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hardship for all industry players. The PNM • Provide local and foreign training opportunities
Government has thus made available as a short-
term relief measure, an individual grant of $5,000 • Create improved markets for locally produced
to all artistes at a cost of $25M as part of the cultural products.
Covid-19 support programme.
• Collect and publish local cultural statistics in
To unlock the economic potential of the creative keeping with international standards
and cultural industries and create jobs, the PNM
will: • Encourage the use of artists’ guilds to promote
equity, decent work, standards, and quality
• Continue to provide direct financial support to management.
artistes and creatives
• Pursue market opportunities for cultural goods
• Promote and provide support for intellectual and services through the MTI and MFCA and
property protection overseas missions.
• Establish and promulgate a local content
guideline to local media houses
• Promote the export of locally created content
• Support the transition of creatives from the
informal sector to the formal sector
• Partner with tertiary training institutions to
provide training in management of artistes and
cultural industries
• Enforce Intellectual Property laws and
regulations
• Develop an action plan to guide the expansion,
marketing and utilization of cultural goods and
services in the digital domain
• Promote initiatives geared towards improving
digital literacy for local actors
• Develop and market a comprehensive calendar
of events to provide a holistic tourism experience
for international and local tourism
• Emphasize critical thinking skills in the
education sector • Provide fiscal incentives for corporate
sponsorship in the staging of cultural events
• Encourage targeted and creative business
models, such as the cooperative business model, • Establish permanent, state of the art facilities
to stimulate growth in the sector for artisans at ports of entry
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