Submitting States and priorities for 2019 cycle

Below are the files received by the UNESCO Secretariat for a potential examination in the 2019 cycle. This list includes nominations for the Urgent Safeguarding List or Representative List, proposals for the Register of Good Safeguarding Practices and requests for International Assistance greater than US$100,000.

The Committee will examine at least one file per submitting State during the two cycles of 2018 and 2019. It determined the total number of files for these two cycles to be 100 (50 in 2018 and 50 in 2019).

For the 2019 cycle, files are presented below in the order corresponding to Committee decision 11.COM 12 to have at least one file per submitting State processed over the two cycles of 2018 and 2019, and to the level of priorities stated in paragraph 34 of the Operational Directives:

• (i) files from States having no elements inscribed, good safeguarding practices selected or requests for International Assistance greater than US$100,000 approved, and nominations to the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding;
• (ii) multinational files; and
• (iii) files from States with the fewest elements inscribed, good safeguarding practices selected or requests for International Assistance greater than US$100,000 approved, in comparison with other submitting States during the same cycle.

The practice of the Committee over the last cycles has been to have at least one file per submitting State processed over two subsequent cycles. The States that do not have a file examined in 2019 are thus likely to have priority during the 2020 cycle.