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Ugandan museums as key actors for the safeguarding of living heritage
Periodic reporting
On the implementation of the Convention
15/12/2015 (submitted in 2017)
15/12/2023
15/12/2023
On Urgent Safeguarding List elements
Ma'di bowl lyre music and dance
2016____
Koogere oral tradition of the Basongora, Banyabindi and Batooro peoples
2015____
Male-child cleansing ceremony of the Lango of central northern Uganda
2014____
Empaako tradition of the Batooro, Banyoro, Batuku, Batagwenda and Banyabindi of western Uganda
2013____
Bigwala, gourd trumpet music and dance of the Busoga Kingdom in Uganda
2012____
Key references
Listing of ICH
Ma'di bowl lyre music and dance (2016, USL)
6 elements inscribed
Project
Strengthening capacities for periodic reporting under the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Africa
1 July 2023 – 1 July 2024Amount (US$) 250,000
Consolidating the promotion of intangible cultural heritage education in institutions of higher learning in collaboration with bearer communities
2 October 2023 – 2 October 2023Amount (US$) 98,203
Strengthening the capacity of community museums to promote inscribed intangible cultural heritage elements
6 May 2020 – 10 June 2022Amount (US$) 61,471
Strengthening capacities for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in Eastern Africa
1 December 2023 – 1 December 2023Amount (US$) 59,571
Promoting intangible cultural heritage education in institutions of higher learning in Uganda
26 June 2017 – 31 December 2020Amount (US$) 97,582
Community-self documentation and revitalization of ceremonies and practices associated with Empaako naming system in Uganda
23 February 2018 – 10 February 2020Amount (US$) 232,120
Safeguarding and promotion of Bigwala, gourd trumpet music and dance of Busoga Kingdom in Uganda
1 September 2015 – 31 August 2017Amount (US$) 24,990
Inventorying the intangible cultural heritage of four communities in Uganda
5 July 2013 – 31 March 2015Amount (US$) 216,000
Madi bow lyre music, O'di
23 December 2013 – 31 March 2015Amount (US$) 10,000
The male-child cleansing ceremony of the Lango people of North Central Uganda (Dwoko Atin Awobi lot)
20 March 2012 – 31 March 2013Amount (US$) 8,570
A series of pilot projects in community-based intangible heritage inventorying on a grassroots-level in six selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa
1 September 2009 – 1 December 2011Amount (US$) 275,000
Revitalization of bark cloth making in Uganda
1 October 2006 – 1 August 2009Amount (US$) 91,485