The workshop will focus on the theme of safeguarding intangible cultural heritage and sustainable development with reference to the dedicated chapter of the Operational Directives on this topic and in light of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It will be structured as follows:

• Introduction of the topic of living heritage and sustainable development/UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs);
  
• Presentation of the ‘ICH and sustainable development toolbox’ - a set of new materials demonstrating the relationships between safeguarding intangible cultural heritage and sustainable development, developed under the global capacity-building programme;
  
• Discussion of case studies and exchange experiences in implementing projects, teaching, facilitating and advising on policies and strategies related to ICH and stainable development in Europe.
  

The workshop will also be an occasion to share the information on the latest developments in the life of the 2003 Convention.

L’entité du patrimoine vivant du Secteur de la Culture de l’UNESCO, en collaboration avec le Centre régional pour la sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel en Afrique (CRESPIAF), organise un atelier de formation pour formateurs afin de renforcer le réseau mondial des facilitateurs de l’UNESCO en Afrique. Cet atelier se déroulera du 9 au 13 juillet à Alger (Algérie).
L’atelier s’inscrit dans le cadre du programme global de renforcement des capacités pour la mise en œuvre effective de la Convention de 2003 pour la sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel. Pendant cinq jours, les nouveaux membres du réseau, accompagnés par des facilitateurs expérimentés, seront préparés à leur rôle de facilitateurs et familiarisés au matériel de formation, afin qu’ils puissent à leur tour fournir des services de formation et de conseil aux États et communautés.
Aujourd’hui, le réseau comprend 135 facilitateurs à travers le monde, dont 47 en Afrique. En incluant de nouveaux facilitateurs, cet atelier permettra non seulement de satisfaire la forte demande pour le renforcement des capacités en Afrique mais aussi de répondre aux défis rencontrés dans la mise en œuvre de la Convention dans la région.

The workshop ‘Safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage and community-based inventorying’ was held on 24 – 28 June 2019, at the Ministry of Culture of Albania, the National History Museum, Tirana, and the Ethnographic Museum and Old Bazaar of Kruja. The workshop was organized jointly by the Ministry of Culture of Albania, and the Regional Centre for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in South-Eastern Europe under the auspices of UNESCO, based in Sofia, Bulgaria.
This was the second capacity building activity on intangible cultural heritage safeguarding organized in Albania in cooperation with the Sofia Center and it followed up on the workshop ‘Implementation of the 2003 Convention at the national level’, which was held in Tirana, Albania in September 2015.
This workshop was led by two UNESCO trained facilitators, Mr Sasa Sreckovic from the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade, Serbia and Ms Meri Kumbe from the University of Arts of Tirana, Albania and it used an interactive methodology mixing lectures with case studies, role plays and field work exercises. The working language was English
After completing the workshop participants who were representatives from government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), communities, institutions, students and individual experts felt more aware and better equipped to be engaged in designing and conducting community-based inventorying in their respective communities.

La République des Comores a ratifié la convention 2003 le 20/11/2013. Les Comores n’ont pas encore d’éléments inscrits sur les listes du PCI. Les autorités nationales des Comores et d’autres parties prenantes sont déterminées à la sauvegarde du patrimoine vivant dans le pays. 2015 dans le cadre d’une mission d’évaluation des besoins du pays en matière de renforcement des capacités différentes parties impliquées dans la mise en œuvre de la convention 2003 un doucement de projet de Renforcement des capacités a été élaboré et un comité national du patrimoine culturel immatériel ce qui a constitué un signe encourageant de la volonté du pays de mettre en œuvre la convention du PCI

This workshop is part and parcel of an ongoing 24-month project with the aim of strengthening capacities to safeguard ICH in Egypt for sustainable development. The project is the result a of needs assessment in the field of intangible cultural heritage that was made possible thanks to the financial contribution of the Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority (ADTCA).
Funded also by ADTCA, this project intends to support Egypt in its efforts to safeguard its living heritage, in accordance with the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. In partnership with the Ministry of Culture of Egypt, UNESCO Cairo has already provided policy advisory services and capacity-building activities based on needs previously identified in consultation with national partners through the sector assessment, conducted in April-August 2015.