The project Jeunesse Créative a project coordinated and led in Kinshasa by the Belgian bilateral cooperation agency Enabel. The project activities are carried out in several urban centers (Kinshasa, Lubumbashi, Mbuji-Mayi, Kisangani and Bukavu), which were targeted according to the opportunities, needs and actors present locally. This intervention constitutes the second part of pillar 1 of the Enabel 2023-2027 strategy, which aims to enhance the potential of youth, in terms of training, economic integration, and socio-cultural development. aims to enhance the potential of young people, both in terms of training and economic integration, as well as socio-cultural development.
Country: DRC
Domain: All cultural and artistic sectors
Context: The DRC presents a rich and creative cultural scene, but its potential faces numerous material and symbolic obstacles. The lack of intersectoral partnerships and the insufficient visibility of art, amongst others, hinder culture’s potential impact on the economic and social development as well as on social cohesion.
Project objectives: Africalia was mobilized for the implementation of a component of the project focused on the improvement of the services of cultural operators. The aim is to improve the services of cultural operators youth’s access young people to facilitate youth’s (aged 12 to 35) access to cultural services and socio-cultural activities and cultural actors’ economic integration.
Africalia will (1) strengthen around ten cultural operators on the value chain of the cultural cycle and (2) ensure the strengthening of infrastructures and capacities of the managers of 3 cultural centers.
