Ethiopia: Harnessing Diversity for Sustainable Development and Social Change
JOINT PROGRAMME QUICK FACTS
Total Budget $5,000,000
Delivery Rate
Participating Agencies UNDP, UNESCO
Main Achievements
- Capacity-building underway; areas of cooperation for inter-cultural dialogue identified.
- Support provided for gathering information on tangible and intangible cultural heritage.
- Policy and legal frameworks reinforced for the management plans of heritage sites.
Contact Hassen Said, hsaid@uneca.org
This programme aims at contributing to sustainable development of Ethiopia, particularly by promoting cultural diversity which is conditioned by the country's heritage including both tangible and intangible assets, by the creativity of contemporary artists as well as by the diversity of the natural environment.
Conscious of the need to take an inclusive approach for development in the Ethiopian context, the programme promotes inter-faith and community based dialogue. Furthermore, certain activities will address the needs of minority, marginalized or disadvantaged groups. Key outcomes include new or revised policy frameworks in the field of culture and increased governance capacity to enforce them, improved conditions for cultural industries and creative communities and better defined role of ethics and values for sustainable protection of natural environment through inter-faith dialogue.