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Welcome to Culture Matters - The SDC Community of Practice for Culture and Development

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Who we are

Culture Matters is a community of practice set up by staff members at the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.

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SDC Cultural percent

Here you find an overview of SDC cultural projects and cultural programmes & Guidelines for implementation of SDC cultural percent.

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Network and services

There are a lot of resources, experience and knowledge among us, but also outside SDC.

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​Publications

Here you find SDC publications and further reading on culture and development.​

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Discover our toolbox

Here you find tools and guidelines for setting up a new cultural programme.​

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Interculturality

R​eframing Interculturality

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​The latest SDC reflection paper examines challenges and opportunities of innovation and digitalisation in the cultural sector with examples from SDC projects worldwide. Learn more​​

​At a first face-to-face encounter after the COVID pause, SDC colleagues from the francophone Africa met in Tunis from Nov 1st-4th 2022 for the regional F2F Culture, Gouvernance and Democracy.
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