for Developing Countries (Art 16) :
• play a pro-active role by putting in place national policies and
measures at the appropriate institutional level, as well as
multilateral, regional and bilateral frameworks and mechanisms to
implement and operationalize Article 16.
• EPA – EU /Cariforum
• EU _UNESCO partnership
– Should be intergrated in all Members States Dev policies
 Ressources
 CultureS : the danger of polysemy
 Short comings in the formulation of SDGs
 Political role of culture is absent
 The political power of culture is overlooked
(Burkina Faso, Burundi)
 Freedom of expression is vague (16.10 ..libraries)
 Keep calm
 and
 Go mainstream