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Developing Safeguarding plans
16 April 2017 – Dubai United Arab Emirates,![Developing safeguarding plans in Dubai](https://webarchive.unesco.org/web/20170505221309im_/http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/img/photo/thumb/09401-SML.jpg)
Developing safeguarding plans in Dubai
16 April 2017 United Arab Emirates,The last of three capacity-building workshops for the Hamdan Bin Mohammed Heritage Center is taking place this week in Dubai, in the United Arab ›››
Community-based inventorying workshop
24 January 2016 – Dubai United Arab Emirates,The second of three agreed upon capacity building workshops. This workshop will focus on community-based inventorying and the appropriate training. ›››
Donor country for the safeguarding of ICH
Latest projects supported
Strengthening national capacities for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in eight countries in Africa and the Arab Region: assessing needs and developing project proposals
Starting date: 1 May 2014Benefitting country(ies):Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Madagascar, Palestine, Sudan, Yemen, South Sudan,
Latest events supported
ADTCA needs assessment in Sudan
3 April 2015 - 10 April 2015, :KhartoumFunds-in-Trust (since 2009)
Additional appropriations since 2009
– 2 January 2011
– 3 January 2011
– 3 January 2011
– 3 January 2011
– 26 August 2011
– 21 February 2013
– 21 August 2013