Cav' Creative Economies

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About us

Cav’ Creative Economies was a Goethe-Institut initiative that comprised the two projects Cav’ Platform and Cav’ Township. The programme aimed to contribute to the creative and cultural industries in South Africa, through enabling creative organisations and small businesses towards income generation.

2023

In 2023, the Cav’ Creative Economies project had a particular focus on supporting gender transformation within the Culture and Creative Industries (CCI), as part of the overall strategy of the Global Project CCI being implemented in six countries in the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regions. Thus, the four training programmes implemented in South Africa under the Cav’ Townships and Cav’ Platform projects were only targeted at women participants. more





2020 - 2022

Cav' Townships

Cav' Townships developed and implemented enabling strategies for young creative people in townships. It promoted and supported local cultural and creative hubs, in order to address unemployment and income generation.
 

Platform

The Cav’ Platform contributed to existing efforts in the creative and cultural industry (CCI). Through Forums based on research and a virtual platform, Cav Platform provided a space for dialogue, networking, information and resource sharing. 

The project Cultural and Creative Industries was jointly implemented from late 2018 until early 2023 by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the Goethe-Institut on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). It improved employment and income opportunities for creative professionals in six partner countries: Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Kenya, Senegal, and South Africa. The project operated mainly in the music, fashion, design and animation sectors. In addition to promoting the development of entrepreneurial, digital, creative and technical skills through training programmes, the project aimed to strengthen the framework conditions and the ecosystem of the cultural and creative industries.




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