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MDGF-1824: Creativity and cultural identity for local development

PLEASE NOTE THIS CONCEPT NOTE IS THE ORIGINAL SUBMISSION TO THE FUND. IN MANY CASES INDICATIVE BUDGET AMOUNTS APPROVED BY THE STEERING COMMITTEE ARE CONSIDERABLY LOWER THAN THAT REQUESTED AND INDICATED HERE-IN. FINAL BUDGET AMOUNTS WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE AFTER APPROVAL OF THE FINALIZED DETAILED JOINT PROGRAMME DOCUMENT.
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ID: MDGF-1824

Culture and Development
Round 1
(26/04/2007 - 31/12/2009)
Honduras
$11,418,390
36 Months
Creativity and cultural identity for local development

Attached Documents:

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A. Applicant Information

Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Lower Middle Income Country
  • Medium HDI, according to UNDP's 2006 Human Development Report
  • Rebeca ARIAS
  • rebeca.arias@undp.org
  • Yuri Leiva
  • yuri.leiva@undp.org
  • karla posas
  • UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
  • Oficial de Programa
  • karla.posas@undp.org
  • Helena Tapia
  • UNV - United Nations Volunteers
  • Asistente técnico unidad de gobernabilidad
  • helena.tapia@undp.org
  • UNDP - United Nations Development Programme ($2,762,908)
  • UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund ($859,000)
  • UNESCO - United Nations Educational and Scientific Organization ($3,134,247)
  • FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ($889,095)
  • ILO - International Labour Organization ($882,000)
  • UNV - United Nations Volunteers ($1,326,800)
  • UNWTO - United Nations World Tourism Organization ($1,564,340)
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B. Concept Note

This joint Programme seeks to enhance the abilities of institutions and persons to administer cultural and creative development in a decentralized manner, relying upon the diversity of Honduran identities. It will do this by :1) reinforcing the Regional Councils on Culture through the participative preparation of local strategies for culture and development and by training them in cultural administration (financing 80 initiatives directed at children and young people, 16 schools of artistic training and 16 creative representations geared towards the MDG’s); 2) financially and technically supporting ventures in the fields of creative and cultural micro enterprise, industry and rural tourism; restoring public spaces, historical buildings and archaeological sites for local development and 3) researching and disseminating information about the impact of culture on development. The Programme responds to national priorities in the cultural sphere, and was designed with the participation of SCAD (Department of Culture, Arts and Sports), AECI (Spanish International Cooperation Agency) and independent art organizations.

The Human Development Paradigm promotes the enhancement of abilities and opportunities to enable people to achieve their own goals. Cultural freedom is fundamental to that purpose as a means of acknowledging different cultural identities. Cultural diversity contributes to people’s intellectual, emotional, moral and spiritual life. The NHDR (National Human Development Report) of 2003 for Honduras, entitled “Culture: the Means and the Ends of Development”, the 2004 World Human Development Report and the 2006 Honduras NHDR “Toward the Expansion of Citizenship”, all emphasize culture as a motor for development, both for its contribution to strengthening citizenship through dialogue, coexistence, inclusion and integration, and as a force for economic development by means of creative, cultural and rural tourism industries linked to markets. The 2003 NHDR made clear the existing scarcity of resources that would enable citizens to take part in the cultural life and demonstrated the need for a greater recognition of internal cultural diversity, the weakness of the cultural industry, the potential for linking handicrafts and creative production to tourism and the need to promote a discussion regarding the central role of cultural aspects in the overall development of the country. Honduras is reviewing the PRS (Poverty Reduction Strategy), and SCAD (Department of Culture, Arts and Sports, the national executive agency for arts and culture) proposes that, in light of Honduras’ cultural diversity, the cultural dimension be mainstreamed. SCAD, whose budget amounts to barely 0.01% of the national budget is, for the first time, in the process of decentralizing its efforts by transferring a small amount of capital to seven Regional Councils on Culture for the purpose of stimulating culture at the local level. Despite its scarce resources Honduras does have experience to draw upon in the paradigm of local development with a cultural focus e.g: the Santa Rosa Vive el Arte (Santa Rosa Lives Art) Foundation, the Santa Rosa de Copán town hall and the private and independent sectors, with the promotion of cultural management and local identity; Comayagua with its restored historic buildings and public spaces for common use and social interaction, and PROPAITH in the field of handicrafts, among others. Another national policy that is relevant to this joint programme is the National Strategy for Sustainable Tourism, which includes cultural manifestations as an added value for a tourist destination and one that is necessary for comprehensive economic development. The joint Programme will enhance institutional and human capabilities for administering local development processes by emphasizing cultural resources from an identity and economic perspective. Strategies will be carried out for decentralization, strengthening of local capabilities, innovative experiences in rural tourism and the generation of systemized information and knowledge through research, the organization of tools and studies of the impact of culture on development. The Programme will help accomplish the MDG’s in the following ways: - Goal 1: The support of cultural industries will be the basis for the construction of networks aiming to link productive sectors and less dynamic ones. - Goals 4, 5 and 6: Cultural and artistic activities that encourage awareness about the MDG’s will be carried out at the local level. - Goal 7: Enhanced mechanisms for protecting patents, certificates of origin and authenticity and the creation of brands will lead to greater use and national ownership of traditional knowledge, and to the preservation of natural resources. The Programme will benefit from the added value of UNESCO, UNDP, UNICEF, WTO, ILO, UNV and FAO, and will contribute to the UNDAF outcome expressed as: “By 2011 Hondurans will advance toward the exercise of their rights and duties in a democratic state that is capable of drawing up and implementing policies and actions for civic participation, equity, modernization of the state, decentralization and judicial and public security.”

The objective of the joint programme is to promote culture as a means for social cohesion and economic development, and it will focus the following outcomes: Outcome 1: Eight Cultural Regional Councils will be established in 8 regions. These Councils will promote the implementation of local cultural strategies, prepared in a participative and inclusive manner, in which all cultural identities of each region will by represented as an integral part. The Regional Councils on Culture will be strengthened in their role of public entity for discussing and issuing opinions on the most important regional cultural issues. Cultural agents from all fields (the cultural patrimony, libraries, arts, the communication media, etc.) and from all cultural identities will be represented in these Councils. The Councils will advocate for recognition of the cultural rights of citizens and hence for their incorporation into municipal planning processes. The deliverables are: • Eight representative and comprehensive Regional Councils on Culture and Development have a strategy and the capability of implementing it in Santa Rosa de Copán, La Esperanza, San Pedro Sula, Tela, Catacamas, Taulabé, Choluteca and Puerto Lempira. These sites are proposed in the Law for the Advancement of Culture and Art. • Cultural dimension of development incorporated into the main local planning instruments, with an integrated focus (sector and mainstream). • Cultural identity and creativity reinforced and an intercultural environment promoted. This outcome seeks to demonstrate, through practical experience, the importance of culture in community development and to serve as a basis for the preparation of a Mid-Long term National Cultural Policy. Outcome2: Utilizing and reinforcing the creativity and diversity of local cultural identities and their manifestations in the economic and social development of long-established communities. Technical and financial aid will be provided for economic development by means of an inter-agency fund that, with the involvement of the private sector, will seek to leverage cultural undertakings and creative, cultural and rural tourism industries (in existing markets) so that they can be integrated into the competitive market. With regard to community social development, historic buildings, public spaces and cultural centers for community development will be adapted as areas for public interaction by the citizenship. Historic buildings, public spaces and cultural centers are specified because it is in parks, streets and plazas that civic interaction occurs; many people feel excluded if they have to enter a building and even more so if it is a public institution. The deliverables are: • Mechanisms implemented to promote cultural, creative and rural tourism industries, with emphasis on micro-businesses. • Infrastructure and furnishings of public spaces and historic buildings suitable for creative and cultural activities improved. This outcome incorporates culture as a local economic development resource by promoting creative, cultural and rural tourism undertakings and industries. Outcome 3: Research and development: systemization of information (including the design and preparation of indicators for cultural development and the impact of culture on development), and anthropological, artistic and cultural research and research on impacts. The knowledge thus produced will fuel the aforementioned outcomes and will be used for advocacy activities, recommendations and input for drawing up new strategies and programs. The deliverables are: • Information systems, with statistics and cultural indicators designed and operational. • Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History’s Center for Documentation and Historical, Anthropological and Artistic Research strengthened. • Monitoring and evaluating systems designed to measure the impacts of the Programme. This outcome includes in the last-listed deliverable the system for monitoring and evaluating the impact of the Programme activities, which will be also used as an input for preparing other strategies and programs.

In order to draw up the plan a team will be formed, coordinated by UNDP and the UN Coordination Office, and composed by technical staff from the participating agencies, the government and AECI. This team will formulate the work plan for preparing the Joint Programme. The plan will include i) workshops, ii) process for consulting at local level and with government, iii) selection of geographical areas, iv) contracting consultants to assist with the final design of the programme, v) final workshop with all actors to validate the proposal. For the purpose of ratifying the Concept Note an Approval Committee was formed, made up of the AECI coordinator; the Minister of Culture, Arts and Sports; SETCO (the Technical and International Cooperation Secretariat) and the United Nations System Resident Coordinator. This committee would also review the final Joint Programme Document. Below are listed the main Programme activities that will be completed in the results matrix: • Promoting and assisting in the participative and inclusive preparation of eight local cultural and development strategies. Advocacy for the inclusion of culture and development strategies in the municipal development and investment plans. • Disseminating cultural rights, including those of the indigenous and African-descended populations, in local settings by means of the Regional Councils on Culture and Development. • Designing and implementing a communication and educational strategy at the regional level for enhancing, promoting and protecting cultural identity and diversity. • Providing technical advice and training on how to insert competitively creative and cultural industry and rural tourism products into the market. • Creating an inter-agency fund for new cultural, creative and community tourism micro-businesses. • Rehabilitating, improving and restoring historical buildings and public spaces that facilitate the holding of cultural fairs, events and other cultural manifestations. • Improving the infrastructure and equipment of cultural centers as areas for community development. • Designing and defining cultural indicators for sustainable development. • Promoting the research, documentation, analysis and dissemination of artistic and cultural information. • Creating a social network and a portal that insures monitoring, follow-up, dissemination and use of the knowledge that is produced. The Programme will include a multiplicity of national, regional and local public institutions; the public and private sectors, artistic and cultural organizations, the independent sector and non-governmental organizations, among other bodies whose role in the implementation of the activities will be specified in the Programme’s design. We identify the following associates at this time: • Department of Culture, Arts and Sports • Department of Tourism • Department of Industry and Commerce • Minister of the Interior and Justice • Department of Education • Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History • Municipal governments • Regional councils • Banco Central (Central Bank) • INE (National Statistics Institute) • INFOP (National Vocational Training Institute) • COHCIT (Honduran Council on Research and Technology) • Local organizations for promoting culture • Local cultural organizations • Cultural Centers/ Public libraries • Academia and the regional educational sector • Independent artistic movements, such as Women in the Arts, Terco Productions, Hibueras Cultural Center, La Fragua Theatrical Group, Santa Rosa de Copán Historical District Committee, “Arte Acción”, Padre Jesús Valladares Foundation, Palito Verde Cultural Foundation, Funide, Ceprehon, Taulabé Pro-Improvement Board and “Campesinos Los Artezanos” Associative Business, among others • Tourism Chambers • Private enterprise In order to ensure the impact and sustainability of the Programme it is very important that there is a comprehensive and representative participation of all the identified stakeholders. For the purposes of this programme this means fully incorporating into the planning and implementation processes all the diversity of cultural identity that exists in Honduras. A series of activities will be carried out in order to ensure the sustainability of the Programme: • Assurance is given that all organizations that are representative of cultural diversity are represented and will fully participate in each of the processes for drawing up local culture and development strategies. • It is guaranteed that all cultural agents from all fields (patrimony, libraries, the arts and communications media, local governments, etc.) and the diversity of cultural identities of each region will be included in the Regional Councils on Culture. • In order to achieve Outcome 2, the promotion of creative, cultural and rural tourism industries, efforts will be made to incorporate all those public or private entities that would insure the sustainability of the fund for assistance to micro-businesses. • Forums, debates and seminars will be institutionalized and cultural and artistic activities promoted, within the actual communities. • An educational and communication strategy for enhancing, promoting and protecting cultural identities and diversity. • Educational programs and strategies directed at children and adolescents.

The Programme Coordination Unit will include a monitoring and evaluation unit that utilizes the following indicators for follow-up and enhancement of capabilities. Indicators for Outcome 1: Number of persons trained in cultural administration and in management and supervision in eight regions of the country; the Council of the Department of Gracias a Dios is organized and recognized by the Department of Culture, Arts and Sports; eight local culture and development strategies are drawn up in a participatory manner and with input from the cultural organizations in the region; the cultural and development strategies incorporate the rights of the indigenous and African-descended populations and socially vulnerable groups; eighty cultural and creative initiatives directed at children and youth (ten per region) are financed (10% of these will be aimed at persons with disabilities); 16 regional artistic education programs are technically and financially strengthened in order to improve their quality, coverage and sustainability, and there are 16 venues for reflecting, through creative expression, on the Honduran lived experience with and interpretation of the MDG’s. Indicators for Outcome 2: 150 cultural and creative endeavors are bolstered in order to be inserted into the competitive market; 50 creative and cultural endeavors from rural areas are linked to magnets of tourism development, offering products and services; there is an interagency financing fund to help form cultural, creative and rural tourism micro-businesses; eight public spaces and/or historic buildings and four archaeological parks are fitted out for the holding of cultural fairs and events, and eight cultural centers are remodeled and equipped. Indicators for Outcome 3: A proposal for cultural indicators for measuring advances in sustainable development is drawn up, publicized and used; an electronic portal is designed and operational, with a budget for its continued existence, that insures that information about cultural and creative events and manifestations and cultural industries, organized groups and cultural research in the country is updated and disseminated; the IHAH’s Center for Documentation and Historical, Anthropological and Artistic Research is strengthened technically and by the addition of equipment; twenty research projects that provide more in-depth knowledge about manifestations of traditional culture and social processes for building identities and social cohesion are financed; the number and coverage of communications materials produced for promoting and disseminating expressions of cultural and creative diversity, and a system for monitoring and evaluating the Programme is operating satisfactorily.

The Joint Programme will benefit from the participation of seven agencies from the United Nations System (UNESCO, UNDP, UNICEF, UNV, FAO, WTO and ILO) that will contribute their added value to it. UNDP will be the Joint Programme Managing Agency, operating under the Pass-Through modality and will distribute the resources to the different agencies according to the budget. Three non resident agencies—UNESCO, ILO and WTO will participate. Once the Joint Programme is approved an MOU will be signed between UNDP, as the lead agency, and the participating agencies establishing the administrative agreements for implementation. The participating agencies set the following conditions that will facilitate the implementation of this Programme: • Creation of a joint management unit that will lower costs and facilitate funding complementarity. • Unique and appropriate management criteria are defined for all agencies. • The non-resident agencies will be supported by the resident agencies in order to avoid separate offices. • The work will be carried out within the focus of a single Programme. • Oversight to ensure that the desired outcomes and impacts are achieved. The Programme will have i) a Steering Committee with a policy level composed by the Minister of Culture, Arts and Sports, the Resident Coordinator of the United Nations System, the SETCO representative, the AECI coordinator and the representatives from the seven agencies of the United Nations, and ii) a technical committee with the Technical Focal Points of the agencies. The Programme will also have a Management Support Unit that will be responsible for directing, coordinating and assisting the Programme. This unit will have a National Coordinator and consideration will be given to including in it technical assistants in the eight regions. Despite the fact that the funds will be distributed among the agencies the Programme should be implemented by coordinated actions that are dictated by the desired outcomes, and not by separate actions on the part of each agency. The Management Support Unit, as far as possible, will work directly with the respective national partners for implementation, and the agencies will provide the necessary support where they can contribute added value. Below are listed the main partners for the implementation strategy: • SCAD (Department of Culture, Arts and Sports), the lead partner in this Programme. • Regional Councils on Culture, as public-private entities responsible for cultural administration at the local level. • Departments of Tourism and of Industry and Commerce, for support and registration of cultural, creative and rural tourism endeavors and industries. • Local governments: Municipalities and commonwealths of municipalities in the identified regions. • INE (National Statistics Institute) and Banco Central (Central Bank) will be responsible for designing, identifying, adopting and using cultural indicators for sustainable development. • The Center for Research and Documentation of the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History will be regarded as the center responsible for systemizing, documenting and disseminating all the information and documentation, both quantitative and qualitative that is produced. • The private sector: the inter-agency fund for financing creative industries will promote a partnershiop with the private sector for administration and resource mobilization • The independent sector and non-governmental organizations are assured participation in all processes.

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C. MDG-Related Indicators

  • Goal 0: Millennium Declaration: an enabling environment (human rights, democracy and good governance)
  • Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
  • Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
  • Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
  • Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
  • Goal 5: Improve maternal health
  • Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
  • Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
  • Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development
  • 1. Proportion of population below $1 (PPP) per day
  • 3. Share of poorest quintile in national consumption
  • 5. Proportion of population below minimum level of dietary energy consumption
  • 6. Net enrolment ratio in primary education
  • 8. Literacy rate of 15-24 year-olds
  • 9. Ratios of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education
  • 14. Infant mortality rate
  • 16. Maternal mortality ratio
  • 17. Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel
  • 18. HIV prevalence among pregnant women aged 15-24 years
  • 19b. Percentage of population aged 15-24 years with comprehensive correct knowledge of HIV/AIDS
  • 25. Proportion of land area covered by forest
  • 26. Ratio of area protected to maintain biological diversity to surface area
  • 29. Proportion of population using solid fuels
  • 30. Proportion of population with sustainable access to an improved water source, urban and rural
  • 31. Proportion of population with access to improved sanitation, urban and rural
  • 45. Unemployment rate of young people aged 15-24 years, each sex and total
  • 46. Proportion of population with access to affordable essential drugs on a sustainable basis
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D. Formulation Advance

Yes
$20,000
UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
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E. Resident Coordinator's Undertakings

  • The Concept Note has been reviewed by the national government and the UN Country Team.
  • If approved by the MDG-F Steering Committee, the UN Participating Organizations undertake to submit a draft Joint Programme Document within eight weeks of notification.
  • All UN Participating Organizations have or will sign the global Memorandum of Understanding with the Multi-Donor Trust Fund Office.