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Promoting Philippine Culture and Values

By 2022, Filipinos will have greater awareness of our
diverse culture and values. There will be significant
progress towards inculcating values for the common
good, cultivating creativity, and strengthening culture-
sensitive governance and development.

Strategies

The priority areas of the cultural agenda are: (a) safeguarding and enshrining our
cultural heritage; (b) achieving equity and inclusion in access to cultural resources
and services; and (c) sustaining and enhancing cultural assets to foster creativity
and innovation for socioeconomic growth.

To value our diverse cultures
• Develop, produce, disseminate, and liberalize access to information on
Filipino culture.
• Institutionalize and intensify heritage conservation plans and programs.
• Establish Knowledge Development Centers and Schools of Living
Traditions for building capacities of Filipinos.
• Expand inclusive cultural structures as civic spaces for dialogue and
cultural exchange.

To inculcate values for the common good
• Determine a set of core values that foster the common good.
• Utilize various channels of values inculcation to reach all community
members.
• Increase government efforts for promotion of values that foster the
common good.
• Mainstream cultural education in the basic, technical, vocational, and
higher education systems.

To advance “pagkamalikhain” or value of creative excellence
• Boost the development of Filipino creativity as tool for social cohesion and
impetus for culture-based industry and creative economy (See also PDP
Chapter 14).
• Build public appreciation of Filipino creativity (See also PDP Chapter 9).

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