Eventos y reuniones sobre el patrimonio cultural inmaterial organizadas o coorganizadas por la UNESCO

El Ministerio de Cultura y Patrimonio y el Instituto Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural de Ecuador (INPC) organizan, junto con la oficina de la UNESCO en Quito, el último de una serie de tres talleres sobre el desarrollo de herramientas de política pública para la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial, del 13 al 16 de junio de 2016 en Puerto López (provincia de Manabí).

Inicialmente previsto en Portoviejo, también en la provincia de Manabí que se vio seriamente afectada por el seísmo del 16 de abril, este taller se apoyará en la metodología del PNUD de evaluación de necesidades para la recuperación post-desastre en relación con la revisión de planes de desarrollo, desde de la perspectiva de la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial en un contexto de post-desastre.

Los aproximadamente 25 participantes de las oficinas regionales del Ministerio de Cultura y Patrimonio y del INPC, representantes de la Secretaría Nacional de Planificación y Desarrollo y miembros de comunidades que asistirán a este taller provienen de regiones gravemente afectadas por el seísmo.

El taller forma parte de un proyecto de dos años, apoyado por el Gobierno de Japón, para fortalecer las capacidades humanas e institucionales en materia de salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial en Ecuador.

El año pasado, se organizaron actividades sobre la confección de inventarios con participación de las comunidades en Portoviejo para sensibilizar y reforzar a las sinergias.

Esta nueva etapa del proyecto permitirá a los participantes reflexionar sobre el impacto de las políticas públicas en la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial, desde un enfoque de género y de derechos humanos en el contexto del plan de desarrollo ecuatoriano del “Buen Vivir”.

As a state party to the Convention since 2006 and a participant in international meetings and mechanisms (sessions of the IGC and GA, expert groups, regional meetings, submission of nominations and inscriptions on the RL), Romania has already proven its interest in the workings of the Convention. This workshop comes as a step forward in enhancing the implementation of the Convention in more concrete and substantial terms, primarily as regards the issues of community participation, elaboration of safeguarding activities, bottom-up inventorying, roles of different types of stakeholders and the coordination between them.
Despite quite frequent political changes and the understaffed relevant sections in the Ministry of Culture, one can recognize the intention of tracing a coherent national policy concerning the safeguarding of ICH. The above mentioned legal framework contributes toward this direction. The National Inventory and Registry, as two complementary instruments of identification of the ICH, have been elaborated by experts in the field of ethnology and folklore studies, cooperating closely with the officials from the Ministry of Culture, as well as with representatives of communities concerned.
The planned and carried out CB workshop on the implementation of the 2003 Convention at national level proved to be useful. Its objectives touched the core national needs, especially in terms of comprehension of key concepts of the Convention and their clarification through concrete case studies that were thoroughly discussed.

The 4th annual meeting of the category 2 centres active in the field of intangible cultural heritage will be held on 3 June 2016 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris (France). The meeting will follow up on the three previous annual meetings.

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The field exercise in Suriname was organized jointly by the National Commission, the Department of Cultural Studies (Directorate of Culture) and the Foundation Na Afrikan Kultura fu Sranan (NAKS). Suriname focused its field exercise on the national dress of Suriname – the koto, and its associated dances and songs by persons who made these dresses. Twelve persons were trained representing 7 females and 5 males who came largely from the youth department of NAKS – Wan Rutu.

The exercise revealed unknown koto experts and practitioners who were willing to contribute, and the interviews revealed that the type of music traditionally performed at ‘Koto Dansi,’ parties where all women are dressed in Koto, needed urgent revitalization.

The UNESCO Office in Amman in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture of Jordan implemented the workshop on “Implementation of the 2003 Convention of Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage” from 29 May till 01 June 2016 in Amman. This training is part of the UNESCO global strategy for strengthening national capacities for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage through the effective implementation of the 2003 Convention. The implementation of this workshop was very successful in many regards:
The workshop paved the way for a better understanding of the 2003 Convention and safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage among the governmental and community stakeholders. As a result of the workshop, the participants were equipped with information on the importance of ICH, the UNESCO 2003 Convention for Safeguarding ICH, detailed understanding of how to apply for funding, and some other key tools for teaching and promoting ICH through the media.
This initiative attracted a wide participation of stakeholder from NGOs representing various communities across Jordan, Ministries and National Authorities involved on cultural heritage at different levels.

The workshop was highly successful in contributing to enhance the capacities of the national stakeholders (governmental and non) to more effectively engage in the relevant safeguarding actions, in line with ER 5 “National capacities strengthened and utilized to safeguard intangible cultural heritage, including indigenous and endangered languages, through the effective implementation of the 2003 Convention”.

Over twenty participants representing seven countries (Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten and Suriname) will gather in Curaçao from 17 to 20 May 2016 for a workshop on developing plans to safeguard their intangible cultural heritage.

Reflecting diverse communities and practitioners, as well as governmental and non-governmental organizations involved in the safeguarding of living heritage in the sub-region, participants are among the first to benefit from a newly developed training combining the use of interactive scenarios and role-playing games that will be delivered by UNESCO-trained experts.

This activity builds on the community-based inventorying training and field exercises recently undertaken in the Dutch Caribbean. Organized by the UNESCO Kingston Cluster Office for the Caribbean in close cooperation with national partners across the islands, it is a part of a capacity-building project to reinforce safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage in the Dutch Caribbean islands and Suriname. It has been made possible thanks to a generous contribution from the Government of the Netherlands to the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund.

En la secuencia del taller de Loja, El Ministerio de Cultura y Patrimonio, el Instituto Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural de Ecuador (INPC) y la oficina de la UNESCO en Quito organizan en Riobamba el segundo de una serie de tres talleres sobre el desarrollo de herramientas de política pública para la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial. El taller, que tendrá lugar del 16 al 19 de mayo de 2016, reunirá cerca de 25 participantes, entre funcionarios de las oficinas regionales del Ministerio de Cultura y Patrimonio y del INPC, representantes de la Secretaría Nacional de Planificación y Desarrollo y miembros de comunidades. Ante los desafíos planteados por la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial, los participantes trabajarán sobre mecanismos de revisión y adecuación de planes de desarrollo, cuya aplicación y gestión corresponde a los gobiernos locales en el Ecuador.

Este taller forma parte de un proyecto de dos años, apoyado por el Gobierno de Japón, concebido para fortalecer las capacidades humanas e institucionales en Ecuador en materia de salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial, y da continuidad a la formación sobre confección de inventarios con participación de las comunidades organizada en 2015 en esta misma localidad. La sensibilización y las sinergias generadas ofrecerán a este nuevo espacio participativo una base para reflexionar sobre el impacto y las oportunidades de las políticas públicas para la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial, desde un enfoque de género y de derechos humanos en el contexto del plan de desarrollo ecuatoriano del “Buen Vivir”.

The one day meeting will take place in Paris as three of the six Syrian participants are currently located there and because it would be a good opportunity to present the Syrian participants to the concerned staff members of the Sections for Intangible Heritage (2003 Convention).
Syrian musicians and/or singers will be invited to take part in this meeting, together with an expert on Syrian traditional music, who will coordinate the présentations concerning the current status of Syrian traditional music, the threats they face in safeguarding this ICH and what support UNESCO can provide in this context.
The expert will provide an overview on the Syrian traditional music as an introduction to the meeting. This overview will take the form of a report, which will include the situation of the Syrian traditional music before the crisis, the different typologies of Syrian traditional music, its function in the society and in the current situation.

The regional workshop closes the capacity building project for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Portuguese Speaking African countries, funded by an earmarked contribution from Norway to the ICH-Fund. Professionals from all five PALOP countries gathered for a training on international assistance requests and to take stock of the project’s results in order to develop a strategy for ICH safeguarding in the PALOP region. The meeting was hosted by the Mozambican Institute for Socio-Cultural Research, Arquivo do Património Cultural (ARPAC), a leading institution in ICH safeguarding. Lucas Roque facilitated the workshop