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Bagdad project as the capital of arab culture 2013
Description of the policy/measure
After 聽approval of the project of聽 baghdad聽 the capital of arab culture, in its fifteenth conference of the arab ministers, who are responsible on cultural affairs, iraqi ministry of culture sent a detailed report to the cabinet included the projects and required financial allocations to implement this project. the iraqi government allocated ($4,000,000) four hundred million dollars to rehabilitate the cultural infrastructure of baghdad city. it also allocated ($50,000,000) fifty million dollars to implement cultural activities and performances of this project.聽
2005 Convention Monitoring Framework Goal(s)
Area(s) of Monitoring
Results achieved
1. rehabilitating and establishing (38) projects of cultural infrastructure.聽 2. print more than (480) 聽titles of books with (2000) copies of each title included various types of cultural knowledge and reprinting (21) archeological manuscripts. 聽in this occasion, many books have been sold at exhibitions. over this occasion 聽many books have been distributed in free of charge to the governmental institutions, unions and civil society organizations to enrich their libraries,3. holding (144) exhibitions for plastic art inside and outside iraq at which many participated artistic works were sold,4. getting rights of the production of (43) films including (36) long and short films, as well as (7) documentary films.5. producing (9) short fictional films, (6) documentary films and (10) long films.6. performing 聽more than (21) theatrical performances 聽the year of the festival,7.聽 ministry of culture produced (83) musical album of pioneer and youthful artists, which were sold in the national and international markets.8. 聽ministry of culture organized 聽training workshops for 聽administrations of protocol, translation and cultural management as well as specialized聽 workshops for the pupils of ballet and music school, in order to develop their cultural, creative and professional skills for both genders.
Financial resources allocated to the policy
Iraqi government allocated ($450,000,000) four hundred and fifty million dollars for this project.