Promoting Creative Economy for Sustainable Development

A/RES/78/133View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 16 Macroeconomic policy questions, published in 2023.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 3	International trade and commodities	8

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 3	International trade and commodities	8	—

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Cultural Industries Knowledge-Based Economy Sustainable Development

What’s in this document?

25 operative paragraphs

Invites all relevant stakeholders to scale efforts to promote the creative economy, address challenges faced by the sector and create an enabling environment for the creative economy at all levels;

Encourages Member States to:

Promote the inclusion and mainstreaming of the creative economy into economic policy, as well as in national and international development plans and strategies, with an emphasis on enhancing the operational relationship between the creative economy and the Sustainable Development Goals across different policy areas;

Create and enhance enabling environments that ensure that the creative economy is equally accessible and inclusive for all, at the national and local levels, including for women, young people, persons with disabilities, Indigenous Peoples, local communities and people in vulnerable situations, reinforces the status of artists, creators, cultural practitioners and professionals, including by promoting full and productive employment and decent work for all, progressive formalization of the labour market and fair remuneration, and improves access for micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises, including cultural enterprises, in the creative economy to participate in national, regional and global value chains;

Strengthen and support the contribution of the creative economy to promoting sustainable development in its social, economic and environmental dimensions, including to a sustainable and diversified economy and sustainable consumption and production patterns;

Facilitate open, inclusive, equitable, participatory and transparent cooperation among relevant stakeholders, and conduct research among those relevant stakeholders, including the private sector, creative economy actors and entrepreneurs, communities and civil society, and academia, on how to promote international cooperation on the creative economy;

Support data collection on the creative economy, including disaggregated data, by discussing statistical harmonization and through capacity-building, with a view to monitoring the sector’s economic importance, including its contribution to gross domestic product, employment, trade and well-being, as well as to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals;

Share best practices and information regarding innovative policies and actions to promote long-term development strategies for the creative economy;

Establish and deliver research, capacity-building, creative and cultural education, and schemes to support innovation for the creative economy of micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises;

Enhance access to and the utilization of digital technologies in the creative economy, the digital skills and digital literacy of creators, as well as policy and regulatory frameworks that ensure that the social and economic rights of creators, artists and cultural professionals are guaranteed and protected in the digital era;

Develop knowledge, skills and talents to cope with the dynamically changing landscape of creative economy jobs through, among others, a stronger integration of creativity, culture and the arts into education, more investment in technical and vocational skills, quality apprenticeships, and a recognition of prior learning, including through the certification of competencies;

Provide support to creative economy actors and entrepreneurs, especially during economic slowdowns and other disruptions, including with regard to access to finance, health and social protection, healthy and safe working conditions, education and training, while building up their resilience to future disruptions;

Enhance the competitiveness of creators, creative economy actors and entrepreneurs by enhancing their capacities to better manage, commercialize and promote the effective and adequate protection of intellectual property rights, inter alia, by raising awareness of intellectual property, providing financial and legal support and advocacy on the intellectual property registration process and intellectual property management, and implementing intellectual property-backed financing processes;

Promote cultural and linguistic diversity and equal access to cultural expressions in the digital environment, and reinforce more balanced global flows of cultural goods and services, by guaranteeing the social and economic rights of artists and cultural professionals and better regulating digital platforms;

Assess, examine and explore the opportunities for new and emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, to promote sustainable development in its three dimensions in and through the creative economy, as well as address their risks and challenges;

Support cooperation and partnership on capacity-building, research, experience-sharing and technical assistance, including from developed countries to developing countries, at the national, bilateral, regional and global levels that are intended to foster the creative economy, in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;³

³Resolution 70/1.

Share experiences and best practices, including through North-South and South-South and triangular cooperation, regarding the creative economy, with a view to promoting longer-term economic, social and environmental benefits;

Invites the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the International Labour Organization and other relevant United Nations entities, within their respective mandates and existing resources, and through voluntary contributions, as appropriate, to:

Scale up and support international efforts and coordination to promote the creative economy, including by building synergies within the United Nations system and with other stakeholders;

Facilitate open, inclusive, equitable, participatory and transparent cooperation on issues relating to the creative economy, such as measuring the creative economy, statistics on creative goods and services, employment creation potential and decent work in the creative economy;

Examine trends and flows of creative goods and services to improve their value-added contribution to exports of countries for trade and development gains;

Consider and promote the role of the creative economy in supporting livelihoods of Indigenous Peoples and local communities around the world, as well as their contribution to the creative economy as a whole;

Advocate for the importance of the creative economy for developing countries;

Requests the secretariat of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, and in consultation with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the International Labour Organization and relevant entities of the United Nations system, to inform the General Assembly at its eighty-first session of the implementation of the present resolution, through a dedicated section of the Creative Economy Outlook, to be introduced to the Second Committee by the Secretariat, elaborating in particular on how the resolution is aligned with and advances the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including recommendations on concrete actions for reinforcing the role and contribution of the creative economy in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its eighty-first session, and to consider thereafter on a biennial basis, under the item entitled “Macroeconomic policy questions”, the sub-item entitled “Creative economy and sustainable development”.

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