African Cultural Institutions

Foundations

• Ford Foundation, Media Arts and Culture:
  - Training for Cultural Entrepreneurship
  - World Culture Forum

Regional and Sub-Regional Organizations

• African Development Bank (ADB), Ivory Coast
• Bank of Central African States (BEAC), Cameroon
• Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), Zambia
• Central Bank of West African States, Senegal
• Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS/CEDEAO), Nigeria
• Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC), Central African Republic
• Organization for the Harmonization of African Business Law (OHADA), Cameroon
• Southern African Development Community (SADC), Botswana
• SADC Sector for Culture, Information and Sport (SACIS), Mozambique
• West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), Burkina Faso
• Union du Maghreb Arabe (UMA), Morocco
• West African Development Bank, Togo

Regional and National Cultural Institutions

• African Itinerant College for Culture and Development (AICCD)
• African Books Collective
• AGORO Ghanaian-Danish cultural collaboration
• Artslink - South African Arts and Culture Hub
• ASEPIC
• Association des Liaisons Méditerranéennes
• Centre for Linguistic and Historical Studies through the Oral Tradition
• CELTHO
• CERDAS
• CICIBA
• Collective Resources for the Arts and Talents Enrichment (CREATE), Cameroon
• Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
• Regional Centre for Cultural Action (CRAC)
• Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
• EACROTANAL
• School of Librarians, Archivists and Documentalists (EBAD)
• FESPAD
• FESPAM
• Groupe 30 Afrique
• International Center for Bantu Civilizations
• International Council of African Museums (AFRICOM)
• Institut des Peuples Noirs (IPN)
• National Arts Council of Zimbabwe
• Regional Centre for Cultural Action
• Pan African Association of Anthropologists
• Pan African Institute for Development
• Source de la mémoire et identité culturelle
• Southern African Cultural Information System (SACIS)

Other International and Regional Organizations

• Africalia
• African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP)
• ACPCultures+, ACP-EU Support Programme to ACP Cultural Sectors
• ACPCultures+ Programme's Documentation Centre
• African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP)
• African Studies Association (ASA)
• Agence francophone pour l'enseignement supérieur et la recherche (AUPELF)
• Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF)
• AllAfrica Global Media
• Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO)
• Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA)
• Association Française d'Action Artistique (AFAA)
• British Council
• Club du Sahel
• Commonwealth
• Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP)
• Council of Europe
• Enda Third World
• European Development Fund
• European Union
• Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
• International Council of African Museums (AFRICOM)
• International Council of Museums (ICOM)
• International Council on Archives (ICA)
• International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)
• International Dance Council (CID)
• International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
• International Theatre Institute (ITI)
• Islamic Development Bank (IDB)
• Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO)
• League of Arab States
• Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF)
• Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI)
• Pan African Society for Musical Arts Education (PASMAE)
• Union Latine
• United Nations
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• UNDP Human Development Reports
• United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
• United Nations Information Centres (UNIC) - directory
• United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa (UN-NADAF)
• United Nations University (UNU)
• UNU Priority Africa
• World Bank Group
• World Bank Sub-Saharan Africa Home Page
• World Bank Culture-Poverty Learning & Research Program

Ministries and Agencies of Development Cooperation

• Agence Française de Développement (AfD), formerly the CFD
• Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
• Commission for Africa (UK)
• Coopération internationale et développement, France - diplomatie
• Cultural Dimension of Development Co-operation, Department for International Developmet Cooperation, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Finland
• DANIDA, Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Danish Ministry of Cooperation for Development
• Department of Culture and Youth, Ministry of Labour and Home Affairs, Government of Botswana
• Direction du développement et de la coopération suisse
• Dutch Ministry for Development Cooperation (DGIS)
• Federal Gateway to the United States International Development Cooperation Agency (IDCA)
• global.finland, Department for International Developmet Cooperation, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Finland
• German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ)
• German Foundation for International Development (DSE)
• German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
• Ministry of Culture, Ivory Coast
• Ministry of Culture, Republic of Mali
• Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)
• South African Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology (DACST)
• Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)
• Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
• Swiss Commission for Research Partnerships with Developing Countries (KFPE)
• United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID)
• United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Networks and Research Centres

• African Publishers Network (APNET)
• African Publishers Network Research and Documentation Centre (ARDC)
• African Studies Center - Michigan State University
• African Studies Center - University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences
• African Studies Programs, Universities & Research Centers
• Bellagio Publishing Network - international solidarity network for publishing and book development in the south
• Broadcasting Regulation and Cultural Diversity Network (BRCD)
• Center for Arts and Culture - think tank for arts and cultural issues
• Congress of Cultural Actors in West Africa (CCAWA)
• ConnectCP, the who's who of cultural policy, planning and research
• CULTURELINK, Network of Networks for Research and Cooperation in Cultural Development
• Departement of Cultural Heritage Management, Léopold Senghor University
• ERICarts, European Research Institute for Comparative Cultural Policy and the Arts
• Ethno-Net Africa, network for comparative studies, monitoring and evaluation of ethnic conflicts and social transformation in Africa
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) Africa
• International Centre Basile Kossou, For Culture, Peace and Developpement
• International Centre for the Promotion of Crafts (CIPA), Morocco
• International Network of Observatories of Cultural Policies
• Inter-Network Rural Developement
• Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) Culture and Development Portal
• School of African Heritage, Benin
• Senghor University of Alexandria - International University of French Language at the Service of African Development
• World Bank Network for Culture and Development
• World Observatory on the Social Status of the Artist / Observatoire sur la condition sociale de l'artiste

Non-Governmental Organizations

• Africa C.I.O.F.F. - International Council of Organizations of Folklore Festivals and Folk Art
• Botswana Society for the Arts - non-profit society
• African and International Cultural and Artistic Non-Governmental Organizations

Museums

• Coptic Museum, Egypt
• Durban Art Gallery, South Africa
• Musée historique d'Abomey, Benin
• Musée National des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie, Paris, France
• National Museums of Kenya
• National Museum of Namibia
• National Natural History Museum, Tanzania
• West African Museums Programme (WAMP)