Capacity Building

Enhancing the capacity of practitioners within the cultural space is of a major concern to GCF. Whilst the success of the cultural sector depends on the enabling environment provided for by government, there should be equal attention given to the human resource development exponent. The targets should include developing the creative skills as well as knowledge sharing in art business and law. GCF has been involved in capacity training for its members including media sensitisation workshops, funding workshops and forums discussing implication of national budgets and tax regimes.

Having ratified in 2016, Ghana became a party to UNESCO’s 2005 Convention for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions which means that Ghana is eligible to access funding support from the International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD). UNESCO’s Abuja Regional Office in its quest to improve the quality of applications from its region to the fund organised a two-day workshop physical-hybrid workshop for stakeholders within the Ghanaian and Nigerian cultural fraternity on the 2005 Convention, the IFCD and how to craft winning proposals. The workshop took place on October 11-12, 2021. Ghana Culture Forum together with the Ghana National Commission of UNESCO and Ghana’s Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture helped to put together Ghana’s 25-member team for the workshop and the physical organisation including logistic demands for Ghana’s team to participate in the workshop.
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