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Setting up Traditional Medicine Centers with a view to promoting rational, monitored,
regulated use and promoting interactions between traditional and conventional medicine.
6.5.4. Promoting, monitoring and controlling the exploitation traditional knowledge in
Mozambique
The exploitation of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge is an issue that
involves a variety of national institutions and civil society. For these resources to be efficiently
identified and exploited, an awareness of all the players involved must be developed and a
mechanism for dialogue and linking, on the options that best meet the concerns of all, must be
created. There is an urgent need, above all, for a specialized and technically competent national
body to develop the best mechanisms for promoting and safeguarding genetic resources and
associated knowledge. This aim will be achieved by means of the following strategic actions:
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Setting up a national body responsible for managing and exploiting genetic resources and
associated traditional knowledge;
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Stimulating community involvement and participation in projects to exploit traditional
local knowledge; and
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Empowering individuals and communities to develop advocacy on this issue at the local
level.
6.6 Creativity and the development of the cultural industry
The Cultural Policy and Implementation Strategy 4 defines culture as “a complex set of ways of
being, behaving and relating, from birth to death, and including the rituals that mark the
principal stages in the process of social integration and socialization. Culture encompasses:
creative aspects; the visual and performing arts; material aspects: clothing, architecture and
work implements; the institutions: economic, social, political and military structures;
philosophical aspects: ideas, beliefs and values.”
4
Council of Ministers Resolution No. 12/97 of 10 June 1997.