Benefitting country(ies): Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti

Overview:

This project has a twofold objective: strengthening the national capacities on intangible cultural heritage in each of the beneficiary countries by a number of training workshops and by supporting and giving policy advice to governmental and non-governmental institutions in the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage.

Through the workshops on implementation of the Convention and on inventorying, both the Dominican Republic and especially Cuba have received advice, technical assistance and support on their work on intangible cultural heritage, sustaining projects that contribute to the safeguarding of the intangible cultural expressions. Aruba has received support and policy advice on several occasions and more recently Haiti has already benefited from one policy advice mission. Following the workshops, field trip exercises have been done so far in the Dominique Republic and Cuba in a selected community for the participants to gain a real hands-on experience.

News and activities:

• 2014-04-21 – Mission in Haiti
• 2014-03-31 – Workshop on community-based inventorying in Dominican Republic
• 2014-02-11 – Training on the implementation of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage at the national level in Eastern Cuba
• 2014-02-07 – Safeguarding intangible cultural heritage strengthened in eastern Cuba
• 2013-10-07 – Training on the use of the mechanisms of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage
• 2013-10-07 – Preparing nominations: Caribbean countries strengthen their capacities
• 2013-05-13 – Workshop on the implementation of the 2003 Convention at the national level in Cap Haïtien (Haiti)
• 2013-05-06 – Workshop on the implementation of the 2003 Convention at the national level in Les Cayes (Haiti)
• 2013-04-30 – Haiti: on the road to effective and sustainable implementation of the Convention
• 2013-03-11 – Dominican Republic on the road to the implementation of the 2003 Convention
• 2013-03-08 – Dominican Republic sets off on the path of implementing the 2003 Convention
• 2013-02-28 – Cuba: communities involved in the inventory of the rural festivities of Red and Blue bands of Majagua
• 2013-02-26 – Intangible cultural heritage inventorying underway in Latin America
• 2013-02-18 – Laying the groundwork for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in Haiti
• 2012-11-12 – Preparing the inventory in the Matanzas Province, Cuba
• 2012-10-15 – Heritage policy advice in Aruba

12/08/2013 - 03/12/2014 – Inventory of traditional musics in Senegal01/11/2011 - 01/06/2014 – Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage through the Strengthening of National Capacities in Lao PDR