A meeting for the presentation of development and promotion strategy of culture in Central Africa opened last week in the Cameroonian capital, Yaounde.

For a period of two days, these meetings brought together the Ministers of culture of the countries of the economic and monetary community of Central Africa States(ECCAS) such as, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Chad. Members of civil society as well as officials of the administrations in charge of culture were also present during that meeting.

The Yaoundé meeting enabled the Member States to submit the consolidated result of preliminary work developed by experts from 21st to 23rd November 2012 in Yaoundé, to equip the sub-region of a strategic tool of implementation of cultural policies adapted to the ever-increasing development of cultural industries.

It will also give the operators and institutions in the cultural sector of ECCAS alternatives in training, dissemination and funding, in addition to Government initiatives.

According to the Secretary-General of ECCAS, Crispin Jaime Sangale Rondo, a Fund of 250 million CFA FRANCS has already been mobilized for the implementation of the sub-regional strategy for development and promotion of culture.