UNDP/Uganda: Open Call for Creatives, Cultural Artists and Artisans Innovation Challenge

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U.S. Embassy in Costa Rica: PD Annual Program Statement

Deadline: 07-Sep-21

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is pleased to launch an open call for Creatives, Cultural Artists and Artisans Innovation Challenge to support the creative sector through a special purpose vehicle / a dedicated creatives arts facility that will provide a more structured approach to creatives, including catalytic financing, and business/technical advisory services, promoting south-to-south co-operation, amongst others.

Culture and the creative industries, which include arts and crafts, advertising, design, entertainment, architecture, books, media and software, among others, are a vital force in accelerating human development. If well-nurtured, the creative economy can trigger sustainable human development and socio-economic transformation and growth. The potential for the industry notwithstanding, it faces numerous challenges both at a micro and macro level including financing.

The facility would support establishing strategic and inclusive platforms for engagement, structuring blended financing instruments, sharing best practices and experiences, skilling and human resource capacity development, building an enabling regulatory environment, and tackling other challenges of creative economy.

Categories

The UNDP is partnering with NASE to identify and nurture up to 400 creative individuals and businesses in the following categories:

Performing Arts and Distribution: Music (Song writing and Composition), Audio recording, Comedy, Drama, Festivals, Theater, Spaces for rehearsals.
Audio Visual and Interactive Media: Film, Video, Television & Radio Production, Internet Streaming, Internet PodcastIng, Video Gaming, Computer Games, Animation.
Visual Arts and Crafts Books and Press: Crafts, Painting, Sculpturing, Books, Newspapers, Magazines, Photography, Videography weaving, Galleries, Art markets.
Books and Press: Books, Newspapers, Magazines, Book Fairs, Libraries.
Design and Creative Services: Fashion, Graphics, Interior, (rind saving, Architecture, Advertising.
Content Distribution: Earned Media, Owned Media, Paid Media.

Challenges

Inadequate recognition and organization as a legal business/entity
Financial illiteray and lack of access to funding
Intellectual propperty and copyright issues
Lack of branding and marketing what they do
A disconnect between the creative and the markets for their content
Inadequate coordination and weak industry self-regulation

Funding Information

Grants range between $3,000 and $5,000.

Eligibility Criteria

This open call goes to:

Individual creatives of any gender and age, legally living and operating in Uganda. Women are encouraged to apply.
Associations can also apply on behalf of verifiable targeted individual creatives who may be constrained to apply individually.

For more information, visit https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=80417