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"Before and After Disasters: Federal Funding for Cultural Institutions is designed to help archives, arts centers, libraries,museums, historical societies, and historic sites find the resources they need."
Creator(s): Heritage Preservation | Date Published: 2005-09
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"In the wake of the devastating tsunami that caused destruction, havoc, and terrible loss of life on coastlines around the Indian Ocean, reports of damage to museums and historic sites are beginning to trickle in."
Creator(s): Artdaily.com | Date Published: 2005-01-18
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"The emergency summit meeting held on 6 January 2005 in Jakarta represented world governments unprecedented response to the tsunami that struck the countries around the Indian Ocean on 26 December 2004."
Creator(s): Oxfam International | Date Published: 2005-01-07
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"The Department of Canadian Heritage today released further details about the national ceremony of commemoration to be held this Saturday in honour of those lost or missing following the earthquakes and tsunamis that struck countries in South and South-East Asia, as well as the east coast of Africa, on December 26, 2004."
Creator(s): Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2005-01-05
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"At a time when the notion of a global “clash of cultures” is resonating so powerfully—and worryingly—around the world, finding answers to the old questions of how best to manage and mitigate conflict over language, religion, culture and ethnicity has taken on renewed importance."
Creator(s): United Nations Development Programme | Date Published: 2004
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"We need to help support the capacity of countries in crisis to protect their heritage, respond to emergency situations and maintain our day-to-day efforts for heritage conservation all around the world. Neither the States Parties to the Convention nor UNESCO and its World Heritage Centre can do this alone. New partnerships will be essential."
Creator(s): UNESCO | Date Published: 2003-05-22
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"The overarching goal of Hivos is to contribute to a free, fair and sustainable world where women and men have equal access to resources, opportunities and markets, and can actively and equally participate in decision-making processes which impact their lives, their society and their future."
Creator(s): Hivos | Date Published: 2002-12
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"Culture and development must build on the fundamental human rights with the objective of strengthening cultural diversity and achieving a global ethic."
Creator(s): Danish, Foreign Ministry | Date Published: 2002-08
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"The globalisation of culture with its dominance of western norms and images may be negatively labelled as McDonaldisation, but on the other hand the communication tools facilitating this process also offer chances to become part of the global community and to exert influence on political processes."
Creator(s): Hivos | Date Published: 2002-03
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"This session covered various policy approaches to making culture a key element of development, from the role of cultural policies in combatting marginalization and social exclusion, to the contribution of cultural industries to employment and economic development."
Creator(s): Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2000-12
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"With the current worldwide move from the plan to the market, questions about governance and culture have come to the forefront of debates on development. It is natural to think that the "habits of the heart" embodied in one's own institutions are worth emulating by others, particularly if they have been conjoined with the material success sought by others."
Creator(s): Deepak Lal, UCLA | Date Published: 1999-09-20
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"The problem of development at the end of the twentieth century passes through conceptual axes that differ from those which shaped economic and social theory in the preceding decades. All over the world, economic and social structures have changed and, consequently, the problem of development must be looked at differently."
Creator(s): Orlando Albornoz, Organization of American States | Date Published: 1997-09
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"Culture is both the context for development as well as the missing factor in policies for development Although such interactions have long been recognized as essential, there has been no worldwide analysis in this field on which new policies could be based."
Creator(s): Terry McKinley - United Nations Research Institute for Social Development | Date Published: 1997
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«Bienvenue sur le portail du réseau des Associations oeuvrant pour la diversité culturelle et le développement de l'Afrique. Ce site s'adresse aussi aux amoureux de l'Afrique et à toutes celles et tous ceux qui souhaitent un véritable échange culturel.»
Creator(s): Espace Fagèye | Date Published: 2006
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"Power of Culture"
Creator(s): Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands | Date Published: 2006
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"The creation of the Portal is a result of the Congress on Cultural Rights and Human Development (2004) and will pool information on topics like: culture and development, cultural indicators, cultural diversity, cultural rights."
Creator(s): Interarts Foundation | Date Published: 2005-02
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"Healing Arts for Tsunami Survivors is a program to help the 1.5 million child survivors of the tsunami tragedy. An initial three-phase program has been developed to help the children heal and resume normal lives."
Creator(s): The International Child Art Foundation (ICAF) | Date Published: 2005-01
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"Floods, famine, fire, and drought — when disaster strikes at home and around the world, Canadians are ready to help."
Creator(s): CBC
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"CBC News Indepth: Disaster in Asia."
Creator(s): CBC
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"Hivos is a non-governmental organisation, rooted in the Netherlands and guided by humanist values, that wants to contribute to a free, fair and sustainable world where citizens, women and men, have equal access to resources, opportunities and markets and can participate actively and equally in decision-making processes that determine their lives, their society and their future."
Creator(s): Hivos
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"Danish Center for Culture and Development (DCCD) promotes cultural co-operation between Denmark and the developing countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East."
Creator(s): Danish Center for Culture and Development
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"Canada is committed to a coordinated response to the crisis in South and South East Asia and is working closely with the affected countries, other donor countries and non-governmental partners already on the ground in the affected areas."
Creator(s): Canadian International Development Agency
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