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After seven months of field work in the communities of Boa Morte and Santo Antonio the National Directorate of Culture of Sao Tomé and Principe evaluates the results of the Inventory exercise, which was launched in April this year. From 23 to 27 November 2015 some 25 actors involved in gathering the information during this period meet to identify lessons learnt and consolidate an action plan for the future ICH safeguarding efforts in the archipelago. To ensure continuity of the April workshop, UNESCO expert facilitators will provide guidance in taking stock of the findings and developing the national strategy. In the same vein of continuity the culture officer from Cabo Verde will once more participate in Sao Tome to share the experience gained in the process with his colleagues in Cabo Verde who currently develop their own community-based inventory.

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The National Cultural Heritage Institute of Angola and UNESCO jointly organize a workshop on the implementation of the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage at national level. The workshop, which will take place from 9 to 13 November 2015 in Luanda, will discuss the scope and objectives as well as the obligations of the State Parties under this international legal instrument.

As part of UNESCO’s global strategy aiming to enhance national capacity for safeguarding of living heritage in the Portuguese speaking countries in Africa (PALOP), the workshop will gather some 20 Angolan participants, including stakeholders from local to national levels. With the aim to strengthen regional cooperation among PALOP countries, the training will be entirely facilitated by two Mozambican experts who have been previously trained through the same programme.

This workshop is made possible thanks to the generous contribution from the Government of Norway to the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund.

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This workshop was not included in the J-FIT Phase II workplan. A workshop on community-based inventorying was already conducted in Lao PDR with J-FIT funding in 2013 during Phase I. However, the Heritage Department team expressed the need to follow a refresher course before undertaking the pilot field inventory earmarked as part of this project. External funding was identified for this refresher. The workshop was organized in the city of Luang Prabang, situated in the province where the pilot inventory was to take place. Community members and members of the Provincial Department, as well as 5 practitioners were invited as trainees. They could gain a thorough understanding of community-based inventories techniques as well as participate in the following field activities. Participants were divided into 4 teams for field practicum to document the epok puppet theatre of Xieng Thong village, ‘khap’ singing in Phone Phaeng village, silversmithing and hand-made textiles in Pha Nom village. Two teams were led by workshop’s participants who were also practitioners.

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Efforts to safeguard intangible cultural heritage (ICH) are gaining momentum throughout Asia-Pacific, resulting in a need for more highly-trained professionals in this area. Universities can play an important role in this regard, which is why UNESCO is organizing a regional symposium on 2-3 November in Bangkok to promote the integration of ICH at post-graduate levels in Asia-Pacific higher education. This event was made possible with financial support from the Fund for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.
The past decade has seen an increase in the number of post-graduate programmes in heritage education in general; however few focus specifically on intangible cultural heritage. Professionals in the cultural heritage sector tend to instead have backgrounds that emphasize the management of tangible heritage (architecture conservation and archaeology, for example).
The UNESCO symposium aims to encourage universities in Asia-Pacific to develop post-graduate level trainings in the field of intangible cultural heritage.
Twenty-two executives, professors and course conveners from 20 universities will take part in the two day event to discuss and share knowledge and resources on these issues. The institutions come from thirteen countries across the region: Australia, China, Kazakhstan, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
Discussions will include the identification of key principles of ICH safeguarding for post-graduate studies; exploring disciplines and structures for ICH programmes; and embedding ICH safeguarding in the development of ICH studies at the post-graduate level.
The symposium will also help deepen the knowledge base of participants on methodologies and resources pertinent to ICH as well as promote networking opportunities among them as well as with UNESCO for further collaboration on ICH educational programmes at the post-graduate level.

Documents

• Agenda: inglés
• Background note: inglés

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The workshop on the preparation of nomination files for inscription on the lists of the 2003 Convention (the Representative List and the Urgent Safeguarding List) and the preparation of requests for international assistance is held under the implementation of the project “Safeguarding the intangible cultural heritage through the strengthening of national capacities in the Maghreb” following the workshops on the implementation of the Convention and on participatory inventories.
This workshop held in the city of Nabeul from 2 to 6 November 2015 aims at developing and strengthening the capacity of representatives of officials from various ministries, actors of civil society, community members and other heritage specialists concerning the the development of nomination files on the lists of the Convention and the preparation of requests for international assistance. The implementation and monitoring of this workshop will allow Tunisia to count on institutional staff with the required knowledge of the mechanisms of the Convention which will contribute to the implementation of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage ratified by Tunisia who will be able to develop quality files.

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The first of three capacity-building workshops will take place this week in the Hamdan Bin Mohammed Heritage Center in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, from 25-29 October, 2015.
This workshop will focus on the key concepts of the 2003 Convention and their implementation, through community based inventorying, safeguarding measures, and policy development strategies. It will also provide a good opportunity to demonstrate to the participants some good examples on the best practices of safeguarding ICH, as well as other projects from the Arab World.
Comprising of 25 participants from the Center’s staff and various stakeholders working in the field of cultural heritage.
Conducted by UNESCO and two of its expert facilitators, this workshop is an example of a training requested and financed by an institution wishing to build its capacities to better integrate the provisions of the Convention in its activities.

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Una segunda serie de talleres sobre la transmisión de conocimientos y prácticas de los médicos experimentados a jóvenes Kallawayas aprendices se celebraron del 17 al 22 de octubre de 2015 en Curva, una de las cunas de los médicos Kallawayas, en la provincia de Bautista Saavedra.
Se trataron temas que iban desde las prácticas de parto y las enfermedades de las mujeres y los niños a la prevención y cura de enfermedades respiratorias, enfermedades digestivas y enfermedades de los ancianos. Más de 30 participantes Kallawayas pudieron mejorar sus conocimientos acerca de la confección inventarios con participación de las comunidades y recibieron une formación en técnicas audiovisuales de recogida de información.
Tras los talleres, los participantes compartieron los resultados del proyecto con otras comunidades de la provincia que asistieron a la sesión final. Este último taller destacó la importancia no sólo de los conocimientos y prácticas Kallawaya sino del patrimonio cultural inmaterial en general en la búsqueda de respuestas a los desafíos que surgen en la construcción de la paz y el desarrollo sostenible.
Con estos talleres culminan las actividades realizadas en el marco del proyecto “La salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial de las comunidades Kallawaya”, que ha sido posible gracias a los esfuerzos de las autoridades Kallawaya, del Ministerio de Culturas y Turismo, de la Universidad Católica Boliviana “San Pablo” y de la UNESCO así como al apoyo generoso y continuo del Gobierno de Japón.

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Mongolia was very eager to undertake this workshop that included field visits to communities to research ICH elements and practice drafting nomination dossier. Two groups visited and interviewed practitioners at the camp, while three other groups visited ICH practitioners in their communities.
The five groups explored:
1. Traditional steel carving art – Double carving technique of Suriya;
2. Horse culture: Traditional technique of making Airag in Khokhuur and its associated customs;
3. Mongolian traditional shaman’s knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe;
4. Traditional technique of coin-table embroidery;
5. Horse culture: Traditional knowledge and technique of making horse tools, such as a bridle, halter, whips, tri-hobble and swift horse scraper.

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Curaçao focused its field exercise on the elements of kachu, the harvest festival and playing the benta. Ten participants (5 females  and5 males) were selected from different NGOs and were trained by a local anthropologist and the director of the focal institution for the implementation of the Convention (who also participated in all training workshops). The training utilized the UNESCO training materials for Field Inventory, which were translated into Papiamento). Participants were able to undertake secondary documentation on the elements as primary documentation was not possible due to the seasonal nature of kachu use and because no performances were planned during this period where the benta would have been played. Arrangements were made for primary documentation during the harvest season, so the team could document the use of kachu  during harvest (seú) as well as during the elaborate harvest parade.  Documentation consisted of interviews and demonstrations. Playing the benta was shown along with the interview. Instructions on how it was made were given during the beginning of the two‐day training by a benta maker and player. The kachu session also included more elaborate demonstrations of construction of this instrument. 

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With the generous support of the Algerian ‘National Centre of Research on Prehistory, Anthropology and History’ in Algeria (CNRPAH) and the ‘Manifestation Constantine, capitale de la culture arabe 2015’, UNESCO convenes a UNESCO expert workshop on supporting policy development in the field of intangible cultural heritage, in Constantine, Algeria, from 28 September to 2 October 2015.

The main objective of the workshop is to improve UNESCO’s impact in providing policy support to national authorities in Africa for the effective implementation of the 2003 Convention.

The first three days of the workshop are dedicated to the principal theme of policy development (28 to 30 September), while the last two days (1 to 2 October) focus on reviewing the implementation of the global capacity-building programme in Africa to date.

More specifically, the workshop aims at the following:

• Improve the content and format of the capacity-building programme to provide policy advice effectively;
• Propose methodologies and tools to support experts in their policy advisory mission;
• Take stock of the lessons learnt from implementing the global programme in African countries.

The workshop addresses primarily UNESCO-certified facilitators from the Africa Region, who have substantial experience in providing training and advisory services in the context of the global capacity-building programme for the effective implementation of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. It furthermore welcomes some experts with specialized expertise in the field of cultural policy advice, which they have developed in particular in the context of implementing the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. From the UNESCO side, Culture programme specialists from field offices in Africa and from the Intangible Cultural Heritage Section participate. The CNRPAH has designated Algerian experts who will attend as observers. In total, the workshop will bring together about 45 participants.

Documents

• : francés
• : francés
• : francés
• Case study n. 38 Tatau: inglés|francés
• Case Study n.39 Batik: inglés|francés
• Conclusions: inglés
• Latest developments in the life of the Convention: inglés
• Overview of projects in Africa: inglés
• Policy development in the framework of the 2003 Convention: inglés
• UNESCO Follow up mechanisms: inglés
• Update on materials: inglés
• Agenda: inglés|francés
• List of participants: inglés|francés
• Background document: inglés|francés

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The Cultural Heritage Institute of Cabo Verde, in cooperation with UNESCO HQ and the UNESCO Office in Dakar, organizes a training workshop on community-based inventorying in Cabo Verde. The workshop, which will take place from 23 September to 3 October 2015 in Ribeira Grande de Santiago, will introduce the concepts, objectives and methods of inventorying and includes a practical field work in the communities of Centro histórico, Salineiro and Calabaceira.

As part of UNESCO’s global strategy aiming to enhance national capacity for safeguarding of living heritage in the Portuguese speaking countries in Africa (PALOP), the workshop will gather some 30 Cabo Verdean participants, including stakeholders from local to national levels. With the aim to strengthen regional cooperation among PALOP countries, the training will be co-facilitated by a Brazilian and a Mozambican expert who have been previously trained through the same programme. Moreover, culture officers from Angola and Guinea-Bissau will attend the training.

This workshop is made possible thanks to the generous contribution from the Government of Norway to the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund.

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The town of Taunggyi, Shan State, in Myanmar hosted from 14 to 18 September 2015 a workshop on how to elaborate nomination files for UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists. This was the final chapter of the capacity-building project, which had been generously supported by the Royal Norwegian Government through a contribution to the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund. The two-year national project has been implemented since 2013 with the aim to strengthen skills of human resources in Myanmar for the inventorying and safeguarding of its intangible cultural heritage.

The 24 participants, comprising of cultural officers, scholars and actual ICH practitioners, acquired hands-on skills in elaborating nomination dossiers and learned how to use the lists of the 2003 Convention as an effective tool for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage. Combining theoretical training on how to devise community-based safeguarding measures and practical exercises of evaluating mock nominations, the workshop provided an opportunity to clarify the different objectives of each of the international mechanisms established by the Convention so policy-makers can use them in the most appropriate and effective manner.

The five-day training workshop that was facilitated by two members of the network of UNESCO-trained experts, included a practical field exercise with local communities in Inle Lake.

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The organization of the workshop was timely in the context of the efforts that are paid by cultural institutions in Albania in the last two years to enhance the national capacity for ICH safeguarding, as well as in light of the needs assessment report of 2014. The latter made specific recommendations on organizing workshops and training activities on ICH related activities with the widest possible participation of people with different backgrounds and coming from different towns and institutions in Albania. This has been the first workshop of its kind in the country and the expectations invested in it were great. The workshop was supposed to fill a void in focused presentations and discussions on the major themes related to the implementation of 2003 Convention on a national level, and to facilitate the undertaking of organized activities in this regard. Despite the high sensitivity and interest in cultural heritage issues in the country, so far no special workshop has been held on these topics in the country and this explains the enthusiasm that it produced among the colleagues working in the sphere of culture. The call for participation that colleagues from the Ministry of Culture at the Republic of Albania distributed attracted more that 40 participants and at some point there were several late applications which had to be declined in order to maintain at least some interactivity during the sessions.

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Médicos y aprendices Kallawayas se reunieron en Charazani, capital de la provincia boliviana de Bautista Saavedra, del 13 al 18 de septiembre para participar en un taller sobre cómo los ancianos pueden transmitir sus conocimientos y prácticas médicas a las generaciones más jóvenes para su bien estar futuro. Autoridades de diferentes organizaciones Kallawaya seleccionaron alrededor de 20 aprendices entre hombres y mujeres Kallawayas que ya habían tomado la decisión de dedicarse a esta práctica, para que aprendan más acerca de ésta. También brindó a un facilitador formado por la UNESCO la oportunidad para introducir los conceptos básicos de la Convención de 2003 como un marco adecuado para las comunidades Kallawaya, y parra las comunidades indígenas en general, para salvaguardar su patrimonio cultural inmaterial. Se organizaron ejercicios prácticos de inventario que abordaron el tema fundamental del consentimiento libre, previo e informado de las comunidades en cuestión.
Esta actividad forma parte de una iniciativa más amplia sobre la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial de las comunidades Kallawaya llevada a cabo por el Ministerio de Culturas y Turismo, el Servicio de Capacitación en Radio y Televisión para el Desarrollo de la Universidad Católica Boliviana “San Pablo” y la UNESCO, gracias al generoso apoyo del Gobierno de Japón.

Documents

• Lista de participantes: español
• Orden del día: español

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Del 2 al 7 septiembre de 2015, el proceso de inventario se trasladó a la ciudad de Loja, provincia de Loja, donde los miembros de Saraguro, Shuar y las comunidades mestizas, junto con representantes de los gobiernos locales (Calvas, Catamayo, Chaguarpamba, Gonzanamá, Loja, Olmedo, Paltas , Puyango, Quilanga y Zapotillo) y los Ministerios de la cultura, serán formados en la confección de inventarios con la participación de las comunidades en la localidad de Malacatos. A continuación se llevará a cabo un ejercicio de inventario en el que se registrarán tradiciones orales y sistemas de conocimiento.

Organizado por la UNESCO y el INPC, el taller es posibles gracias a la generosa contribución del Gobierno de Japón.

Documentos

• Programa: español

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El proceso de inventario continúa en Riobamba, provincia de Chimborazo, con un taller del 24 al 29 agosto de 2015 que reunió canteros, portadores de las tradiciones orales de la cultura Zapara y comunidades Qhapaq Ñan, funcionarios de varios municipios (Alausí, Chambo, Chunchi, Colta, Cumandá , Guamote, Guano, Pallatanga, Penipe y Riobamba) y representantes del Ministerio de Cultura y Patrimonio y del Instituto Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural (INPC). El taller se centró en la participación comunitaria en la identificación y definición de patrimonio cultural inmaterial, la recopilación, la organización y la gestión de datos como un paso importante en la salvaguardia del patrimonio inmaterial. A continuación, se organizó un ejercicio de campo en un contexto de inventarios en las poblaciones de Guano y Calpi, centrándose en el patrimonio vivo de canteros e incluyendo la cartografía de las canteras en las laderas del Chimborazo.

Organizado por la UNESCO y el INPC, el taller fue posible gracias a la generosa contribución del Gobierno de Japón.

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The assessment of the main needs for the implementation of the 2003 Convention for the safeguarding of the ICH in Egypt is part of a regional project for the enhancement of ICH safeguarding capacities in eight African countries and the Arab region . This project, executed by the Intangible Cultural Heritage Section of UNESCO, is funded by the Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority (ADTCA)

This report reports on activities carried out as part of a 10-day mission carried out in April and August in Cairo, Egypt, with the support of the UNESCO Regional Office in Egypt. The mission was to meet the main actors of public institutions and associations involved in the ICH safeguarding process with the aim of identifying needs and proposing a project for capacity building in Egypt.

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The Cultural Heritage Institute of Cabo Verde, in cooperation with UNESCO HQ and the UNESCO Office in Dakar, organizes a workshop on the implementation of the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage at national level. The workshop, which will take place from 27 to 31 July 2015 in the capital of Cabo Verde, will discuss the scope and objectives as well as the obligations of the State Parties under this international legal instrument.

As part of UNESCO’s global strategy aiming to enhance national capacity for safeguarding of living heritage in the Portuguese speaking countries in Africa (PALOP), the workshop will gather some 30 Cabo Verdean participants, including stakeholders from local to national levels. With the aim to strengthen regional cooperation among PALOP countries, the training will be co-facilitated by a Brazilian and a Mozambican expert who have been previously trained through the same programme. Moreover, culture officers from Angola and Guinea-Bissau will attend the training.

This workshop is made possible thanks to the generous contribution from the Government of Norway to the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund.

Documents

• Agenda: portugués
• Lista de participantes: portugués

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As Suriname moves closer towards the ratification of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, it is timely for community members, policy-makers, and governmental and non-governmental representatives to come together to chart the way forward in the safeguarding of their living heritage.

From 27 to 31 July 2015, a five-day workshop will be held in Paramaribo aiming to clarify the process and mechanisms for successful ratification and implementation of the 2003 Convention, including an overview of its objectives and key concepts and principles. The workshop will also provide a platform for participants to reflect collectively on experiences and challenges in safeguarding their intangible cultural heritage.

Organized by the UNESCO Kingston Cluster Office for the Caribbean in close cooperation with the Directorate of Culture (Suriname) and the Suriname National Commission for UNESCO, this workshop is a part of a capacity-building project to reinforce the safeguarding of living heritage in the Dutch Caribbean and Suriname. It is made possible thanks to the generous contribution from the Government of the Netherlands to the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund.

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International Assistance is at the very core of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. Regrettably, however, it has not yet been utilized to the full extend envisaged when the Convention was drafted, with few requests submitted by States Parties and even fewer of sufficient quality to warrant approval by the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. In order to face this challenge, technical assistance has been provided by experts to a number of States Parties on an experimental basis for the past year.

In an effort to galvanize further the option of International Assistance for State Parties, a pool of experts, who have conducted technical assistance or may be invited to do so in the future, will join UNESCO staff for a 3-day workshop in Paris from 20 to 22 July 2015 to assess the experiences to date implementing technical assistance. This workshop will provide the opportunity to review the latest advice of the Committee concerning International Assistance, examine other informational materials developed by the Secretariat to support States Parties and technical experts, and provide guidance concerning the development of future capacity-building curriculum materials on International Assistance.

Documents

• Annotated Timetable
  ITH/15/WOR/2: inglés|francés
• List of participants: inglés
• Summary Report
  ITH/15/WOR/3: inglés

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The 3rd annual meeting of the category 2 centres active in the field of intangible cultural heritage will be held from 6 to 8 July in Guiyang, China. Hosted by the Chinese centre, the International Training Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (CRIHAP), the meeting will follow up on the two previous annual meetings.

Working documents

• Agenda: inglés
• Concept note: inglés
• List of participants: inglés
• Report of the UNESCO Section for Intangible Cultural Heritage - Third annual meeting of category 2 centres: inglés
• 37 C/5 MP IV Expected Result 6: National capacities strengthened and utilised to safeguard intangible cultural heritage, including indigenous and endangered languages, through the effective implementation of the 2003 Convention: inglés|francés
• Medium-term strategy for UNESCO’s cooperation with category 2 centres in the field of intangible cultural heritage 2014-2021: inglés|francés

Presentations

• Recent developments in the life of the Convention and objectives of the meeting (UNESCO - Cécile Duvelle): inglés
• Information and networking, including through the web (ICHCAP): inglés
• Collaboration with UNESCO in the global capacity-building programme (CRIHAP): inglés
• Approaches to programme planning and budgeting (Sofia Centre): inglés
• Approaches to governance and getting the most from your governing body(ies) (CRESPIAL): inglés
• Cooperation with Member States in planning and implementing programmes (Tehran Centre): inglés
• Evaluation and renewal (IRCI): inglés

Reference documents

• Estrategia global integrada para los institutos y centros de categoría 2
  37 C/Resolution 93: inglés|francés|español|ruso|árabe|chino
• Evaluation Report IRCI: inglés
• General Information: inglés

For further information:

• Category 2 centres under the auspices of UNESCO

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Sint Maarten focused its field exercise on their national dance, the Ponum dance which dates to the 19th century from the days of slavery and emancipation. This element was chosen because only a few practitioners and or performers are directly involved in the enactment or practice of the element. There were also recognizable threats to its continued enactment and transmission, hence its safeguarding was considered extremely important. Two training sessions were held with youth from various youth organizations and discussions were held on the purpose of the inventorying exercise. A total of 17 youth (9 females and 8 males) were trained in the inventorying activity, and worked along with the ICH Committee and 9 practitioners.

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A needs assessment activity has been carried out in the Gambia in 2015 during which national stakeholders addressed the importance of promoting local cultures and the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage. These activities allowed to point out the need to raise awareness and support national institutions to reinforce their knowledge of the 2003 Convention and its implementation mechanisms. The importance of building a national strategy to safeguard intangible heritage and to review current strategy documents on culture in general was also underlined. This activity aimed also do develop a project proposal based on the identified needs.

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Tras la firma del Plan de Operaciones entre la UNESCO y el Instituto Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural del Ecuador (INPC) hace unos meses, representantes de comunidades de portadores de patrimonio, municipios y expertos gubernamentales y no gubernamentales, se movilizaron plenamente dar lanzar otro paso significativo en la salvaguardia de su patrimonio vivo.
Con el objetivo de desarrollar un inventario del patrimonio inmaterial enla provincia ecuatoriana de Manabí, los representantes se reunieron para en un taller sobre la confección de inventarios del patrimonio cultural inmaterial con la participación de las comunidades en la ciudad de Portoviejo del 24 al 29 de junio de 2015.

Primero de una serie de medidas realizadas en el marco de un proyecto de fortalecimiento de capacidades para mejorar la salvaguardia del patrimonio vivo en Ecuador, el taller se centró en la identificación y definición del patrimonio cultural inmaterial, la recopilación de datos, el consentimiento libre, previo e informado, y la organización de datos. A continuación, se organizó un ejercicio práctico de inventario en Machalilla, durante la fiesta de San Pedro y San Pablo y la reunión de Presidentes de los Gobiernos de Castilla y Guinea.
Organizado por la Oficina de la UNESCO en Quito y el INPC, el taller fue posible gracias a la generosa contribución del Gobierno de Japón.

Documentos

• Lista de participantes: español
• Programa: español

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From 8 to 12 June, the Lombardy region (Italy) and the canton of Graubünden (Switzerland) hosted a training workshop on the implementation of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Tirano (province of Sondrio, Italy) and Valposchiavo (Switzerland), demonstrating the increasing awareness in Europe of the need for capacity-building to better safeguard living heritage.

Bringing together 25 participants, including representatives of the local administration, civil society, tradition bearers, academia and professionals from the tourism and environment sectors, the workshop introduced fundamental objectives and concepts of the 2003 Convention and enhanced the understanding of participants about obligations and safeguarding activities involved in implementing the Convention at national and local levels. Combining four days of presentations, discussions and exercises, as well as one day of fieldwork in the terraced vineyards of Valtellina, the workshop also addressed linkages between the 2003 Convention, the Convention concerning the protection of the World cultural and natural heritage (World Heritage Convention, 1972) and the Convention on the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions (2005).

The workshop specifically highlighted the importance of cross-border cooperation in the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage and of cooperation across sectors directly and indirectly impacting the viability of living heritage.

Funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and its INTERREG mechanism supporting interregional cooperation and sustainable regional development across Europe, the training workshop was held within the framework of the project ‘Italo-Swiss Ethnography for the Promotion of Intangible Heritage’ initiated by the region of Lombardy. Conducted in Italian by a UNESCO-trained facilitator and an international law expert, and based on UNESCO’s global capacity-building programme and training materials, the activity was organized by the Regional Agency for Services to Agricultural and Forestry (Italy) and the Association for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (Italy).

Documents

• Agenda : italiano
• Generic references for facilitators - Capacity-building resources: Cession of rights: inglés
• Generic references for facilitators - Capacity-building resources: Workshop report: inglés
• List of participants: inglés
• Presentation - Meeting: Poster: italiano

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UNESCO put in place since 2009 a global capacity-building programme to assist countries in building the institutional and professional environment required for the effective safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage. The programme is part of global and national efforts to attain long-term development goals. It intends to assist beneficiary countries with making development more sustainable, ensuring the viability of the intangible cultural heritage present in their territories and strengthening relations within and between communities, through the effective implementation of the Convention. However, stakeholders interviewed stressed the importance of capacity building for its successful implementation and many considered the capacity-building programme to be the most important of all mechanisms established so far. A systematic monitoring mechanism would allow UNESCO to follow up several months and years after the results and impact of these capacity-building interventions at the country level. While some information on project results, strengths and weaknesses is available in reports on project implementation, review meetings and facilitators’ assessments at the end of training delivery, no longer term analysis exists yet on any sustained behaviour or structural change (different approaches or practices used) and on the ultimate impact resulting from UNESCO’s intervention through capacity-building activities: improved inventories, better policy and legislative environment, increased community involvement, successful participation in international mechanisms, etc.
Supported by the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, UNESCO has embarked on the establishment of a follow-up and evaluation mechanism for activities implemented within the context of the global capacity-building strategy.
Such mechanism is challenging and will require creative thinking and commitment from key constituents. The involvement of all constituents — national counterparts, including national commissions, UNESCO Field Offices, the Intangible Cultural Heritage Section at Headquarters, but also all relevant other stakeholders — is indispensable.

Documents

• Background note : inglés|francés
• Timetable: inglés|francés
• Working Document: inglés|francés

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This activity took place in May and June 2015 with a total of 22 participants (14 females and 8 males). The exercise was organised by the Bonaire UNESCO Work group in collaboration with the NGO Fundashon Historiko Kultural di Boneiru (FuHiKuBO) which has been documenting the intangible heritage of Bonaire and the Dutch Caribbean. Additional expertise was provided by the Bonaire UNESCO Work group (ICH Committee) who had all attended previous workshops (IMP and INV), and Rose Mary Allen, an anthropologist from Curaçao. Bonaire focussed its inventorying exercise on practitioners of traditional Bonaire music, haladó (traditional healing) and maskarada. Participants represented cultural foundations, the Ministry of Culture and migrant communities in Bonaire (Venezuelan and Colombian).

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A stakeholder’s workshop on Eritrean Cultural and Natural Heritage Legislation took place on 26 and 27 May 2015 in Asmara organized by the Cultural Affairs Bureau and the Asmara Heritage Project in coordination with UNESCO Nairobi Office. Workshop participants were Eritrean experts who represented stakeholder institutions such as the National Museum of Eritrea, National Commission of Eritrea for UNESCO, Research and Documentation Centre, Ministry of Tourism, Ministry of Public Works, Ministry of Energy and Mines, Department of Religious Affairs, Eritrean Institute of Technology, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Eritrean Police and the School of Law.

Prior to the workshop, a local expert was contracted to collect information on existing legal, policy and institutional frameworks. The workshop was facilitated by Mr Silverse Anami, a UNESCO trained facilitator.

The workshop was supported by the Kingdom of Norway voluntary supplementary contribution to the UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund.

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The workshop, which is organized by the Palestinian Ministry of Culture and the UNESCO Ramallah Office, will include participants from various ministries, the Palestinian National Commission for Education, Culture and Science, relevant civil society organizations and research institutions. They will provide their inputs and perspectives to the draft Law in line with the principles and provisions of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage ratified by Palestine in 2011. Once finalized, the draft Law will be submitted to the relevant Palestinian authorities for endorsement.

The workshop is a continuation of a process that started in 2012 when the Ministry of Culture with UNESCO’s technical support and through broad consultation with civil society institutions, prepared an initial draft. The Law will be an important safeguarding measure and together with the participatory process through which it emerged, demonstrate the strong commitment of national authorities to ensure the viability of living heritage in Palestine.

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Nigerian officials, policymakers, civil society and members of its United Nations Country Team met in Abuja to discuss the revision of the 1988 Cultural Policy and other national legislation.

The one-day workshop, which featured a cross-section of attendees, including those in fields other than culture such as agriculture, education and health, looked at gaps in current safeguarding policy for Nigeria’s living heritage and associated legal frameworks for amendment.

The initiative is part of the 2014 UNESCO/Japanese Funds-in-Trust cooperation project ‘Support to the effective implementation of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Nigeria’.

A national expert has been assigned to conduct a detailed assessment of the situation and propose recommendations, which is expected to be completed by the end of August 2015.

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• Agenda: inglés
• List of participants: inglés

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The field exercise in Saba was organized by the ICH Committee and started with a meeting to inform all practitioners that attended the consultation in January about the community-based inventory training in Curaçao, as well as the organisation of the field exercise. Additionally, participants identified different forms of ICH to focus on in the field exercise, among which the Maypole dance, the preparation of traditional dishes within families and ICH related to agriculture and the production of food were highlighted. In the end, the Maypole dance was considered to be the most suitable as it was well known, had not been documented thus far and had few practitioners remaining.

Participants (7 females and 3 males) were trained to work with the UNESCO sample framework by members of the ICH Committee. A short documentary was produced about the Maypole dance that focused on the inventorying process. Practitioners were also trained in the various methodologies from the inventory workshop and in the use of the audio-visual equipment. Saba benefited from the participation of a maypole practitioner from St Maarten who conducted workshops with the children of Saba as well as worked with local practitioners. These children also formed part of the team trained to document this element.

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The ICH Committee focused its field exercise on Sint Eustatius (Statia) string band music due to its important role in social life and the urgency to safeguard the related knowledge and skills, as practitioners were getting older. Community members involved, as well as active practitioners, formerly active senior practitioners and people who identify with band music but aren’t active practitioners. The key persons from within the string band music community were approached by the ICH Committee to ask for their willingness to participate and their consent to be interviewed and provide information about this element. This was received with enthusiasm. There was great effort to involve youth in the field exercise, with two participants coming from the Simon Doncker Club, the youth organization of the St. Eustatius Historical Foundation. The involvement of this youth organization also provided a basis for future involvement in the inventorying of ICH. To involve more youth outside the cultural field, the ICH Committee organized a specific activity for youth focused on the transfer of knowledge and skills related to playing string band music and the manufacturing of the instruments. The footage of the field exercise will be used to produce a documentary on the Killi Killi band music to further raise awareness.

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UNESCO New Delhi office was the guest of the Directorate of Art and Culture, Government of Goa on 27 and 28 April 2015 to orgnaize a two-day training workshop on UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, with a particular focus on inventory making.

Animated by UNESCO resource persons – Dr Shubha Chaudhuri (Director of Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology), Ananya Bhattacharya (Director, Contact Base / banglanatak dot com), and Moe Chiba (Chief, Culture Sector, UNESCO New Delhi), some 27 professionals from Goa took part in the lecture-cum practical sessions to discuss how an inventory of ICH for the State of Goa would look like and what could be the working methodologies.

In India, the protection of heritage is the responsibility of both the Union Government and State Governments. In a vast country such as India with diverse cultural traditions, it could be more effective if each State Government takes the responsibility of drawing up the inventory and implementing the safeguarding plan rather than expecting the Central Government’s initiative. Accordingly, UNESCO New Delhi, in partnership with Sangeet Natak Academi has started since last year the sensitization of State level government officers on the UNESCO Convention. Following the workshop in Delhi in December 2014, the Government of Goa is the very first State to have expressed its willingness to move forward in development of the State-level ICH inventory. The two-day workshop was not intended to provide any clear-cut advice on how an ICH inventory of Goa should be, but rather aimed at steering the attention of the participants on those issues that need to be discussed and planned prior to conducting any survey and data collection for the Inventory. These include the size of the inventory and the type of ICH elements to be covered, data to be collected for each of the ICH elements, method of data organization, modalities of data sourcing, intended follow-up action for the ICH elements under the inventory etc.

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Madagascar is one of the French-speaking countries chosen to benefit from the financial support of the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Tourism (ADTCA) in the field of safeguarding intangible cultural heritage. The mission in which we took part was prepared by the Nairobi multi-country UNESCO office in close contact with the Ministry of Culture of Madagascar. It took place from April 24 to May 3, 2015. The mission was also an opportunity to visit a local PCI to know the traditional know-how related to the production and the craft of silk in the village of Ambohitrabiby, about fifty kilometers from Antananarivo. Madagascar is a large island with 18 socio-cultural groups and a very strong Comorian community with a population of about 23 million. The country is divided into 22 administrative regions, but the Ministry of Culture is deconcentrated in only 11 regions at present.

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The main objective of the mission is working closely with the responsible national cultural institution to identify institutional capacities, perspective, human resource needs of whom are working in the Intangible Culture heritage sector. The outcome of the mission is to develop a realistic project proposal within the local context in the field of ICH safeguarding. Later on the project proposal will be funded by Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority (ADTCA).The consultant mission was organized in partnership with the Intangible Cultural Heritage section – UNESCO- HQ, the UNESCO’s Khartoum Office and the Federal Ministry of Culture in Sudan. The mission was conducted by the expert Ms Marina Calvo.

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In 2012, at its seventh session, the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) invited UNESCO’s Secretariat ‘to initiate work on a model code of ethics and to report on it to a next session of the Committee’ (Decision 7.COM 6: inglés|francés). In order to initiate this important work, the Secretariat is organizing the present meeting, generously hosted by the Kingdom of Spain and co-funded by Spain and the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund.

The aim of the meeting is to discuss the main lines that should figure into codes of ethics for intangible cultural heritage. This three-day meeting will bring together twelve experts from different UNESCO Member States as well as four members of the Secretariat. The results of the meeting will be presented to the Director-General of UNESCO and subsequently examined by the Committee when it meets for its tenth session in Namibia from 30 November to 4 December 2015.

Debates during the meeting will focus on:

1. The core values of the Convention that should be integrated into codes of ethics for ICH (e.g. values such as primacy of communities, respect for human rights and cultural diversity, limits on access to heritage and possession of heritage);
2. General scope of codes of ethics for ICH. The comparative advantages of being more comprehensive or more focused on specific sectors. The multiple possible addressees (e.g. State agents, civil society, the private sector, the media, tourism operators, tourists, etc.);
3. The specific ethical principles that should be included in codes of ethics for ICH (e.g. sector-specific and/or audience-specific principles, resulting from cross-referencing core values of the Convention against specific sectors or addressees);
4. The possible processes that could be used to elaborate one or more model codes of ethics for ICH and to proceed from a model to specific codes adapted to different contexts at the regional, national and subnational levels (e.g. examples of other model codes and how they were developed, then how they were applied and/or turned into specific codes).

Documents

• Practical information: inglés|francés|español
• Preliminares y agenda
  ITH/15/EXP/1 Rev.: inglés|francés|español
• Towards codes of ethics for intangible cultural heritage?
  ITH/15/EXP/2: inglés|francés|español
• List of participants
  ITH/15/EXP/3: inglés/francés

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The National Directorate of Culture of Sao Tome and Principe in cooperation with UNESCO convenes a workshop on the elaboration of community-based inventories of living heritage in the spirit of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. The workshop, which will take place from 30 March to 10 April 2015 in the capital of Sao Tome, will introduce the concepts, objectives and methods of inventorying and includes practical field work in the community of Boa Morte.
As part of the capacity-building project to reinforce the safeguarding of living heritage in the Portuguese speaking countries in Africa (PALOP), the workshop will gather some 25 Santomean particpants including stakeholders from local to national levels. With the aim to strengthen regional cooperation among PALOP countries the training will be co-facilitated by a Brazilian and a Mozambican expert who has been previously trained through the same programme. Moreover, a culture officer from Cabo Verde will attend the workshop in view of similar activities planned in the Archipelago off the coast of Western Africa.
This workshop is made possible thanks to the generous contribution from the Government of Norway to the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund.

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As part of the activity “Strengthening National Capacity for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage in Djibouti: Needs Assessment and Project Proposal Development” led by UNESCO and funded by the Abu Dhabi Authority for Tourism and Culture (ADTCA), expertise was provided between March and May 2015 to assess Djibouti’s capacity building needs for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage, with the aim of proposing a future project.

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In the context of UNESCO’s activity “Strengthening national capacities for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in Sudan: assessing needs and developing a project proposal” funded by the Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority (ADTCA), a consultancy service has been delivered from March to May 2015,including a mission to Sudan that was carried out from 3 to 10 April 2015. The mission aimed at identifying, in collaboration with institutions responsible for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Sudan, the needs and keys objectives that can be addressed in the context of UNESCO’s capacity-building strategy for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage.
The activity was coordinated by the Intangible Cultural Heritage Section of UNESCO and UNESCO Office in Khartoum (Sudan), in cooperation with the Sudanese National Commission for UNESCO (NATCOM) and the Ministry of Culture of Sudan.

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This mission falls within the framework of the National Capacity Building Project for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in eight countries in Africa and the Arab region (Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Madagascar, Palestine, South Sudan, Sudan and Yemen): needs assessment and development of project proposals funded by the Abu Dhabi Authority for Tourism and Culture (ADTCA). Within this framework, this 7-day mission took place from February 28 to March 7, 2015 in the Comoros to establish a solid base to support this country in its efforts to safeguard its living heritage, in accordance with the 2003 UNESCO Convention.

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Having completed the first joint training on the implementation of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage last September, representatives of the Dutch Caribbean (Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten) are taking the next significant step in the implementation of a coordinated strategy to safeguard their living heritage.

From 22 to 28 February 2015, community practitioners, as well as governmental and non-governmental experts, will gather in Curacao for a workshop on community-based inventorying of intangible cultural heritage with the primary aim to develop a framework for the inventory of their heritage. The core of the workshop will focus on community participation in the identification and definition of intangible cultural heritage, data collection, organization and management, laying the foundation not only for a 5-day field inventorying exercise to follow in the six respective islands, but for future inventorying and safeguarding work.

Organized by the UNESCO Kingston Cluster Office for the Caribbean in close cooperation with national partners across the islands, this workshop is a part of a capacity-building project to reinforce the safeguarding of living heritage in the Dutch Caribbean and Suriname, made possible thanks to the generous contribution from the Government of the Netherlands to the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund.

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The workshop had the overall objective of increasing the awareness-raising and improve the understanding of the 2003 Convention for its effective implementation and for the establishment of a sound policy for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage of the communities in North Kivu.

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Training of trainers workshop on safeguarding in Asia-Pacific

What are the knowledge and skills required to elaborate safeguarding plans for intangible cultural heritage effectively? How to acquire these competencies successfully? These questions are at the centre of a training workshop with eleven expert facilitators and ten UNESCO culture officers involved in implementing the global capacity-building strategy for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in the Asia Pacific region. Participants will test a new interactive methodology that UNESCO elaborated for this purpose and, furthermore, discuss new training approaches in two other thematic areas: policy development and gender.

The International Training Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (CRIHAP) is hosting and generously supporting this training of trainers workshop on safeguarding plans and policy support, which will take place from 19 to 23 January 2015 in Shenzhen, China. Five specialists from China identified by CRIHAP are participating as observers in the training that UNESCO is co-facilitating together with Mr. Rieks Smeets and Ms. Janet Blake, both senior specialists on the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.

The Shenzhen training workshop on safeguarding plans and policy support for intangible cultural heritage is addressed to UNESCO-trained facilitators from the Asia-Pacific Region who have substantial experience in providing training and advisory services in the context of UNESCO’s global capacity building strategy for the effective implementation of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003). It will furthermore welcome some additional experts selected to become future facilitators together with colleagues from the Region’s Field Offices and five Chinese experts. In total the workshop will bring together 26 participants.

The focus of the training is on elaborating safeguarding plans, because this theme was identified as a priority need in recent programme review meetings held with facilitators and Field Office colleagues in several regions. Indeed, without mastering the skills and knowledge required to elaborate solid plans for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage, safeguarding is not sustainable. Well-conceived, time-bound and budgeted safeguarding plans are furthermore a requirement for obtaining International Assistance from the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund for safeguarding projects and for preparing nomination files for the Urgent Safeguarding List.

Therefore, the Intangible Cultural Heritage Section developed a methodology on this topic, and will invite participating experts to provide feedback in order to finalize the materials. Similarly, UNESCO will share with participants for feedback and advice the progress made in developing training approaches and materials on two other themes: policy development and gender. These topics figured prominently in the recent evaluation of UNESCO’s standard-setting work of the Culture Sector, which concluded that they deserve more attention in the capacity-building programme. The Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage endorsed the recommendation in a decision about the follow-up to the Evaluation (DECISION 8.COM 5.c.1).

The purpose of the training workshop is thus two-fold: it intends to upgrade participants’ competencies in the areas of safeguarding, policy development and gender, while at the same time drawing upon experts’ knowledge and experience for advice.

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• Agenda: inglés
• List of participants: inglés

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UNESCO in association with Sangeet Natak Akademi Delhi organised a 2.5 day workshop from 2-4 December 2014 on the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. Participants were familiarised with the fundamentals of the Convention such as the importance of community-based inventory and multiple options for safeguarding measures. The workshop also provided a training session by Ms Shubha Chaudhuri, a UNESCO trained facilitator. The case studies by organizations working with communities at the grassroots elaborated further on community participation in documentation, and culture based livelihoods for rural development. On the last day participants were involved in an engaging role-play exercise of developing the ICH inventory. They were divided into three groups – community, NGO, and government officials. The exercise demonstrated the perspectives of each group about other stakeholders, and challenges of working together. Another enriching aspect of the workshop was a qawaali and sattreya dance performance followed by Q&A sessions with the performers. UNESCO Delhi now plans to organise such workshops in different regions within India to encourage greater involvement of the state governments.

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A capacity-building workshop for the preparation of community-based inventories of intangible cultural heritage was organized by the UNESCO House for a Culture of Peace in Burundi in partnership with the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture. The workshop, which was held in the Bujumbura Community Centre, has trained 29 participants from the Ministry and representatives of cultural associations engaged in activities for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage, in the methodology for developing inventories with the participation of communities according to the principles of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. The vast majority of participants had benefited in the past from training on the implementation of the Convention at the national level and were therefore already familiar with the key concepts and notions of the Convention. The workshop was facilitated by Mr. Domitien Nizigiyimana, expert of the World Network of UNESCO for the Intangible Cultural Heritage, and included a practical course of carrying out field inventory to apply the theory learned during the previous days.
This training was a real success in many respects. First by the active involvement of participants throughout the workshop, which particularly appreciated the practice through the practical course. The respect for gender equality and the presence of young people has diversified views and mobilize shared interest with regard to the intangible cultural heritage. Another lesson learned is that this kind of exercise helps to reassure communities that are very concerned about the uncertain future of their intangible cultural heritage which, according to them, was abandoned by the youth. Communities expressed great satisfaction of having been contacted prior to the workshop to gather their consent by asking to deliver their knowledge for the sake of the practice course and of having stayed together with the participants during the course which allowed a lot of exchange.

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A representative of the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Leisure of Niger will open next Monday 10 November a five-days Training workshop on the implementation of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, with the participation of the Spanish Technical Bureau of Cooperation in Niger.
Organized together with the National Directorate of Cultural Heritage and Museums of Niger and the support of UNESCO, the workshop (held in Niamey from 10 to 14 November) is the first of three major training activities of the capacity-building programme implemented in Niger for the safeguarding of its living heritage. The training will provide participants with knowledge, tools and resources on the principles and mechanisms of the Convention and its Operational Directives. The aim is to help Niger to fulfil its national obligations under the Convention by developing a sufficient level of national capacity, both within public institutions and among the main actors of civil society and communities.
The workshop will be immediately followed by a consultation meeting on the national institutional and legislative framework of cultural heritage in order to discuss, propose and validate specific amendments to the law n  97-022 on national cultural heritage of Niger and the related decree for its application so as to ensure its applicability for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage in Niger. This consultation meeting takes place in the framework of the revision process of the law, an effort initiated by the national authorities in 2013.
The next step will be training on the preparation of community-based inventories of the intangible cultural heritage, followed by two pilot inventory projects in the field where the methodologies and tools conveyed during the training will be applied.

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El Instituto de Mozambique para la Investigación Sociocultural, Arquivo do Património Cultural (ARPAC), en cooperación con la UNESCO, organiza un taller del 27 al 31 de octubre de 2014 en Manica y Maputo. El acontecimiento pondrá de relieve cómo los inventarios del patrimonio cultural inmaterial son un paso clave para nuevas medidas de salvaguardia. Se revisarán aún más los resultados de las actividades anteriores del proyecto para desarrollar una estrategia nacional para la promoción y salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial de Mozambique. El 1 de noviembre se dedicará un día adicional a la planificación de las futuras actividades en el marco del proyecto en favor de los países africanos de habla portuguesa, financiados gracias a la generosa contribución de Noruega al Fondo del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial.
El 1 de noviembre se dedicará un día adicional a la planificación de las futuras actividades en el marco del proyecto en favor de los países africanos de habla portuguesa.

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• Lista de participantes: portugués
• Programa del 1 de noviembre: portugués
• Programa del 27 al 31 de octubre: portugués

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From 27 October to 3 November 2014, a workshops included in the project for strengthening the capacities of Myanmar for implementing the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage took place in Nyaung Shwe (Inle, Southern Shan State) and was dedicated to community-based inventorying. The workshop has been attended by 38 participants from different ministries and institutes including among others the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Transports, Myanmar Historical Commission, the National Library, Yangon University and the University of Culture of Mandalay. Several community members of the region participated also in the workshop as bearers of intangible cultural heritage expressions representative of the country’s cultural diversity.
Facilitated by two members of the network of UNESCO-trained experts, Noriko Aikawa-Faure from Japan and Paritta Koanantakool from Thailand, this training aimed at equipping participants with essential knowledge and skills to enable them to plan and facilitate the elaboration of inventories of intangible cultural heritage adapted to the characteristics of the communities who practise and transmit it. The workshop also included two days of field practice within local communities in Taunggi, Kyauk Tine and Inle Lake areas.

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• Agenda: inglés
• List of participants: inglés

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The mission to South Sudan to consult national authorities and other stakeholders on the needs of the country for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in its territory was undertaken from 21st October to 28th October 2014. The mission was part of the ADTCA funded project “Strengthening capacities to safeguard intangible cultural heritage for sustainable development.” The consultations which were held in Juba - the capital city in the Central Equatorial State and which was facilitated by Ms. Ellen Lekka, the Culture Specialist at the UNESCO Juba Office and Mr. Elfatih Atem of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport were with : a Deputy Minister(Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports), two Senior officers(Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports); five cultural officers(Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports); six leaders of non-government organizations; five academics at the University of Juba; three officials of UN agencies(UNESCO, UNEP and UNDP); one media organisation that covers cultural matters and one traditional leader. Ms Ellen Lekka and Mr.Elfatih Atem also facilitated a public Lecture at the French Institute at the University of Juba, jointly presented with Mr.Joseph Abuk on “Benefiting from our living heritage” and a radio interview about the mission on Radio Miraya of the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan.

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At the request of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, UNESCO is organizing an expert meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, from 29 September to 1 October 2014, generously funded and hosted by the Turkish National Commission for UNESCO. The aim of the meeting is to draw up preliminary recommendations for a possible new chapter of the Operational Directives on safeguarding intangible cultural heritage and sustainable development at the national level.

Documents

• Background note and agenda
  ITH/14/EXP/1: inglés|francés
• Concept note: Intangible cultural heritage and sustainable development
  ITH/14/EXP/2: inglés|francés
• Draft Operational Directives on ‘Safeguarding intangible cultural heritage and sustainable development at the national level’
  ITH/14/EXP/3: inglés|francés
• List of participants
  ITH/14/EXP/4: inglés/francés

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After three years of implementation, time has come to take stock of UNESCO’s global capacity-building strategy for strengthening safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage in Central Asia and Europe. Therefore, the Regional Centre for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in South-Eastern Europe is hosting, a review meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 23 to 26 September 2014 co-organized with the Intangible Cultural Heritage Section of UNESCO. It will be the fourth review meeting of its kind after one in the Asia-Pacific region (Beijing, November 2012), another for Latin America and the Caribbean region (Cuzco, September 2013) and the third for the Arab region (Kuwait City, 9 to 10 May 2014).

These meetings provide an occasion to review the programme and upgrade knowledge on the most recent developments of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, while also introducing new training and guidance materials developed recently by the Intangible Cultural Heritage Section.

A group of 20 participants will come together in Sofia, including UNESCO-trained facilitators involved in delivering the global capacity-building strategy in Europe and Central Asia, UNESCO Programme Specialists from the Intangible Cultural Heritage Section and Field Offices and professional staff of the Centre. The important review and training exercise is possible thanks to the generous support of the Bulgarian authorities and funds from the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund.

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Within the scope of a two-year project to strengthen the necessary safeguarding frameworks on the Dutch Caribbean islands and Suriname, the first joint training will take place in Phillipsburg, Sint Maarten from 8 to 12 September 2014, bringing together representatives from across six islands (Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten) for training on the implementation of the Convention.

This training will be followed by a second joint training to be held in Curacao in March 2015, covering the processes and framework for community-based inventorying of intangible heritage and subsequent inventory field exercises to be conducted on the six islands. A national training on ratification and implementation of the Convention is also being organized to address the specific needs of Suriname.

As a part of UNESCO’s global capacity-building strategy and thanks to the contribution from the Government of the Netherlands to the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund, this project is being implemented by the UNESCO Kingston Cluster Office for the Caribbean with the support of National Commissions for UNESCO in the various countries, as well as national and local stakeholders.

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A training workshop on community-based inventorying of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) took place at the National Museum of Bamako from 5 to 10 September 2014. This workshop is part of the first phase of a project called ‘Inventory of intangible cultural heritage in Mali with a view to its urgent safeguarding’. It is the first project to be funded by the emergency international assistance mechanism of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund for a total of more than 300 000 Dollars.

The workshop was organized by the Directorate for Heritage and Culture of Mali (DNPC) in partnership with UNESCO, the opening ceremony was presided over by the Minister of Culture, Ms N’Diaye Ramatoulaye Diallo, Mr Lazare Eloundou of the UNESCO Office in Bamako and representatives of various technical and financial partners, including those of the MINUSMA and the French Embassy in Mali, were in attendance.

The training is the first of a series of workshops on community-based inventorying that will take place at local level. It brought together 20 participants, including members of the local offices in Gao, Kidal, Mopti and Tombouctou and agents from the DNPC. It was facilitated by two experts from the UNESCO network from Burundi and Burkina Faso. Thanks to the logistical support of MINUSMA, participants from the north regions were able to travel to Bamako and take part in the different training module.

Mali’s intangible heritage: a national source of wealth to be preserved

‘Understanding the intangible cultural heritage of different communities contributes to intercultural dialogue and encourages mutual respect for other ways of living. It contributes to social cohesion and helps people to feel a sense of belonging to a community and to society as a whole’ declared Mr Lazare Eloundou, from the UNESCO Office in Bamako, in his welcoming address.
The socio-cultural and security crisis between April 2012 and January 2013 in Mali particularly touched the intangible cultural heritage in the north regions. The urgent safeguarding of that cultural heritage must then remain an absolute priority in this post-crisis context in those regions. This living heritage is made up of secular cultural practices and manifestations which are essential components of the Malian identity and its knowledge and identification are indeed crucial to the return of a harmonious coexistence and a lasting peace between the people.

The ultimate goal for this 10-day workshop was to define the bases for the inventory of the intangible cultural heritage (ICH) strategy in the north of the country and raise awareness among the communities about the preservation of the cultural wealth. Indeed, as the international community pointed out in 2003 in the foreword of the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, it is the ‘mainspring of cultural diversity and a guarantee of sustainable development’ of our societies and communities.

Training modules adapted to field work

One of the goals of the exercise was to provide necessary technical and training material to the staff that will be in charge of directing the inventory exercise so that they can in turn pass on that knowledge to the investigating team responsible for elaborating this inventory with the communities. The participants have had the opportunity to review various topics such as the type of ICH to inventory in Mali, inventorying techniques and strategies, the current state of ICH resources for each of the represented regions or the language dimension of the documentation process.

‘It will allow the participants to better understand the objectives of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage and to master the tools, techniques and inventorying materials. This workshop will above all be an opportunity to understand better why it is necessary for communities to safeguard the resources of intangible cultural heritage in places that have an essentially oral civilization’ added the Minister of Culture, Ms N’Diaye Ramatoulaye Diallo, in her opening address.

‘The training has taught us a lot a new things, because we must admit that our knowledge in the field of intangible heritage is quite superficial. I was very happy with the demonstrations and I would like to congratulate the facilitators for their teaching abilities. I liked the clarity with which they spoke and thanks to their teaching, I will be able to keep on training myself’, noted Mr Boubacar Touré, workshop participant and former Regional Director of Youth, Sports, Arts and Culture of Tombouctou.

The modules taught in the field, especially with the Sogonafing community located in the district III of Bamako, allowed the participants to become familiar with both practical and concrete aspects.

‘It was really interesting, the field practicum taught us a lot. We have gained new knowledge and learned how to proceed and how to address people. We will be able to use this knowledge and to train others in the field’ aslo said Mrs Assitan Samaké, from the Cultural Field of Djimoutou, in the Koulikoro region.

This activity is related to the implementation process of the project for the rehabilitation of the damaged heritage in the north of Mali started by the UNESCO Office in Bamako in March 2014 and is one more step in the move towards of social cohesion and peace building.

‘The objective of preparing inventories is not so much to build a reserve of documents for museum or research purposes but to allow communities to respect and understand the role of their own intangible cultural heritage in the life of the community through its identification and definition, whether at health, education or environment level or to resolve conflicts’ reminded Cecile Duvelle, Secretary of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.

The next step of the project is for the regional offices to organize training for the teams that will prepare the inventory of the circles and districts for which each four regions are responsible.

Documents

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The current report results from the needs-assessment survey that was carried out in September-November 2014 on the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage in Albania. The survey was guided by the intention to explore the legislative and policy documents in the sphere of ICH in Albania, to analyze the institutional and administrative framework for the implementation of UNESCO’s 2003 Convention, and to study the situation of awareness-raising activities, inventorying procedures, and educational and training programs on ICH issues in the country. The goal was to outline the major challenges encountered in the implementation of the 2003 Convention on the national level, to identify the main needs in the field of ICH safeguarding, and to propose recommendations for improvement, with a special attention to aspects of urgency, sustainability, and long-terms effects. In accordance with the formulated expectations, the needs assessment pursued the development of a multi-year action plan, which includes practical proposals for capacity-building and for enhancing the safeguarding policies in the country. The current needs assessment will enable to tailor the efforts of UNESCO within the framework of its global capacity-building strategy for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage

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What can we learn from other programmes and organizations to refine UNESCO’s approach to policy advice in the field of intangible cultural heritage? How can we create synergies with the policy work undertaken under the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (2005)? These are key questions of a one-day workshop that the Intangible Heritage Section is organizing on 25 June 2014 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris with the participation of its own staff and colleagues working on the diversity of cultural expressions. Development experts from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), UNESCO’s Education Sector and the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) are guest speakers. The work of conceptualizing appropriate approaches and formats to support countries in developing relevant legislation and policies for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage benefits from the support of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund and is urgently needed, as confirmed by the recent evaluation by the Internal Oversight Service of UNESCO’s standard-setting work of the Culture Sector.

• : inglés
• Lista de participantes: inglés
• Programa: inglés

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El 24 y 25 de junio de 2014 se celebró un encuentro de consulta nacional en el Jeugd Centrale Curazao (JCC), Curazao, organizado por la Comisión Nacional de Curazao para la UNESCO, en colaboración con la Oficina multipaís de la UNESCO en Kingston para el Caribe. El encuentro reunió a unos 15 participantes en representación de la Consejería de Educación, Ciencia, Cultura y Deportes, el Museo Nacional Arqueológico-Antropológico (NAAM), el Museo de Tula, El Museo de Curazao, expertos en cultura, personas y profesionales del mundo de la artesanía de Curazao. El objetivo de la consulta nacional fue sensibilizar a los interesados en el próximo proyecto “Fortalecimiento de las capacidades de Surinam y las islas del Caribe Holandés para la aplicación de la Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial”, financiado por una contribución asignada por el Gobierno de los Países Bajos para el Fondo del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial.

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El encuentro será una excelente oportunidad para que los participantes evalúen los recientes acontecimientos en la vida de la Convención, así como las grandes tendencias en curso en la UNESCO relativas a los centros de categoría 2. También facilitará los esfuerzos conjuntos para la integración de la estrategia de medio plazo de la Organización (37 C/4) y el programa y presupuesto para el próximo cuatrienio (37 C/5) en la planificación a corto y medio plazo de los respectivos centros, lo que permitirá que sigan contribuyendo a la labor de la UNESCO de manera eficaz.

Documentos

• 37 C/5 MP IV Expected Result 6: National capacities strengthened and utilised to safeguard intangible cultural heritage, including indigenous and endangered languages, through the effective implementation of the 2003 Convention: inglés|francés
• Agenda: inglés|francés
• Evaluation and renewal process: a case study (presentation): English-French
• Medium-term strategy for UNESCO’s cooperation with category 2 centres in the field of intangible cultural heritage 2014-2021: inglés|francés
• Recent developments in the life of the Convention and the Organization (presentation): inglés

Documentos de referencia

• Informe de evaluación 2008-2014: inglés|español

• Acuerdo relativo al Centro Regional para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de América Latina (CRESPIAL) en Cusco, Perú: inglés|español

Documentos del Consejo Ejecutivo/de la Conferencia General

• Estrategia global integrada para los institutos y centros de categoría 2
  37 C/Resolution 93: inglés|francés|español|ruso|árabe|chino

Para mas d’informaciones :

• Centros de categoría 2

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Ethiopia is an ancient country with a remarkable rich linguistic and cultural diversity. This diversity includes tangible and intangible heritage with both traditional and modern cultural expressions, language, and centuries old know how in handicraft production. In fact, Ethiopia’s cultural industry is perhaps one of the oldest in the world and is exceptionally diverse. The other intangible heritage of Ethiopia is equally rich with an exceptional variety including ceremonies, festivals, celebrations, rituals, and other living expressions. Moreover, eight of the Ethiopia’s cultural and natural heritage sites are listed on UNESCO’s World Heritage Lists attesting to the outstanding universal value of Ethiopia’s heritage. The rich cultural landscape is further enhanced by the representation of numerous religions including Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and other traditional religions. The peaceful coexistence of these religious communities for centuries is a testament to Ethiopia’s social cohesion. Moreover, Ethiopia is a land endowed with immense biodiversity. Safeguarding and harnessing these assets would enable Ethiopia to capitalize on its rich heritage for socio-economic wellbeing of the people of Ethiopia and for sustainable development.

Ethiopia ratified the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2006.Ratification of the Convention was therefore, a landmark achievement for the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. This bold move gave the country an opportunity to conserve, promote, safeguard and develop it’s cultural diversity for sustainable development. Coupled with it’s existing legal and policy frameworks such as the 1995 constitution, the 1997 cultural policy and the 209/2000 proclamation which established the Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage (ARCCH), the country had therefore positioned itself to harness it’s potential in the development of the culture sector and particularly pay special attention to it’s rich intangible cultural heritages of over eighty ethnic groups.
As a signatory to the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, the Ethiopian government was thus bound to observe it’s obligation under the Convention and it’s operational directives. Since 2006 and using it’s existing legal, policy, and institutional frameworks, the Federal Democratic Government of Ethiopia through the Authority for Research in Conservation of Cultural Heritage (ARCCH) began the work of implementing the convention at the national level. A national workshop to sensitize stakeholders on the implementation of the convention was organized. Later on Inventories were developed for the ICH of many Nations, Nationalities, and peoples of Ethiopia with much of the expertise for such undertakings coming from ARCCH. Ethiopia has one element (Meskel) inscribed in the List of Elements in Need of Urgent Safeguarding and a few others such as the Ashura Festival have been lined up for nomination into the lists within the framework of the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.
UNESCO’s highest priority for implementing the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage is a global capacity-building strategy, put in place to strengthen countries’ capacities for the sustainable safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) and for harnessing its potential for sustainable development while promoting broad public knowledge and support for the Convention’s concepts and objectives.
The Federal Ministry of Culture and Tourism is the relevant Ministry charged with the responsibility of conservation, promotion, development and the safeguarding of culture of the Nations, Nationalities and peoples of Ethiopia for Sustainable Development. Through the ARCCH, much has been done regarding the implementation of the Convention. There is however, a lot that can be achieved if the Government lays a solid foundation for the implementation of the convention.

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Documents

• Agenda - Réunion : Rapport d’atelier de Ahmed Skounti : francés
• List of Participant: francés
• Programme: francés

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The workshop on the implementation of the 2003 Convention provided an overview of the objectives and key safeguarding concepts of the 2003 Convention as well as the national obligations of States Parties and the mechanisms for international cooperation. Thirty-five participants benefitted from the workshop. Most of them took part during the consultation meetings in November 2013. Cultural Officers of seven out of eight States were present. Most of the Ministry officials who participated in the workshop came from the Department of Archaeology and National Museum which has conducted significant researches and documentation of ICH through the network of State Museums and Cultural Officers. The increased number of participants from the Department of Archaeology and National Museum resulted in a more productive discussion and allowed for more state (provincial) level inputs.
This workshop was initially planned to cover both the ratification and implementation of the 2003 Convention. However, Myanmar ratified the 2003 Convention two weeks before the start of the workshop, thus the two expert facilitators, Paritta Koanantakool and Noriko Aikawa-Faure, adjusted their training programme to focus only on the effective implementation of the Convention at the national level. The facilitators included in the workshop agenda a day-long field study visit in locations where the crafts and rituals mentioned below were practiced. The field trip provided the participants to understand the essential role of communities in safeguarding ICH.

• Bronze casting craft in Tamapawaddy, Chanmyathase Township, Mandalay
• Silk weaving craft in Muand Dan Quarter, Amarapura Township, Mandalay
• Nat spirit worship in Mandalay where four spirit mediums/practitioners were interviewed.

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In 2014, the training of trainers on the implementation of the Convention was the first step to build a core group of facilitators from Nordic countries (Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Sweden) who can deliver capacity-building courses for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage and for other aspects of the implementation of the ICH Convention.

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Unos 30 representantes de los Ministerios de Cultura y expertos formados por la UNESCO, de diferentes países de la región Árabe van a debatir con la UNESCO y la ALECSO de las necesidades y los desafíos del desarrollo de marcos conceptuales e institucionales, para la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial. Ambas organizaciones internacionales son co-organizadoras de esta reunión, en colaboración con el Consejo Nacional de Kuwait para la Cultura, las Artes y las Letras, del 7 al 9 de mayo de 2014, en Kuwait (Cuidad) gracias a la generosa hospitalidad del Gobierno de Kuwait.

• Programa: inglés
• Nota conceptual : inglés

Los facilitadores expertos y el personal de la UNESCO se quedarán en Kuwait para una segunda reunión, con el fin de revisar los avances y desafíos de la implementación del programa de capacitación de la UNESCO para el patrimonio cultural inmaterial y hacer recomendaciones sobre las formas de transmitirlo a la región Árabe (del 10 al 11 de mayo).

• Agenda provisional: inglés
• Documento de referencia: inglés

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The Yaoundé Office brought its expertise and collaboration to the training of trainers on inventories of the tangible and intangible heritage that took place in Yaoundé from 5 to 10 May 2014 by addressing the participants on the 2003 Convention, the importance of community-based inventories and the challenges of elaborating nomination files for the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. The workshop brought together 55 participants, including representatives from the 10 regions of Cameroon.

Results:

• The participants gained a better knowledge of the 2003 Convention
• The Ministry of Arts and Culture committed to roll out inventories

Perspective:

• Organization of other workshops with the communities with the communities
• Effective launch of inventories
• Support for the preparation of nomination files for the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage

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Del 31 de marzo al 6 de abril se lleva a cabo en República Dominicana un taller sobre la confección de inventarios del patrimonio cultural inmaterial con la participación de las comunidades, en el marco del proyecto regional de fortalecimiento de capacidades nacionales para una salvaguardia eficaz del patrimonio cultural inmaterial en Cuba, República Dominicana y Haití, que cuenta con el apoyo del Fondo del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial, gracias a la generosa contribución de Noruega.

Animado por dos miembros de la red de facilitadores de la UNESCO, María Ismenia Toledo (Venezuela) y Enrique Pérez López (México), el taller reúne a 30 especialistas, estudiantes y portadores de patrimonio cultural inmaterial para una formación sobre el enfoque promulgado por la Convención del 2003 para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de los inventarios y el papel que desempeñan las comunidades. La formación teórica se complementa con una parte técnica de recopilación de datos y con un ejercicio de campo con los Chuineros de Cañafístol en Baní, provincia de Peravia, cuyos cantos improvisados en forma de copla corren el riesgo de desaparecer.

Esta actividad es posible gracias al apoyo del Viceministerio de Patrimonio Cultural y el Centro Cultural Perelló, con sede en Baní,
que han jugado un papel decisivo en la obtención del consentimiento libre, previo e informado de los Chuineros.

Documentos

• Lista de participantes: español
• Programa: español

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A first national meeting took place in Agadir from 26 to 30 March. This meeting is part of the project for capacity building for the safeguarding of living heritage implemented in the three countries thanks to the generous contribution of Norway to the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund.

The workshop was organized by the UNESCO Office in Rabat and brought together not only representatives from the Ministry of Culture and of local communities involved but also representatives from the Ministries of Crafts, Agriculture, Education and Tourism.

The integration of intangible cultural heritage to the multisectorial policies and a good understanding of the key concepts of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage by all stakeholders are essential to its effective implementation. These issues were raised during this training workshop that was co-facilitated by Mr. Ahmed Skounti (Morocco) and Mr. Mohamed Ould Mohamed Lemine Beijeu (Mauritania), UNESCO trained facilitators in the field of intangible heritage.

• List of participants : francés
• Présentation - Réunion : Rapport d’atelier de M. Ahmed Skounti: francés

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El tema de la conferencia internacional de los 24-26 de marzo en Bergen (Noruega) se centra en las Convenciones para el Patrimonio Mundial de la UNESCO (1972), el Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial (2003) y la Diversidad de la Expresión Cultural (2005).

El objetivo general de la conferencia es de explorar sinergias entre las tres convenciones, cómo se pueden utilizar para cumplir sus correspondientes ambiciones y cómo otros instrumentos de la UNESCO relacionados, los mecanismos y las prácticas regionales y nacionales, pueden ser implementados, de forma fructífera, en su totalidad.

La conferencia examinará las siguientes cuestiones:
• ¿Cómo se pueden obtener sinergias entre las convenciones y otros mecanismos y prácticas en el campo - lo que funciona en la práctica?
• ¿Cuál es el papel, tanto del patrimonio cultural material como inmaterial y de las expresiones culturales, en la contribución en favor del desarrollo sostenible?

Los participantes objetivo incluyen investigadores en patrimonio cultural y natural, en desarrollo sostenible, profesionales en gestión de los sitios del patrimonio e instrumentos conexos, en el ámbito local y niveles superiores.

La conferencia servirá de plataforma para el intercambio de ideas. Proporcionará:
• a los investigadores comentarios sobre sus hallazgos e ideas para su trabajo,
• a los gestores del patrimonio local, inspiración para nuevas soluciones,
• a la UNESCO y a los gestores del patrimonio a nivel nacional, ideas para desarrollos estratégicos,

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Within the framework of the UNESCO/Flanders Project on Strengthening sub-regional cooperation and national capacities in seven Southern African countries for implementing the 2003 Convention for the safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), the UNESCO Harare Multisectoral Regional Office (MSRO) organised a two-day workshop 18 – 20 March 2014 in Harare, Zimbabwe. This workshop brought together twenty-two participants from Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The workshop was facilitated by the UNESCO certified trainers in ICH, Mr. Stephen Chifunyise and Mr. Lovemore Mazibuko. Also in attendance and assisting with training was Mr. Marc Jacobs, from the Flemish Interface Centre for Cultural Heritage (FARO).

Workshop Objectives

• Train at least two participants from each beneficiary country on the scope and objectives of the implementation of the 2003 Convention at national level with a focus on inventorying, preparation of international assistance requests and nomination files.
• Define and agree on the specific actions aimed at strengthening policy, legal and institutional frameworks of the beneficiary countries with reference to the provisions of the 2003 Convention and the Operational Directives.
• Create and agree on project activities and timelines which will guide the beneficiary countries in executing set action plans and main project goal of reinforcing the national capacities for the implementation of the 2003 Convention.

List of documents

• Agenda: inglés
• Lista de participantes: inglés

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Del 25 de febrero al 4 de marzo de 2014, tuvo lugar en la ciudad de Guatemala el último de los talleres del proyecto de fortalecimiento de capacidades nacionales para la salvaguardia eficaz del patrimonio cultural inmaterial en América Central, dedicado a la confección de inventarios con participación de las comunidades. El taller estuvo destinado al personal técnico de la Dirección General del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial del Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes de Guatemala y a miembros de las comunidades portadores de manifestaciones de patrimonio cultural inmaterial representativas de la diversidad cultural del país.

Facilitada por dos miembros de la red de expertos formados por la UNESCO, Eva Martínez de Honduras y Enrique Pérez López de México, esta capacitación quiso dotar a los participantes de conocimientos y competencias esenciales que les permitan planear y facilitar la confección de inventarios de patrimonio cultural inmaterial, adaptándola a las particularidades de las comunidades que lo practican y lo transmiten.

El taller contó con dos días de práctica de campo en el municipio de Chinautla, a 10 km de la ciudad capital, cuya población indígena Maya-Pocomam fabrica con técnica y precisión vasijas y floreros, entre otras piezas, con barro, paja y arcilla. Esta artesanía tradicional que se transmite de madres a hijas desde la infancia, fue declarada Patrimonio Cultural Intangible de la Nación por el Gobierno de Guatemala en el 2013.

Documentos

• Lista de participantes: español
• Programa: español

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Del 11 al 14 de febrero, la Oficina Regional de Cultura para América Latina y el Caribe está organizando un taller de capacitación sobre la aplicación de la Convención de 2003 para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial a nivel nacional en Santiago de Cuba, en el oriente cubano. El taller reunirá a una veintena de participantes de las provincias orientales y de Camagüey. Portadores del patrimonio cultural inmaterial de la región, junto a miembros de los consejos provinciales y de instituciones nacionales como el Comité Nacional para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial o el Instituto Cubano de Investigación Cultural, recibirán una formación intensiva sobre los objetivos y los conceptos clave de esta Convención así como sobre las obligaciones contraídas por los Estados que la han ratificado y los mecanismos que prevé para la cooperación internacional.

Organizado en el marco del programa regional de fortalecimiento de capacidades en Cuba, República Dominicana y Haití, y financiado a través de la generosa contribución de Noruega al Fondo del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial, el taller será facilitado por dos expertos formados por la UNESCO, Adriana Molano Arenas de Colombia y Francisco Javier López Morales de México. Ofrecerá a los participantes una plataforma de reflexión colectiva sobre las experiencias y desafíos de la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial en el contexto más amplio del desarrollo sostenible.

Documentos

• Lista de participantes: español
• Programa: español

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Following the national workshop on community-based inventorying of intangible cultural heritage, a pilot activity on community-based inventorying was successfully carried out by the African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank (ACIJ/JMB) from February to April 2014. Two training sessions were organized as part of the inventorying exercise. These were followed by two inventorying exercises in Glengoffe, St. Catherine carried out on 19 March and 30 April 2014. Participants collected oral history data from the members of the craft community, which included jippy-jappa straw workers and a wood carver, using the digital recorders and video camera purchased for the project. They also made photographic documentation of the present processes involved in the creation of jippy-jappa straw craft and wood carvings. Following this, participants came together to critically analyze the data collected and created a pilot ICH inventory record of the jippy-jappa straw and woodcarving. This exercise involved the preparation of interview worksheets and inputting data: photographs and video into the ICH Inventory Database. A set of audio-visual equipment was also purchased to facilitate the pilot inventorying project and for use in future inventorying work. An ICH Equipment Release Form was developed and is in use to facilitate loans to the members of the ICH stakeholders’ network, to primarily ensure that communities have access to this equipment to carry out the work for which they have been trained.

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From 3 to 6 December representatives from governmental and non-governmental institutions from Timor-Leste are meeting to receive intensive training on the nomination process, from preparation to evaluation and examination. These sessions are mainly practical and participative and will rely on mock nominations that participants will need to analyse and improve in accordance with the criteria set out in the Operational Directives for the implementation of the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Conducted by the UNESCO-trained facilitators, Rahul Goswami from India and Suzanne Ogge from Australia, this workshop on the preparation of nominations of intangible cultural heritage elements for inscription on the Urgent Safeguarding List and the Representative List will complement the training that Timor-Leste has already received on the implementation of the Convention at the national level and community-based inventorying.

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Community practitioners, non-governmental organizations in the field of crafts, traditional music and dance, leading universities and museums of the country as well as government officials came together for a workshop on inventorying of intangible cultural heritage which is held from 22 to 29 November 2013 in Shymkent, Kazakhstan.

Organized by the UNESCO Almaty Office in cooperation with the National Commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan for UNESCO and ISESCO and the Kazakhstan National Federation of UNESCO Clubs, the workshop marks a significant step in safeguarding the living heritage of Kazakhstan. It focuses on community participation in the identification and inventory of intangible cultural heritage, organization and management of information, and hands-on experience in preparing field work.

Funded by the Government of Norway, the workshop is the third and last in a series of workshops organized in Kazakhstan in the framework of a sub-regional project being implemented in Central Asia within the context of UNESCO’s global strategy on capacity building to safeguard intangible cultural heritage. It is conducted by two experts from the UNESCO facilitators’ network: Ms. Sabira Soltongeldieva and Mr. Illya Fetysov.

For more information, please see the webpage of Almaty Cluster Office for Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

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heritage, a pilot activity on community-based inventorying was successfully carried out by the National Institute of Culture and History (NICH) from November 2013 to April 2014. During this period, seven cultural celebrations associated with various ethnic communities were inventoried in 13 communities across Belize: Los Finados, Yurumein, Las Posadas, Ox-lajun Ba-aktun Ceremony, Christmas Bram, Carnaval and La Semana Santa.
Inventorying of the cultural celebrations took into account the history of the celebration, identification of various ICH domains, safeguarding practices currently in place, as well as challenges to its viability identified by the cultural practitioners. The documentation process also involved a listing of key cultural words as used in the traditional language(s). The inventorying of these cultural celebrations involved the participants from the established ICH Working Body, as well as community cultural practitioners who are actively involved in the organization of these celebrations. An inventorying tool was developed to serve as a guide for the documentation stages of the project. The tool was piloted from 1-3 November and a planning and training session was later held with the ICH Working Body to develop an inventorying schedule. Throughout the project, the ICH Working Body met at regular intervals to discuss and to share the acquired knowledge. The group also provided feedback and suggestions for subsequent inventorying activities. In January 2014, a mid-term review meeting was held to evaluate the progress of the inventorying exercise and a final meeting was held in April 2014 to assess the results. Audio-visual equipment was also purchased to facilitate the pilot inventorying project and for future documentation of ICH.

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Following the national workshop on community-based inventorying of intangible cultural heritage, a pilot activity on community-based inventorying was successfully carried out by the Ministry of the Arts and Multiculturalism (MAM), now the Ministry of Community Development, Culture and the Arts, from November 2013 to May 2014. During this period, the Soparee Mai Devotions and the Feast of La Divina Pastora was documented. Prior to this inventorying exercise, a training session was held at the Siparia Boys Roman Catholic Primary School, adjacent to the church where the statue of La Divina Pastora is kept and also part of the devotion grounds. Training was facilitated by media specialists, qualified information technology and audio visual technicians who focused on the methods for proper interviewing, multimedia equipment care and operation, lighting techniques, use of tripods, storyboarding, filming, and shot composition to assist the community members in their self-documentation efforts. Through the acquired training on documentation, community members were able to record the Sopari Mai Devotions in April and May 2014. Audio-visual equipment was purchased with project funds to facilitate the pilot inventorying activity, and an additional four sets of similar equipment were purchased from the fund provided by the Ministry.

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The UNESCO Office in Rabat is organizing a training workshop on the implementation of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Kaédi, Mauritania, from 22-26 October, 2013.

The workshop is part of the project ‘Safeguarding intangible cultural heritage through strengthening national capacities in Morocco, Mauritania and Tunisia’ funded by the contribution of the Government of Norway to the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund. It will be facilitated by Mr Ahmed Skounti and Mr Mohamed Ould Mohamed Lemine Beijeu, both members of the UNESCO facilitators network in the field of intangible heritage, and will bring together approximately 20 participants including representatives from the Ministry of Culture, NGO’s and representatives from the local communities involved.

The objective of this first activity is to make sure that the key concepts of the Convention have been well understood and integrated by all the stakeholders involved in the safeguarding of living heritage in Mauritania. It will be followed by a series of other specific activities during the next months.

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This Community-based Inventorying of Intangible Cultural Heritage Workshop is the 3rd activity hosted by Samoa within the framework of the regional capacity building project in the Asia-Pacific Region and is funded by the Japan Funds-in-Trust for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.

The Workshop will bring together some 50 participants ranging from ICH custodians, traditional leaders, senior officials responsible for ICH safeguarding, NGOs, community-based organisations, to faith-based organisations. The Workshop will provide stakeholders with training in community-based ICH inventorying with hands-on exercise at Gataivai Village in Savaii Island.

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This workshop on the preparation of nomination files to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists will be held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia from 21 to 25 October 2013. Conducted by the UNESCO-trained facilitators, Suzanne Ogge from Australia and Rahul Goswani from India, the event is the final of a series of three capacity building events over the last 18 months aimed at the safeguarding of the manifestations of Cambodia’s living heritage. The training workshop, which the UNESCO Phnom Penh Office is organizing in partnership with the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts, will provide training on how to prepare nomination files for the Urgent Safeguarding List and Representative List, as well as proposals for the Register of Best Practices and requests for international assistance. The training strategy will provide the participants with the knowledge of preparing complete nomination files by understanding how they will later be evaluated and examined. The expert trainers will lead around 30 participants from concerned government agencies, members of the academy, ICH practitioners and community members.

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• Agenda: inglés

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Del 14 al 22 de octubre del 2013 tendrán lugar en Argentina sesiones de capacitación sobre la preparación de candidaturas a las listas de la Convención de la UNESCO para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial, primero en Santiago del Estero, en la región del Gran Chaco, y luego en Buenos Aires. Al finalizar, unos 70 participantes, incluidos funcionarios gubernamentales y miembros de organizaciones no gubernamentales implicados en la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural de Argentina, pero también de Paraguay y Uruguay, habrán recibido una formación teórica y práctica sobre el proceso de candidatura, entendido como un proceso de planificación de medidas de salvaguardia con las comunidades involucradas.

Facilitados por dos expertas formadas por la UNESCO, Adriana Molano Arenas de Colombia y Mónica Lacarrieu de Argentina, estos talleres clausuran un programa de capacitación sobre la Convención apoyado por el Fondo fiduciario UNESCO/Japón que, desde hace más de un año, ha brindado a sus beneficiarios una sólida formación sobre la aplicación de la Convención a nivel nacional y la confección de inventarios del patrimonio cultural inmaterial con las comunidades portadoras.

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• Lista de participantes: español
• Programa: español

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Del 7 al 11 de octubre, la Oficina Regional de Cultura para América Latina y el Caribe está organizando un taller de capacitación sobre la preparación de candidaturas a las listas de la Convención de la UNESCO para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial. El taller reunirá a una veintena de participantes de Cuba, Haití y República Dominicana que ya beneficiaron en sus respectivos países de una formación intensiva sobre la aplicación de la Convención a nivel nacional, en el marco del proyecto regional de fortalecimiento de capacidades nacionales para la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial, financiado a través de la generosa contribución de Noruega al Fondo del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial.

Facilitado por dos expertos formados por la UNESCO, Adriana Molano Arenas de Colombia y Fabián Bedón Samaniego de Ecuador, este taller proporcionará a los participantes una formación complementaria sobre la preparación de candidaturas como procesos de movilización de la amplia gama de actores involucrados en la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial - y las comunidades ante todo -, así como de diseño de planes de salvaguardia concebidos a la medida de los contextos y las condiciones específicos para la práctica de un elemento del patrimonio cultural inmaterial dado.

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• Lista de participantes: español
• Programa : español

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Experts from South-East Europe will meet in Belgrade, Serbia, on 5 October, within the framework of the 22nd edition of the International Festival of Ethnological Film, to discuss how documentary films and other audio-visual productions may contribute to the safeguarding and viability of intangible cultural heritage.
The meeting, organized by the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade, in cooperation with the Sofia Regional Centre for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in South-Eastern Europe (Bulgaria) and the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, Venice (Italy), will include a round table on the realization of a possible regional audiovisual production on intangible cultural heritage in South-East Europe – challenges and opportunities. Participating experts will include representatives of heritage safeguarding agencies, anthropologists, film makers and other individual practitioners. The event is open to the public.

The Belgrade International Festival of Ethnological Film focuses on creative ethnographic documentaries with strong ethnological sensibility. Its concept is to encourage and inspire wide audience, anthropologists and filmmakers to contribute to impact and use of ethnographic film. This year’s edition of the festival will screen from 4-8 October 2013, in Belgrade, documentary films on the subject of ethnology and anthropology, also including a variety of events, meetings with filmmakers and social gatherings.

More information is available here

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A national workshop on Community-based Inventorying of Intangible Cultural Heritage will be held in Orange Walk district in Belize from 1 to 9 October 2013. This is organized by The National Institute of Culture and History in collaboration with the Belize National Commission for UNESCO and the UNESCO Kingston Cluster Office for the Caribbean.

The 8-day workshop will focus on i) community involvement in identifying and inventorying in accordance with/as advocated by UNESCO’s Intangible Heritage Convention, ii) information gathering with communities, iii) organizing, accessing and updating information in inventories and iv) a hands-on experience in preparing field work. The workshop will be facilitated by UNESCO trained facilitators, Harriet Deacon and Kris Rampersad.

Various stakeholders such as government officials, non-governmental organizations and community practitioners will come together to partake in the workshop on the implementation of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. The official opening ceremony will take place on Tuesday, 1 October 2013 in the presence of invited guests including government officials, diplomatic corps, Heads of UN Agencies and the media.

Funded by the Government of Japan, the workshop is part of a sub-regional project being implemented in Belize, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago within the context of UNESCO’s Global Strategy on capacity building on safeguarding intangible cultural heritage.

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After having had a first community-based inventory workshop (INV) in October 2012 in Goroka, Papua New Guinea will benefit from an additional workshop in another part of the country, the Milne Bay Province. Anthony Parak will facilitate this workshop.

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La segunda reunión de balance de la estrategia global de la UNESCO de fortalecimiento de capacidades nacionales para la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial será convocada por la Sección del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial en Cusco, Perú, del 17 al 19 septiembre de 2013, tras la primera de estas reuniones que tuvo lugar en Beijing, China, en noviembre 2012.

El Centro Regional para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de América Latina (CRESPIAL), un centro de categoría 2 bajo los auspicios de la UNESCO, acogerá esta eunión que tiene como objetivo evaluar la aplicación de la estrategia en América Latina y el Caribe.

En la reunión participarán once facilitadores de la red mundial, establecida hace dos años después de un ciclo de talleres de formación de formadores en todo el mundo, y que desde entonces han animado actividades de capacitación en la región. Los colegas responsables del programa de cultura en las oficinas de la UNESCO en el terreno y el CRESPIAL también participarán en el encuentro.

El programa de la reunión abarca la toda gama de problemas conceptuales y prácticos que se han ido planteando a lo largo del camino. Al invitar a los principales actores involucrados en la ejecución de este programa a compartir sus experiencias, los desafíos a los que se enfrentan y las formas que encontraron para superarlos, la reunión permitirá mejorar la eficacia de la estrategia de fortalecimiento de capacidades para que sepa responder de manera más adecuada a las necesidades específicas de los Estados.

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• Actas resumidas: inglés|español
• Lista de participantes: inglés/español
• Programa : inglés|español

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La UNESCO renueva su apoyo para salvaguardar el patrimonio inmaterial de Nepal con un taller sobre la preparación de candidaturas para la Lista del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de la UNESCO en Katmandú, del 16 al 20 de septiembre de 2013. El taller es el último de los tres eventos financiados por Japón en favor del fortalecimiento de capacidades para la salvaguardia del patrimonio inmaterial - o vivo - de Nepal.
Estas expresiones vivas en forma de tradiciones, artes escénicas, actos festivos y habilidades para producir artesanía tradicional son parte esencial del patrimonio colectivo del país.

La Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial, adoptada por la UNESCO en 2003, y ratificada por Nepal en 2010, es un excelente marco para promover la continuidad de estas tradiciones vivas. Sin embargo, las capacidades nacionales para la salvaguardia de este patrimonio requieren mejoras sustanciales.

El próximo seminario, organizado por la UNESCO en Katmandú junto con el Ministerio de Cultura, Turismo y Aviación Civil, proporcionará los conocimientos necesarios para inscribir elementos en la lista del patrimonio cultural inmaterial y mejorará las capacidades para la preparación de candidaturas. Igualmente formará a expertos, representantes de la comunidad e instituciones involucradas, sobre cómo preparar expedientes para la Lista de Salvaguardia Urgente y la Lista Representativa, propuestas para el Registro de las Mejores Prácticas y cómo formular solicitudes de asistencia internacional.

Dirigido por facilitadoras de la UNESCO, Suzanne Ogge de Australia y Shubha Chaudhuri de India, este evento es el último de una serie de tres seminarios de fortalecimiento de capacidades que se han celebrado durante los últimos 18 meses. El primer taller, celebrado en abril de 2012 en Katmandú, abordó los principios clave y las definiciones del patrimonio cultural inmaterial; el segundo taller, que tuvo lugar en enero de 2013 en el valle de Jiri-Sikri, se centró en el proceso y las líneas directrices para la participación de las comunidades en la realización del inventario de estas tradiciones vivas.

Los eventos nacionales de capacitación son parte del proyecto regional de fortalecimiento de capacidades, “Salvaguardar el Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial mediante el Fortalecimiento de las Capacidades Nacionales en Asia y en el Pacífico”, financiado por el Gobierno de Japón.

La UNESCO espera que alrededor de 30 personas procedentes de comunidades y grupos que crean, mantienen y transmiten el patrimonio inmaterial, junto con instituciones y servicios gubernamentales, participen en este evento.

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UNESCO has partnered with the School for African Heritage (EPA) to help Member States by providing them with knowledge about the concepts, mechanisms and measures offered by the Convention. To make the initiative real, a workshop for the training of trainers on community-based inventorying of intangible cultural heritage will take place from 16 to 23 September 2013 in the EPA in Porto Novo, Benin thanks to funding from the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund. During this training, participants will have the opportunity to become familiar with the materials elaborated by the Secretariat of the Convention.

The workshop will be facilitated by two expert facilitators, Claudine-Augée Angoué (Gabon) and Sidi Traoré (Burkina Faso) in partnership with EPA director, Baba Keita. It will focus on four principal topics: (1) community-based inventorying in the framework of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, (2) a framework of community-based inventorying, ethics and responsibilities, (3) methods and technics to produce information and (4) community-based inventorying projects.

A field exercise is also planned to allow the 30 participants that include officials from the EPA, the International Traditions and Languages Research Centre (CERDETOLA) and experts form Burkina Faso and Senegal to apply community-based techniques in the field. The workshop will benefit from EPA’s rich experience in the field of training for safeguarding of cultural heritage. The workshop will be coordinated by the EPA who will also organize the field work, building on the solid contacts it has with the communities of the Porto Novo region (the provisory program is being prepared).

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Less than a year after hosting a foundational workshop on the implementation of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage at the national level and the development of a plan of action to this effect, Jamaica is mobilising community practitioners and representatives of its governmental and non-governmental organisations to push forward with the inventorying of its living heritage.

Organized by the African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank in collaboration with the Jamaica National Commission for UNESCO and the UNESCO Kingston Cluster Office for the Caribbean, a national workshop on community-based inventorying of intangible cultural heritage will take place in Kingston from 4 to 13 September 2013.

A significant step in the safeguarding of living heritage in Jamaica, the workshop will focus on community participation in the identification and inventorying of intangible cultural heritage, data collection, organization and management, and hands-on experience in preparing field work. The workshop along with the field exercise will set the stage for a pilot inventory activity to follow in proceeding months.

Funded by the Government of Japan, the workshop is part of a sub-regional project being implemented in Belize, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago within the context of UNESCO’s global strategy on capacity building to safeguard intangible cultural heritage. It will be facilitated by UNESCO trained experts Dr. Harriet Deacon and Dr. Kris Rampersad.

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This training workshop is aimed at enhancing the national capacities in the field for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage (ICH), in particular ICH inventorying under the 2003 Convention including the practical technical skills in inventory-making.

Experts from Kyrgyzstan will be trained in identifying, defining, inventorying and documenting the ICH. They are in charge of implementing concrete safeguarding activities and conducting training in the management and appropriate transmission of ICH, while undertaking and/or coordinating ICH-related scientific, technical, legal, economic and other studies. The purpose of this session is to raise awareness about the value and diversity of the ICH and ensure community participation and consent in all activities concerning their ICH.

Participants will be from governmental and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), communities, institutions and individual experts. The preference will be given to local communities. During the training the participants will be provided with text materials developed by UNESCO. The materials are translated into the Russian language and partially into Kyrgyz.

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El presente Informe se presenta ante las autoridades de la Representación de UNESCO para Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua y Panamá, con sede en San José, a fin de dar cuenta de las actividades del Proyecto de Fortalecimiento de Capacidades para la efectiva Implementación de la Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial, particularmente referidas al Cuarto Taller “Ratificación de la Convención de la UNESCO, 2003”, celebrado en la ciudadde San Salvador, El Salvador, entre los días 21, 22 y 23 de agosto de 2013. El citado taller ha sido posible gracias a la cooperación del Reino de España y ha tenido como países beneficiarios a Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua y Guatemala

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Within the framework of the global capacity building strategy for the implementation of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, a workshop will be organized in Mozambique from 12 to 21 August 2013 that aim to reinforce national capacities for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage.

Through this workshop, officials from ARPAC (the National Institute for Socio-cultural Research), the Ministry of Culture as well as representatives of the local authorities, civil society and community leaders of the Monica District will familiarize themselves with principles and methods of community based inventorying of living heritage (Monica, 12 to 21 August 2013). It is hoped that some of the participants will become facilitators who then will provide further training in Mozambique and in other Portuguese speaking countries in Africa.

This workshop, organized thanks to a generous voluntary supplementary contribution from Norway to the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund, forms part of a project that targets Portuguese speaking countries in Africa. The same participants will first receive training on the implementation of the 2003 Convention at the national level, (Maputo 5 to 9 August 2013) organized through the project.

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• Agenda: portugués

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Within the framework of the global capacity building strategy for the implementation of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, a workshop will be organized in Mozambique from 5 to 9 August 2013 that aim to reinforce national capacities for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage.

The first workshop will provide training on the implementation of the 2003 Convention at the national level to officials from ARPAC (the National Institute for Socio-cultural Research), the Ministry of Culture as well as representatives of the local authorities, civil society and community leaders of the Monica District (Maputo, 5 to 9 August 2013).

This workshop, organized thanks to a generous voluntary supplementary contribution from Norway to the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund, forms part of a project that targets Portuguese speaking countries in Africa. The same participants will receive further training on the community-based inventorying of intangible cultural heritage (Monica, 12 to 21 August 2013), organized through the project.

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• Agenda: portugués

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The project supported the organization of a practical field survey and inventorying of ICH in pilot communities, during which five teams of provincial cultural officers conducted cultural mapping of ICH elements in two districts. The teams used questionnaires using the methodologies developed during the inventorying workshop. The Ministry also arranged for the preparation of mock nomination files on five elements that would be discussed and evaluated during the next workshop on the elaboration of nomination files to the ICH Lists. The five elements were: (i) customs and rituals of Sinhalese puberty rites ; (ii) traditional therapeutic veniculture and cauterization techniques ; (iii) national Sinhalese New Year tradition ; (iv) procession of the Sacred Tooth in Kandy ; and (v) traditional puppetry.

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The project supported the field inventorying of the following ICH elements organized by the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation to test the skills learnt during the community-based inventorying workshop. The teams mobilized to conduct the ICH inventorying made use of a template they developed during the community-based inventorying, which included identification of threats and challenges, transmission and customary practices, viability and safeguarding measures.
• Traditional archery held in the districts of Wangdi, Bumthang and Samtse.
• Nub Zhey traditional singing of the Bji and Saengkyi communities in Central Bhutan
• Traditional pottery practiced by the women of the Maengjibi and Gangzur villages in Lhuentse district

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Del 29 de julio al 2 de agosto, unos treinta participantes procedentes de instituciones gubernamentales y no gubernamentales de El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras y Nicaragua se reúnen en Managua, Nicaragua, para recibir una formación intensiva sobre los procesos de candidatura, desde su preparación hasta su evaluación y examen. Las sesiones serán principalmente prácticas y participativas y se apoyarán en modelos de candidaturas que los participantes deberán analizar y mejorar de acuerdo con los criterios establecidos en la Directrices Operativas para la aplicación de la Convención para la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial.

Animado por los facilitadores formados por la UNESCO, María Ismenia Toledo de Venezuela y Enrique López de México, se trata del primer taller sobre la preparación de candidaturas de elementos del patrimonio cultural inmaterial para su inscripción en la Lista de Salvaguardia Urgente y la Lista Representativa que tendrá lugar en América Latina. Representa un complemento a la formación que estos mismos participantes ya han recibido sobre la aplicación de la Convención a nivel nacional y la confección de inventarios con la participación de las comunidades.

Estas jornadas forman parte del proyecto regional, financiado gracias a la generosa contribución de España al Fondo del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial, de fortalecimiento de capacidades para la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial en América Central que se está llevando a cabo a lo largo de 2013. Como tal, la actividad cuenta con el apoyo de la Coordinación Educativa y Cultural Centroamericana (CECC/SICA) y del Instituto Nicargüense de Cultura.

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• Lista de participantes: español
• Programa: español

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From 24 to 26 July, UNESCO and the Regional Centre for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in South-Eastern Europe will organize a global meeting of category 2 centres active in the field of intangible cultural heritage at Sozopol, a beautiful town situated at Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast.

The meeting will be an excellent opportunity for the participants to take stock of the recent developments in the life of the Convention and the larger trends underway at UNESCO concerning category 2 centres. It will also facilitate joint efforts for the integration of the Organization’s medium-term strategy (37 C/4) and programme and budget for the coming quadrennium (37 C/5) into the medium-term and short-term planning of the respective centres, enabling them to continue to contribute effectively to UNESCO’s work.

Documents

• Agenda: inglés
• First annual meeting of category 2 centres active in the field of intangible cultural heritage: Report of the UNESCO Section for Intangible Cultural Heritage: inglés
• Participant List: inglés

Reference documents

• Approaches to governance - PowerPoint presentation by Frank Proschan: inglés
• Context of our cooperation - PowerPoint presentation by Cecile Duvelle: inglés
• Culture sector strategy for category 2 centres: inglés
• El método de programación, gestión y supervision basadas en los resultados (GBR) y su aplicación en la UNESCO: Principios rectores
  BSP/RBM/2008/1.REV.5: inglés
• Excerpt from the draft 37 C/5 revised as of 22 July 2013: inglés
• Guidelines for the formulation of 36 C/5 (2012‐2013 biennium) regular programme work plans (Activity/Office 5)
  BSP/RBM/2012/2 REV.8: inglés
• Improving UNESCO’s Category 2 Centre network: inglés|francés
• Presentation of the Sofia centre - PowerPoint presentation by Mila Santova: inglés
• Proyecto de Estrategia a Plazo Medio, 2014-2021
  37 C/4: inglés
• RBM Monitoring and Reporting guidelines
  BSP/RBM/2012/4 REV.1: inglés
• Results-Based Management (RBM) approach Presentation for Intangible Cultural Heritage Category 2 Institutes - PowerPoint presentation by Othilie du Souich: inglés
• Results-Based Management (RBM) approach Presentation for Intangible Cultural Heritage Category 2 Institutes - PowerPoint presentation by Othilie du Souich (smaller PDF version): inglés
• Review of the Management Framework for UNESCO Category 2 Institutes/Centres
  IOS/AUD/EVS/2011/14 Rev.: inglés

Executive Board/General Conference documents

• Aplicación de los principios y directrices relativos a los institutos y centros de categoría 2 aprobados en la Resolución 33 C/90
  35 C/Resolution 103: inglés
• Aplicación de los principios y directrices relativos a los institutos y centros de categoría 2 aprobados en la Resolución 33 C/90
  35 C/22 + CORR.: inglés
• Category 2 institutes and centres
  191 EX/14.INF (+ Corr. only in Fre): inglés
• Category 2 institutes and centres: guidance note on the renewal assessment procedures of category 2 institutes/centres
  190 EX/INF.16: inglés
• Follow-up to the independent external evaluation of UNESCO, Policy framework for strategic partnerships: a comprehensive partnership strategy; Separate strategies for engagement with individual categories and partners
  191 EX/16.INF.3: inglés
• Informe sobre el gasto total que representan los institutos y centros de categoria 2
  191 EX/14 Part I: inglés
• Institutos y centros de categoría 2
  190 EX/18 PART I: inglés
• Institutos y centros de categoría 2
  190 EX/Decision 18 Part I: inglés

For further information:

• Category 2 centres under the auspices of UNESCO

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A national workshop on the implementation of the Convention for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage is taking place from 16 to 20 July 2013 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The workshop, organized by UNESCO Dhaka Office in collaboration with the Department of Archaeology of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs of Bangladesh, aims at providing a broad overview of the Convention and its Operational Directives, the obligations of the State Party and possible ways to safeguard and inventory the intangible cultural heritage with the full participation of the communities concerned.

More than twenty representatives from government and non-governmental organizations, communities, institutions and individual experts will try to analyse the challenges facing the safeguarding intangible heritage in Bangladesh, and should be equipped with new tools and knowledge to ensure a better dissemination and promotion of such heritage.

The workshop will be conducted by Harriet Deacon and Amareswar Galla, two UNESCO trained experts in the field of intangible cultural heritage.

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Portadores de patrimonio cultural inmaterial, funcionarios gubernamentales y miembros de organizaciones no gubernamentales se movilizan alrededor de un taller nacional sobre inventarios del patrimonio cultural inmaterial que se celebrará en Puerto España, Trinidad y Tobago, del 22 junio al 1 julio de 2013.

Organizado por la Comisión Nacional de Trinidad y Tobago para la UNESCO, el Ministerio de Artes y Multiculturalismo de Trinidad y Tobago y la Oficina de la UNESCO en Kingston, este taller representa un paso significativo en la salvaguardia del patrimonio vivo de Trinidad y Tobago. Se centrará en la participación de las comunidades en la identificación y el inventario del patrimonio cultural inmaterial, la organización y gestión de la información y la experiencia práctica en la preparación del trabajo de campo. La práctica de campo se verá reforzada por un inventario piloto en los próximos meses.

Financiado por el Gobierno de Japón, el taller forma parte de un proyecto sub-regional que se está llevando a cabo en Belice, Jamaica y Trinidad y Tobago en el contexto de la estrategia global de la UNESCO de fortalecimiento de capacidades para la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial. La dirección correrá a cargo de los expertos Rieks Smeets y Harriet Deacon.

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Unos treinta participantes procedentes de instituciones gubernamentales así como organizaciones de la sociedad civil y representantes de comunidades se reúnen en El Salvador del 17 al 25 de junio para asistir al primer taller sobre confección de inventarios del patrimonio cultural inmaterial. Tras una primera sesión teórica en San Salvador cuya finalidad es dotar a los participantes con conocimientos y competencias esenciales que les permitan planear y facilitar esta labor, el equipo se trasladará al municipio de Conchagua, en el departamento de la costa pacífica de La Unión, a unos 200 km de la capital.

En Conchagua se llevará a cabo una práctica sobre el terreno que permitirá a los participantes adquirir una experiencia de primera mano en la confección de inventarios, así como poner en práctica algunos de los conocimientos adquiridos durante la sesión teórica en ámbitos como el establecimiento de relaciones de comunicación con la comunidad, la obtención de su consentimiento libre, previo e informado, la aplicación práctica de un método determinado, la elaboración de preguntas o la generación de información para el marco de confección de inventarios, o el sometimiento a prueba del marco elaborado.

Animadas por los facilitadores formados por la UNESCO, María Ismenia Toledo de Venezuela y Enrique López de México, estas jornadas forman parte del proyecto regional financiado gracias a la generosa contribución de España al Fondo del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de fortalecimiento de capacidades para la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial en América central que se está llevando a cabo a lo largo de 2013. Como tal, esta actividad no sólo cuenta con el apoyo de la Coordinación Educativa y Cultural Centroamericana (CECC/SICA) y de la Secretaría de Cultura del Salvador sino que también acoge a los puntos focales del proyecto en Honduras y Nicaragua.

Documentos

• Lista de participantes: español
• Programa: español

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Chengdu International Conference on Intangible Cultural Heritage in Celebration of the Tenth Anniversary of UNESCO’s Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage

Chengdu, China, 14 to 16 June 2013

Practical information
The Conference will be held at the Shangri-La Hotel in Chengdu. It will take place in conjunction with the Fourth International Festival of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Chengdu. Languages of the Conference will be English, French and Chinese.

Ten years have passed since the adoption of the 2003 Convention, including seven years of actual implementation at the international level. This high-level conference will look back on that decade in order to reflect on the Convention’s function, role and value while also looking forward to its future. The aim is to reflect profoundly on the life of the 2003 Convention so far, providing a strategic opportunity to discuss the intentions of its framers, to identify its achievements thus far and to define priorities for the future.

Scientific and legal experts and States Parties officials who took part actively in the preparation of the 2003 Convention will participate in a series of plenary round-table panels seeking to look backward and forward at the same time, focussing particularly on the challenges facing the Convention today:

• Achievements of the Convention: changing the discourse of ICH and implanting new concepts
• Inventorying and listing
• Parallel universes: intellectual property, world heritage and cultural goods and services
• Safeguarding experiences in the States Parties
• Open questions and future directions

Working Documents

• Programme
  ITH/13/EXP/1 Rev.: inglés|francés|chino en preparación
• Concept note: the Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention: its first decade
  ITH/13/EXP/2: inglés|francés|chino
• Round-table 1: Achievements of the Convention: changing the discourse of intangible cultural heritage and implanting new concepts
  ITH/13/EXP/3: inglés|francés|chino
• Round-table 2: Inventorying and listing
  ITH/13/EXP/4: inglés|francés|chino
• Round-table 3: Parallel universes: intellectual property, world heritage and cultural goods and services
  ITH/13/EXP/5 Rev.: inglés|francés|chino
• Round-table 4: Safeguarding experiences in the States Parties
  ITH/13/EXP/6: inglés|francés|chino
• Round-table 5: Open questions and future directions
  ITH/13/EXP/7: inglés|francés|chino
• Chengdu recommendations
  ITH/13/EXP/8: inglés|francés|chino

Information Documents

• List of documents
  ITH/13/EXP/INF.1.1: inglés|francés|chino en preparación
• Practical information
  ITH/13/EXP/INF.1.2: inglés|chino
• List of participants
  ITH/13/EXP/INF.1.3: inglés en preparación|francés en preparación|chino en preparación

Do you want to learn more about the history of the 2003 Convention?

Please see the following meetings between 1973 and 2003 that led up to the Convention:

• History and precursors 1973-2000
• Drafting the text of the Convention 2001-2003

The Conference will be held under the patronage of the Chinese Ministry of Culture, Sichuan Provincial People’s Government, Chinese National Commission for UNESCO and UNESCO, and will be organized by the Chengdu Municipal People’s Government, China National Centre for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sichuan Provincial Department of Culture, International Training Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (CRIHAP) and UNESCO Section for Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Contacts

• Beate Strøm
  Section for Intangible Cultural Heritage, UNESCO
  7, place du Fontenoy
  75352 Paris 07, France
  Tel: +33 (0)1 45 68 47 39
  e-mail: b.strom@unesco.org

• Yuan Jie
  International Training Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region under the Auspices of UNESCO (CRIHAP)
  Jia 1 Huixin Beili, 100029 Chaoyang District, Beijing, P.R. China
  Tel: +86-10-6496-6526 ; fax: +86-10-6496-9281
  e-mail: benyuanjie@126.com

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Lao’s national capacities to safeguard its intangible heritage are increasing, thanks to an eight-day workshop organized from 11 to 18 June 2013 within the UNESCO capacity building strategy for the effective safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage. Made possible by a generous contribution from the Republic of Korea, the workshop is part of a project that specifically aims at enhancing the national capacity of Lao PDR, both in government institutions and in civil society to safeguard its intangible cultural heritage through the effective implementation of the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage on a long-term basis. The workshop will be facilitated by UNESCO trained experts Shubha Chaudhuri and Paritta Koanantakool.

The Heritage Department of the Lao Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism, in coordination with the UNESCO Office in Bangkok, has been very active in the organization of the forthcoming workshop in order to maximize the participation of local community members and practitioners. To accomplish this, some key village officials and practitioners will participate in the workshop that will be held in Thalat, Vientiane Province near the Pakkayong Village where also two days of field documentation and inventorying will be conducted.

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The Ministry initiated a practical field survey and inventorying of ICH elements in the Pahari communities in the villages of Khaopsi (Kavre District), Badikhel (Lalitpur District) and Thokarpa (Sindhupalanchowk District). The UNESCO template developed during the community-based inventorying workshop in Jiri, Dolkha District (January 2013) was used in the inventorying of the following ICH practices in the Pahari communities:
• Traditional carpentry and woodworking
• Maruni/Khyali Naach (dance by men in costume with ornamentation of women)
• Hasa thayagu (traditional bamboo weaving)
• Dhami-jhakri (shamanistic practices covering religious and social aspects of the Paharis)

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A new step in a series of training activities for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage will take place in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan from 28 to 31 May 2013. A workshop will bring together participants from governmental, academic and educational institutions as well as communities to improve their knowledge and skills for developing nominations to the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding and the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. They will also learn how to apply for international assistance and how to elaborate proposals for the Register of Best Safeguarding Practices.

Made possible by a generous contribution from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund, the workshop is part of a two-year collaboration between UNESCO and Kyrgyzstan aimed at equipping public institutions and civil society with a solid foundation for safeguarding the intangible cultural heritage within the country. The workshop is organized by the UNESCO Office in Almaty and the National Commission for UNESCO of the Kyrgyz Republic.
Participants will also discuss current safeguarding measures in all administrative areas of the Republic and will agree on future activities.

The workshop will be facilitated by Mr Ilya Fetisov from Ukraine and Ms Sabira Soltongeldieva from Kyrgyzstan.

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The seventh annual regional meeting of experts on Intangible Cultural Heritage in South East Europe will take place in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 27-28 May 2013. The event, organized by the Sofia Regional Center on Intangible cultural heritage in South-East Europe, with the support of the UNESCO Regional Office for Culture and Science in Europe (Venice, Italy).

The regional encounter is a follow-up to the previous meetings (Arbanassi, Bulgaria, June 2007; Safranbolu, Turkey, May 2008; Zagreb, Croatia, April 2009, Râmnicu-Vâlcea, Romania, May 2010; Belgrade, Serbia, May 2011; Athens, Greece, May 2012) which have been organized to enhance a common understanding of opportunities and challenges linked to the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage in the region, such as: national inventory policies, the process of revitalization, the management of sustainable cultural tourism, the role and involvement of the local communities, the transnational dimension of intangible cultural heritage, as well as training and capacity-building.

The annual meetings serve as a regional platform for sharing knowledge and good practices, and stimulating a collective reflection on the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage as a key asset of South-East European cultural diversity.

The meeting in Sofia will focus its debates on three topics: the status of implementation of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in the respective countries of the region; cases and best practices in promoting intangible cultural heritage as a driver for local sustainable development (tourism, private/public partnerships); and proposals for common action in the areas of training and capacity-building. The meeting will also allow experts to discuss, more specifically, the various ways of integrating intangible heritage in tourism and development policies, while fostering the responsible and ethical use of these living assets and forms of expressions.

Documents

• Draft agenda: inglés
• List of participants: inglés

For more information, click here.

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Un taller de capacitación sobre la aplicación de la Convención de 2003 a nivel nacional se organiza en Cap Haitien (Haití) del 13 al 17 de mayo. Estas sesiones se llevan a cabo en el marco de un programa regional de fortalecimiento de capacidades en el Caribe financiado por el Fondo del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial, gracias a las generosa contribución de Noruega, y cuenta con el apoyo del Ministerio de Cultura, la Comisión Nacional Haitiana de Cooperación con la UNESCO y la Oficina Nacional de Etnología.

Durante cinco días, unos veinte participantes del Departamento Norte de Haití recibirán una formación intensiva sobre los objetivos, los conceptos clave y los mecanismos internacionales de la Convención de 2003, así como sobre las obligaciones nacionales de los Estados Partes. Dirigido por dos miembros de la red de expertos formados por la UNESCO, la Sra. Soledad Mujica (Perú) y la Sra. Claudine Augée Angoué (Gabón), el taller también tiene como objetivo estimular una mayor coordinación de los diferentes actores que trabajan en este campo, tanto a nivel institucional como de la sociedad civil, resaltando el papel de la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial como un medio a través del cual el desarrollo puede encontrar caminos apropiados y sostenibles.

Documentos

• Lista de participantes: francés
• Orden del día: francés

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Un taller de capacitación sobre la aplicación de la Convención de 2003 a nivel nacional se está llevando a cabo en Les Cayes, Haití, del 6 al 10 de mayo. Se trata de la primera actividad del proyecto regional de fortalecimiento de capacidades en el Caribe, que cuenta con el apoyo del Fondo del patrimonio cultural inmaterial gracias a la generosa contribución voluntaria de Noruega, que beneficiará específicamente a Haití.

Durante cuatro días, unos veinte participantes del Departamento Sur de Haití recibirán una formación intensiva sobre los objetivos, los conceptos clave y los mecanismos internacionales de la Convención de 2003, así como sobre las obligaciones nacionales de los Estados Partes. Dirigido por dos miembros de la red de expertos formados por la UNESCO, la Sra. Soledad Mujica (Perú) y la Sra. Claudine Augée Angoué (Gabón), el taller también tiene como objetivo estimular una mayor coordinación de los diferentes actores que trabajan en este campo, tanto a nivel institucional como de la sociedad civil, resaltando el papel de la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial como un medio a través del cual el desarrollo puede encontrar caminos apropiados y sostenibles.

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• Lista de participantes: francés
• Orden del día: francés

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Results achieved in the field of ICH safeguarding in Southern Africa since 2009, revolve primarily around to specific extrabudgetary programmes financed by Flanders, notably:

• A series of pilot projects in community-based intangible heritage inventorying on a grassroots-level in six selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia and Uganda), completed in 2011; and
• Strengthening national capacities for implementing the Convention for the Safeguarding of ICH in 4 selected Southern African countries (Botswana, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe) completed in 2012.

Based on the results achieved through these projects as well as the specific ICH component of MDGF Culture and Development Programme implemented in Namibia, the Southern African ICH experts experimented with the development of the specific national ICH “trainers” expertise in a workshop held in Waterberg, Namibia from 8 to 19 April 2013 .

As an immediate follow up, the Southern African ICH experts in cooperation with the UNESCO offices in Harare and Windhoek, agreed on conducting a consultation meeting in Harare, Zimbabwe from 30 April to 2 May. The objective of this meeting is twofold:
1. Develop a sub-regional ICH strategy for Southern Africa;
2. Discuss the concept of national capacity development based on the model of the April workshop held in Namibia and seek the possibility of its replication in all Southern African States Parties to the Convention.

Documents

• Lista de participantes: inglés

For detailed information on this activity, please click here.

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This Second Community-based Inventorying of Intangible Cultural Heritage Workshop is organized within the framework of the project entitled ‘Strengthening capacity building for the promotion and implementation of intangible cultural heritage in Timor-Leste’. This project is part of the regional capacity building efforts in the Asia-Pacific Region and is funded by the Japan Funds-in-Trust for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.

The workshop is intended to equip community members and key stakeholders from Timor-Leste with the basic knowledge and skills to design, facilitate and implement a community-based inventorying process tailored to their particular circumstances.

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This meeting was financed by the Netherlands’ Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, via the Museo Arubano. The purpose of that meeting was to bring together all the territories of the Kingdom to assess the needs and possibilities to jointly implement the Convention.

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Un taller de capacitación sobre la aplicación de la Convención de 2003 a nivel nacional se está llevando a cabo en Guatemala del 15 al 17 de abril. Se trata de la primera actividad del proyecto regional de fortalecimiento de capacidades en América Central, que cuenta con el apoyo del Fondo del patrimonio cultural inmaterial gracias a la generosa contribución voluntaria de España, que beneficiará específicamente a Guatemala.

Durante tres días, representantes del Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte y gestores culturales de diferentes ámbitos recibirán una formación intensiva sobre los objetivos, los conceptos clave y los mecanismos internacionales de la Convención de 2003 así como sobre las obligaciones nacionales de los Estados Partes. Dirigidas por dos miembros de la red de expertos formados por la UNESCO, la Sra. Soledad Mujica (Perú) y la Sra. Eva Martínez (Honduras), estas sesiones brindarán una visión exhaustiva de este instrumento normativo internacional y de las directrices operativas para su aplicación que tratará de servir como marco para reflexionar sobre una estrategia nacional de salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial que integre los puntos de vista y las aspiraciones de los diferentes actores guatemaltecos involucrados en este campo.

Documentos

• Lista de participantes: español
• Orden del día: español

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Three years after ratifying the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, Tajikistan is moving forward to strengthen its capacities for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage. Implemented within UNESCO’s global capacity-building strategy, a two-year project was launched in 2012 thanks to the generous support of Norway. The aim is to build a critical mass of experience and knowledge, both in government institutions and in civil society, so that Tajikistan will be equipped with an appropriate sustainable framework for safeguarding intangible heritage and implementing the Convention on a long-term basis.

The project entails a long-term, multi-faceted approach including the revision of policies and legislation, the strengthening of institutional infrastructures, the development of inventory frameworks and methods that fully involve the communities concerned, and the reinforcement of technical skills required to safeguard intangible cultural heritage. Its first stage focused on the implementation of the 2003 Convention at the national level, and a five-day workshop held in August 2012 focused on core concepts of the Convention, while providing the participants with a thorough understanding of the obligations of all stakeholders at the national level.

The international mechanisms of the Convention are at the core of the current stage of the project. Governmental, academic and educational institutions, representatives from craft and traditional music communities, and members of civil society have met in a workshop organised by UNESCO Almaty and the Tajik National Commission for UNESCO from 10 to 13 April 2013 in Dushanbe to acquire the knowledge required to elaborate nominations for inscription on the Lists of the Convention, proposals for Best Safeguarding Practices and requests for International Assistance. The workshop was facilitated by Ms Sabira Soltongeldieva and Mr Ilya Fetisov.

Documents

• Agenda: inglés
• List of participants: inglés

For more information, please consult the webpage of UNESCO Almaty.

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A seminar entitled ‘UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention’ was organized by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport of Brunei Darussalam and UNESCO on 10 April, 2013. The Forum brought together representatives from the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Law, along with district officials, local representatives, academics from the University of Brunei Darussalam, local NGOs, and experts and policy makers in the field of culture, in order to discuss the ways for the safeguarding and promoting of the country’s Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). The forum also provided further information on UNESCO’s implementation strategy for the ICH Convention and efforts to strengthen internal networks amongst different levels of stakeholders.

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The implementation of the capacity building strategy for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage in Namibia is moving to its second phase. After a series of successful community-based ICH inventorying exercises carried out within the broader framework of the MDGF Culture and Development programme, the UNESCO Office in Windhoek and the Ministry of Youth, National Service, Sports and Culture (MYNSSC) trained a group of 20 local trainers to ensure sustainability of the ICH inventorying and safeguarding efforts. A national Training of Trainers workshop was held from 8 to 19 April 2013 at Waterberg, Namibia.

20 participants, selected from different parts of the country, focused on specific aspects of ICH identification, inventorying and community interactions. In addition, a component on participatory training methods has been a part of the workshop programme, facilitated by two Southern African intangible cultural heritage training experts, Mr Stephen Chifunyise of Zimbabwe and Mr Lovemore Mazibuko of Malawi.

The experience of this pilot workshop in Namibia and its possible replication within the region will be discussed during the upcoming workshop “Southern African Regional ICH strategy, focus on the national Training of Trainers processes” to be organised by UNESCO Windhoek Office in Harare, Zimbabwe from 30 April to 2 May 2013.

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A Workshop on Community-based Inventorying of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) was held in Phuntsholing, a border town in southern Bhutan, from 2 to 9 April 2013. Funded the Japanese Funds-in-Trust, this Workshop focused on; i) community involvement in inventorying cultural resources, ii) importance of cultural protocol in community-based inventorying, iii) a hands-on experience in preparing field work.

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Following the previous theoretical trainings, a pilot inventorying experience was launched in April 2013 and concluded in November 2013 in the city of Buenos Aires. This field work was aimed at providing first-hand experience in drawing up inventories to a team made of tango bearers, government officials and members of relevant non-governmental organizations.
Guided by the main project facilitator, Ms Mónica Lacarrieu (Argentina), the inventory team chose, among the different musical, poetic and human elements of the practice of tango, to focus on milongas, the popular evenings where men and women gather in local clubs to dance the tango and the music that carries that same name. According to the inventory team, beyond the worldwide known dance itself, some elements related to tango are exposed to threats and need to be safeguarded. The milongas of Buenos Aires were identified as part of these ‘less healthy’ elements of tango and selected for the pilot inventory exercise. The following milongas were selected according to criteria of age, close ties with their neighbourhoods, liveliness of the gatherings and transmission of the knowledge associated with tango and consent from the milongueros:
• Sunderland (Villa Urquiza, Buenos Aires)
• Sin Rumbo (Villa Urquiza, Buenos Aires)
• Lo de Celia (Constitución-San Cristóbal, Buenos Aires)
• Huracán (Parque Patricios, Buenos Aires)
• La Tierrita (Parque Avellaneda, Buenos Aires)

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Un taller intensivo de cinco días de capacitación sobre la aplicación de la Convención de 2003 a nivel nacional se está llevando a cabo en Tegucigalpa, Honduras del 18 al 22 de marzo. Con esta reunión se inaugura el proyecto regional de fortalecimiento de capacidades en este ámbito que las oficinas de la UNESCO en San José y Guatemala llevarán a cabo en América Central, gracias a la generosa contribución de España al Fondo del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial.

Esta primera actividad, que cuenta con el apoyo de la Coordinación Educativa y Cultural Centroamericana (CECC/SICA), reunirá a los principales actores hondureños involucrados en la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial, y en particular la Secretaría de Cultura, Artes y Deportes, así como representantes del Instituto Nicaragüense de Cultura y la Secretaría de Cultura de la Presidencia salvadoreña. Dirigidas por dos miembros de la red de expertos formados por la UNESCO, el Sr. Enrique Pérez López (México) y la Sra. María Ismenia Toledo (Venezuela), estas sesiones están pensadas para proporcionar a los puntos focales del proyecto en cada uno de los países beneficiarios una visión general de los objetivos, los conceptos clave y los mecanismos internacionales de la Convención de 2003 así como de las obligaciones nacionales de los Estados Partes.

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• Lista de participantes: español
• Orden del día: español

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Más de 25 especialistas de instituciones gubernamentales y no gubernamentales, de universidades y representantes de las comunidades de diferentes regiones de República Dominicana participarán en el primer taller sobre la aplicación de la Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de 2003 que tendrá lugar en Santo Domingo del 11 al 15 de marzo.

Animado por los facilitadores formados por la UNESCO, Adriana Molano de Colombia y Edis Sánchez de República dominicana, el taller quiere ofrecer una visión general de los objetivos y de los conceptos fundamentales de la salvaguardia según la Convención de 2003 así como de las obligaciones nacionales de los Estados partes y de los mecanismos de cooperación internacional. Su objetivo es crear una masa crítica de actores tanto gubernamentales como de la sociedad civil para sentar las primeras bases de un marco sostenible adecuado para la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial a largo plazo.

Con esta actividad, la Oficina Regional de Cultura para América Latina y el Caribe de la UNESCO, con la colaboración de la Comisión Nacional Dominicana para la UNESCO, lanzan en República dominicana el proyecto regional para el fortalecimiento de capacidades para la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial en el Caribe que se llevará a cabo a lo largo de 2013, con la financiación del Fondo del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial gracias a la generosa contribución de Noruega.

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• Lista de participantes: español
• Orden del día: español

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SUBREGIONAL PROGRAM FOR THE SAFEGUARDING OF THE INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE
LIVESTRONG PROJECT
Workshop I: Implementation of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage 2003 of Unesco at the national level
March 7 and 8, 2013
Place: Archivo Nacional- Mariscal Estigarribia e / Iturbe.
Asuncion, Paraguay

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Tras el taller sobre la confección de inventarios del patrimonio cultural inmaterial, llevado a cabo el pasado mes de noviembre en la provincia de Matanzas, una misión preparatoria se organizó del 31 de enero al 3 de febrero con el fin de obtener el consentimiento de la comunidad de Majagua, en el centro de Cuba, para realizar un inventario.

La manifestación seleccionada por la comunidad para realizar este primer ejercicio de campo fue la Fiesta campesina de los Bandos Rojo y Azul de Majagua, conocida en toda las isla como una institución social duradera que atrae residentes de varias generaciones a un bando u otro en torno a amistosas competiciones y rivalidades. El ejercicio se llevará a cabo del 28 de febrero al 5 de marzo bajo la supervisión de los facilitadores formados por la UNESCO, María Ismenia Toledo de Venezuela y Enrique López de México. Esta actividad cuenta no sólo con el apoyo de la comunidad de Majagua sino también con el de las autoridades provinciales del ámbito del patrimonio cultural y las Casas de Cultura de Ciego de Ávila. El equipo a cargo del ejercicio está integrado por cinco miembros de la comunidad, expertos procedentes de las provincias de Guantánamo, Camaguey, Matanzas y Ciego de Ávila y dos representantes de la Comisión Nacional para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial. Se trata de la primera actividad de campo que forma parte de un proyecto de capacitación de la UNESCO, llevado a cabo gracias al generoso apoyo de Noruega a través del Fondo del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial.

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Del 25 de febrero al 1 de marzo de 2013, representantes gubernamentales y de la sociedad civil de Argentina, Paraguay y Uruguay continúan el programa de capacitación que se puso en marcha en octubre del 2012 con el generoso apoyo del Fondo fiduciario UNESCO/Japón. Esta vez, se trata de una formación intensiva sobre la confección de inventarios de patrimonio cultural inmaterial. De nuevo, Mónica Lacarrieu y Francisco López Morales estarán a cargo de la formación que hará hincapié en el papel fundamental que la Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de 2003 concede a la comunidades en la identificación y definición de su patrimonio.

Estas jornadas tienen por objetivo dotar a los participantes de los conocimientos y las técnicas fundamentales que permiten diseñar y facilitar un proceso de confección de inventarios con la participación de las comunidades y adaptado a sus circunstancias particulares. Sentarán las bases para el ejercicio de campo que durante cinco meses llevará a cabo la comunidad tanguera de Buenos Aires.

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• Lista de participantes: español
• Programa: español

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Organized by UNESCO Almaty in close co-operation with the National Commission for UNESCO and ISESCO and the National Federation of UNESCO Clubs, the workshop was held from 18 to 21 February 2013 in Almaty.
It targeted primarily Kazakh participants, mainly from the National Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, the Agency for Tourism and Sport, leading universities and museums in the country, as well as NGOs in the field of crafts, traditional music and dance. In order to strengthen sub-regional cooperation, three participants from the neighbouring Central Asian countries (one from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) attended the workshop. The majority of the 21 participants were experts (only two practitioners) between 40 and 60 years of age and almost half of them were women. Six participants participated in a workshop on implementation of the Convention, five of them within the current project (April 2012, Astana).
The workshop provided an opportunity to improve participants’ knowledge on international mechanisms of the Convention. The presence of experts on intangible cultural heritage from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan offered an excellent opportunity to exchange experiences in safeguarding and allowed participants to discuss prospects for possible nominations of elements shared by communities in Central Asian countries.
The most heated debates were raised around the question of if it was appropriate to consider professional performers of traditional music and dance as bearers of intangible cultural heritage. Discussions also involved the administration of intellectual property rights for traditional knowledge and cultural expressions.

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Cambodia is reinforcing a community-based focus in its existing and new efforts to document and inventory living heritage. For this purpose and with generous funding from Japan, over 35 participants came together in Siem Reap from 14 to 21 February this year to build their knowledge and develop this new approach.
UNESCO provided the substantive support through two members of its certified facilitators’ network, Mr Rahul Goswami from India and Ms Suzanne Ogge from Australia. The programme included 8 days of intensive course work and field-based practicum carried out in the rural areas of Siem Reap and the town itself. Fieldwork included a visit to the School of Fine Arts and two local communities, with forms of ICH documented including traditional weaving processes, martial arts skills and techniques, and performing arts. Participants learned, through hands-on training, field-based techniques of interviewing and audio-visual recording. A visit was also conducted to the Eco-Global Museum (supported by UNESCO) located in the Preah Vihear Province, to learn about a concrete inventory project underway which combines audio-visual documentation of living heritage among a local indigenous community with the documentation of associated cultural objects.
So far, Cambodia’s Living Human Treasures programme has included documentation efforts, though its methods have not as yet been extended to community-based approaches recommended by the 2003 Convention. The capacity-building workshop on inventorying with a strong community focus thus provided participants - most of whom are provincial directors – with further skills and knowledge for their field practices. In addition, the training placed much emphasis on developing mutually supportive networks among cultural professionals and communities to support national efforts to document and inventory living heritage.
The participants included those who had attended the first capacity-building workshop on implementation held in 2012 August in Phnom Penh, and new participants. Among them were representatives of civil society organizations. While several mentioned the need for long-term and reliable financial support and stability for safeguarding, all participants confirmed that the training was extremely useful and they would integrate the new approach in their current work and future programmes.

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¿Cómo pueden los Estados árabes poner en práctica de manera efectiva los principios de la Convención de 2003 a nivel nacional? ¿Qué se puede hacer para promover la cooperación regional en el mundo árabe y para el fortalecimiento de las capacidades en los grupos de interés concernientes? ¿Cuáles son las mejores formas de aumentar la conciencia de las personas y asegurar la participación de las comunidades interesadas en el proceso de salvaguardia?

Estos son algunos de los temas que serán debatidos por los representantes de los ministerios de cultura de todos los países de la región árabe en la reunión sobre ‘Los retos de la creación de capacidades en el ámbito del patrimonio cultural inmaterial “que tendrá lugar en Doha del 14 al 17 enero de 2013.
Con el generoso apoyo financiero de Qatar y co-organizado por el Ministerio de Cultura, Artes y Patrimonio de Qatar, la ALECSO y la UNESCO, esta reunión será la ocasión para planificar una estrecha cooperación dentro de la región para una salvaguardia eficaz del patrimonio cultural inmaterial.

La reunión será co-facilitado por un grupo de expertos de la Región, todos los miembros de una red de 77 expertos capacitados para utilizar los programas de la UNESCO específicamente diseñado para crear capacidades en la aplicación de la Convención.

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As the “Mediterranean Living Heritage” (MedLiHer) project, co-funded by the European Union (EU) and UNESCO, is going to be fully implemented by the end of December 2012, the final project evaluation meeting will be organized in Paris on 17 and 18 December 2012 at the “Maison des Cultures du Monde”, which has been a partner since the beginning of this project.

This meeting will be the occasion to review the project in light of its goals in order to draw conclusions from the lessons learnt and explore possible ways to build on project outcomes in the future. The discussions will be based on a final evaluation report. The programme furthermore foresees:

• a public round table on intangible cultural heritage in the region,
• a presentation of examples of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) from the region,
• the projection of the film developed by the MedLiHer project together with the digital photo exhibition.

At the end of the meeting, a second screening of the film and the digital photo exhibition will be organized at UNESCO Headquarters in the evening of 18 December with the participation of UNESCO Delegations.

For further information click here

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Un taller sobre la preparación de candidaturas se realizará del 10 al 14 diciembre 2012 en Bagamoyo, en República Unida de Tanzania. La Oficina de la UNESCO de Dar es Salaam está a cargo de la organización, en conjunto con el Ministerio de Información, Juventud, Cultura y Deportes de Tanzania.

25 participantes asistirán al taller, elegidos dentro de las personas presentes en el taller sobre el inventario con la participación de las comunidades, en febrero de 2012. Al finalizar el taller, los participantes deberían ser capaces de identificar y desarrollar un ejemplo de expediente de nominación, incluyendo una estrategia de participación comunitaria y un plan de salvaguardia para el elemento identificado.

El taller será dirigido por Jules Mwahunga y Anami Silverse, expertos culturales y facilitadores aprobados por la UNESCO. Sr. Anami también es miembro del Comité Intergubernamental para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial.

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Jamaica acogerá un taller nacional sobre la aplicación de la Convención de 2003 para la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial del 10 al 14 de diciembre de 2012. Organizado por el Instituto Africano Caribeño de Jamaica, el Ministerio de la Juventud y de la Cultura de Jamaica, la Comisión Nacional para la UNESCO y la Oficina multinacional de la UNESCO en Kingston para el Caribe, el taller reunirá a representantes gubernamentales, organizaciones no gubernamentales y partes interesadas de la comunidad para participar en un taller sobre la aplicación de la Convención de 2003 para la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial. La inauguración oficial tendrá lugar el 10 de diciembre de 2012 a la Courtleigh Hotel and Suites en Kingston, con la presencia de Yasuo Takase, embajador de Japón en Jamaica, Belice y las Bahamas, así como representantes de organizaciones gubernamentales y no-gobierno, del mundo académico, del cuerpo diplomático y de organismos de las Naciones Unidas en Jamaica.

Este taller es parte de un proyecto sub-regional implementado en Belice, Jamaica y Trinidad y Tobago como parte de la estrategia global de la UNESCO para fortalecer las capacidades en el campo del patrimonio cultural inmaterial. Financiado por el gobierno de Japón, el proyecto incluye una evaluación del patrimonio cultural inmaterial vinculado al proceso de elaboración de políticas en los países beneficiarios y a la identificación de sus necesidades específicas para la protección de su patrimonio vivo. Como parte de la copia de seguridad de la creación de capacidades, los países también deben desarrollar e implementar un marco para el inventario de la CE del patrimonio cultural inmaterial en su territorio, que incluirá inventarios pilotos.

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¿Que se ha logrado en la ratificación, aplicación, y los procesos de fortalecimiento de capacidades relacionadas con el patrimonio cultural inmaterial en su país?

Esa es la pregunta que se someterá a un público de Directores culturales durante un taller organizado en Nairobi, Kenya, del 25 al 28 de noviembre de 2012. Burundi, Eritrea, Kenia, Ruanda, Somalia, Djibouti, Sudán del Sur y Uganda serán representados.

El objetivo del taller es lograr que los participantes comprendan más profundamente la Convención de la UNESCO de 2003 sobre la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial y su aplicación a nivel nacional, así como el papel y las tareas del Estado Parte en la aplicación de la Convención a nivel nacional nivel.

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• Agenda of workshop: inglés
• List of participants: inglés

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Después de la ratificación de la Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial en 2007 y la organización de un taller nacional sobre su aplicación en julio de 2012, Uzbekistán acogerá un taller sub-regional sobre el “Desarrollo de candidaturas para las listas del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de la UNESCO.” El taller, que se celebrará en Samarkand, del 21 al 24 de noviembre de 2012, es organizado por la Oficina de la UNESCO en Tashkent, en estrecha colaboración con el Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes de la República de Uzbekistán y con el apoyo de las autoridades de la provincia de Samarcanda.

Realizado en el marco de la estrategia global de la UNESCO en la creación de capacidades en el campo de la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial, el taller tiene como objetivo proporcionar un conocimiento profundo del proceso de solicitud y transmitir conocimientos sobre preparación de los expedientes de candidatura para la inscripción en la Lista del Patrimonio Cultural inmaterial.

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Are you a youth from the Caribbean between 20 to 25 years of age who want to play a more active role in the safeguarding of living heritage?

UNESCO, through its Intangible Cultural Heritage Section, invites nationals of Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cayman Islands, Curacao, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sint Maarten, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago, to submit applications to attend the Caribbean Youth Forum on Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage to be held in Grenada, 20-24 November 2012.

Thanks to the generous contribution of Bulgaria and the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund, the Caribbean Youth Forum on Intangible Cultural Heritage will be held in Grenada from the 20 to 24 November 2012. It intends to foster recognition of the significant role of young people in safeguarding intangible cultural heritage and respond to the need of strengthening their knowledge and capacities in this area. Organized in the context of UNESCO’s global strategy to strengthen national safeguarding capacities through the effective implementation of the 2003 Convention, it will bring together about 25 participants from youth groups/organizations in the sub-region active in the field of culture. The youth coming from about 16 different Caribbean Small Island and Developing States (SIDS) and Least Developed Countries (LDCs) will learn about the core concepts of the Convention and develop substantial understanding of its mechanisms and their role in the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage.

The Forum is structured around a number of sessions: introducing the participants, introducing the 2003 Convention, key concepts in the Convention, intangible cultural heritage (ICH) safeguarding and sustainable development, field trip preparation, field trip visit to ICH community 1 and 2, feedback and discussion on field trip visit, the role of youth in ICH safeguarding, team planning and reporting on an action plan for participants’ engagement in ICH safeguarding, conclusion and evaluation of the Forum. At the conclusion of the session on team planning and reporting, participants will draft a brief report on their experience during the Forum to be submitted to the 7th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.

With the exception of candidates from British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Curacao, Sint Maarten and Suriname who have until 14 September 2012 to submit their applications to their National Commission/counterparts, all other candidates must submit applications to the National Commission of their country by 22 August 2012. Their contact details can be found here.

• Application form: Caribbean Youth Forum inglés
• Information document inglés
  

For further information regarding the forum, kindly contact Ritamae Hyde (rm.hyde@unesco.org).

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Central Africa is organizing a forum form 19-23 November 2012 in Brazzaville, Congo to give a sense of responsibility to the young generation. It will bring together young people from Congo, from the Republic of Central Africa and from Chad.

Youth represent the majority of the population in Central Africa, so their role in the revival of culture practices and knowledge systems in the region is important. Intangible cultural heritage is crucial for sustainable development and it has a long-term impact on people’s well-being, their relationships with others and with their natural environment. It gives people a sense of belonging, happiness and perspective. For that reason, intangible heritage has to be safeguarded in the interest of the future generations. Collaboration with youth is therefore essential, notably in a context of restricted access to education, economic opportunities and increasing violence.

This is why UNESCO makes youth a priority within the framework of its global capacity-building strategy for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage through effective implementation of the 2003 Convention. Funded by the UNESCO Emergency Fund; the Youth Forum in Central Africa is organized and coordinated by the UNESCO office in Yaoundé in close partnership with the Intangible Cultural Heritage Section at UNESCO headquarters.

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Con el apoyo de la UNESCO y de Japón, Mongolia recibirá una formación sobre los conceptos y mecanismos de la Convención de 2003 del 19 al 23 de noviembre de 2012, lo que reforzará su capacidad para proteger su patrimonio vivo a nivel nacional e internacional.

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Following Benin’s recent ratification of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, the country is developing a national process for implementation. In support of this process, a training workshop is jointly organized by the Ministry of Culture, Literacy, Craft and Tourism and the School of African Heritage in Porto Novo from 19 to 23 November 2012. It will bring together 23 key actors from Benin, but also 2 students of the University of Abomey-Calavi as observers, to build their knowledge on the basic concepts, mechanisms and state obligations of implementing the Convention at national level. It will also address the specific implications for implementation in Benin.

The workshop is held within the larger framework of UNESCO global strategy to build capacity on safeguarding and will be a milestone in a long-term process of political revision, community-based inventories and participation in the Convention’s international mechanism for cooperation (lists and international assistance).

The workshop is supported by UNESCO’s Regular Programme and Budget. It will be co-facilitated by two staff from the School of African Heritage and Ms. Marie-Thérèse Agueh, a facilitator trained by UNESCO. The closing ceremony will be chaired by the Minister of Culture.

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Más de 25 participantes de 12 provincias de Cuba, incluyendo miembros de la comunidad rural, se reunieron durante 10 días en la provincia de Matanzas, en la costa norte de Cuba, para seguir una formación intensiva sobre confección de inventarios del patrimonio cultural inmaterial en el espíritu de la Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de 2003.

Animado por los facilitadores formados por la UNESCO, María Ismenia Toledo de Venezuela y Enrique López de México, el taller se centró en el papel de las comunidades en los inventario de patrimonio cultural inmaterial, el requisito de su consentimiento libre, previo e informado y su plena participación en la identificación y definición de las prácticas y expresiones que reconocen como parte de su patrimonio cultural. El taller también abordó las técnicas y métodos de entrevistas y grabación audiovisual sobre el terreno y terminó con una práctica de campo de dos días, incluyendo una sesión sobre la organización de los datos recogidos.

El ejercicio de inventario se llevó a cabo con la comunidad rural de Máximo Gómez de Perico, un municipio de la provincia de Matanzas, que se considera como el referente para el repentismo en Cuba y que dio su consentimiento libre, previo e informado para que se inventariasen sus hogares cucalambeanos. Se trata de casas de familia en la que sus miembros cultivan las tradiciones indígenas que identifican el criollismo de raíces hispánicas con el progreso típico de la época contemporánea. Guateques, décimas, controversias, canturías y serenatas se organizan regularmente en estos hogares.

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• Lista de participantes: español
• Orden del día: español

Con el apoyo del Consejo Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural (CNPC) y las casas de cultura locales, con esta actividad se lanzó en Cuba el proyecto regional para el fortalecimiento de capacidades para la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial en el Caribe que se llevará a cabo a lo largo de 2013, con la financiación del Fondo del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial gracias a la generosa contribución de Noruega.

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The first international review meeting on UNESCO’s global strategy on strengthening national capacities for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage will be convened from 7 to 10 November 2012 in Beijing, China. It is organized by the Intangible Cultural Heritage Section at UNESCO in partnership with the Training Center for the Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region under the Auspices of UNESCO (CRIHAP) and the generous support from the Government of China.

One year into the global strategy, 42 countries are implementing tailored two-year capacity-building projects and 76 training workshops have so far been held, delivered by facilitators from the network of 75 UNESCO certified experts from all regions. They were trained to use the workshop materials developed by UNESCO in four thematic areas: (i) ratification, (ii) implementation, (iii) community-based inventorying and (iv) nominations.

The review meeting will therefore bring together 17 of these facilitators (English-speaking) and 8 UNESCO culture programme specialists from four field offices and the Intangible Cultural Heritage Section, who have all been actively engaged in this Programme. A number of CRIHAP members will participate as observers.

The meeting will take stock of the experiences so far and assess both the operational and substantive aspects of the capacity-building activities. It will review the process from project and workshop preparation to their impact on advancing the implementation of the 2003 Convention in beneficiary countries. The group will consolidate the lessons learnt and share ideas on how to further improve the content and effectiveness of this global strategy.

This meeting is an excellent opportunity of pursuing UNESCO’s objectives in the field of culture, notably to mobilize international and national expertise for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage. Following this first review meeting of the global capacity-building strategy, two additional review meetings are foreseen next year in Africa and Latin America with the participation of French- and Spanish-speaking facilitators.

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At the time of growing interest surrounding the development of a national cultural policy in Belize, UNESCO has launched under its global strategy, a two and a half year project that will help the country safeguard its living heritage.

Thanks to funding from Japan, Belize is one of three Caribbean countries, along with Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago that will benefit from this safeguarding initiative. With nation-wide consultations ensuing with the development of its national cultural policy, the project is rather timely for Belize. It will follow the development of the ICH related policy and help to bridge the way forward.

On the 5 to 9 November at the House of Culture in Belize City, community bearers of intangible cultural heritage along with officials of the National Institute of Culture and History, non-governmental representatives and cultural experts will come together to partake in a workshop on the implementation of the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

The next step to follow is the development and implementation of a framework for community based inventory of the intangible cultural heritage in Belize, which is slated for 2013.

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Para fortalecer las capacidades nacionales en Papúa Nueva Guinea en la aplicación de la Convención de 2003 para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial (PCI), Noriko Aikawa-Faure, un facilitador de la UNESCO preparó y facilitó un taller titulado “Inventario del PCI por las comunidades (INV)” del 22 al 27 de octubre de 2012 en Goroka, organizado en colaboración con la Comisión Nacional para la Cultura de PNG.

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A three-day National Workshop on the Community-based Inventory of the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) was held on 23-25 October 2012 in Suai sub-district in Cova Lima, Timor-Leste. The workshop was jointly organized by the State Secretariat of Art and Culture of the Ministry of Tourism and Culture of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, the Cova Lima District government and UNESCO with support from the Government of Japan through UNESCO Japanese Funds-In-Trust for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

This workshop gathered some 50 participants, including national and district culture officials, governmental officials, Suai sub-district community leaders, teachers, young traditional female dancers, local traditional musicians, and other community members of the Suai sub-district. The twelve sessions of the workshop were intended to help equip participants with basic knowledge and skills to design and facilitate a community-based inventorying process tailored to the current circumstances of Timor-Leste.

During the opening ceremony, Maria Isabel de Jesus Ximenes, the State Secretary of Art and Culture of the Ministry of Tourism and Culture of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, highlighted the importance of joint efforts among governments, civil societies and communities to ensure that Timor-Leste’s precious intangible cultural heritage is safeguarded and passed on to the next generations. She underlined that the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage should play a key role for ensuring mutual respect, sustainable development and peace promotion in Timor-Leste and beyond.

The opening ceremony was followed by a three-day community-based inventorying workshop. This workshop introduced the participants to the key concepts of the Convention, community-based inventorying methods, free-prior-informed consent in the process of inventorying, creative processes and techniques of generating and systematizing information with the community, a community-driven sample inventorying framework and much more. As part of the workshop, participants also completed a fieldtrip to the village of Lia Na’in in Suai in order to apply theoretical knowledge to actual inventorying work.

Through these training sessions, participants acquired a broad understanding of how the Convention works and recognized diversity within a community regarding their ICH, as well as the importance of the inclusion of youth, elders and women as part of multiple voices on ICH. Participants also had an opportunity to exchange views on the diverse opinions concerning the community-based inventorying and to share their knowledge experiences on the ways to record ICH locally.

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Del 22 al 23 de octubre de 2012 y del 24 al 25 de octubre del 2012, Bogotá dio la bienvenida a dos talleres sucesivos sobre la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial y la aplicación de la Convención de 2003 en Colombia, examinando sus retos y fortalezas.

Dos facilitadores acreditados de la UNESCO, Fabián Bedon y Lucas dos Santos Roque, animaron la sesión ante un público de representantes comunitarios, para el primer taller, y ante funcionarios del patrimonio cultural del Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia para el segundo. Los talleres permitieron a los participantes de mejorar su conocimiento sobre el PCI y sobre los aspectos que constituyen la Convención de 2003, las distintas maneras de poner en práctica su contenido y la importancia de la creación de un Comité Nacional para implementar estas acciones.

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Del 15 al 19 de octubre de 2012, La Paz dio la bienvenida a tres talleres sucesivos sobre los resultados y la continuidad de la aplicación de la Convención de 2003 en Bolivia, examinando sus retos y fortalezas.

Dos facilitadores acreditados de la UNESCO, Fabián Bedon y Lucas dos Santos Roque, animaron la sesión ante un público de funcionarios del patrimonio cultural del Ministerio de Culturas de Bolivia. El taller permitió a los participantes de mejorar su conocimiento sobre el PCI y sobre los aspectos que constituyen la Convención de 2003, las distintas maneras de poner en práctica su contenido y la importancia de la creación de un Comité Nacional para implementar estas acciones.

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Apenas un mes después de la ratificación por los Países Bajos de la Convención para la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial de 2003 (que se extiende no sólo a la parte europea de los Países Bajos sino también a su parte caribeña y a Aruba), la UNESCO llevó a cabo en Oranjestad un taller sobre los conceptos clave de la Convención y las principales implicaciones de la ratificación. La reunión, que se inscribe dentro del marco de un proyecto regional de fortalecimiento de capacidades para la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial en el Caribe con el apoyo del Fondo del patrimonio cultural inmaterial gracias a la generosa contribución de Noruega, fue inaugurado por el Sr. Arthur Dowers, Ministro de Educación, la Sra. Ineke Strouken, Presidenta del Centro Neerlandés de Cultura Popular y del Patrimonio Inmaterial y el Coordinador de Cultura de UNESCO La Habana, el Sr. Fernando Brugman.

El taller fue organizado gracias a la excelente labor realizada por la Comisión Nacional de Aruba para la UNESCO con el apoyo de la Dirección de Patrimonio Cultural de Aruba y contó con la presencia de unos 25 representantes de las más significativas instituciones culturales del país a quienes brindó la oportunidad de debatir sobre la estrategia de aplicación de la Convención de 2003 en Aruba. El carácter inclusivo de la Convención fue objeto de debate comprendiendo que, en las condiciones de una rápida globalización, era un elemento fundamental de cohesión, reconocimiento mutuo y respeto.

El taller fue honrado con la visita de la Sra. Michelle Hooyboer-Winklaar, Ministra de Economía, Asuntos Sociales y Cultura, quien, en entrevista con el representante de la UNESCO, insistió en la necesidad vital de la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural en Aruba.

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• Lista de participantes: inglés
• Orden del día: inglés

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The project was launched with the first actions taking place in June this year. A general Coordinator was selected in accordance with the profile set out in the prodoc, and the first informative communications were sent out (Argentine National Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO and Japanese Embassy in Argentina), and subsequently to the Secretariat for Culture of the Nation, the Argentine Foreign Office, the Uruguayan National Commission for UNESCO, etc. At the same time, communication was established with Ms. Mónica Lacarrieu member of the UNESCO Trainers network, to confirm her participation as the main resource person for the Project. Mr. Francisco López Morales was also contacted with the same purpose.

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In the context of Phase III of the Mediterranean Living Heritage (MedLiHer) project financed by the Euromed Heritage IV Programme (EU) and implemented by UNESCO, the Lebanese National Commission for UNESCO and the Ministry of Culture are organizing a workshop on the methodology and procedures of nominating intangible cultural heritage elements to the Representative and Urgent Safeguarding Lists. This workshop will take place in Byblos from 12 to 14 October 2012.

The targeted group in the present training workshop consists of representative of the UNESCO Regional Office, the Lebanese National Commission for UNESCO, the Ministry of Culture (especially who are directly involved in the administration and the preparation of the documents and deliverables of the project), in addition to the members of the Lebanese MEDLIHER Team and an expert of Zajal.

Two accredited UNESCO facilitators, Prof. Dr. Annie Tabet (Lebanon) and Prof. Dr. Hani Hayajneh (Jordan), will run the workshop.

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Argentina, Uruguay y Paraguay lanzan un programa de fortalecimiento de capacidades para la salvaguardia de su patrimonio vivo: titulado “Patrimonio Vivo”, el proyecto está organizado por la Oficina UNESCO de Montevideo y financiado por Japón.

Durante la segunda semana de octubre de 2012, el primer taller presentará los conceptos clave y los mecanismos de la Convención. Examinará los desafíos de su implementación, no sólo a nivel nacional sino a nivel internacional: de hecho, la cooperación entre los tres países está al centro del proyecto.

El taller reunirá a las comunidades, expertos y funcionarios de las provincias del nordeste de Argentina Catamarca, Jujuy, Salta, Tucumán, Santiago del Estero, y delegaciones de Uruguay y Paraguay, entre ellos representantes del Museo del Barro de Asunción en Paraguay.

Dos facilitadores capacitados por la UNESCO implementarán el taller: Francisco López Morales, director del Patrimonio Mundial del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INHA) en México, y Mónica Lacarrieu, Director del Programa de Antropología Cultural del Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA).

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In the context of Phase III of “Mediterranean Living Heritage” (MedLiHer) project, co-funded by the European Union (EU) and UNESCO, a workshop on the methodology and procedures of nominating intangible cultural heritage elements to the Representative and Urgent Safeguarding Lists will be held in Amman between 7 and 11 October 2012.

The Amman workshop follows the Madaba one and will focus on the preparation of nomination files for inscription on the Lists of the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). It will describe the requirements of the nominations’ process, evaluate sample nominations, and discuss descriptions of the elements from the Madaba Inventory and the participation of communities.

The workshop is intended primarily for members from the Jordan National Commission for Education, Culture and Science and the Ministry of Culture, and especially the ones that are directly involved in the administration and the preparation of the documents and deliverables of the project. Some of them are connected to the local communities of Madaba.

Two accredited UNESCO facilitators, Prof. Dr. Hani Hayajneh (Jordan) and Prof. Dr. Mustafa Gad (Egypt), will run the workshop. They will use the UNESCO capacity-building workshop materials in training activities, and deal with some nominations predefined by the UNESCO as case studies.

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Sao Tome and Principe’s ratification of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), in 2005, has just been the first step into a much larger reflection on the construction of a national cultural policy. Within the frame of a capacity-building project in selected Portuguese speaking African countries (including also Angola and Mozambique) funded by a generous contribution of the Kingdom of Norway to the ICH Fund, Sao Tome and Principe is now about to welcome a UNESCO training-seminar on strengthening national capacities for an effective safeguarding of its intangible cultural heritage.

The project is timely, since the government is now ready to launch a wide reflection on the issue of culture and to raise awareness about the preservation of the country’s cultural heritage, especially the intangible heritage.

The most urgent need is to build knowledge on the concepts and mechanisms of the 2003 Convention, and to assist Sao Tome and Principe in developing the institutional framework required to effectively implement the Convention in a long term.

The project will therefore focus on strengthening key stakeholders, establishing a national ICH committee and setting basis for the elaboration of a national strategy for safeguarding ICH.

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In order to intensify its collaboration with youth in the implementation of the 2003 Convention, UNESCO launches three sub-regional youth forums in South-Eastern Europe, the Caribbean and Central Africa.

The first one is the youth seminar of Sofia, taking place from 24 to 25 September 2012 and organized by the Regional Centre for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in South-Eastern Europe (a category 2 centre under the auspices of UNESCO) in Sofia, Bulgaria. The participants of the forum are students, researchers and representatives of youth organizations in the region, exploring and debating the role of youth in the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage.

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Following training on strengthening national capacities for implementing the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), Zambia, Botswana, Malawi and Zimbabwe have recently further benefited from a policy and legal framework review meeting convened in Harare from 3 to 7 September 2012.

These four countries are already motivated to safeguard their intangible heritage with the support of UNESCO/Flanders Fund-in-Trust. Participants from the four countries acknowledged that awareness of safeguarding the intangible cultural heritage has been widely raised in recent years and cultural heritage does no longer end at monuments and collections of objects. It also includes traditions or living expressions such as oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals, festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe or the knowledge and skills to produce traditional crafts. The importance of intangible cultural heritage is not the cultural manifestation itself, but rather the wealth of knowledge and skills that is transmitted through it from one generation to the next. While fragile, intangible cultural heritage is an important factor in maintaining cultural diversity in the face of growing globalisation.

The need to speed up the process of developing policies and legislations was identified within the framework of UNESCO/Flanders FIT project for the Convention to be effectively implemented and domesticated. Some of them do not yet have relevant legislation such as national cultural policies and various Acts of parliament to anchor the implementation of the convention in their respective countries. For those that do have them, the policies are in need of revision to accommodate provisions more related to ICH safeguarding. Thus, consultants have been contracted by UNESCO Harare Office to conduct policy review in each of the four countries with the purpose to facilitate this workshop and the future policy revision process in the long run. Papers presented by Mr Marc Jacobs from Belgium, Mr Lovemore Mazibuko from Malawi and Dr Francis Matambirofa from Zimbabwe during the workshop examined various ways to do with the convention, among topics that included Intellectual Property Rights Protection, Policies and Development of National actions plans.

Currently, challenges remain are mainly funding and coordination to take the capacity building activities to the communities at local levels. The participants hoped that various ministries such as the ministry of sport, arts education and culture will continue with their efforts for fund-raising and other support for this worthwhile cause of safeguarding the intangible cultural heritage.

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Using audiovisual as a vector in the promotion of Mediterranean Living heritage is the ambition of the Egyptian, Lebanese and Jordanian filmmakers and photographers, who will gather at UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris from 27 to 29 August 2012 in the framework of the Medliher project.

The project, co-funded by the European Union and UNESCO, has indeed a strong regional component devoted to the visibility of intangible cultural heritage of the partner countries. It is in this light that a documentary film and photographic exhibition will be made honoring the heritage of the governorates of Damietta in Egypt, Madaba in Jordan and Lebanon Zajal poetry. Those various elements of cultural heritage are at the heart of the inventory work undertaken as part of Phase III of the project.

The meeting in August aims at:

• developing a common vision of the film project between the coordinator/regional director and the national directors and photographers,
  
• formulating key messages that are going to be broadcasted through the film
  
• defining a methodology taking into account the spirit of the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage: its context, deadlines, budget, target audience and
  
• elaborating a work plan defining the roles of each participant and the technical issues to be addressed.

The work of filmmakers and photographers will help to raise public awareness at the international level, as well as that of concerned countries on the importance of safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in today’s world. The film will be screened and photographs exhibited at the Maison des Cultures du Monde in Paris. Furthermore, it is currently envisaged that the documentary would also be broadcasted by local television stations in participating countries.

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ICH training-seminar in Dushanbe

UNESCO training-seminar «Strengthening national capacities for effective safeguarding intangible cultural heritage (ICH) in the countries of Central Asia» was conducted in Dushanbe, Tajikistan from August 21 to August 25, 2012.

Part of a series of seminars for local specialist, the training was organized by the UNESCO Cluster Office in Almaty and supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in cooperation with the Tajikistan National Commission for UNESCO.

Participants in the training included staff of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tajikistan, the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, the Tajik National Conservatory, representatives of public and private museums, representatives of NGOs taking part in the preservation of intangible cultural heritage, as well as artisans and musicians.

An Opening speech was given by Ms. Farogat Azizi, Deputy Minister of Culture of the Republic of Tajikistan and Ms. Shahlo Abdurahimova, Secretary General of the National Commission of the Republic of Tajikistan for UNESCO. The closing ceremony was attended by Mr. Mirzoshohruh Asrori, Minister of Culture of the Republic of Tajikistan. It was emphasized that since the ratification of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (17 August 2010) Tajikistan is paying special attention to the preservation of ICH at the national level. In particular, the programme for the preservation of ICH till 2015 was developed and approved by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tajikistan.

Mr. Yuri Peshkov, UNESCO Almaty Culture Specialist, stated that the 2003 Convention is designed to ensure respect for the intangible cultural heritage and to highlight its importance. The Convention obliges States to take necessary measures to ensure the protection of intangible cultural heritage and promote cooperation at regional and international levels.

Ms. Sabira Soltongeldieva, a UNESCO consultant for the implementation of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the ICH, stated that the training was aimed at improving the understanding and use of practical mechanisms for implementing the Convention at the national level. These include for example, the creation of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) lists, the inclusion of intangible cultural heritage elements in the Convention’s nomination lists, as well as strengthening international cooperation. The training emphasized the need to enhance the role of the government, NGOs, communities and media in the identification, inventory and preservation of ICH.

In 2013, in Tajikistan, two more training sessions are planned on how to prepare nomination papers for inclusion in the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, as well as for the identification, documentation and inventory of intangible cultural heritage.

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Many ICH elements in Cambodia are in danger of disappearing, mainly due to the long-lasting conflicts, the declining number of ICH practitioners and lack of interest from the younger generation. Having ratified the 2003 Convention, the Cambodian Government has expressed its commitment to identify ICH elements still being practiced and to safeguard them for future generations. To this end, UNESCO will assist the Cambodian Government in strengthening its institutional and policy frameworks for safeguarding ICH, and on building the national capacity for the effective implementation of the 2003 Convention.

Since January 2012, five meetings were conducted by the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts to prepare and finalize a national work plan for the implementation of the 2003 Convention. Translation of the 2003 Convention and its Operational Directives are currently being undertaken, in preparation for the first capacity building workshop on the implementation of the 2003 Convention at the national level, which will take place from 13-17 August 2012. The initial workshop will be followed by a workshop on community-based inventory (February 2013) and a workshop on the preparation of nomination files in August 2013. Project activities will also include the documentation, inventorying and transmission of Sbek Thom (Shadow Puppet Theatre) traditions from the masters to the younger generation.

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La Oficina de la UNESCO en Quito acogió los días 26 y 27 de julio 2012 el taller de fortalecimiento de capacidades en la implementación de la Convención 2003 para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial, dirigido a funcionarios del Instituto Metropolitano de Patrimonio Cultural de Quito.

Con su participación en este taller, los trabajadores municipales cuentan con nuevas herramientas y conocimientos para incluir en su trabajo medidas encaminadas a garantizar la salvaguardia, difusión y promoción del patrimonio inmaterial del área metropolitana.

La sesión de entrenamiento estuvo a cargo del Sr. Fabián Bedón y contó con la colaboración del Instituto Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural (INPC) de Ecuador. La institución realizó una presentación sobre la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultura inmaterial en el país. Las presentaciones sobre casos prácticos en Ecuador y el proceso de presentación de candidaturas para la Lista Representativa del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de la UNESCO fueron incluidos.

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Birthplace of Egyptian civilization, the Nile is still a lifeline for many communities living along its banks. The encounter between man and the river’s ecosystem has uncovered a rich and diversified intangible cultural heritage. Over the next six months, between July and December 2012, this heritage will be the focus of a pilot inventorying activity in the governorate of Damietta.

This initiative is part of Phase III of the MedLiHer -Mediterranean Living Heritage – project co-financed by the European Union and UNESCO, which aims at promoting the implementation of the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt.

Community members and others responsible for culture at the national and local level, including researchers and NGOs will benefit from extensive training on the concept of community-based inventorying under the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage; the training will cover the role of different stakeholders in the process and the tools and techniques of participatory documentation.

The workshop is intended primarily for field researchers and communities whose intangible heritage will be inventoried. It will start with a “theoretical” component in which the methodological framework for the inventory will be collectively developed, followed by a field practicum.

This inventory work will concentrate on identifying and involving bearers (individuals, groups or communities) of intangible heritage, focusing significantly on its present social functions and challenges for transmission to future generations.

The workshop will be facilitated jointly by Mr Mostafa Gad and Mr Ismail Ali El Fihail, both belonging to the network of facilitators trained by UNESCO as part of its strategy of capacity building for the implementation of the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

The methodologies developed during this pilot exercise could then be applied on a wider scale to other regions of the Nile.

All data collected will be systematized and digitized. Moreover, a film and a photographic exhibition will make this inventory experience available to the Egyptian and international public.

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Madaba and its 150,000 inhabitants will soon become the precursors of an experience never seen before in Jordan. Located near the capital, this region will indeed be the focus of a pilot activity of intangible cultural heritage inventorying as part of the “MedLiHer - Mediterranean Living Heritage” project, co-funded by the European Union and UNESCO.

Concretely, what is the pilot inventorying all about? Under the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, each State Party must involve communities, groups and relevant NGOs in identifying and defining elements of this heritage. Identification is the process of describing one or several specific elements of intangible cultural heritage in their context and to distinguish them from others. This process of identification and definition is what the Convention means by “inventory”. It also emphasizes that this should be done “in view of safeguarding” - that is to say that the inventory is not an abstract exercise, but a useful one. The inventory represents the first step in the development of safeguarding plans for those elements.

In order to get familiar with these concepts, those involved in inventory activities within the governorate of Madaba (community members, responsible for culture at the national and local level, researchers) will receive extensive training from 12 to 20 July. It will cover the principles of the inventory under the Convention, the role of the different stakeholders in the process and the tools and techniques of participatory documentation. This “theoretical” part will lead to the development of the methodological framework for the inventory and will be followed by a field practicum.

The workshop will be facilitated jointly by Ms. Annie Tohmé Tabet and Mr. Hani Hayajneh, both members of the network of facilitators trained by UNESCO as part of its capacity- building strategy for the implementation of the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

During the three months following the training, the research teams will go to meet communities, characterized by great cultural and religious diversity, throughout the governorate. This inventory work will concentrate on identifying and involving bearers (individuals, groups or communities) of intangible heritage, focusing especially on present social functions and challenges for its transmission to future generations, in a context where rapid urbanization is disrupting the traditional socio-cultural fabric. The methodologies developed during this pilot exercise could then be applied on a wider scale to other regions of the country.

All data collected will be systematized and digitized, while a film and a photographic exhibition will make this inventory experience available to the Jordanian and international public.

The workshop and inventory activity are part of Phase III of MedLiHer, which aims at promoting the implementation of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt.

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The National workshop “Implementing the UNESCO Convention for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage at the National Level” will be held in Tashkent from 3 to 7 July 2012. The workshop is organized by UNESCO Office in Tashkent in close co-operation with the ministry of Culture and Sport of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) is integral part of life and culture of humanity. In this connection it also called as living heritage, transmitted by people within communities, which is ever changing. ICH has important functions for the communities, groups and individuals concerned, and for the understanding and promotion of cultural diversity and human creativity. Uzbekistan ratified the Convention in 2008. As a result, the present workshop is organized for the specialists in the field of IHC from all principal regions of Uzbekistan within the framework of a project ”Strengthening the National Capacity on Safeguarding ICH in Central Asia” launched by UNESCO offices in Tashkent and Almaty with the financial support of the Norwegian Trust-in-Funds in the beginning of 2012.

The main goal of the workshop is to strengthen the national capacity in the field of Implementation of the UNESCO Convention 2003 at national level, in particular provide a broad overview of the Convention and Operational Directives, what obligations States take on when ratifying the Convention and possible ways of implementing the Convention as well as safeguarding the ICH, its identification and inventorying, cooperation with communities, public awareness and international assistance.

The workshop will be conducted by UNESCO certified experts in the field of intangible cultural heritage.

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Vínculo para un acceso directo  A widespread form of poetry in Lebanon, Zajal is chanted in daily practice, different life events and large celebrations. Weddings or funerals, parties and festivals: so many opportunities for Zajal poets (called quâl) to sing or recite texts expressing bravery, pride, love, flattery, pain, joy, conflict, violence or the call for dialogue. It is around this element of intangible cultural heritage that Lebanon has chosen to develop a pilot inventorying methodology, which may then be applied to the safeguarding of other expressions of its living heritage.

From 29 June to 3 July 2012, actors of Zajal will benefit from an extensive training on the concept of inventory and its principles under the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, the role of different stakeholders in the process and tools and techniques of participatory documentation. The workshop is intended primarily for field researchers and communities whose cultural heritage will be inventoried. It will start with a “theoretical” component including the joint development of a methodological framework for the inventory, followed by a field practicum. A day of reflection on the lessons learned from the exercise is foreseen on 9 July 2012.

The workshop will be facilitated jointly by Ms Annie Tohmé Tabet and Mr.Mostafa Gad, who form part of the network of facilitators trained by UNESCO as part of its capacity-building strategy for the implementation of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.

During the three months following the training, the field researchers will go to meet the Zajal communities across the Lebanese territory. This pre-inventorying work will focus on identifying and involving the bearers (individuals, groups or communities) of this element of intangible heritage, focusing particularly on how it is transmitted, and its social functions in Lebanese society today.

All data collected will be systematized and digitized, while a film and photographic exhibition will make this experience available to Lebanese and international audiences.

The workshop and inventorying activity are undertaken as part of the Phase III of the MEDLIHER project supported by the European Union and UNESCO, which aims to promote the implementation of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt.

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Sri Lanka ratified the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2008 and although there are a number of inventories on ICH scattered in various government departments and private institutions, there is still no legislation to safeguard ICH and there is a need to consolidate various efforts at national level. UNESCO has supported the initial stages of developing a web portal on ICH restricted to data gathered by various government bodies and now with the support of UNESCO/Japan Funds-in-Trust, the capacities of concerned stakeholders will be further enhanced in the effective implemention of the 2003 Convention, community-based inventorying, as well as in the preparation of nomination files.

he first capacity building activity, a workshop on the Implementation of the 2003 Convention at the National Level will be organized in partnership with the Ministry of Culture and the Arts from 25-29 June 2012. The workshop will be facilitated by by UNESCO certified trainers, Mr Rahul Goswami and Ms Sajida Vandal. Future capacity building workshops include a Workshop on Community-based Inventory to be held in 2013 and a Workshop on the Preparation of Nomination Files schedueled in 2014.

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As a new vision of cultural heritage is gaining prominence, UNESCO calls upon African universities to revisit their training programmes for future decision-makers and professionals in the field of heritage studies and sustainable development. Indeed, despite international recognition of intangible cultural heritage and its critical importance for sustainable development, the theme has been largely neglected in heritage studies in many parts of the world, notably in Africa. Therefore UNESCO identified the Centre for Heritage Development in Africa (CHDA) to organize a dedicated regional training workshop for teaching faculty from African universities in the field of intangible cultural heritage. It is supported by the Fund for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage and will be held at the CHDA premises in Mombasa, Kenya from 18 to 22 June 2012.

The workshop aims at raising the level of knowledge of African university teaching faculty in the field of intangible cultural heritage safeguarding, enabling them to incorporate the issue in their teaching and provide guidance for their future courses and programs on heritage and sustainable development.
It will be co-facilitated by Ms Deirdre Prins-Solani and Ms Harriet Deacon who are both part of the network of 65 facilitators trained by UNESCO to use the workshop materials developed by the Organization on implementing the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.

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Contact in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Section : Susanne Schnuttgen, Chief, Capacity Building and Heritage Policy Unit, email: s.schnuttgen@unesco.org

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Un taller de fortalecimiento de las capacidades sobre la aplicación de la Convención de 2003 a nivel nacional, financiado con fondos fiduciarios de la UNESCO y de la República de Corea, fue organizado en colaboración con el Departamento de Patrimonio del Ministerio de Información, Cultura y Turismo, del 11 al 15 de junio de 2012 en Vientián, República Democrática Popular Lao. Además de funcionarios del gobierno, profesionales del patrimonio cultural inmaterial participaron también en este taller co-facilitado por instructores certificados de la UNESCO, la Sra. Paritta Chalermpow Koanantakool y la Sra. Shubha Chaudhuri. La República Democrática Popular Lao es un país con 160 grupos étnicos, cada uno de los cuales ha conservado gran parte de su propio idioma, costumbres, cultura y tradiciones. El rico patrimonio cultural de Laos también tiene sus orígenes en una inmensa espiritualidad, ya que el budismo tiene una influencia que se extiende desde el estilo de vida a las artes. Este país adoptó una Ley de Patrimonio Nacional en 2005, que proporciona la base jurídica para la salvaguardia del PCI, antes incluso de la ratificación de la Convención de 2003 en el año 2009. Además, una sección sobre Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial fue creada en el Departamento de Patrimonio del Ministerio de Información, Cultura y Turismo. La Oficina de la UNESCO en Bangkok ha estado trabajando estrechamente con las autoridades competentes que han reconocido la necesidad de mejorar su estrategia de salvaguardia del PCI, reforzar el marco institucional y normativo y desarrollar sus habilidades de inventario. Después de este primer esfuerzo de fortalecimiento de las capacidades, más talleres de capacitación sobre los inventarios de las comunidades (previsto en 2012) y sobre la preparación de expedientes de candidatura (en 2014) serán organizados en la RDP de Laos con el fin de mantener un efecto a largo plazo de este proyecto llevado a cabo en el marco de la estrategia global de fortalecimiento de las capacidades de la UNESCO.

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Un taller de fortalecimiento de las capacidades sobre la preparación de los expedientes de candidatura para las listas de la Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial se llevó a cabo del 11 al 15 junio de 2012 en Harare, y que fue facilitado por instructores certificados de la UNESCO, el Sr. Chifunyise y el Sr. Mazibuko. Este taller es un esfuerzo adicional realizado en el marco del proyecto financiado con fondos fiduciarios de la UNESCO / Flandes a raíz de otro taller sobre la aplicación de la Convención a nivel nacional, que fue organizado a principios de este año.

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Training local communities in inventorying methods to safeguard their intangible cultural heritage is the objective of a series of workshop kicking off in nine provinces of Gabon starting 4 June 2012.

The UNESCO Cluster Office in Libreville, in association with the Centre for Research and Sociological Studies (CRES), is behind this initiative. The idea is to pursue the capacity-building exercise started in 2010, by providing the communities with the methodological tools and techniques required to inventory their intangible cultural heritage.

Claudine-Augée Angoué, an anthropologist and member of the UNESCO network of facilitators, will facilitate the workshop, the content of which will be adopted from the training materials developed by the Organization as part of its capacity building strategy for the implementation of the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

The four workshops will take place over a period of six weeks in the localities of Lambarene, Koula-Moutou, Mouila and Oyem, and will conclude on 10 August 2012.

Funded by the regular program of UNESCO, the activity will be implemented with the assistance of departmental officers in charge of Culture and with logistical support from the Ministry of Interior in charge of municipalities of Gabon.

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La Comisión Nacional de la UNESCO en St. Kitts y Nevis organizó un taller sobre la ratificación de la Convención de 2003 para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial, el 31 de mayo de 2012 en Basseterre.

El público, compuesto de responsables políticos nacionales, tuvo la oportunidad de aprender más acerca de la Convención, que el Gobierno de Saint Kitts y Nevis espera firmar pronto.

Kris Rampersad, consultor cultural para la UNESCO, facilitó las discusiones entre participantes, insistiendo en los beneficios derivados de la signatura de la Convención.

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Even before it ratified the 2003 Convention in 2005, Mongolia has been very active in safeguarding its intangible cultural heritage. It established a National Centre for ICH in 1997 and had two traditions proclaimed as Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

At the same time, despite various efforts already made in safeguarding its ICH, Mongolia needs to meet the increasing impact of social changes, globalization and rampant urbanization affecting traditional nomadic lifestyle of its people. UNESCO/Japan FIT supports this further endeavour with a series of better tailored capacity building activities starting with a two-day workshop organized from 28-29 May 2012 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia to consult with primary stakeholders, assess existing government policies relating to ICH, investigate the roles of involved institutions and identify training needs on ICH. UNESCO certified trainer Ms Noriko Aikawa-Faure assisted this process with facilitating the need assessment workshop. Two other capacity building workshops lined up for Mongolia are a Community-Based Inventorying Workshop planned to be organized in October 2012 and a Workshop on the Preparation of Nomination Files in early 2013.

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A national capacity building workshop on community-based inventorying of intangible cultural heritage will be organized by UNESCO (Venice Office/Sarajevo Antenna Office), in close cooperation with the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the National Commission for UNESCO of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo from 21 to 27 Mai 2012.

The event will bring together experts, NGOs, community members, local authorities, government officials, and actors at the heart of the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. The objective is to build capacity of all relevant stakeholders to inventory intangible cultural heritage following a community-based approach.

The workshop will provide participants with the necessary knowledge, skills and tools for effective documentation and inventorying of intangible cultural heritage under the 2003 Convention and will also include a fieldwork practicum at the end of the workshop. The event will be facilitated by Rieks Smeets, linguist and former chief of UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage section, and Sasha Sreckovic, Ethnographer from the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade (Serbia).

This workshop is a direct follow-up to the regional training on “Strengthening national capacities for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage in Europe”, organized by UNESCO in Sofia, Bulgaria (14-18 March 2011). The 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage was ratified by Bosnia and Herzegovina in February 2009.

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A capacity building workshop dedicated to the implementation of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Ecuador was held on 17 and 18 May 2012 in Quito.

The workshop was organized by UNESCO Quito Office in close cooperation with the National Institute for Cultural Heritage (INPC) with the objective to strengthen capacities of those INPC civil servants who are not specialized or directly involved in intangible cultural heritage activities. The two days seminar provided them with a better understanding of the specificities of ICH, the basic concepts and methods as presented by the 2003 Convention, with the aim to improve coordination with ICH-related activities within the INPC.

The workshop addressed issues such as the differences between the 1972, 2003 and 2005 Conventions, the benefits and obligations and opportunities of the 2003 Convention, safeguarding measures and the roles of the different stakeholders involved in the management of ICH, as well as issues related to sustainable development and the Convention’s lists.

Mr Domingo Carranza, president of the weavers community of Pile, known for his expertise in elaboration of traditional woven straw hats in Montecristi shared the experience in elaborating a nomination file for the Intangible Cultural Heritage list.

The training session was facilitated by Mr Fabian Bedón from Ecuador.

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A capacity building workshop on the implementation of the 2003 Convention was successfully organized in Port Moresby from 14-18 May 2012 by the UNESCO Apia Office in partnership with the National Cultural Commission of Papua New Guinea. Facilitated by Ms Noriko Aikawa-Faure and Mr Setoki Qalubao the five-day workshop was attended by forty-three representatives from concerned national government agencies, provincial government units, academic institutions and key stakeholders. Honorable Benjamin Philip, the Minister for Culture and Tourism welcomed the participants during the opening ceremony on 15 May 2012.

Papua New Guinea, a State Party to the 2003 Convention, is one of the most culturally diverse countries on Earth, with some 850 indigenous languages spoken by different cultural groups having their own sets of cultural expressions in a country with a population of 6 million. To assist in mitigating the negative impact of globalization and social transformations that endanger its rich intangible cultural heritage, Papua New Guinea was selected as one of the eight beneficiary countries under the regional capacity building programme in safeguarding intangible cultural heritage under the UNESCO-Japanese Funds-In-Trust Cooperation.

The next capacity building workshop on the inventory of ICH elements will be held in October 2012 in Goroka, Papua New Guinea which hosts the famous Sing-Sing Festival, a tribal gathering and cultural event held every two years.

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The first capacity building activity in Bhutan – a training workshop on the implementation of the 2003 Convention at the national level – was organized from 14-18 May 2012 in Paro, Bhutan, in partnership with the National Archive and Library of the Ministry of Home and Cultural Affairs, the government agency responsible for intangible cuiltural heritage. The 28 participants included culture officers from the 12 districts of Bhutan and representatives from the National Library and Archives, the Department of Culture, Folk Heritage Museum, the Institute of language and Cultural Studies and Helvetas, an NGO involved mapping ICH.

After Bhutan ratified the 2003 Convention in 2005, the Dramtse Ngacham (Dance of Drum of Dramtse) was proclaimed as one of UNESCO Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2005 and subsequently included in the Representative List of the 2003 Convention. It is currently preparing a preliminary survey and development of an inventory of ICH in partnership with the Intangible Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and Pacific (ICHCAP), the Category II Centre in Korea.

The implementation workshop, facilitated by UNESCO certified trainers, Ms. Shubha Chaudhuri and Ms. Paritta Chalermpow Koanantakool, will be be followed by a training workshop on the ICH inventoring in 2013.

As one of the eight beneficiary countries under the regional capacity building programme funded under UNESCO-Japan Funds In Trust, UNESCO’s intervention in Bhutan aims to strengthen the capacities of Bhutan to meet its national obligation to safeguard its intangible cultural heritage particularly in inventory-making and to enable Bhutan to have a sustainable framework for safeguarding ICH and in implementing the 2003 Convention.

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The UNESCO Venice Office, in cooperation with the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Hellenic National Commission for UNESCO, organized the sixth edition of the annual regional meeting of experts from South-East Europe on Intangible Cultural Heritage “Promoting a shared vision of intangible cultural heritage in South-East Europe”. This regional meeting has been an opportunity to present and discuss the implementation of the UNESCO 2003 Convention and national measures for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage.

The meeting also allowed for a presentation of best practices in the promotion of shared heritage (multinational candidature files, common research projects, etc) and discussed future joint activities in the area of training and capacity-building, to be developed in conjunction with the new Category II Regional Center on intangible cultural heritage, officially inaugurated in Sofia, Bulgaria, in February 2012.

The conference comprised experts from: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria, Croatia; Cyprus; Greece; Italy; Montenegro; Republic of Moldova; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia; The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and Turkey.

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• Final Programme: inglés
• List of participants: inglés

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As another step to strengthen its capacity to safeguard its living heritage, community members and representatives from various institutions of Botswana, including university professionals, Departments of Culture, National Arts Councils, National Museums and Monuments and the National ICH Committees came together to participate in a capacity-building workshop on the implementation of the 2003 convention, held from the 16th to 20th of April, 2012 in Gaborone.

The major focus of the workshops was on familiarising participants with the Intangible Heritage Convention, its basic concepts, measures and mechanisms, recognizing that effective implementation depends upon profound knowledge and understanding of all the people involved in the safeguarding of living heritage.

The workshop was a part of a series of national workshops rolled out by the UNESCO Harare Cluster Office, organised within the framework of the UNESCO/Flanders Funds-in-Trust Project to strengthen national capacities for the implementation of the 2003 Convention in Botswana, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

It was facilitated by Mr. Stephen Chifunyise and Mr. Lovemore Mazibuko, two of the network of experts trained in UNESCO’s “Training of Trainers Workshop.”

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With the support of the UNESCO/Japan Fund-in-Trust, UNESCO initiates on 16 April 2012 its efforts on the implementation of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Nepal, who ratified the Convention in 2010. A series of workshops will be organized to strengthen the national capacities in Nepal to implement the Convention more effectively for over the next 18 months. Among them, the first five-day workshop was held on 16-20 April 2012 in the capital city, Kathmandu, mainly focusing on building capacity for Nepal to meet its obligation as a State Party to the Convention.

UNESCO Office in Kathmandu works in close cooperation with the Ministry of Federal Affairs, Constituant Assembly, Parliamentary Affairs and Culture for this first joint initiative, which attracted some 40 participants from government departments, communities and groups that create and transmit the intangible cultural heritages. The other workshops to follow are on Community-based inventorying of intangible cultural heritage and elaborating nominations to the Lists of the Convention. These series of initiatives is implemented within the framework of a global capacity building strategy that UNESCO put in place since 2011.

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UNESCO is planning a workshop to introduce to the staff of the School for African Heritage (EPA) in Benin (11 to 17 April) the new pedagogical tools developed by UNESCO to help the implementation of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.

The training material emphasizes the role of the States in taking the necessary measures to ensure the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage on their territories, such as adopting a general policy, designating competent bodies, fostering scientific studies and putting in place appropriate legal, technical, and administrative measures. The role of communities in identifying and transmitting intangible cultural heritage is also highlighted, as the importance of safeguarding intangible cultural heritage for sustainable development and social cohesion.

This training workshop, supported by the International Fund for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, will offer the staff of the School for African Heritage new opportunities to help future heritage managers in African countries.

Documents

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• Agenda: francés
• List of participants: francés

Vínculo para un acceso directo  A three-day Capacity Building Workshop on the Implementation of UNESCO’s 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) was held on 10-12 April 2012 at Hotel Timor in Dili, Timor-Leste. The workshop was jointly organised by the State Secretariat of Culture of the Ministry of Education of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste and UNESCO with the support from the Government of Japan through UNESCO Japanese Funds-In-Trust for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

This workshop followed a previously organised workshop on the ratification of the 2003 UNESCO Convention, which took place in November 2011 in Timor-Leste. This supplementary workshop gathered some 60 participants, including national and district Culture officials, governmental officials from other relevant ministries, academics, NGO representatives and community members. Facilitated by Rahul Gioswami (a member of the Consultative Body of the 2003 ICH Convention), Masanori Nagaoka (Head of Culture unit of UNESCO Office, Jakarta) and Wieske Sapardan (Programme Assistant of UNESCO Office, Jakarta), the fourteen sessions of this workshop was intended to help participants gain a broad understanding of the possible activities involved in implementing UNESCO’s Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.

During the opening ceremony, H.E. Mr. Virgilio Simith, the Secretary of State for Culture of the Ministry of Education of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste and H.E. Mr. Yoshitaka Hanada, the Ambassador of Japan to Timor-Leste highlighted the importance of joint efforts among governments, civil societies and communities to ensure that Timor-Leste’s precious intangible cultural heritage is safeguarded and passed on to the next generations. They underlined that the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage should play a key role for ensuring mutual respect and promoting peace in Timor-Leste and beyond.

The opening ceremony was followed by the launch of a publication entitled ‘the Ai To’os Collection’ which was produced by the State Secretariat of Culture of the Ministry of Education of Timor-Leste. Financially supported through UNESCO’s programme of CapEFA (Capacity Development for Education For All), the publication introduces – in Tetun, Portuguese and English – historical cultural objects in order to raise people’s awareness of their own rich cultural heritage while promoting literacy rates in the country. Mr Anwar Alsaid, Head of Education of UNESCO Office, Jakarta who was present at the launching ceremony emphasised that UNESCO stands ready to assist the government and people of Timor-Leste through an intersectoral approach in the fields of education and culture, ie. in promoting and preserving Timor-Leste’s rich cultural heritage and to ensure that this heritage is documented.

The three day capacity building workshop was followed by a visit to Suai, the capital of Cova Lima District in Timor-Leste which will be a pilot site for the Community-based Inventorying workshop, which shall be held in September 2012. During the visit, the members of the State Secretariat of Culture of the Ministry of Education of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste and UNESCO staff met the leaders of the traditional community in Suai and had the opportunity to observe the vernacular architecture settlements, traditional dance, performed by the local community group members, and a tais traditional textile weaving workshop in Cova Lima District.

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A five-day training workshop on the Implementation of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage at the national level was organized from 6 to 10 April 2012 in Astana, Kazakhstan. It was only a few weeks after Kazakhstan officially became the 142nd State Party to the 2003 Convention.

About 25 representatives from the Ministry of Culture and Information, the Agency for Tourism and Sport, representatives of leading universities in Kazakhstan, members of the National Committee for the Safeguarding of ICH, experts from the UNESCO Observatory on Central Asia, as well as ICH bearers - artisans, musicians, storytellers and representatives from youth NGOs - took part in the training.

The workshop is the first of a series of activities aiming at building the know-how and institutional capacity for the implementation of the 2003 Convention in four Central Asian countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. It was developed through the generous support of Norway to the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund and organized by the UNESCO Cluster Office in Almaty in cooperation with the National Commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan for UNESCO and ISESCO and the Kazakhstan National Federation of UNESCO Clubs.

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Los principales asociados de la UNESCO, firmes en su apoyo durante los últimos años a la aplicación efectiva de la Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial, se reunieron con la Secretaría el 30 de marzo de 2012, para hacer un balance de los logros recientes y lecciones aprendidas y compartir información sobre las prioridades futuras y la estrategia general para la utilización de los recursos disponibles.

Gracias al apoyo de los donantes generosos como Azerbaiyán, Brasil, Bulgaria, China, la Unión Europea, Flandes (Bélgica), Italia, Japón, Noruega, la República de Corea, España y los Emiratos Árabes Unidos, más de 11 millones de dólares han sido movilizados para la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial a través de un esfuerzo de fortalecimiento de capacidades a nivel mundial.

Desde 2008, la UNESCO se ha esforzado en alinear los programas financiados por contribuciones voluntarias a su programa complementario adicional a las prioridades y estrategias del programa ordinario financiado por las contribuciones asignadas de todos los Estados Miembros de la UNESCO.

En línea con estos esfuerzos, la Sección de Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial ha centrado su estrategia de movilización de recursos de forma muy estricta durante los últimos tres años en un doble enfoque: i) apoyar un programa mundial de fomento de capacidades para acompañar a los Estados en el fortalecimiento de capacidades humanas e institucionales para la aplicación exitosa de la Convención, ii) fortalecer sus propias capacidades para responder mejor a las solicitudes de los Estados y ayudar al Comité Intergubernamental en el cumplimiento de su labor.

La reunión brindó una oportunidad para consolidar una red de donantes fieles a la Convención de 2003, para crear sinergias y discutir las posibles vías de colaboración en el futuro y permitir el mejor uso posible de las contribuciones complementarias y las ventajas complementarias de nuestros donantes y asociados.

• Lista de participantes: inglés

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In Zambia, community members and representatives from various institutions including university professionals, Departments of Culture, National Arts Councils, National Museums and Monuments and the National ICH Committees, came together to participate in a capacity-building workshop on the implementation of the 2003 convention, held from the 26th to 30th of March, 2012 in Lusaka.

The workshop, which will help to strengthen Zambia’s capacity to safeguard its living heritage, was part of a series of national workshops rolled out by the UNESCO Harare Cluster Office. It was organised within the framework of the UNESCO/Flanders Funds-in-Trust Project to strengthen national capacities for the implementation of the 2003 Convention in Botswana, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

In her opening remarks, the Minister of Chiefs and Traditional Affairs, the Honourable Everine Kabanshi, highlighted Zambia’s commitment to the safeguarding of ICH and the importance for the Government to domesticate the convention, fully involving communities and traditional leaders in the process.

The workshop was facilitated by Mr. Stephen Chifunyise and Mr. Lovemore Mazibuko, two of the network of experts trained in UNESCO’s “Training of Trainers Workshop.”

For more information please contact: c.mapfumo@unesco.org

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What are inventories of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) and why are they essential to safeguarding efforts? How to draw up these inventories with the widest participation of communities, considering the specific context of each country? These were the main issues raised at the workshop on upgrading competencies on community-based inventorying of intangible cultural heritage, held from March 23 to 25 in Paris in the framework of the MEDLIHER project with the teams of the three beneficiary countries (Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan).

The meeting enabled participants to gain a thorough understanding of the training materials developed by UNESCO on the theme of community-based inventorying. It was also an opportunity for them to discuss the adaptation of these tools according to the particularities of each country and the focus of their national safeguarding projects. Egypt chose inventorying the intangible cultural heritage of Damietta, which forms part of the river Nile regions; Jordan chose the region of Madaba, which is characterized by great cultural diversity. Lebanon decided to focus on inventorying the specific element of the Zajal, which is a cultural practice to be found all over the country. Planned to be launched in April 2012, these national projects will start with capacity-building workshops, followed by fieldwork.

In addition to significant advances in the planning of the national projects, participants have developed during this workshop a shared vision of the regional MEDLIHER movie, which will increase the visibility of the ICH of partner countries in the Mediterranean world and internationally.

Document

• Agenda and background document: (inglés)
• Summary: (francés)

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In Zimbabwe, community members and traditional chiefs, representatives from various institutions including university professionals, Departments of Culture, National Arts Councils, National Museums and Monuments and the National ICH Committees, came together to participate in a capacity-building workshop on the implementation of the 2003 convention, held from the 19th to 23rd of March, 2012 in Harare.

In his official remarks, the Deputy Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture, Honourable Lazarus Dokora, emphasised the critical role that traditional leaders can play in implementing the 2003 Convention. The workshop was attended by four traditional chiefs including the President of the Chiefs’ Council, Chief Fortune Charumbira.

According to the Pro-Vice Chancellor of the Great Zimbabwe University and member of the National ICH Committee, the workshop has resulted in a trained group of people who will now become pioneers in implementing the 2003 Convention, thus significantly contributing towards the safeguarding of ICH in Zimbabwe.

The workshop was part of a series of national workshops rolled out by the UNESCO Harare Cluster Office, organised within the framework of the UNESCO/Flanders Funds-in-Trust Project to strengthen national capacities for the implementation of the 2003 Convention in Botswana, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It was facilitated by Mr. Stephen Chifunyise and Mr. Lovemore Mazibuko, two of the network of experts trained in UNESCO’s “Training of Trainers Workshop.”

For more information please contact: c.mapfumo@unesco.org

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Malawi opened its doors on March 12 to 16 to host a workshop on the implementation of the 2003 Convention in order to strengthen its capacity to safeguard its living heritage.

The workshop, attended by community members and representatives from various institutions including university professionals, Departments of Culture, National Arts Councils, National Museums and Monuments and the National ICH Committees, was part of a series of national workshops rolled out by the UNESCO Harare Cluster Office. It was organised within the framework of the UNESCO/Flanders Funds-in-Trust Project to strengthen national capacities for the implementation of the 2003 Convention in Botswana, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

In her opening remarks, the Director of Culture, Dr. Elizabeth Gomani-Chindebvu echoed the importance of implementing the Convention and coming up with appropriate policies and legal instruments that provide for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage.

The workshop was facilitated by Mr. Stephen Chifunyise and Mr. Lovemore Mazibuko, two of the network of experts trained in UNESCO’s “Training of Trainers Workshop.”

For more information please contact: c.mapfumo@unesco.org

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Within the framework of UNESCO’s global capacity-building strategy for the implementation of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003), UNESCO Addis Ababa is organizing a workshop for 32 participants:

• 12 officials from nine Regional Culture and Tourism Bureaus;
  
• 8 officials from the Federal Ministry of Culture and Tourism;
  
• 3 scholars from Addis Ababa University;
  
• 3 from NGOs working on related topics and 4 from communities

It will focus on familiarizing participants with the basic concepts, measure and mechanisms of the Intangible Heritage Convention, recognizing that effective implementation depends upon profound knowledge and understanding of all of these. The workshop will be facilitated by Ms Deidre Prins-Solani and Mr Amareswar Galla, two facilitators from a network of 65 experts who participated in a training-of-trainers workshop series on how to use the UNESCO curricula specifically designed to build capacity on implementing the Intangible Heritage Convention.

The global capacity-building strategy put in place with the support of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund and UNESCO’s regular programme budget, will continue to enjoy highest priority. It currently includes an initial series of workshops addressing the most urgent training needs:

1) ratification
2) implementing the Convention at the national level
3) community-based inventorying
4) elaborating nominations to the Urgent Safeguarding List

The Addis Ababa workshop is part and parcel of this important initiative.

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As part of UNESCO’s global capacity building strategy to implement Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, a two day workshop on Ratification of the Convention was organised in Dili, Timor-Leste from 14 to 15 November 2011. This workshop, organized jointly by the State Secretariat of Culture of the Ministry of Education for the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste and UNESCO Office in Jakarta, gathered some 40 participants including governmental officials from the relevant ministries, academicians, NGOs, and chief of cultural section in the districts in Timor-Leste.

Capacity building for the implementation of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention more effectively at national level is currently a high priority in UNESCO’s programmes and UNESCO has dedicated great efforts in developing training materials on following topics addressing the most urgent needs of the states: Ratification, Implementation of the Convention, Community-based Inventorying and Preparing Nominations for the Lists of the Convention. The objective of this workshop was therefore to assist participants in acquiring a broad understanding of the Convention, and how and why member states may wish to ratify it. A profound knowledge and understanding of the Convention and its concepts, measures and mechanisms is pivotal for its successful ratification and future implementation.

The workshop consisted of ‘classroom’ style training activities to demonstrate the essential features of the Convention, to acquire a broad understanding of the Convention, to learn best practices of the ratified countries, to guide practically the country’s ratification to the Convention. It is divided into three main topics:

1. Introduction to the Convention and its key concepts;
2. Implementing the Convention at the national level; and
3. Participation of communities and roles of stakeholders in safeguarding.

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Second capacity-building workshop on the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage: the role of communities in safeguarding and inventorying ICH
The workshop objectives are as follows:
1. Create awareness among the general public and local communities on the Convention, providing knowledge, tools and empowering them to take safeguarding measures for their own cultural expressions. Provide technical and practical knowledge regarding the interaction with and involvement of NGO’s, universities and the Government in the implementation of the Convention.
2. Generate a space for debate and exchange of experiences, good practices and challenges that can help national and local authorities make better decisions and take steps for implementing the Convention with the participation and consent of the communities involved.

UNESCO is rolling out a comprehensive strategy to contribute to a better understanding of the key concepts of the Convention, the obligations of States Parties and the Convention’s mechanisms of international cooperation and assistance. It is in this context that a national capacity-building workshop on the Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention is being organized in Santiago, Chile, on 2-3 of November, 2011.

The workshop will bring together local communities, national and local authorities, non-governmental organizations, academics from universities and research institutions, and the general public.

UNESCO trained facilitator and expert on ICH, Mrs. Soledad Mujica Bayly of Peru will conduct the workshop, in Spanish (there will be no interpretation services).

• List of participants: español

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The first national capacity building workshop on community-based inventorying of intangible cultural heritage in Montenegro was organized by the UNESCO Venice Office in close cooperation with the Ministry of Culture of Montenegro. The workshop held from 24 to 31 October 2011 in Cetinje, Montenegro has brought together experts, NGOs, community members and actors at the heart of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. The objective is to strengthen capacities in inventorying intangible cultural heritage on the national level. The 8 days workshop has provided participants with the necessary knowledge, skills and tools for effective documentation and inventorying of intangible cultural heritage under the 2003 Convention and also included a fieldwork practicum. The facilitators, Ms. Chiara Bortolotto from the Université Libre in Brussels and Ms. Sasha SREĆKOVIĆ from the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade were both trained by UNESCO within a special training of trainers program.

Documents

• Agenda: inglés
• Lista de participantes: inglés

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La UNESCO ha lanzado una estrategia global para contribuir a una mejor comprensión de los conceptos clave de la Convención, de las obligaciones de los Estados Partes y de los mecanismos de cooperación y asistencia internacionales establecidos por la Convención. En este contexto, dos talleres regionales de fortalecimiento de capacidades sobre el papel de las ONG en la aplicación de la Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial se organizan en África (en septiembre en Libreville, Gabón) y en América Latina (en octubre en Quito, Ecuador).
El taller de América Latina se llevará a cabo del 19 al 21 de octubre de 2011 en Quito, Ecuador, y reunirá a dieciocho organizaciones no gubernamentales latinoamericanas acreditadas por la Asamblea General de los Estados Partes para ejercer funciones consultivas ante el Comité o recomendadas para acreditación. El objetivo de este taller es proporcionar a los participantes conocimientos técnicos sobre el papel de las ONG en la aplicación de la Convención a nivel nacional e internacional, crear un espacio de debate e intercambio de experiencias, buenas prácticas y retos y fortalecer el diálogo y la cooperación regional entre las organizaciones no gubernamentales.
El taller será animado por los facilitadores formados por la UNESCO, el Sr. Fabián Bedón Samaniego del Instituto Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural de Ecuador y el Sr. Francisco Javier López Morales del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia de México. El taller se llevará a cabo en español y portugués con traducción simultánea.

Documentos

• Lista de participantes: español
• Orden del día: español

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Within the framework of global capacity-building strategy for the implementation of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003) at national level, the UNESCO multi-country office in Bamako, in partnership with the Ministry of Culture, organized a workshop which brought together the directors of the cultural heritage of Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Guinea together with more than twenty representatives of Malian Institutions involved in safeguarding and management of intangible cultural heritage.

The workshop focused on familiarizing participants with the basic concepts, measures and mechanisms of the Convention, recognizing that effective implementation depends upon profound knowledge and understanding of all the people involved in the safeguarding of living heritage. The workshop, which was held from 10 to 14 October 2011 in Bamako was facilitated by Ms Claudine Angoué (Gabon) and M. Ludovic Kibora (Burkina Faso), two members of the network of 65 experts who participated in a training-of-trainers workshop series on how to use the UNESCO curricula specifically designed to build capacity on implementing the Convention. Currently the curriculum includes four themes: (a) ratification, (b) implementing the Convention at the national level, (c) community-based inventorying, (d) elaborating nominations to the Intangible Heritage Convention’s List.

The global UNESCO capacity-building strategy was put in place with the support of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund and UNESCO’s regular programme budget. Some US$7 million in extra-budgetary resources have been mobilized to implement the capacity-building strategy. This generous support was granted by the Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Flanders (Belgium), Hungary, Japan, Norway, the Republic of Korea, Spain and the United Arab Emirates. It will continue to enjoy highest priority.

• List of participants: francés
• Agenda: francés

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La UNESCO ha lanzado una estrategia global para contribuir a una mejor comprensión de los conceptos clave de la Convención, de las obligaciones de los Estados Partes y de los mecanismos de cooperación y asistencia internacionales establecidos por la Convención. Dentro de este marco, dos talleres regionales de fortalecimiento de capacidades sobre el papel de las ONG en la aplicación de la Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial se organizan en África (en septiembre en Libreville, Gabón) y en América Latina (en octubre en Quito, Ecuador).
El taller en África se llevará a cabo en del 28 al 30 de septiembre de 2011 en Libreville, Gabón, y reunirá a trece organizaciones no gubernamentales africanas acreditadas por la Asamblea General de los Estados Partes para ejercer funciones consultivas ante el Comité o recomendadas para acreditación. El objetivo de este taller es proporcionar a los participantes conocimientos técnicos sobre el papel de las ONG en la aplicación de la Convención a nivel nacional e internacional, crear un espacio de debate e intercambio de experiencias, buenas prácticas y retos y fortalecer el diálogo y la cooperación regional entre las organizaciones no gubernamentales.
El taller será animado por las facilitadoras formadas por la UNESCO, la Sra. Deidre Prins-Solani del Centro para el Desarrollo del Patrimonio en África en Kenia y la Sra. Claudine-Augée Angoué de la Universidad Omar Bongo de Gabón. El taller se llevará a cabo en inglés y francés con traducción simultánea.

Documentos

• Agenda: inglés|francés
• List of participants: francés

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Within the framework of the programme activity “Supporting capacities for inventorying of intangible cultural heritage in Central Asia” the Kyrgyz National Commission for UNESCO in cooperation with the UNESCO Almaty Cluster Office organized a two-day training-workshop on the implementation of the 2003 Convention and inventorying of ICH in two regions of the Kyrgyz Republic, from 18 to 19 July 2011 in Talas and from 15 to 16 September 2011 in Osh.

The main aim of the training-workshop was to strengthen national capacities for the inventorying and managing intangible cultural heritage. Presentations highlighted goals of the Convention, obligations of State-Parties, and the Convention’s mechanisms. It provided participants with the necessary knowledge about a methodology concerning inventory making of intangible cultural heritage.

During the training-workshop 20 participants from governmental organizations, scientific institutions, NGOs and local communities discussed the current situation in the field of identification and documentation of elements of intangible cultural heritage and national strategy on safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage in the Kyrgyz Republic.

The 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage was ratified by the Kyrgyz Republic in 2006.

• List of participants: inglés
• Agenda: inglés

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The Committee decided (Decision 5.COM 7) to convene before its sixth session an open ended intergovernmental working group to discuss possible measures to improve the treatment of nominations to the Representative List by the Committee, Subsidiary Body and the Secretariat.

Amendment proposals to the Operational Directives
- Albania: inglés|francés
- China: inglés|francés
- France: inglés|francés
- Italy: inglés|francés

This working group met from Monday 12 to Tuesday 13 September 2011 at UNESCO Headquarters, in Paris (Room XI, Fontenoy building), from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Japan has generously offered to bear the costs related to this three-day meeting of the working group. The registration form (inglés/francés) should be returned before 5 September.

The Committee also invited the States Parties to submit to the Secretariat their points of view on the terms of reference of the Subsidiary Body (Decision 5.COM 7 alinea 6) and on possible revisions of the criteria for inscription on the lists of the Convention (Decision 5.COM 10.1 alinea 5), and to circulate them to the States Parties before the meeting of the Working Group. The comments received are available online, in the two working languages of the Committee.

Documents

• Provisional agenda
  ITH/11/6.COM WG/1Rev.: inglés|francés
• Excerpts of the draft summary records of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (15 to 19 November 2010, Nairobi) on the establishment of a Subsidiary Body
  ITH/11/6.COM WG/2: inglés|francés
• Excerpts of the draft summary records of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (15 to 19 November 2010, Nairobi) on the reflection on the criteria for inscription
  ITH/11/6.COM WG/3: inglés|francés
• Decisions 5.COM 7 and 5.COM 10.1
  ITH/11/6.COM WG/4: inglés|francés
• List of participants
  ITH/11/6.COM WG/5: inglés/francés

• Comments of States Parties

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Organización de un taller de sensibilización y de formación de especialistas del Ministerio de Cultura y otras instituciones sobre la aplicación de la Convención de 2003, incluso los métodos de inventario, del 12 al 14 de septiembre 2011 en Brazzaville.

Este taller se llevó a cabo como parte de la implementación de las recomendaciones del taller de capacitación sub-regional de formadores organizado en Libreville (enero-febrero de 2011) por la Sede (sección PCI) para la creación de capacidades y el establecimiento de un conjunto de formadores sub-regionales.

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Se realizaron dos talleres en Afganistán en septiembre de 2011, respectivamente en Kabul y Bamiyán. El taller en Kabul fue organizado por el Ministerio de Información y Cultura en el Museo Nacional de Afganistán. Un experto internacional en la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial (PCI) y un representante del ICOM (A. Gala) facilitaron los dos talleres. Dado que la aplicación de la Convención y la comprensión del concepto de PCI están todavía en su infancia en Afganistán, el programa siguió los aspectos introductorios de la documentación, promoción y salvaguardia de la ICH. Los talleres fueron muy bien recibidos por los participantes de los diversos departamentos del gobierno local y nacional del Ministerio de Cultura e Información, de la Universidad de Kabul y Bamiyán, y de varias organizaciones no gubernamentales con interés en el PCI.

En Bamiyán, en particular, los participantes mostraron una gran disposición para documentar y promover el PCI como un componente esencial del patrimonio mundial en esta región, donde muchas personas viven cerca de las fronteras. En este sentido, los participantes se mostraron muy interesados ​​en la ayuda de la UNESCO para la recaudación de fondos para un nuevo museo en Bamiyan, que podría convertirse en un centro de documentación del PCI y de aplicación de la Convención.

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Un taller sobre la ratifcation se llevó a cabo del 12 al 13 de julio de 2011 en Moroni. Fue organizado en estrecha colaboración con el Director de Cultura del Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y las Artes y el Sr. Aboubakar Boina, contacto de la UNESCO en las Comoras.

Treinta y cinco participantes del Gobierno de la Unión, de las tres islas de Comoras (Gran Comoras, Anjouan y Moreli), de organizaciones no gubernamentales y del sector privado asistieron al taller.

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Un taller de cinco días sobre la aplicación de la Convención de 2003 se llevó a cabo en Tanzania. El taller reunió a 30 participantes de Tanzania continental y Zanzíbar. La capacitación estuvo a cargo de dos facilitadores capacitados por la UNESCO. Fue organizado en estrecha colaboración con el Ministerio de Cultura y la comisión nacional de la UNESCO.

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Many states parties are intensifying their efforts to meet their obligations concerning the Convention for the safeguarding of the Intangible cultural heritage of 2003. The global capacity-building strategy developed by UNESCO covers the various components of this instrument, including ratification, awareness raising, implementation at the national level, and inventorying and safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage present in the territory of States Parties. The main objective is to assist States parties in implementing the Convention by adopting appropriate measures.

UNESCO Beirut regional Office in Lebanon contributes to these efforts by organizing a workshop on the implementation of the Convention in Broumana, scheduled for July 11 to 15, 2011. This workshop is the first for the countries of the region since the training of trainers, which took place in Abu Dhabi from April 10 to 14, 2011. Participants are from Syria and Lebanon, and come from academia, non- governmental organizations and the public sector.

Facilitators of the workshop are Ahmed Skounti, Professor at the National Institute of Archaeology and Heritage Sciences in Morocco and Annie Tohmé-Tabet, Associate professor of anthropology at Saint Joseph University in Lebanon, both of whom have been accredited and certified by UNESCO.

The workshop takes place at Printania Hotel in Broumana in the Eastern high suburbs of Beirut.

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Within the framework of UNESCO’s global capacity-building strategy for the implementation of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003), a four day training session was held in collaboration with PNCA (Pakistan National Council of the Arts), Islamabad from 2-5 May 2011. A second Training Session was also held on 25th June 2011 at PNCA, which focused on the preparation of the Urgent Safeguarding Lists, Representative List and Best Practices within the framework of the Convention. The details for the related workshops are below.

WORKSHOP 2: 25 JUNE 2011

The second Training Session was held on the 25th of June 2011 at PNCA. The training focused on the preparation of Urgent Safeguarding Lists, Representative List and Best Practices within the framework of the Convention. Sixteen persons, mainly from Lok Virsa and PNCA, attended. The training was done through interactive sessions covering all key aspects of preparing USL dossiers and the form.

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Within the framework of the programme activity “Supporting capacities for inventorying of intangible cultural heritage in Central Asia” the Kyrgyz National Commission for UNESCO in cooperation with the UNESCO Almaty Cluster Office organized a two-day training-workshop on the implementation of the 2003 Convention and inventorying of ICH in two regions of the Kyrgyz Republic, from 18 to 19 July 2011 in Talas and from 15 to 16 September 2011 in Osh.

The main aim of the training-workshop was to strengthen national capacities for the inventorying and managing intangible cultural heritage. Presentations highlighted goals of the Convention, obligations of State-Parties, and the Convention’s mechanisms. It provided participants with the necessary knowledge about a methodology concerning inventory making of intangible cultural heritage.

During the training-workshop 20 participants from governmental organizations, scientific institutions, NGOs and local communities discussed the current situation in the field of identification and documentation of elements of intangible cultural heritage and national strategy on safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage in the Kyrgyz Republic.

The 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage was ratified by the Kyrgyz Republic in 2006.

• List of participants: inglés
• Agenda: inglés

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El taller de capacitación sobre la aplicación de la Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial para representantes del Ministerio de Cultura de Camerún, la Comisión Nacional para la UNESCO en Camerún,
medios de comunicación, profesores universitarios y líderes comunitarios tradicionales de Camerún, se llevó a cabo en Kribi del 7 al 10 de junio de 2011.

Dos expertos de la UNESCO, que beneficiaron de la formación de formadores en Libreville (enero de 2011), han sido seleccionados por la organización para facilitar el taller de Kribi.

Este taller fue diseñado para desarrollar y fortalecer las capacidades de los participantes sobre temas de la salvaguardia del patrimonio inmaterial en el contexto nacional específico del Camerún, para que puedan contribuir a la aplicación de la Convención. La Convención fue ratificada por el país después del taller.

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With its 150 million population and some 450 cultural groups, Nigeria has an immense and diverse canvas of intangible cultural heritage in need of safeguarding. The workshop entitled “Domestication of the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage” which took place from June 1-3, 2011, in Enugu, aimed at building the capacity of national stakeholders in doing so, through a better understanding of the concepts and institutional mechanisms set up in of this instrument.

The workshop was organized by the UNESCO Country Office in Abuja, with the active support of the National Institute for Cultural Orientation (NICO), and Enugu State Government. A total of 42 participants were trained on this occasion, including Directors of Culture representing the 6 Geo-political regions of Nigeria, UNESCO accredited cultural and community-based NGOs, personnel from cultural agencies under the Federal Ministry of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation, Ministry of Culture officials at the Federal level (national level) and the media.

The workshop was conducted by Mr Silverse Anami from Kenya and Mr Denja Abdullahi from Nigeria, two UNESCO-trained facilitators. They used the modules and training methods contained in the implementation materials developed by UNESCO in strengthening national capacities for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage, while integrating local examples as much as possible to suit the context.

At the end of the workshop, participants released a communiqué (inglés) which included some resolutions on follow-up measures to be undertaken.

Documents

• Agenda and Timetable : inglés
• Article: inglés

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Within the framework of national capacity-building strategy for the implementation of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003), the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture in partnership and the UNESCO Office in Bujumbura organized a workshop in Bujumbura from 26 to 28 May 2011. The workshop brought together 40 participants (36 Burundian delegates and two delegations from neighboring countries, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo).

The workshop focused on familiarizing participants with the Intangible Heritage Convention, its basic concepts, measures and mechanisms, recognizing that effective implementation depends upon profound knowledge and understanding of all the people involved in the safeguarding of living heritage. The workshop facilitated by M. Domitien Nizigiyimana and M. Louis Bazubwabo, two members of the network of 65 experts who participated in a training-of-trainers workshop series on how to use the UNESCO curricula specifically designed to build capacity on implementing the Convention. Currently the curriculum includes four themes: (a) ratification, (b) implementing the Convention at the national level, (c) community-based inventorying, (d) elaborating nominations to the Intangible Heritage Convention’s List.

The global capacity-building strategy put in place with the support of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund and UNESCO’s regular programme budget. Some US$7 million in extra-budgetary resources have been mobilized to implement the capacity-building strategy. This generous support was granted by the Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Flanders (Belgium), Hungary, Japan, Norway, the Republic of Korea, Spain and the United Arab Emirates. It will l continue to enjoy highest priority. It will continue to enjoy highest priority in UNESCO’s Programme.

The Bujumbura workshop is part and parcel of this important initiative.

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The consultative meeting of experts and training “Strengthening national capacities for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage” takes place in Minsk (Belarus) from 18 to 21 May 2011. The event aims to strengthen national capacities in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Moldova and the Russian Federation for the Safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage present in their territory. It also aims to raise awareness of the importance of this heritage for sustainable development, taking into account the perspectives of gender and youth.

The training utilizes materials developed by UNESCO and the network of regional facilitators trained as part of the overall strategy of the organization for capacity building in the implementation of the Convention on Intangible Heritage (2003).

The event is organized by the Cluster Office of UNESCO in Moscow in partnership with the Institute of Arts, Ethnography and Folklore, with the participation of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus and the National Commission of the Republic of Belarus for UNESCO.

• Liste of participants: inglés
• Agenda: inglés

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Within the framework of UNESCO’s global capacity-building strategy for the implementation of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003), a four day training session was held in collaboration with PNCA (Pakistan National Council of the Arts), Islamabad from 2-5 May 2011. A second Training Session was also held on 25th June 2011 at PNCA, which focused on the preparation of the Urgent Safeguarding Lists, Representative List and Best Practices within the framework of the Convention. The details for the related workshops are below.

WORKSHOP 1: 2-5 MAY 2011
A four day training session was held in collaboration with PNCA from 2-5 May 2011. There were thirteen participants including staff members of PNCA, Lok Virsa (The National Institute of Folk & Traditional Heritage), and two journalists. The training session focused on National Implementation and Community-based inventorying components, which was delivered through lectures and field visits. The presentations for this component of the Training were based on the material generated by UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Section, Paris, which was tailored to the Pakistani situation. Lectures/presentations were made by Sajida Vandal supported by a lecture given by Yawar Ansari on the GIS Cultural database system and a presentation by Abid of the Mardan University, who was earlier the field coordinator for the Cultural Mapping of North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan. A presentation was also made by Adnan, Jawad (UNESCO staff) and Abid on the Cultural Mapping template, equipment and sharing of experiences gained through their work in KP.

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Within the framework of UNESCO’s global capacity-building strategy for the implementation of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003), and the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of Diversity of Cultural Expressions (2005), the UNESCO Cluster Office in Accra organizes a workshop on “The Power of Culture in Development”. This workshop brings together 41 representatives from Ministry of Chieftaincy and Culture, National Commission on Culture, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana (Legon), Ghana National Commission for UNESCO, Ministry of Education, Environmental Protection Agency of the Ministry of Science and Environment and other key institutions involved in the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage. The Workshop is presided by the Minister of Chieftaincy and Culture of Ghana. Such as Ghana and Liberia have not ratified the two conventions, a holistic and multisectoral approach was adopted by the Accra Office in order to create an inclusive understanding and appreciation of the questions tackled by these normative instruments.

The key objectives of the meeting and other follow-up activities aimed:

A. Familiarize all participants with the UNESCO Conventions for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) and the Protection and Promotion of Diversity of Cultural Expressions

B. Promote the ratification of the conventions by the Parliament and the Government of Ghana

C. Raise awareness all participants about the importance of recognizing the cultural heritage – particularly living heritage - in national policy development and implementation of development programs.

The workshop is facilitated by the Programme Specialist of UNESCO for Culture in Ghana, a traditional chief, academics, practitioners and militants of the culture in Ghana.

The Accra workshop is part of the global strategy of UNESCO capacity building , implemented with the support of the intangible cultural heritage fund and the budget of the regular program.

• List of participants: inglés

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Los Estados Partes en la Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial han insistido reiteradamente en la importancia de fortalecer sus capacidades para aplicar eficazmente la Convención. Para ello, la UNESCO ha concentrado sus programas para el bienio 2010-2011 en una estrategia global de fortalecimiento de capacidades en los Estados miembros y continuará a hacer lo mismo en los próximos años. La UNESCO está desarrollando una red global de expertos que serán formados en nuestros materiales y métodos de formación. Esta reunión forma parte de una serie de talleres dedicados a la formación de formadores en las diferentes regiones que tendrán lugar entre enero y abril de 2011 para crear esta red de expertos formadores.

Este taller se financia con el Fondo del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial y apoyo adicional del Programa Ordinario de la UNESCO.

Documentos generales

• Abu Dhabi workshop outline (strategy, timetable, participants): inglés|francés
• Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial: textos fundamentales: inglés

APLI Aplicación de la Convención a nivel nacional

• APLI Manual del formador sobre la Aplicación de la Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial a nivel nacional (incluye folletos de presentación, archivo de gran tamaño): francés
• APLI Manual del formador sobre la Aplicación de la Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial a nivel nacional (archivo más pequeño, no incluye folletos de presentación): inglés|francés|español
• IMP 5.2 Presentation: Introducing the Intangible Heritage Convention: inglés
• IMP 5.3 Presentation: Key Concepts: inglés
• APLI 5.4 Presentación: ¿Quién puede hacer qué para la aplicación de la Convención?: inglés
• APLI 5.5 Presentación: Sensibilización: inglés
• APLI 5.6 Presentación: Confección de inventarios del PCI: inglés
• IMP 5.7 Presentation: Involving the communities concerned: inglés
• APLI 5.9 Presentación: PCI y el desarrollo sostenible: inglés
• IMP 5.10 Presentation: Good safeguarding practices: inglés
• IMP 5.12 Presentation: Implementation at the international level: inglés
• APLI 5.13 Presentación: Políticas e instituciones del patrimonio inmaterial: inglés
• IMP 5.14 Presentation: Concluding session: inglés

RAT Ratificar la Convención

• RAT Manual del formador sobre Ratificar la Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial (archivo de gran tamaño, incluye folletos de presentación): inglés|francés
• RAT Manual del formador sobre Ratificar la Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial (archivo más pequeño, no incluye folletos de presentación): inglés|francés
• RAT 2.2 Presentación: Introducción de la Convención (CAND = 2.2): inglés|francés
• RAT 2.3 Presentación: Los conceptos fundamentales de la Convención (CAND = 2.3): inglés|francés
• RAT 2.4 Presentación: Aplicación de la Convención a nivel nacional: inglés
• RAT 2.5 Presentación: Aplicación de la Convención a nivel internacional: inglés
• RAT 2.6 Presentación: La participación de las comunidades en la salvaguardia del PCI: inglés
• RAT 2.7 Presentación: Ratificar la Convención del Patrimonio Inmaterial: inglés

INV Confeccionar inventarios del PCI con la participación de las comunidades

• INV Manual del formador sobre Confeccionar inventarios del PCI con la participación de las comunidades (archivo de gran tamaño, incluye folletos de presentación): inglés|francés en preparación|español en preparación
• INV Manual del formador sobre Confeccionar inventarios del PCI con la participación de las comunidades (archivo más pequeño, no incluye folletos de presentación): inglés|francés en preparación|español en preparación
• INV 8.2 Presentación: Introducción de la Convención - los desafíos básicos de la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial: inglés|francés en preparación|español en preparación
• INV 8.4 Presentación: Confección de inventarios del PCI con arreglo a la Convención: inglés|francés en preparación|español en preparación
• INV 8.6 Presentación: La salvaguardia del PCI: conceptos básicos: inglés|francés en preparación|español en preparación

CAND Preparación de candidaturas para la Lista de Salvaguardia Urgente

• CAND Manual del formador sobre Preparación de las candidaturas para la Lista de Salvaguardia Urgente (archivo de gran tamaño, incluye folletos de presentación): inglés|francés
• CAND Manual del formador sobre Preparación de las candidaturas para la Lista de Salvaguardia Urgente (archivo más pequeño, no incluye folletos de presentación): inglés|francés|español
• CAND 5.2 Presentación: Introducción de la Convención: inglés|francés
• CAND 5.3 Presentación: Los conceptos fundamentales de la Convención: inglés|francés
• CAND 5.4 Presentación: Confección de inventarios del PCI: inglés
• CAND 5.5 Presentación: La asistencia internacional: inglés
• CAND 5.6 Presentación: Descripción del proceso de candidaturas: inglés|francés
• CAND 5.7 Presentación: Presentación de ejemplos de candidaturas: inglés
• CAND 5.9 Presentación: Examen del Órgano Consultivo: inglés
• CAND 5.12 Presentación: Formulación de una estrategia de participación comunitaria: inglés
• CAND 5.13 Presentación: Elaboración de medidas de salvaguardia: inglés

Vínculo para un acceso directo 

Los Estados Partes en la Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial han insistido reiteradamente en la importancia de fortalecer sus capacidades para aplicar eficazmente la Convención. Para ello, la UNESCO ha concentrado sus programas para el bienio 2010-2011 en una estrategia global de fortalecimiento de capacidades en los Estados miembros y continuará a hacer lo mismo en los próximos años. La UNESCO está desarrollando una red global de expertos que serán formados en nuestros materiales y métodos de formación. Esta reunión forma parte de una serie de talleres dedicados a la formación de formadores en las diferentes regiones que tendrán lugar entre enero y abril de 2011 para crear esta red de expertos formadores.

Este taller se financia con el Fondo del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial y apoyo adicional del Programa Ordinario de la UNESCO.

Documentos generales

• Informaciones útiles - taller de La Habana: inglés|español
• Presentación del taller de La Habana (estrategia, programa, presentación de los materiales, lista de participantes): inglés|español
• Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial: textos fundamentales: inglés

APLI Aplicación de la Convención a nivel nacional

• APLI Manual del formador sobre la Aplicación de la Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial a nivel nacional (incluye folletos de presentación, archivo de gran tamaño): francés
• APLI Manual del formador sobre la Aplicación de la Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial a nivel nacional (archivo más pequeño, no incluye folletos de presentación): inglés|francés|español
• IMP 5.2 Presentation: Introducing the Intangible Heritage Convention: inglés
• IMP 5.3 Presentation: Key Concepts: inglés
• APLI 5.4 Presentación: ¿Quién puede hacer qué para la aplicación de la Convención?: inglés
• APLI 5.5 Presentación: Sensibilización: inglés
• APLI 5.6 Presentación: Confección de inventarios del PCI: inglés
• IMP 5.7 Presentation: Involving the communities concerned: inglés
• APLI 5.9 Presentación: PCI y el desarrollo sostenible: inglés
• IMP 5.10 Presentation: Good safeguarding practices: inglés
• IMP 5.12 Presentation: Implementation at the international level: inglés
• APLI 5.13 Presentación: Políticas e instituciones del patrimonio inmaterial: inglés
• IMP 5.14 Presentation: Concluding session: inglés

RAT Ratificar la Convención

• RAT Manual del formador sobre Ratificar la Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial (archivo de gran tamaño, incluye folletos de presentación): inglés|francés
• RAT Manual del formador sobre Ratificar la Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial (archivo más pequeño, no incluye folletos de presentación): inglés|francés
• RAT 2.2 Presentación: Introducción de la Convención (CAND = 2.2): inglés|francés
• RAT 2.3 Presentación: Los conceptos fundamentales de la Convención (CAND = 2.3): inglés|francés
• RAT 2.4 Presentación: Aplicación de la Convención a nivel nacional: inglés
• RAT 2.5 Presentación: Aplicación de la Convención a nivel internacional: inglés
• RAT 2.6 Presentación: La participación de las comunidades en la salvaguardia del PCI: inglés
• RAT 2.7 Presentación: Ratificar la Convención del Patrimonio Inmaterial: inglés

INV Confeccionar inventarios del PCI con la participación de las comunidades

• INV Manual del formador sobre Confeccionar inventarios del PCI con la participación de las comunidades (archivo de gran tamaño, incluye folletos de presentación): inglés|francés en preparación|español en preparación
• INV Manual del formador sobre Confeccionar inventarios del PCI con la participación de las comunidades (archivo más pequeño, no incluye folletos de presentación): inglés|francés en preparación|español en preparación
• INV 8.2 Presentación: Introducción de la Convención - los desafíos básicos de la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial: inglés|francés en preparación|español en preparación
• INV 8.4 Presentación: Confección de inventarios del PCI con arreglo a la Convención: inglés|francés en preparación|español en preparación
• INV 8.6 Presentación: La salvaguardia del PCI: conceptos básicos: inglés|francés en preparación|español en preparación

CAND Preparación de candidaturas para la Lista de Salvaguardia Urgente

• CAND Manual del formador sobre Preparación de las candidaturas para la Lista de Salvaguardia Urgente (archivo de gran tamaño, incluye folletos de presentación): inglés|francés
• CAND Manual del formador sobre Preparación de las candidaturas para la Lista de Salvaguardia Urgente (archivo más pequeño, no incluye folletos de presentación): inglés|francés|español
• CAND 5.2 Presentación: Introducción de la Convención: inglés|francés
• CAND 5.3 Presentación: Los conceptos fundamentales de la Convención: inglés|francés
• CAND 5.4 Presentación: Confección de inventarios del PCI: inglés
• CAND 5.5 Presentación: La asistencia internacional: inglés
• CAND 5.6 Presentación: Descripción del proceso de candidaturas: inglés|francés
• CAND 5.7 Presentación: Presentación de ejemplos de candidaturas: inglés
• CAND 5.9 Presentación: Examen del Órgano Consultivo: inglés
• CAND 5.12 Presentación: Formulación de una estrategia de participación comunitaria: inglés
• CAND 5.13 Presentación: Elaboración de medidas de salvaguardia: inglés

Vínculo para un acceso directo 

Los Estados Partes en la Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial han insistido reiteradamente en la importancia de fortalecer sus capacidades para aplicar eficazmente la Convención. Para ello, la UNESCO ha concentrado sus programas para el bienio 2010-2011 en una estrategia global de fortalecimiento de capacidades en los Estados miembros y continuará a hacer lo mismo en los próximos años. La UNESCO está desarrollando una red global de expertos que serán formados en nuestros materiales y métodos de formación. Esta reunión forma parte de una serie de talleres dedicados a la formación de formadores en las diferentes regiones que tendrán lugar entre enero y abril de 2011 para crear esta red de expertos formadores.

Este taller se financia con el Fondo del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial y apoyo adicional del Programa Ordinario de la UNESCO.

Documentos generales

• Practical information - Sofia meeting: inglés
• Sofia workshop outline (strategy, timetable, overview of materials): inglés
• Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage: basic texts: inglés

APLI Aplicación de la Convención a nivel nacional

• APLI Manual del formador sobre la Aplicación de la Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial a nivel nacional (incluye folletos de presentación, archivo de gran tamaño): francés
• APLI Manual del formador sobre la Aplicación de la Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial a nivel nacional (archivo más pequeño, no incluye folletos de presentación): inglés|francés|español
• IMP 5.2 Presentation: Introducing the Intangible Heritage Convention: inglés
• IMP 5.3 Presentation: Key Concepts: inglés
• APLI 5.4 Presentación: ¿Quién puede hacer qué para la aplicación de la Convención?: inglés
• APLI 5.5 Presentación: Sensibilización: inglés
• APLI 5.6 Presentación: Confección de inventarios del PCI: inglés
• IMP 5.7 Presentation: Involving the communities concerned: inglés
• APLI 5.9 Presentación: PCI y el desarrollo sostenible: inglés
• IMP 5.10 Presentation: Good safeguarding practices: inglés
• IMP 5.12 Presentation: Implementation at the international level: inglés
• APLI 5.13 Presentación: Políticas e instituciones del patrimonio inmaterial: inglés
• IMP 5.14 Presentation: Concluding session: inglés

RAT Ratificar la Convención

• RAT Manual del formador sobre Ratificar la Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial (archivo de gran tamaño, incluye folletos de presentación): inglés|francés
• RAT Manual del formador sobre Ratificar la Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial (archivo más pequeño, no incluye folletos de presentación): inglés|francés
• RAT 2.2 Presentación: Introducción de la Convención (CAND = 2.2): inglés|francés
• RAT 2.3 Presentación: Los conceptos fundamentales de la Convención (CAND = 2.3): inglés|francés
• RAT 2.4 Presentación: Aplicación de la Convención a nivel nacional: inglés
• RAT 2.5 Presentación: Aplicación de la Convención a nivel internacional: inglés
• RAT 2.6 Presentación: La participación de las comunidades en la salvaguardia del PCI: inglés
• RAT 2.7 Presentación: Ratificar la Convención del Patrimonio Inmaterial: inglés

INV Confeccionar inventarios del PCI con la participación de las comunidades

• INV Manual del formador sobre Confeccionar inventarios del PCI con la participación de las comunidades (archivo de gran tamaño, incluye folletos de presentación): inglés|francés en preparación|español en preparación
• INV Manual del formador sobre Confeccionar inventarios del PCI con la participación de las comunidades (archivo más pequeño, no incluye folletos de presentación): inglés|francés en preparación|español en preparación
• INV 8.2 Presentación: Introducción de la Convención - los desafíos básicos de la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial: inglés|francés en preparación|español en preparación
• INV 8.4 Presentación: Confección de inventarios del PCI con arreglo a la Convención: inglés|francés en preparación|español en preparación
• INV 8.6 Presentación: La salvaguardia del PCI: conceptos básicos: inglés|francés en preparación|español en preparación

CAND Preparación de candidaturas para la Lista de Salvaguardia Urgente

• CAND Manual del formador sobre Preparación de las candidaturas para la Lista de Salvaguardia Urgente (archivo de gran tamaño, incluye folletos de presentación): inglés|francés
• CAND Manual del formador sobre Preparación de las candidaturas para la Lista de Salvaguardia Urgente (archivo más pequeño, no incluye folletos de presentación): inglés|francés|español
• CAND 5.2 Presentación: Introducción de la Convención: inglés|francés
• CAND 5.3 Presentación: Los conceptos fundamentales de la Convención: inglés|francés
• CAND 5.4 Presentación: Confección de inventarios del PCI: inglés
• CAND 5.5 Presentación: La asistencia internacional: inglés
• CAND 5.6 Presentación: Descripción del proceso de candidaturas: inglés|francés
• CAND 5.7 Presentación: Presentación de ejemplos de candidaturas: inglés
• CAND 5.9 Presentación: Examen del Órgano Consultivo: inglés
• CAND 5.12 Presentación: Formulación de una estrategia de participación comunitaria: inglés
• CAND 5.13 Presentación: Elaboración de medidas de salvaguardia: inglés

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The ICH training workshop was organized from 23-25 February 2011. As trainers served B. Kaldun and a Chinese danceexpertand Vice-Director of the Institute of Dance, Mr. Jiang Dongwho received training under the UNESCO China workshop in January 2011.
The workshop was attended by 40 researchers, academia and government officers involved with ICH. The workshop addressed three main areas, overall commitment under the ICH Convention, safeguarding measures of ICH with focus on inventorying and a brief introduction on the nomination process.

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The States Parties to the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage have repeatedly emphasized the importance of strengthening the capacities of developing countries to effectively implement the Convention. In response, UNESCO has focused its programmes for the 2010-2011 biennium on a global strategy of capacity building among Member States and will continue to do the same in future years. UNESCO is developing a global network of experts who will be well trained in our curricula and methods. This meeting is one in a series of workshops devoted to ‘training of trainers’ in different regions from January to March 2011 to create this network of expert trainers.

The workshop is generously supported by the UNESCO/Government of Bulgaria Funds-in-Trust, with additional funding from the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund and UNESCO’s Regular Programme.

General Documents

• List of participants: francés
• Practical information - Libreville workshop: francés
• Libreville workshop outline (strategy, timetable): francés

Vínculo para un acceso directo 

The States Parties to the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage have repeatedly emphasized the importance of strengthening the capacities of developing countries to effectively implement the Convention. In response, UNESCO has focused its programmes for the 2010-2011 biennium on a global strategy of capacity building among Member States and will continue to do the same in future years. UNESCO is developing a global network of experts who will be well trained in our curricula and methods. This meeting is one in a series of workshops devoted to ‘training of trainers’ in different regions from January to March 2011 to create this network of expert trainers.

The meeting is co-hosted by Oral Traditions Association of Zimbabwe (OTAZ). It is funded by the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund and UNESCO’s Regular Programme.

General Documents

• Practical information - Harare meeting: inglés
• Harare workshop outline (strategy, timetable, overview of materials, participant list): inglés
• Welcoming remarks by Prof. Luc Rukingama, Director and Representative, UNESCO Office in Harare: inglés
• Keynote address by H.E. Lazarus D.K. Dokora, Member of Parliament and Deputy Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture: inglés
• Closing remarks by Mr Josiah J. Mhlanga, Secretary General, Zimbabwe National Commission for UNESCO: inglés

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The States Parties to the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage have repeatedly emphasized the importance of strengthening the capacities of developing countries to effectively implement the Convention. In response, UNESCO has focused its programmes for the 2010-2011 biennium on a global strategy of capacity building among Member States and will continue to do the same in future years. UNESCO is developing a global network of experts who will be well trained in our curricula and methods. This meeting is one in a series of workshops devoted to ‘training of trainers’ in different regions from January to March 2011 to create this network of expert trainers.

The workshop is hosted by the Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China, in cooperation with the International Training Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region, and made possible through the generous support of the Government of China. Additional funding is provided by the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund and UNESCO’s Regular Programme.

General Documents

• General information (from the Chinese hosts): inglés
• Beijing workshop outline (strategy, timetable, overview of materials, participant list): inglés