NEFCISA
NEFCISA

The Music In Africa Foundation (MIAF) is proud of its partnership with the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) as a Strategic Implementing Partner (SIP) for its Social Employment Fund (SEF). Through this collaboration, MIAF is running a national programme that is creating jobs, addressing skills gaps, and strengthening South Africa's creative industries — in line with the SEF's overarching goal to generate work for the common good and build community value through employment, social contribution, and inclusive economic participation. Operating under the banner NEFCISA (National Employment Facility for Creative Industries in South Africa), the initiative is recruiting and training participants, matching them with host organisations, and has already placed 1 500 workers across the country — surpassing its original target of 1 000. NEFCISA is delivered through a network of 20 host organisations spanning five provinces, who are actively hosting participants and contributing to work for the common good across South Africa's creative and cultural industries. Key Objectives: Support employment and entrepreneurship in the creative industries. Offer skills development and training programmes. Foster partnerships between public and private creative sectors. Promote South African creativity at both provincial and national levels Foster community development through social contribution.

ACCES
ACCES

ACCES Conference and Showcase Festival is Africa's leading music industry gathering, bringing together the people shaping the future of the continent's music business. Artists, entrepreneurs, executives, investors, policymakers and cultural leaders from across Africa and around the world come to ACCES to build partnerships, exchange ideas, discover talent and create new business opportunities. Since its launch in 2017, ACCES has become the continent's premier platform for professional exchange and music market development. Combining a high-level conference with a curated showcase festival, networking, exhibitions and industry programmes, ACCES offers a unique space where creativity meets business and where African music connects with the global industry.

Gender@Work
Gender@Work

Music In Africa Gender @ Work is a three-year training programme aimed at upskilling and increasing the participation of female professionals in the African music sector. Launched by the Music In Africa Foundation (MIAF) in April 2019, the programme is connected to the MIAF’s ACCES music conference – a pan-African event held in a different African country every year. This connection enables the programme to reach new participants in a different African country every year. The programme marks the beginning of a more concerted effort by the Foundation to support the participation and inclusion of women in all facets of its programmes and the music sector in Africa as a whole. Over the three years, the programme will aim to address gender imbalances in the sector through training, lobbying, facilitating knowledge exchange and dialogues that foster the interest of women. The broader objectives of the programme are to: Provide industry training for women on critical music industry skills, focusing on: Stage management Electronic music production and recording Music business management Technical knowledge Provide an opportunity for both professional and aspiring women to benefit from the Music In Africa network and its broad range of activities in 2019, 2020 and 2021. Provide a solution-based platform in the form of a round table at ACCES with a view to identify challenges, discuss opportunities and lobby for the interests of female practitioners. Offer participants the opportunity to benefit from programmes offered by MIAF’s partners. Increase access to educational materials. Integrate participants in the broader ACCES programme to maximise experience and exposure to the industry. Record and present training materials on the www.musicinafrica.net, including but not limited to tutorials, templates and other best-practice materials. Communicate women-based themes that support the initiatives and messages of the programme. MAIN TRAINING ACTIVITIES Training in first country (Ghana): In the first year, participants will be trained on all aspects of stage management by a team of experienced stage managers from 10 to 17 November 2019. The programme will offer robust classroom training as well as practical, hands-on training in which participants will also be given the opportunity to manage various aspects of the ACCES performance programme. Training in second country: The second training iteration will take place at ACCES 2020 when the programme will diversify its course to include music production lessons and training on other music business topics. A round-table platform will also be introduced to coincide with the ACCES programme. Training in third country: The third training iteration will take place at ACCES 2021 in a different country, offering an advanced course. HOW DO YOU GET INVOLVED?  As a participant, facilitator or trainer: The programme enrolls up to 12 trainees every year. All opportunities are advertised publicly on this website, and will be added to this page. Please keep checking this page for new calls (below under UPDATES & CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES). As a partner Please contact Claire Metais at [email protected]. APPLY The call for applications for 2020 will be announced soon. The Music In Africa Gender @ Work programme is made possible with the support of the Prince Claus Fund, Siemens Stiftung and Goethe-Institut.

Sound Connects Fund
Sound Connects Fund

For cultural and creative practitioners and organisations operating in southern Africa, access to funding remains a major challenge. The COVID-19 pandemic has also had a massive impact on government policy, spending and the economy in general, and has seen spending on culture being moved further down the list of priorities. Further, the cultural and creative industries repeatedly cite four main areas where investment is needed for growth, which are increased visibility, mobility including access to new markets, finance and support structures.

Instrument Building And Repair Project
Instrument Building And Repair Project

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Call for proposals: Cav’ Platform website content

01 Mar 2022 - 15:28

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Cav’ Platform, a project of the Goethe-Institut, is looking for culture and creative industry (CCI) specific content in English for its website.

The submission deadline is 16 March.

The Content Packages should focus on the business and entrepreneurship aspects of the industry. This is to provide the website with curated industry-specific content reflecting the needs of African creatives. The content should be separated into three segments that can stand on their own and be published in three different months, e.g. three chapters of a Toolkit on running an Animation Studio to be published in May, June and July 2022.

This call for proposal focuses on three African countries including South Africa, Kenya and Senegal, as they are part of the global project on CCI implemented by the Goethe-Institut in partnership with the GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) and supported by the BMZ (German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development).

Context

The Cav’ Platform was established in 2019, and has focused on curated content relevant to the CCI in South Africa. In 2022, the initiative is looking to broaden this scope and include the project’s partner countries Senegal and Kenya with two innovative Content Packages relating to the business and entrepreneurship aspects of the CCI, which reflects the transnational focus on the Cav‘ Platform.

About Cav‘ Platform

Cav‘ Platform is a South African project, which is part of a global project in the CCI, initiated in six countries by the Goethe-Institut in partnership with the GIZ, with three of those counties in sub-Saharan Africa. The aim of this project is to contribute to existing efforts in the CCI by enabling creative organisations and small businesses towards income generation. This is implemented through research-based animation industry ecosystem dialogue forums and a website.

Duration and budget

The complete Content Package needs should be submitted within two months after signing the contract. The three content pieces will be scheduled at the discretion of the Cav‘ Platform for three consecutive months during 2022. The available budget is between €1 800 (about $2 000) and €2 800.

Content specifications

  • The content can be from any creative industry as long as it can sit on a website. Thus, it needs to be text, PDF or video.
  • The content needs to be accompanied by copyright-free images that relate to it.
  • The content should focus on the entrepreneurship/business aspects of the industry, e.g. Toolkit, explainer videos, podcast etc.).
  • The content needs to be innovative and currently relevant for the industry.
  • All content should be in English.
  • The Content package includes individual pieces that relate to each other.
  • The content provider must have an online presence to link the content from the Cav’ Platform to the content creator’s platform.
  • The content creator’s platform can take the format of a website, podcast, YouTube channel, etc.
  • The content creator must be willing to promote Cav’ Platform on their online platform.

Documents to be submitted

  • Detailed resume/CV detailing your relevant experience as per requirements.
  • Proposal of two to three pages. It needs to showcase the relevance of the proposed Content Package, interims of focusing on innovation, entrepreneurship and/or business aspects of the CCI.
  • Detailed budget

Submission deadline

Application documents should be submitted electronically (in one PDF) to Bandile Gumbi at [email protected] with the subject line ‘Content Packages’ before 11:59pm CAT on 16 March.

View the original call here.

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