The Secretariat of the ACP has announced that the new ACP-EU Support
Programme to the ACP Cultural Sectors financed on the 10th EDF (European Development Fund) has
officially been presented on March 1, 2011.
The ACP Cultures and ACPFilms Programmes have merged into one
common Programme: The ACP-EU Support Programme to the ACP Cultural Sectors.
This is the first Call for Proposals of the new Programme.
Objectives of the Call for Proposals:
• Reinforce the creation and production of cultural goods and services in the ACP States in an
integrated approach with distribution circuits, drawing on the interregional ACP context and
experience ;
• Support for better access to local, regional, intra-ACP, European and international markets for
ACP cultural goods and services ;
• Strengthening of the capacities of cultural stakeholders, operators and entrepreneurs in the ACP
States.
Priorities
• The Intra-ACP cooperation is in essence geographical and occurs at supra-regional level.
• Emphasis is placed on support for projects that form part of the general framework of South-
South cooperation and that aim to develop synergistic effects at intra-ACP level.
• Priority will be given to actions with real relevance for ACP final beneficiaries.
• Proposed actions must take account of the economic and social dimension of culture (access
to markets, job creation, and inclusion of activities in the formal economy, youth, gender and
minorities).
Deadline of submission of Proposals : 30 June 2011