Culture and Development

A/RES/65/166View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 22 Globalization and interdependence, published in 2011.

What other versions does this mandate have?

4 versions · 2001–2012

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/66/208

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2012	A/RES/66/208	Culture and development	1,514	55%Compare
2011	A/RES/65/166	Culture and development	1,001	20%Compare
2003	A/RES/57/249	Culture and development	1,213	32%Compare
2001	A/RES/55/192	Culture and development	552	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

10 subjects

Capacity Building Country Teams Cultural Industries Culture Developing Countries Development Financial Assistance International Cooperation Report Preparation Technical Cooperation

What’s in this document?

13 operative paragraphs

Emphasizes the important contribution of culture for sustainable development and the achievement of national development objectives and internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals;

Invites all Member States, intergovernmental bodies, organizations of the United Nations system and relevant non-governmental organizations:

To raise public awareness of the importance of cultural diversity for sustainable development, promoting its positive value through education and media tools;

To ensure a more visible and effective integration and mainstreaming of culture into development policies and strategies at all levels;

To promote capacity-building, where appropriate, at all levels for the development of a dynamic cultural and creative sector, in particular by encouraging creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship, supporting the development of sustainable cultural institutions and cultural industries, providing technical and vocational training for culture professionals and increasing employment opportunities in the cultural and creative sector for sustained, inclusive and equitable economic growth and development;

To actively support the emergence of local markets for cultural goods and services and to facilitate the effective and licit access of such goods and services to international markets, taking into account the expanding range of cultural consumption and, for States parties to it, the provisions of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions;Error: Reference source not found

To preserve and maintain local and indigenous traditional knowledge and community practices of environmental management, which are valuable examples of culture as a vehicle for environmental sustainability and sustainable development, and to foster synergies between modern science and local and indigenous knowledge;

To support national legal frameworks and policies for the protection and preservation of cultural heritage and cultural property,⁵ the fight against illicit trafficking in cultural property and the return of cultural property,⁶ in accordance with national legislation and applicable international legal frameworks, including by promoting international cooperation to prevent the misappropriation of cultural heritage and products, recognizing the importance of intellectual property rights in sustaining those involved in cultural creativity;

⁵As defined in article 1 of the Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property (United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 823, No. 11806).

⁶In line with the Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property.

Encourages all Member States, intergovernmental bodies, organizations of the United Nations system, relevant non-governmental organizations and all relevant stakeholders to enhance international cooperation in supporting the efforts of developing countries for the development and consolidation of cultural industries, cultural tourism and culture-related microenterprises and to assist those countries in developing the necessary infrastructure and skills, as well as in mastering information and communications technologies and gaining access to new technologies on mutually agreed terms;

Invites the organizations of the United Nations system, in particular the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to assist Member States, upon their request, in developing their national capacities to assess how best to optimize the contribution of culture to development, including through information-sharing, exchange of best practices, data collection, research and study, and the use of appropriate evaluation indicators, in accordance with their national priorities and taking into account relevant General Assembly resolutions;

Encourages the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, in conjunction, as appropriate, with other relevant United Nations bodies and multilateral development institutions, to continue to provide support and to facilitate financing, as appropriate, upon request, to developing countries, in particular with regard to national capacity-building for the implementation of applicable international cultural conventions, taking into account the relevant General Assembly resolutions and the Millennium Development Goals;

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that United Nations country teams further integrate and mainstream culture into their programming exercises, in particular United Nations Development Assistance Frameworks, in consultation with relevant national authorities, when assisting countries in the pursuit of their development objectives;

Also requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and relevant United Nations bodies and multilateral development institutions, to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session a progress report on the implementation of the present resolution and to include therein an assessment of the value and desirability of organizing a United Nations conference on culture and development, including its aim, level, format and timing, as well as budgetary implications.

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