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Our Mission
The Inter-American Culture and Development Foundation (ICDF) seeks to strengthen cultural development in Latin America and the Caribbean through plans, programs, and projects designed to promote socio-economic sustainable ways of reducing poverty, improving quality-of-life, and achieving greater social equity in the region.
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The projects supported by the ICDF help to preserve the cultural patrimony, increase the community participation and education, strengthen cultural industries, and improve the living conditions of people in Latin America and the Caribbean through culture.
Strengthening of Human Resources and Cultural Management Training
For ICDF, the term cultural management means the administration of a cultural organization’s resources to deliver a cultural product or service to the largest possible audience or number of consumers, giving them the greatest satisfaction. (Source: Bernárdez López, Jorge. The Cultural Management Profession: Definitions and Challenges). One priority for cultural management in Latin America and the Caribbean is the need for action to advance poverty reduction, quality-of-life, and social equity in the region.
Specialized training is needed for the people in the cultural area responsible for managing plans, programs, and projects. Such cultural management training is increasingly drawing the attention of cultural policy-makers in Latin America and the Caribbean. But cultural organizations need prompt action in the short term to train or educate their project managers.
The people who design, execute, monitor, and evaluate cultural projects therefore need at least to know basic skills to properly manage resources and meet their objectives. These basic skill requirements include:
- Project design, preparation, and management
- Design of economic and social sustainability strategies
- Budget preparation and tracking
- Design of fundraising strategies
- Techniques for negotiating with the public and private sectors at the local, regional, national, and international levels
- Identification of strategic partners and partnership building
- Legal frameworks
The ICDF program will identify the region’s leading training programs, creating links and potential partnerships with countries in need of help. It will leverage existing training programs to strengthen human resources and cultural management training in the region, identifying the local and regional reach of these programs and cultural management training needs in Latin America and the Caribbean.