According to the minister of Culture, Tourism and Environment, Filipe Zau, work is underway aimed at "reforming the Environment Fund with a view to its transformation into a Culture, Tourism and Environment Fund, as well as the creation of work teams for the study on the social situation of artists".
"Support for environmental associations, as well as the promotion of tourist activity with primacy for domestic tourism, taking into account the current context of the pandemic caused by covid-19, which requires us to take measures of biosecurity and physical distance," said the official .
Filipe Zau, who was speaking at the year-end greetings ceremony of the body he directs, also urged the need for "good management of the treasury" and of the goods placed at the service of the ministry, reorganization and functioning of the different areas.
Based "on existing legal provisions, to avoid the usurpation of competences and insubordination or acts of indiscipline to established norms and procedures", since "the future will have to be one of 'compliance'", he argued.
The Angolan minister recalled, in his speech, the three specific areas of his portfolio, referring that "if an area of interaction between them is created", culture, tourism and environment, "a common part can be found, characterized by interdisciplinarity ".
The common part, he explained, will create the identity that the "ministry seeks and that will be implemented through projects that cut across the three areas", while "the diversified part will continue to deal with specific aspects of each one of the areas".
"However, I believe that it will be through the projects resulting from the intercession between the three areas that a relevant part for the diversification of our economy may be born", he stressed.
The need to promote and disseminate Angolan culture as a whole, in order to stimulate "cultural and creative industries", to encourage domestic tourism "and to seek to capture investments" and to "strongly invest" in environmental education were equally defended by the ruler.
Filipe Zau, in office since October 29, 2021, also pointed out that the ministerial department's bet should also focus on "continuous work, to improve the worrying indicators related to the levels and severity of environmental crimes".
