9. Appendix C: Planning Institute of Jamaica CCI Framework Medium-Term Socio-Economic Policy Framework 2018-2021 Goals and Actions to Develop Jamaica’s Cultural and Creative Industries Goal: Develop the Creative Economy and Create a Framework for a Coordinated and Structured Cultural and Creative Industries Actions:
1. Finalize and implement a National Policy on Culture and the Creative Economy of Jamaica; 2. Develop and enact the Jamaica Creative Economy Act; 3. F ully establish and operationalize the National Cultural and Creative Industries Council (NCCIC) to support the development of cultural and creative industries; 4. Establish a Creative Skills Council; and, 5. Advance the implementation of the National Registry of Entertainment and Creative Industry Practitioners.
Goal: Develop Mechanisms to Support Capacity Building and Business Development in the Cultural and Creative Industries. Actions:
6. Establish a Culture and Creative Industries Fund; 7. Advocated for an equitable trade system to remove impediments to free movement experienced by entertainment practitioners; 8. Implement the Jamaica Creative 100 programme; and, 9. Support entrepreneurship in the culture and creative industries, in the communities around the Blue and John Crow Mountains World Heritage Site.
Goal: Establish systems, structures, mechanisms and other arrangements for local and global marketing, promotion and distribution of Jamaica’s cultural and creative products and services. Actions:
10. Establish digital distribution and promotion platform for Jamaican music, video and fashion; and, 11. Establish a Kingston Creative Media Village.
Goal: Strengthen data, statistical and monitoring and evaluation systems for Jamaica’s cultural and creative industries. Actions:
12. Establish a Culture and Creative Industries Satellite Account (to make available statistics on Jamaica’s creative economy). Source: Medium Term Socio-Economic Policy Framework 2018-2021, Planning Institute of Jamaica
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