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Introduction |
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The National Commission on Culture was established in 1990 by Provisional National Defense Council Law 238 to manage from a holistic perspective, the Cultural life of the country. In the execution of the aforementioned, the National Commission on Culture is enjoined, among other things, to promote the evolution of an integrated National Culture, supervise the implementation of programmes for the preservation, promotion and representation of Ghana tradition and values; and perform such other functions as may be prescribed by government.
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| | | | | | | The Cultural Policy Document | This Cultural Policy Document is the result of many years of deliberation and discussion at several workshops and public forums.
It is dedicated to the realization of the Vision of the people of Ghana to respect, preserve, harness and use their cultural heritage and resources to develop a united, vibrant and prosperous national community with a distinctive African identity and personality and a collective confidence and pride of place among the comity of Nations.
Download the whole document by clicking on this link....Cultural Policy | | | | | | | PROGRAMME FOR NAFAC 2010 | | Click here for the NAFAC 2010 programme. | | | | | | | PROPOSAL FOR INCLUSION OF CULTURE IN THE DRAFT COMPREHENSIVE LONG TERM NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR GHANA | I read the Long Term National Development Plan Vol I: Draft Policy Framework document with considerable interest; and I am convinced that this time round the approach of our development plan treats seriously the idea that CULTURE is a socio-economic CAPITAL of indigenous wealth, competencies and capacities. A clear attempt has been made to bring the so-called informal sector into the frame of our national development strategy.
Click here to download the whole proposal....PROPOSAL FOR INCLUSION OF CULTURE | | | | | | | THE SECOND ZONAL WORKSHOP ON CULTURE AND THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS | The attainment of the 8 Millennium Development Goals largely depend on human attitudes, perceptions, beliefs, norms, practices and other behavioural patterns that have been cultivated over so many years. Therefore, given the human focus of the goals, one of the logical steps towards the attainment of the goals is to sensitise community leaders, civil society and other cultural actors about the demands of the MDGs within the context of their culture and historical experiences. It also requires generating meaningful discourse to the challenges posed by the MDGs to responsible leaders and social groups with the hope of defining the strategic approaches and modes of action that would facilitate the attainment of the goals.
Download the whole report by clicking on this link..... THE SECOND ZONAL WORKSHOP ON CULTURE AND THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
| | | | | | | CULTURE AND NEPAD | UNESCO recognises Culture as crucial to development and good governance in countries around the world. More importantly, it is now recognised that Culture can facilitate the realization of the Millennium Development Goals in African countries.
This makes it urgent to develop within the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) framework a strategy not only for defining culture as a strategic domain but also incorporating culture into all other sectoral domains defined in the NEPAD framework.
Click on this link to download the final report...... CULTURE AND NEPAD
| | | | | | | European Development Fund Supports Arts and Culture | The European Development Fund (EDF) has allocated 24 million Cedis to the Government through the Cultural Initiatives Programme (CISP) Project for the development of arts and culture in the country. | | |  Read More...
| | | | Do Not Neglect Culture | | Click this link to read full article | | | | | | | RESOURCING OUR ARTS AND CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS TO ENHANCE NATIONAL UNITY AND DEVELOPMENT | BY: NELSON KOFI AKATEY,
Once again the critical issue of re-sourcing adequately our Arts and Cultural Institutions in the country to enhance their performance and contribute more effectively to the promotion of national unity and development has come to the fore.
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| | | | Culture, Gender and Human Rights | One of the important events that featured prominently in the week long celebration of the National Festival of Arts and Culture in Wa recently was a colloquium on Culture, Gender and Human Rights.
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| | | | PROGRAMMES ORGANISED BY THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON CULTURE WITH SPONSORSHIP FROM KONRAD ADENAUER STIFTUNG | The National Commission on Culture has made remarkable strides in the development of the Cultural Policy of Ghana, Draft Strategic Plan and staging of workshops to create awareness on how to factor Culture into the various domains of action for overall national development within the scope of the 1992 Republican Constitution of Ghana with sponsorship from Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.
Click here to get the list of programmes
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| 20/04/2010 | | PRESS RELEASE - NAFAC 2010 | | The Minister for Chieftaincy and Culture Alexander Asum – Ahensah (MP) has launched this year’s National Festival of Arts and Culture (NAFAC 2010) at Tamale – in the Northern Region....more | | | | 16/04/2010 | | Look again at planning Panafest | | I do not know whether the acronym PANAFEST which represents the Pan African Historical Theatre Festival now stands for something else. The Ghanaian Times in it issue Saturday July 4, 2009, attributed the acronym to Pan African Festival of arts and Theatre....more | | | | 16/04/2010 | | involve chiefs in local governance | | The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD) has been urged to consider the inclusion of chiefs in decision making structures of the decentralization system as part of the process of reviewing it....more | | | | 21/11/2009 | | Could your culture be letting you down | | As the year draws to a close, several organizations will be reviewing the year with the aim of identifying their successes, difficulties and failures....more | | | | 24/10/2009 | | GHANA JOSEPH PROJECT | | IN Ghana a person who tends cattle in the bush is called a Fulani. It does not matter whether he is a member of the Fulani tribe of Northern Nigeria....more | | | | 10/10/2009 | | Nkrumah’s projects in ruins | | Ghana’s desire to attain a middle-income status by 2015 has prompted calls on the government to reactivate hundreds of projects initiated by Ghana’s First President, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, but which have been left to rot in many parts of the country....more | | | | 08/10/2009 | | Fynn and his eye for culture | | Last week, a unique pix-day exhibition of still photographs...more | | | | 12/09/2009 | | Developing National Arts and Culture | | That the Centres for National Culture throughout the country are the pivots of cultural promotion and development in the country cannot be disputed...more | | | | 31/08/2009 | | CULTURAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT PROGRAMME | | FIRST KWAME NKRUMAH CENTURY LECTURE ON CULTURE...more | | | | 27/04/2009 | | Nkrumah- Africa's greatest son | | Thirty seven years ago in far away Bucharet in Romania, death laid its icy hand on Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah-Africa’s greatest statesman. I choose to call him a real statesman because he was really selfless and honest to his country. He actually placed Ghana first, Africa second and himself last. I call him a statesman again because “A statesman thinks of his country and even the interests and aspirations of her future generations....more | | | | 07/02/2009 | | Culture-9th Millennium devt goal | | A network of arts administrators and artistes from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe last week resolved to lobby policy makers and governments to ensure that culture, as a tool for development, was accepted as the 9th Millennium Development Goal....more | | | | 03/07/2008 | | Review Trokosi Law – Research study | | A RESEARCH study of the practice of Trokosi in Ghana has revealed the need to review the Trokosi law, its implementation mechanism and the role of institutional agencies in abolishing the practice....more | | | | |
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