The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Office for the Maghreb has launched a project entitled “Music as a driving force for sustainable development in Morocco,” which aims to improve governance systems in the music sector.
Funded by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, in partnership with the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, this project aims to develop the value chain of Morocco’s music industry, through creating new jobs employment and income opportunities for young people and thus participating in the sustainable development of the country.
Three activities, to be implemented as of December 2020, include musical awakening sessions benefiting 90 children ( aged between 7 to 10) in the cities of Tangier, Meknes and Inezgane, the Rabat-based UNESCO office said Wednesday in a press release.
The second activity consists of the creation of an online portal for Music professionals in Morocco, to provide them with a mapping of music and places associated with it throughout the country. This portal aims to network music stakeholders and to empower the government and the civil society to act for the development of this sector.
The third activity provides for holding recording sessions and in-residence coaching sessions to the benefit of 12 Moroccan music bands, so as to strengthen their capacities, increase their income and upgrade their artistic quality.
For the last activity, a call for applications was launched until December 12, 2020, to select the beneficiaries of the program, said the press release, adding that applicants must be artists or music groups made up of 2 to 5 members, women or men, aged 18 to 35.
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