The Creative Women’s Association has established the Minimum Standards for Cultural Work and Provenance to define the baseline conditions required for cultural work — tangible and intangible — to be formally recognised, attributed, and protected within Australian systems.

These Standards draw on the designation and safeguarding principles of Japan’s Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties (Act No. 214, 1950) and the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003). They apply to the full breadth of cultural work: made goods, traditional craft, knowledge transmission, heritage practice, and the care and continuity of cultural life.

They are not a funding program, a compliance regime, or an accreditation scheme. They define the minimum conditions required for the Cultural Work & Provenance Sector to function with integrity.

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