{Rwanda is set to join the rest of the countries in the East African Community to carry out a survey on cultural and creative industries.}
The survey has been done and completed in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda and it is now time for Rwanda.
In Rwanda, the study is to be undertaken by the Ministry of Sports and Culture, the Ministry of East African Community Affairs and the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda. To these institution shall be adjoined the Rwanda Academy of Language and Culture (RALC).
The study will collect information on Culture and Creative Industries especially in the areas of products and operators, productive/economic activity, statistics, marketing and domain specific information.
The mapping study is significant due to the increasing recognition of the sector’s contribution to social, economic and political development in East Africa and the world at large. The results of the study will be disseminated to various stakeholders in Rwanda and other EAC Partner States.
The objectives of this study are:
-To identify institutions, organizations and individuals working in cultural and creative activities within Rwanda and the EAC Partner States
-To establish their contribution to the economic growth of the region.
– To provide a relevant data for decision makers and planners both for the Republic of Rwanda and the East African Community.
-To map the existing data/statistics being generated by institutions, organizations and individuals involved in cultural and creative industries;
-To identify the productive/economic activities of institutions, organizations and individuals involved in the cultural and creative industries;
-To collect information on employment, revenue, expenditure and marketing strategies from the institutions, organizations and individuals in the cultural and creative industries;
-To identify challenges faced by institutions in promoting cultural and creative industries within Rwanda and the EAC region;
-To build a database of creative and cultural industries as well as a Management Information System for the exploitation of the collected data
This survey shall be district based and shall be concerned with institutions, organizations and individuals involved in cultural and creative industries that are registered by the Ministry of Sports and Culture, Rwanda Academy of Language and Culture, and District’s art and culture database.
Hence, a training session has been organized for the district officers in charge of sports and culture as well as other selected research assistants working in the Ministry of Sports and Culture and its partner institutions. This training provided detailed information and skills, protocol and the terms of reference of the mapping project to the enumerators. This training session shall also serve as a platform for disseminating strategies and goals of the enumeration
Enumeration phase in Districts:
• 17th to 24th November 2014: Northern, Western provinces and Kigaki city
• 28th November to 5th December 2014: Eastern and Southern provinces
The general survey will be conducted at provincial level from 15th to 28th December 2014.
Cultural and creative activities have been grouped into sectors and their subsectors as exhibited in the table below
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