Open sector intelligence
Regional Strategy Studio — Creative Industries
A curated TOWS analysis of the creative and festival economy in the Caribbean and Africa. Free for anyone on the platform to read. Downloads are reserved for super admin, BRIDGE, DATA and approved festival accounts.
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Factors
Threats
External risks and pressures.
- No entries yet.
Opportunities
External openings in the ecosystem.
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Weaknesses
Internal gaps and constraints to address.
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Strengths
Internal capabilities the festival can build on.
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Matched strategies
SO — Maxi-Maxi
Use strengths to seize opportunities.
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ST — Maxi-Mini
Use strengths to reduce threats.
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WO — Mini-Maxi
Fix weaknesses by pursuing opportunities.
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WT — Mini-Mini
Minimise weaknesses and avoid threats.
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Overall strategy — Caribbean
Synthesised from the matched strategies above: the strategic posture, the four pillars in sequence, and how progress should be measured.
Across the Caribbean, the creative and festival economy should trade on its established audience relationships to capture growing demand for regional content, while systematically reducing exposure to financing and currency volatility.
The weight of evidence points to a aggressive growth posture: 0 strengths and 0 opportunities are set against 0 weaknesses and 0 threats, with the largest number of matched actions falling in the SO quadrant.
Grow — convert strengths into open opportunities
No matched actions recorded in this quadrant yet — treat it as a gap to fill at the next review.
Build — close capability gaps that block open markets
No matched actions recorded in this quadrant yet — treat it as a gap to fill at the next review.
Defend — use existing assets to blunt external risk
No matched actions recorded in this quadrant yet — treat it as a gap to fill at the next review.
Protect — remove exposure where weakness meets threat
No matched actions recorded in this quadrant yet — treat it as a gap to fill at the next review.
Priority actions
- No high-priority actions yet.
Risks to manage
How we measure it
- Share of festival income from non-grant sources (target: rising year on year)
- Number of cross-border co-productions and touring dates delivered
- Registered IP assets and licensing income per festival
- International attendance and diaspora reach as a share of total audience
- Festivals completing a full intelligence return each edition
Combined Caribbean & Africa strategy
Both regions read as one market: shared conditions, complementary strengths and the corridors that connect them.
Treated as one market rather than two, the Caribbean and Africa share a diaspora audience, a common weakness in financing and formal IP infrastructure, and a common opportunity in global demand for their content. The combined strategy is to negotiate, license and tour as a single bloc while keeping artistic programming locally owned.
The weight of evidence points to a aggressive growth posture: 0 strengths and 0 opportunities are set against 0 weaknesses and 0 threats, with the largest number of matched actions falling in the SO quadrant.
Shared conditions
- No strongly overlapping entries detected between the two regions yet.
Complementary plays
Cross-regional corridors
- Caribbean–West Africa carnival and masquerade corridor: co-produced editions, shared design and mas fabrication IP, reciprocal artist residencies.
- Music and sound corridor: joint licensing pool and shared distribution deal so catalogue from both regions is sold as one offer.
- Screen corridor: co-production treaty-style agreements between festivals, shared post-production capacity and one combined market slate.
- Diaspora corridor: a single touring circuit across North America and Europe presenting Caribbean and African work on the same bill.
- Data and policy corridor: one combined evidence base — this platform — used to negotiate with funders, ministries and multilaterals as a bloc.
Combined priority actions
Combined risks
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