
Cultural and Creative Industries


- Supporting cultural policies
- Supporting cultural entrepreneurship
- Training and capacity-building for sector professionals
- Meeting the need for cultural facilities
Supporting cultural policies
Supporting cultural entrepreneurship
Training and capacity-building for sector professionals
Meeting the need for cultural facilities
The CCI sector is a powerful leveraging tool for inclusive local development, as well as a vehicle for promoting the French-speaking world and encouraging freedom of expression. The structuring of these sectors helps create economic opportunities while improving access to cultural goods and services for local communities.
The ICC mandate is fully aligned with AFD’s partnership strategy. France boasts a wealth of knowledge and expertise that is already being transmitted to most of the industries in the sector. Having signed a strategic and financial partnership agreement with the French Institute, AFD is now its preferred partner (since 2018), alongside the French Ministry of Culture, the Musée du Quai Branly, the INA, the École Rubika de Valenciennes, Expertise France, BnF, and the European Union.
CCIs have an undeniable impact on growth, GDP and exports, and are a source of employment, particularly for young people and women, who make up a substantial part of the cultural sector. CCIs offer a clear guide for the values essential to building a sustainable society: education, governance, citizenship, gender equality, etc. By fostering social ties, notably through intergenerational and intercultural dialogue, culture improves social cohesion, making communities more resilient to whatever ecological, social and moral crises they may face.