SUSTAINABILITY
AWAD will develop in a way that the organisation will build on past achievement as an important step for the following goal:
- promotion, disseminating and sharing of all of the different African arts, crafts and cultural heritage.
- Devise ways of enabling knowledge of intangible heritage (arts and crafts) to be passed onto people who have the potential of enjoying the activity and/or developing the skill.
- Provide potential for new job opportunities especially through arts and craft heritage training and education.
- Engage with local community and regional partnerships that can help raise awareness of the importance of african cultural heritage and link in with regeneration programs at a local, regional, national and international level.
- Highlight the opportunities for intercultural learning and cultural skills exchange.
- promote the traditional arts and cultural skills to an international audience through different methods.
- Source opportunities for national and international exchange of (African and non-African) culture and craftspeople who would not otherwise be able to explore other craft techniques.
- Develop own research and consultancy capacity and be commissioned on a regular basis by mainstream bodies in the voluntary, public and private sector.
- Continue Building partnerships locally, Nationaly and internationaly.
- Profile AWAD as an oganisation of significance, playing a key role for networking, african community groups, advocacy, cultural training, research, and information dissemination.
