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Artists and cultural professionals’ creative expressions can serve to foster public democratic debate, social transformation, economic development and peacebuilding, even in cases where they do not purposedly seek to advance a specific cause through their work. In emergency situations, artists and cultural professionals face additional risks than those impacting on other civilians, due to their work and their identification as artists and cultural professionals.

Capacity building for the cultural and creative industries thus entails:

• sensitization of Governments for the implementation of structural changes in the cultural and creative industries and guide them through the participatory elaboration of effective regulatory frameworks that recognize and protect the status of the artist and thus reduce their vulnerability in crises situations;
• sensitization of Governments and civil society organizations on how and why artists can be at risk in emergency situations in order to push for the recognition of artists as a vulnerable group to be prioritized in protection programmes implemented during emergencies, including humanitarian evacuations.
• awareness-raising of artists and cultural professionals on the mechanisms that exist for their protection at the national and international levels, in order to enable them to activate them.