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Goal 16
Agenda 2063

African Cultural Renaissance is pre-eminent

Promote African cultural renaissance and heritage

Aspiration

Africa with a Strong Cultural Identity, Common Heritage, Values and Ethics

Cultural renaissance, values, and African heritage

Priority Areas

  • •Values and Ideals of Pan Africanism
  • •Cultural Values and African Renaissance
  • •Cultural Heritage, Creative Arts and Businesses

Key Strategies

  • •Preserve cultural heritage
  • •Support creative industries
  • •Promote Pan-Africanism
  • •Build African identity

UCU, UCU Libraries & Archives: where we fit

UCU advances Agenda 2063 through education, research, and ethical leadership, while UCU Libraries and Archives provide the knowledge infrastructure and preservation services that enable evidence-based development and long-term learning.

Uganda Christian University

  • • Builds skilled graduates and principled leaders
  • • Generates applied research and innovation
  • • Partners for community impact and inclusive service delivery

UCU Libraries & Archives

  • • Enables access to scholarly and policy resources
  • • Strengthens information literacy and research skills
  • • Preserves records and heritage for accountability and continuity
Practical impact: students and researchers use library resources and archives to produce evidence, publish work, support policy, and design interventions aligned to Goal 16.

Published UCU article evidence for Goal 16

The records below show how UCU scholarship contributes to this Agenda 2063 goal through practical, policy-relevant, and community-facing evidence.

Culture: 1

Culture

Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage in Uganda

Strengthens cultural heritage preservation, digital archives, institutional memory, and access to Uganda’s knowledge heritage.

Indexed UCU research

Research aligned with Agenda 2063 Goal 16

These are works OpenAlex links to Uganda Christian University and tags with SDGs that this website maps to the goal. This is a transparent thematic crosswalk, not an official NDP or African Union classification or evidence that a policy outcome was achieved.

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OpenAlex data is cached for 15 minutes and backed by the scheduled institutional snapshot. A work can match multiple goals. Citations are indexed counts, not a measure of policy impact.