The ACP-EU Enhancing capacity for the sustainability of Cultural and Creative Industries in the Pacific Project (CCIP) provides financial support, technical advice, and mentoring and capacity building schemes to artists and cultural producers from across the Pacific region. It seeks to increase the contribution and recognition of the culture and creative sector to economic revenue and commercial engagement in the Pacific Island region. The EUR3.7million Project is funded primarily by the ACP – EU Programme for the Pacific region and is implemented by the Pacific Community’s (SPC) Human Rights and Social Development Division and the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). the governments of Australia (EUR6.2m) and New Zealand

The ACP-EU Programme has launched a regional scheme to strengthen the competitiveness of the cultural and creative industries of ACP nations. This initiative supports the commitment of the European Union (EU) and the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) to promote the socio-economic development of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. 

The ACP-EU Programme: Enhancing capacity for the sustainability of cultural and creative industries (ACP-EU CCIP) is operating across six (6) regional hubs including the Pacific. Click here for more information. 

Activities delivered by the Pacific ACP-EU CCIP hub are managed by the Pacific Community (SPC); in partnership with Queensland University of Technology (QUT).

Overall objective

There are two parts to the Pacific ACP-EU CCIP. These are to:

1. increase the contribution of the cultural and creative sector to economic development; and,
2. enhance recognition of its role in national economies in the Pacific.

Specific objectives

The specific objective is to increase the capacity and sustainability of cultural and creative industry initiatives in the Pacific. It will do this by:

• Supporting national and regional development priorities in the fields of culture and creative industries;
• Increasing knowledge, research and learning related to culture and the creative industries for capacity, programme and policy development;
• Improving the skills of artists, creative and cultural enterprises, organisations and operators for the development of the creative and cultural industries;
• Facilitating access to financial support for artists and creative and cultural enterprises, organisations and cultural operators so that they can better support, develop and promote with artists, cultural knowledge holders and communities that they employ or work with.

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