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Southern Africa: Enhanced national capacities and sub-regional cooperation for safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage
23 February 2015 Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe,It is time to review and to plan for the next steps! Chinhoyi (Zimbabwe) welcomes a workshop from 24 to 26 February 2015 in order to take ›››
Southern Africa: Towards a sub-regional capacity-building strategy for intangible cultural heritage
6 May 2013 Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe,For the first time, Southern African countries are joining hands to create the professional and institutional environment required for the effective safeguarding of intangible ›››
Building capacities for community-based intangible cultural heritage inventorying in Southern Africa
15 February 2010 – Maseru Lesotho,The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage aims at safeguarding living heritage. Unlike tangible heritage that is conventionally managed by heritage ›››
Project
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
1 December 2013 – 1 March 2015Amount (US$) 250,000.00
Benefitting country(ies): Botswana , Lesotho , Malawi , Namibia , Swaziland , Zambia , Zimbabwe ,
A series of pilot projects in community-based intangible heritage inventorying on a grassroots-level in six selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa
1 September 2009 – 1 December 2011Amount (US$) 275,000.00
Benefitting country(ies): Botswana , Lesotho , Malawi , Uganda , Swaziland , Zambia ,
Strengthening national capacities for effective safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage: developing nominations for the Urgent Safeguarding List in Southern Africa
1 October 2010 – 1 June 2011Amount (US$) 65,000.00
Benefitting country(ies): Lesotho , Namibia ,