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Title
Please provide a name for your action learning plan.
Scaling Create4 - Community of Practice
Challenge statement
Challenge type: If you are working on multiple challenges, please indicate if this is your "big bet" or "exploratory" challenge.
Please note: we ask you to only submit a maximum of 3 challenges - 1x Big Bet, 2x Exploratory. Each challenge must be submitted individually.
EXPLORATORY
Challenge statement: What is your challenge? (Please answer in specific terms: "Our challenge is that...”.)
The challenge is about forming a bottom-up community of practice (CoP) which is crucial to secure sustainability of the UNDP's efforts in the relevant fields as well as fostering agenda at the national level. In this regard, facilitation of the engagement, partnerships and collaboration can be done through scaling and strengthening dialogue platforms among the key stakeholders and positive drivers of change starting from the grassroot creators and up to policy-level decision-makers. The launch and scaling of the platform Create4 considering multi-sectoral communication and collaborating is challenging considering status of the local ecosystem development.
Background: What is the history of your challenge? What is causing or driving it? Who is involved? How does the current situation look like? What undesired effects does it produce?
The creative economy is a fast-growing sector globally, generating considerable GDP revenues and driving employment. Creative industries provide opportunities for people to think, create, innovate, and design products and services that result in economic value. The development of creative industries that traditionally were premised on talent, skill, and creativity is now enhanced by the advancement of technology. Creative industries are creating jobs and increasing quality of life as well as promoting inclusive societies. The creative economy promises significant economic advancement for Kyrgyzstan. Developing a creative economy can help retain the country’s youth and curb high levels of internal and external labor migration. Over the last few years Kyrgyz Government highly committed in recognizing the potential of creative economy for sustainable development which is reflected in the National Development Strategy for 2018-2040 and National Development Program of the Kyrgyz Republic until 2026. Both documents underscore the importance of creative economy for inclusive socio-economic development and youth empowerment as well as highlight the necessity of nurturing nationwide innovation ecosystem. The Concept for the Development of the Creative Economy 2022-2026 identifies government priorities in the field such as development of monitoring system and support mechanisms, upgrading educational curriculum and launching creative spaces and platforms for collaboration and co-creation, expanding market opportunities including through the promotion of the national brand “Creative Kyrgyzstan”, and stimulation of innovations due to enabling environment and open dialogue among key stakeholders. In April 2022, President Sadyr Japarov signed a decree “On measures to develop the creative economy and create conditions for progressive development” according to which in June 2023 the Creative Industries’ Park, a special tax regime for creators, was officially launched. According to the Creative Industries Association of Kyrgyzstan, the Kyrgyz Republic is the first country in the world to adopt such a law. The specific types of economic activities eligible for the Park’s membership were officially announced on December 6, 2023.
Quantitative evidence: What (official) data sources do you have on this challenge that better exemplifies the importance and urgency of this frontier challenge? You can add text, a link, or a picture.
Creative Economy, Online Whiteboard for Visual Collaboration (miro.com)
public - creative economy, Visual Workspace for Innovation (miro.com)
Situation analysis on creative economy
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12_H7qK69qCF7sQTph15A7rBlKuWUVc4r/edit
Academic articles:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uVqpr4rk-5s0y4ijfRA5C3epkkX__7JC?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1x4JnlDX0cNjDZfJPOUKvTC_0odmtcd63?usp=drive_link
Qualitative evidence: What weak signals have you recently spotted that characterizes its urgency? Please provide qualitative information that better exemplifies the importance and urgency of this frontier challenge. You can add text, a link, or a picture.
Situation analysis on creative economy
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12_H7qK69qCF7sQTph15A7rBlKuWUVc4r/edit
Reports: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-nH7cYru-lquS7ErJFdJPVtZBjEQ43qq?usp=drive_link
Value proposition: What added value or unique value proposition is your Accelerator Lab bringing to solving this challenge? Why is it your Lab that needs to work on this challenge and not other actors within UNDP, other stakeholders in the country respectively? Why is it worth investing resources to this challenge?
In order to mainstream innovations and innovative approaches into UNDP programming, it is critical to strengthen partnerships with private sector and grassroot innovators and collaborative products aimed at accelerating SDGs' achievement and allowing to synergize efforts on solving diverse development issues.
Short “tweet” summary: We would like to tweet what you are working on, can you summarize your challenge in a maximum of 280 characters?
Strengthening and empowering Community of Practice consisting of local creators and innovators to foster development of the creative economy and innovation ecosystem.
Partners
Who are your top 5 partners for this challenge? Please submit from MOST to LEAST important and state Name, Sector and a brief description of the (intended) collaboration.
Please state the name of the partner:
Association of Creative Industries
What sector does our partner belong to?
Civil Society
Please provide a brief description of the collaboration.
Community of Innovators
Is this a new and unusual partner for UNDP?
Yes
Who are your top 5 partners for this challenge? Please submit from MOST to LEAST important and state Name, Sector and a brief description of the (intended) collaboration.
Please state the name of the partner:
More than 30 partners from privates sector: https://create4.co/
What sector does our partner belong to?
Private Sector
Please provide a brief description of the collaboration.
co-creation and co-implementation of the platform and relevant activities
Is this a new and unusual partner for UNDP?
Yes
Learning questions
Learning question: What is your learning question for this challenge? What do you need to know or understand to work on your challenge statement?
What is the motivation for the private sector to contribute to the development of the collaborative platforms in terms of financial resources, human resources and idea generation?
What are the potential formats for communication campaign and collaborative products?
Can the synergetic efforts of the local creators and innovators impact the decisions of policy-makers at the national level?
To what stage(s) in the learning cycle does your learning question relate?
Grow
Usage of methods: Relating to your choice above, how will you use your methods & tools for this learning question? What value do these add in answering your learning question?
All three methods were advancing the process of conceptualizing events, communication campaigns and implementation processes.
Existing data gaps: Relating to your choice above, what existing gaps in data or information do these new sources of data addressing? What value do these add in answering your learning question?
The abovementioned data helped to better understand the needs and requests of the local creators and innovators in terms of entry points for collaboration and better engagement
Closing
Early leads to grow: Think about the possible grow phase for this challenge - who might benefit from your work on this challenge or who might be the champions in your country that you should inform or collaborate with early on to help you grow this challenge?
Actors engaged into national innovation ecosystem, Ministry of Economy and Commerce - leading the development of the creative economy in Kyrgyzstan.
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