From 3 to 6 December representatives from governmental and non-governmental institutions from Timor-Leste are meeting to receive intensive training on the nomination process, from preparation to evaluation and examination. These sessions are mainly practical and participative and will rely on mock nominations that participants will need to analyse and improve in accordance with the criteria set out in the Operational Directives for the implementation of the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Conducted by the UNESCO-trained facilitators, Rahul Goswami from India and Suzanne Ogge from Australia, this workshop on the preparation of nominations of intangible cultural heritage elements for inscription on the Urgent Safeguarding List and the Representative List will complement the training that Timor-Leste has already received on the implementation of the Convention at the national level and community-based inventorying.

Community practitioners, non-governmental organizations in the field of crafts, traditional music and dance, leading universities and museums of the country as well as government officials came together for a workshop on inventorying of intangible cultural heritage which is held from 22 to 29 November 2013 in Shymkent, Kazakhstan.

Organized by the UNESCO Almaty Office in cooperation with the National Commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan for UNESCO and ISESCO and the Kazakhstan National Federation of UNESCO Clubs, the workshop marks a significant step in safeguarding the living heritage of Kazakhstan. It focuses on community participation in the identification and inventory of intangible cultural heritage, organization and management of information, and hands-on experience in preparing field work.

Funded by the Government of Norway, the workshop is the third and last in a series of workshops organized in Kazakhstan in the framework of a sub-regional project being implemented in Central Asia within the context of UNESCO’s global strategy on capacity building to safeguard intangible cultural heritage. It is conducted by two experts from the UNESCO facilitators’ network: Ms. Sabira Soltongeldieva and Mr. Illya Fetysov.

For more information, please see the webpage of Almaty Cluster Office for Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

heritage, a pilot activity on community-based inventorying was successfully carried out by the National Institute of Culture and History (NICH) from November 2013 to April 2014. During this period, seven cultural celebrations associated with various ethnic communities were inventoried in 13 communities across Belize: Los Finados, Yurumein, Las Posadas, Ox-lajun Ba-aktun Ceremony, Christmas Bram, Carnaval and La Semana Santa.
Inventorying of the cultural celebrations took into account the history of the celebration, identification of various ICH domains, safeguarding practices currently in place, as well as challenges to its viability identified by the cultural practitioners. The documentation process also involved a listing of key cultural words as used in the traditional language(s). The inventorying of these cultural celebrations involved the participants from the established ICH Working Body, as well as community cultural practitioners who are actively involved in the organization of these celebrations. An inventorying tool was developed to serve as a guide for the documentation stages of the project. The tool was piloted from 1-3 November and a planning and training session was later held with the ICH Working Body to develop an inventorying schedule. Throughout the project, the ICH Working Body met at regular intervals to discuss and to share the acquired knowledge. The group also provided feedback and suggestions for subsequent inventorying activities. In January 2014, a mid-term review meeting was held to evaluate the progress of the inventorying exercise and a final meeting was held in April 2014 to assess the results. Audio-visual equipment was also purchased to facilitate the pilot inventorying project and for future documentation of ICH.

Following the national workshop on community-based inventorying of intangible cultural heritage, a pilot activity on community-based inventorying was successfully carried out by the Ministry of the Arts and Multiculturalism (MAM), now the Ministry of Community Development, Culture and the Arts, from November 2013 to May 2014. During this period, the Soparee Mai Devotions and the Feast of La Divina Pastora was documented. Prior to this inventorying exercise, a training session was held at the Siparia Boys Roman Catholic Primary School, adjacent to the church where the statue of La Divina Pastora is kept and also part of the devotion grounds. Training was facilitated by media specialists, qualified information technology and audio visual technicians who focused on the methods for proper interviewing, multimedia equipment care and operation, lighting techniques, use of tripods, storyboarding, filming, and shot composition to assist the community members in their self-documentation efforts. Through the acquired training on documentation, community members were able to record the Sopari Mai Devotions in April and May 2014. Audio-visual equipment was purchased with project funds to facilitate the pilot inventorying activity, and an additional four sets of similar equipment were purchased from the fund provided by the Ministry.

The UNESCO Office in Rabat is organizing a training workshop on the implementation of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Kaédi, Mauritania, from 22-26 October, 2013.

The workshop is part of the project ‘Safeguarding intangible cultural heritage through strengthening national capacities in Morocco, Mauritania and Tunisia’ funded by the contribution of the Government of Norway to the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund. It will be facilitated by Mr Ahmed Skounti and Mr Mohamed Ould Mohamed Lemine Beijeu, both members of the UNESCO facilitators network in the field of intangible heritage, and will bring together approximately 20 participants including representatives from the Ministry of Culture, NGO’s and representatives from the local communities involved.

The objective of this first activity is to make sure that the key concepts of the Convention have been well understood and integrated by all the stakeholders involved in the safeguarding of living heritage in Mauritania. It will be followed by a series of other specific activities during the next months.

This Community-based Inventorying of Intangible Cultural Heritage Workshop is the 3rd activity hosted by Samoa within the framework of the regional capacity building project in the Asia-Pacific Region and is funded by the Japan Funds-in-Trust for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.

The Workshop will bring together some 50 participants ranging from ICH custodians, traditional leaders, senior officials responsible for ICH safeguarding, NGOs, community-based organisations, to faith-based organisations. The Workshop will provide stakeholders with training in community-based ICH inventorying with hands-on exercise at Gataivai Village in Savaii Island.

This workshop on the preparation of nomination files to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists will be held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia from 21 to 25 October 2013. Conducted by the UNESCO-trained facilitators, Suzanne Ogge from Australia and Rahul Goswani from India, the event is the final of a series of three capacity building events over the last 18 months aimed at the safeguarding of the manifestations of Cambodia’s living heritage. The training workshop, which the UNESCO Phnom Penh Office is organizing in partnership with the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts, will provide training on how to prepare nomination files for the Urgent Safeguarding List and Representative List, as well as proposals for the Register of Best Practices and requests for international assistance. The training strategy will provide the participants with the knowledge of preparing complete nomination files by understanding how they will later be evaluated and examined. The expert trainers will lead around 30 participants from concerned government agencies, members of the academy, ICH practitioners and community members.

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Del 14 al 22 de octubre del 2013 tendrán lugar en Argentina sesiones de capacitación sobre la preparación de candidaturas a las listas de la Convención de la UNESCO para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial, primero en Santiago del Estero, en la región del Gran Chaco, y luego en Buenos Aires. Al finalizar, unos 70 participantes, incluidos funcionarios gubernamentales y miembros de organizaciones no gubernamentales implicados en la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural de Argentina, pero también de Paraguay y Uruguay, habrán recibido una formación teórica y práctica sobre el proceso de candidatura, entendido como un proceso de planificación de medidas de salvaguardia con las comunidades involucradas.

Facilitados por dos expertas formadas por la UNESCO, Adriana Molano Arenas de Colombia y Mónica Lacarrieu de Argentina, estos talleres clausuran un programa de capacitación sobre la Convención apoyado por el Fondo fiduciario UNESCO/Japón que, desde hace más de un año, ha brindado a sus beneficiarios una sólida formación sobre la aplicación de la Convención a nivel nacional y la confección de inventarios del patrimonio cultural inmaterial con las comunidades portadoras.

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Del 7 al 11 de octubre, la Oficina Regional de Cultura para América Latina y el Caribe está organizando un taller de capacitación sobre la preparación de candidaturas a las listas de la Convención de la UNESCO para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial. El taller reunirá a una veintena de participantes de Cuba, Haití y República Dominicana que ya beneficiaron en sus respectivos países de una formación intensiva sobre la aplicación de la Convención a nivel nacional, en el marco del proyecto regional de fortalecimiento de capacidades nacionales para la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial, financiado a través de la generosa contribución de Noruega al Fondo del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial.

Facilitado por dos expertos formados por la UNESCO, Adriana Molano Arenas de Colombia y Fabián Bedón Samaniego de Ecuador, este taller proporcionará a los participantes una formación complementaria sobre la preparación de candidaturas como procesos de movilización de la amplia gama de actores involucrados en la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial - y las comunidades ante todo -, así como de diseño de planes de salvaguardia concebidos a la medida de los contextos y las condiciones específicos para la práctica de un elemento del patrimonio cultural inmaterial dado.

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• Programa : español

Experts from South-East Europe will meet in Belgrade, Serbia, on 5 October, within the framework of the 22nd edition of the International Festival of Ethnological Film, to discuss how documentary films and other audio-visual productions may contribute to the safeguarding and viability of intangible cultural heritage.
The meeting, organized by the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade, in cooperation with the Sofia Regional Centre for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in South-Eastern Europe (Bulgaria) and the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, Venice (Italy), will include a round table on the realization of a possible regional audiovisual production on intangible cultural heritage in South-East Europe – challenges and opportunities. Participating experts will include representatives of heritage safeguarding agencies, anthropologists, film makers and other individual practitioners. The event is open to the public.

The Belgrade International Festival of Ethnological Film focuses on creative ethnographic documentaries with strong ethnological sensibility. Its concept is to encourage and inspire wide audience, anthropologists and filmmakers to contribute to impact and use of ethnographic film. This year’s edition of the festival will screen from 4-8 October 2013, in Belgrade, documentary films on the subject of ethnology and anthropology, also including a variety of events, meetings with filmmakers and social gatherings.

More information is available here

A national workshop on Community-based Inventorying of Intangible Cultural Heritage will be held in Orange Walk district in Belize from 1 to 9 October 2013. This is organized by The National Institute of Culture and History in collaboration with the Belize National Commission for UNESCO and the UNESCO Kingston Cluster Office for the Caribbean.

The 8-day workshop will focus on i) community involvement in identifying and inventorying in accordance with/as advocated by UNESCO’s Intangible Heritage Convention, ii) information gathering with communities, iii) organizing, accessing and updating information in inventories and iv) a hands-on experience in preparing field work. The workshop will be facilitated by UNESCO trained facilitators, Harriet Deacon and Kris Rampersad.

Various stakeholders such as government officials, non-governmental organizations and community practitioners will come together to partake in the workshop on the implementation of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. The official opening ceremony will take place on Tuesday, 1 October 2013 in the presence of invited guests including government officials, diplomatic corps, Heads of UN Agencies and the media.

Funded by the Government of Japan, the workshop is part of a sub-regional project being implemented in Belize, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago within the context of UNESCO’s Global Strategy on capacity building on safeguarding intangible cultural heritage.

After having had a first community-based inventory workshop (INV) in October 2012 in Goroka, Papua New Guinea will benefit from an additional workshop in another part of the country, the Milne Bay Province. Anthony Parak will facilitate this workshop.

La segunda reunión de balance de la estrategia global de la UNESCO de fortalecimiento de capacidades nacionales para la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial será convocada por la Sección del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial en Cusco, Perú, del 17 al 19 septiembre de 2013, tras la primera de estas reuniones que tuvo lugar en Beijing, China, en noviembre 2012.

El Centro Regional para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de América Latina (CRESPIAL), un centro de categoría 2 bajo los auspicios de la UNESCO, acogerá esta eunión que tiene como objetivo evaluar la aplicación de la estrategia en América Latina y el Caribe.

En la reunión participarán once facilitadores de la red mundial, establecida hace dos años después de un ciclo de talleres de formación de formadores en todo el mundo, y que desde entonces han animado actividades de capacitación en la región. Los colegas responsables del programa de cultura en las oficinas de la UNESCO en el terreno y el CRESPIAL también participarán en el encuentro.

El programa de la reunión abarca la toda gama de problemas conceptuales y prácticos que se han ido planteando a lo largo del camino. Al invitar a los principales actores involucrados en la ejecución de este programa a compartir sus experiencias, los desafíos a los que se enfrentan y las formas que encontraron para superarlos, la reunión permitirá mejorar la eficacia de la estrategia de fortalecimiento de capacidades para que sepa responder de manera más adecuada a las necesidades específicas de los Estados.

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• Lista de participantes: inglés/español
• Programa : inglés|español

La UNESCO renueva su apoyo para salvaguardar el patrimonio inmaterial de Nepal con un taller sobre la preparación de candidaturas para la Lista del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de la UNESCO en Katmandú, del 16 al 20 de septiembre de 2013. El taller es el último de los tres eventos financiados por Japón en favor del fortalecimiento de capacidades para la salvaguardia del patrimonio inmaterial - o vivo - de Nepal.
Estas expresiones vivas en forma de tradiciones, artes escénicas, actos festivos y habilidades para producir artesanía tradicional son parte esencial del patrimonio colectivo del país.

La Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial, adoptada por la UNESCO en 2003, y ratificada por Nepal en 2010, es un excelente marco para promover la continuidad de estas tradiciones vivas. Sin embargo, las capacidades nacionales para la salvaguardia de este patrimonio requieren mejoras sustanciales.

El próximo seminario, organizado por la UNESCO en Katmandú junto con el Ministerio de Cultura, Turismo y Aviación Civil, proporcionará los conocimientos necesarios para inscribir elementos en la lista del patrimonio cultural inmaterial y mejorará las capacidades para la preparación de candidaturas. Igualmente formará a expertos, representantes de la comunidad e instituciones involucradas, sobre cómo preparar expedientes para la Lista de Salvaguardia Urgente y la Lista Representativa, propuestas para el Registro de las Mejores Prácticas y cómo formular solicitudes de asistencia internacional.

Dirigido por facilitadoras de la UNESCO, Suzanne Ogge de Australia y Shubha Chaudhuri de India, este evento es el último de una serie de tres seminarios de fortalecimiento de capacidades que se han celebrado durante los últimos 18 meses. El primer taller, celebrado en abril de 2012 en Katmandú, abordó los principios clave y las definiciones del patrimonio cultural inmaterial; el segundo taller, que tuvo lugar en enero de 2013 en el valle de Jiri-Sikri, se centró en el proceso y las líneas directrices para la participación de las comunidades en la realización del inventario de estas tradiciones vivas.

Los eventos nacionales de capacitación son parte del proyecto regional de fortalecimiento de capacidades, “Salvaguardar el Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial mediante el Fortalecimiento de las Capacidades Nacionales en Asia y en el Pacífico”, financiado por el Gobierno de Japón.

La UNESCO espera que alrededor de 30 personas procedentes de comunidades y grupos que crean, mantienen y transmiten el patrimonio inmaterial, junto con instituciones y servicios gubernamentales, participen en este evento.

UNESCO has partnered with the School for African Heritage (EPA) to help Member States by providing them with knowledge about the concepts, mechanisms and measures offered by the Convention. To make the initiative real, a workshop for the training of trainers on community-based inventorying of intangible cultural heritage will take place from 16 to 23 September 2013 in the EPA in Porto Novo, Benin thanks to funding from the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund. During this training, participants will have the opportunity to become familiar with the materials elaborated by the Secretariat of the Convention.

The workshop will be facilitated by two expert facilitators, Claudine-Augée Angoué (Gabon) and Sidi Traoré (Burkina Faso) in partnership with EPA director, Baba Keita. It will focus on four principal topics: (1) community-based inventorying in the framework of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, (2) a framework of community-based inventorying, ethics and responsibilities, (3) methods and technics to produce information and (4) community-based inventorying projects.

A field exercise is also planned to allow the 30 participants that include officials from the EPA, the International Traditions and Languages Research Centre (CERDETOLA) and experts form Burkina Faso and Senegal to apply community-based techniques in the field. The workshop will benefit from EPA’s rich experience in the field of training for safeguarding of cultural heritage. The workshop will be coordinated by the EPA who will also organize the field work, building on the solid contacts it has with the communities of the Porto Novo region (the provisory program is being prepared).

Less than a year after hosting a foundational workshop on the implementation of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage at the national level and the development of a plan of action to this effect, Jamaica is mobilising community practitioners and representatives of its governmental and non-governmental organisations to push forward with the inventorying of its living heritage.

Organized by the African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank in collaboration with the Jamaica National Commission for UNESCO and the UNESCO Kingston Cluster Office for the Caribbean, a national workshop on community-based inventorying of intangible cultural heritage will take place in Kingston from 4 to 13 September 2013.

A significant step in the safeguarding of living heritage in Jamaica, the workshop will focus on community participation in the identification and inventorying of intangible cultural heritage, data collection, organization and management, and hands-on experience in preparing field work. The workshop along with the field exercise will set the stage for a pilot inventory activity to follow in proceeding months.

Funded by the Government of Japan, the workshop is part of a sub-regional project being implemented in Belize, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago within the context of UNESCO’s global strategy on capacity building to safeguard intangible cultural heritage. It will be facilitated by UNESCO trained experts Dr. Harriet Deacon and Dr. Kris Rampersad.

This training workshop is aimed at enhancing the national capacities in the field for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage (ICH), in particular ICH inventorying under the 2003 Convention including the practical technical skills in inventory-making.

Experts from Kyrgyzstan will be trained in identifying, defining, inventorying and documenting the ICH. They are in charge of implementing concrete safeguarding activities and conducting training in the management and appropriate transmission of ICH, while undertaking and/or coordinating ICH-related scientific, technical, legal, economic and other studies. The purpose of this session is to raise awareness about the value and diversity of the ICH and ensure community participation and consent in all activities concerning their ICH.

Participants will be from governmental and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), communities, institutions and individual experts. The preference will be given to local communities. During the training the participants will be provided with text materials developed by UNESCO. The materials are translated into the Russian language and partially into Kyrgyz.

El presente Informe se presenta ante las autoridades de la Representación de UNESCO para Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua y Panamá, con sede en San José, a fin de dar cuenta de las actividades del Proyecto de Fortalecimiento de Capacidades para la efectiva Implementación de la Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial, particularmente referidas al Cuarto Taller “Ratificación de la Convención de la UNESCO, 2003”, celebrado en la ciudadde San Salvador, El Salvador, entre los días 21, 22 y 23 de agosto de 2013. El citado taller ha sido posible gracias a la cooperación del Reino de España y ha tenido como países beneficiarios a Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua y Guatemala

Within the framework of the global capacity building strategy for the implementation of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, a workshop will be organized in Mozambique from 12 to 21 August 2013 that aim to reinforce national capacities for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage.

Through this workshop, officials from ARPAC (the National Institute for Socio-cultural Research), the Ministry of Culture as well as representatives of the local authorities, civil society and community leaders of the Monica District will familiarize themselves with principles and methods of community based inventorying of living heritage (Monica, 12 to 21 August 2013). It is hoped that some of the participants will become facilitators who then will provide further training in Mozambique and in other Portuguese speaking countries in Africa.

This workshop, organized thanks to a generous voluntary supplementary contribution from Norway to the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund, forms part of a project that targets Portuguese speaking countries in Africa. The same participants will first receive training on the implementation of the 2003 Convention at the national level, (Maputo 5 to 9 August 2013) organized through the project.

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Within the framework of the global capacity building strategy for the implementation of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, a workshop will be organized in Mozambique from 5 to 9 August 2013 that aim to reinforce national capacities for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage.

The first workshop will provide training on the implementation of the 2003 Convention at the national level to officials from ARPAC (the National Institute for Socio-cultural Research), the Ministry of Culture as well as representatives of the local authorities, civil society and community leaders of the Monica District (Maputo, 5 to 9 August 2013).

This workshop, organized thanks to a generous voluntary supplementary contribution from Norway to the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund, forms part of a project that targets Portuguese speaking countries in Africa. The same participants will receive further training on the community-based inventorying of intangible cultural heritage (Monica, 12 to 21 August 2013), organized through the project.

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The project supported the organization of a practical field survey and inventorying of ICH in pilot communities, during which five teams of provincial cultural officers conducted cultural mapping of ICH elements in two districts. The teams used questionnaires using the methodologies developed during the inventorying workshop. The Ministry also arranged for the preparation of mock nomination files on five elements that would be discussed and evaluated during the next workshop on the elaboration of nomination files to the ICH Lists. The five elements were: (i) customs and rituals of Sinhalese puberty rites ; (ii) traditional therapeutic veniculture and cauterization techniques ; (iii) national Sinhalese New Year tradition ; (iv) procession of the Sacred Tooth in Kandy ; and (v) traditional puppetry.

The project supported the field inventorying of the following ICH elements organized by the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation to test the skills learnt during the community-based inventorying workshop. The teams mobilized to conduct the ICH inventorying made use of a template they developed during the community-based inventorying, which included identification of threats and challenges, transmission and customary practices, viability and safeguarding measures.
• Traditional archery held in the districts of Wangdi, Bumthang and Samtse.
• Nub Zhey traditional singing of the Bji and Saengkyi communities in Central Bhutan
• Traditional pottery practiced by the women of the Maengjibi and Gangzur villages in Lhuentse district

Del 29 de julio al 2 de agosto, unos treinta participantes procedentes de instituciones gubernamentales y no gubernamentales de El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras y Nicaragua se reúnen en Managua, Nicaragua, para recibir una formación intensiva sobre los procesos de candidatura, desde su preparación hasta su evaluación y examen. Las sesiones serán principalmente prácticas y participativas y se apoyarán en modelos de candidaturas que los participantes deberán analizar y mejorar de acuerdo con los criterios establecidos en la Directrices Operativas para la aplicación de la Convención para la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial.

Animado por los facilitadores formados por la UNESCO, María Ismenia Toledo de Venezuela y Enrique López de México, se trata del primer taller sobre la preparación de candidaturas de elementos del patrimonio cultural inmaterial para su inscripción en la Lista de Salvaguardia Urgente y la Lista Representativa que tendrá lugar en América Latina. Representa un complemento a la formación que estos mismos participantes ya han recibido sobre la aplicación de la Convención a nivel nacional y la confección de inventarios con la participación de las comunidades.

Estas jornadas forman parte del proyecto regional, financiado gracias a la generosa contribución de España al Fondo del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial, de fortalecimiento de capacidades para la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial en América Central que se está llevando a cabo a lo largo de 2013. Como tal, la actividad cuenta con el apoyo de la Coordinación Educativa y Cultural Centroamericana (CECC/SICA) y del Instituto Nicargüense de Cultura.

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From 24 to 26 July, UNESCO and the Regional Centre for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in South-Eastern Europe will organize a global meeting of category 2 centres active in the field of intangible cultural heritage at Sozopol, a beautiful town situated at Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast.

The meeting will be an excellent opportunity for the participants to take stock of the recent developments in the life of the Convention and the larger trends underway at UNESCO concerning category 2 centres. It will also facilitate joint efforts for the integration of the Organization’s medium-term strategy (37 C/4) and programme and budget for the coming quadrennium (37 C/5) into the medium-term and short-term planning of the respective centres, enabling them to continue to contribute effectively to UNESCO’s work.

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• First annual meeting of category 2 centres active in the field of intangible cultural heritage: Report of the UNESCO Section for Intangible Cultural Heritage: inglés
• Participant List: inglés

Reference documents

• Approaches to governance - PowerPoint presentation by Frank Proschan: inglés
• Context of our cooperation - PowerPoint presentation by Cecile Duvelle: inglés
• Culture sector strategy for category 2 centres: inglés
• El método de programación, gestión y supervision basadas en los resultados (GBR) y su aplicación en la UNESCO: Principios rectores
  BSP/RBM/2008/1.REV.5: inglés|francés|español|ruso|chino|árabe|multilingüe
• Excerpt from the draft 37 C/5 revised as of 22 July 2013: inglés
• Guidelines for the formulation of 36 C/5 (2012‐2013 biennium) regular programme work plans (Activity/Office 5)
  BSP/RBM/2012/2 REV.8: inglés|francés|español|ruso|chino|árabe|multilingüe
• Improving UNESCO’s Category 2 Centre network: inglés|francés
• Presentation of the Sofia centre - PowerPoint presentation by Mila Santova: inglés
• Proyecto de Estrategia a Plazo Medio, 2014-2021
  37 C/4: inglés|francés|español|ruso|chino|árabe|multilingüe
• RBM Monitoring and Reporting guidelines
  BSP/RBM/2012/4 REV.1: inglés|francés|español|ruso|chino|árabe|multilingüe
• Results-Based Management (RBM) approach Presentation for Intangible Cultural Heritage Category 2 Institutes - PowerPoint presentation by Othilie du Souich: inglés
• Results-Based Management (RBM) approach Presentation for Intangible Cultural Heritage Category 2 Institutes - PowerPoint presentation by Othilie du Souich (smaller PDF version): inglés
• Review of the Management Framework for UNESCO Category 2 Institutes/Centres
  IOS/AUD/EVS/2011/14 Rev.: inglés|francés|español|ruso|chino|árabe|multilingüe

Executive Board/General Conference documents

• Aplicación de los principios y directrices relativos a los institutos y centros de categoría 2 aprobados en la Resolución 33 C/90
  35 C/Resolution 103: inglés|francés|español|ruso|chino|árabe|multilingüe
• Aplicación de los principios y directrices relativos a los institutos y centros de categoría 2 aprobados en la Resolución 33 C/90
  35 C/22 + CORR.: inglés|francés|español|ruso|chino|árabe|multilingüe
• Category 2 institutes and centres
  191 EX/14.INF (+ Corr. only in Fre): inglés|francés|español|ruso|chino|árabe|multilingüe
• Category 2 institutes and centres: guidance note on the renewal assessment procedures of category 2 institutes/centres
  190 EX/INF.16: inglés|francés|español|ruso|chino|árabe|multilingüe
• Follow-up to the independent external evaluation of UNESCO, Policy framework for strategic partnerships: a comprehensive partnership strategy; Separate strategies for engagement with individual categories and partners
  191 EX/16.INF.3: inglés|francés|español|ruso|chino|árabe|multilingüe
• Informe sobre el gasto total que representan los institutos y centros de categoria 2
  191 EX/14 Part I: inglés|francés|español|ruso|chino|árabe|multilingüe
• Institutos y centros de categoría 2
  190 EX/18 PART I: inglés|francés|español|ruso|chino|árabe|multilingüe
• Institutos y centros de categoría 2
  190 EX/Decision 18 Part I: inglés|francés|español|ruso|chino|árabe|multilingüe

For further information:

• Category 2 centres under the auspices of UNESCO

A national workshop on the implementation of the Convention for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage is taking place from 16 to 20 July 2013 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The workshop, organized by UNESCO Dhaka Office in collaboration with the Department of Archaeology of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs of Bangladesh, aims at providing a broad overview of the Convention and its Operational Directives, the obligations of the State Party and possible ways to safeguard and inventory the intangible cultural heritage with the full participation of the communities concerned.

More than twenty representatives from government and non-governmental organizations, communities, institutions and individual experts will try to analyse the challenges facing the safeguarding intangible heritage in Bangladesh, and should be equipped with new tools and knowledge to ensure a better dissemination and promotion of such heritage.

The workshop will be conducted by Harriet Deacon and Amareswar Galla, two UNESCO trained experts in the field of intangible cultural heritage.

Portadores de patrimonio cultural inmaterial, funcionarios gubernamentales y miembros de organizaciones no gubernamentales se movilizan alrededor de un taller nacional sobre inventarios del patrimonio cultural inmaterial que se celebrará en Puerto España, Trinidad y Tobago, del 22 junio al 1 julio de 2013.

Organizado por la Comisión Nacional de Trinidad y Tobago para la UNESCO, el Ministerio de Artes y Multiculturalismo de Trinidad y Tobago y la Oficina de la UNESCO en Kingston, este taller representa un paso significativo en la salvaguardia del patrimonio vivo de Trinidad y Tobago. Se centrará en la participación de las comunidades en la identificación y el inventario del patrimonio cultural inmaterial, la organización y gestión de la información y la experiencia práctica en la preparación del trabajo de campo. La práctica de campo se verá reforzada por un inventario piloto en los próximos meses.

Financiado por el Gobierno de Japón, el taller forma parte de un proyecto sub-regional que se está llevando a cabo en Belice, Jamaica y Trinidad y Tobago en el contexto de la estrategia global de la UNESCO de fortalecimiento de capacidades para la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial. La dirección correrá a cargo de los expertos Rieks Smeets y Harriet Deacon.

Unos treinta participantes procedentes de instituciones gubernamentales así como organizaciones de la sociedad civil y representantes de comunidades se reúnen en El Salvador del 17 al 25 de junio para asistir al primer taller sobre confección de inventarios del patrimonio cultural inmaterial. Tras una primera sesión teórica en San Salvador cuya finalidad es dotar a los participantes con conocimientos y competencias esenciales que les permitan planear y facilitar esta labor, el equipo se trasladará al municipio de Conchagua, en el departamento de la costa pacífica de La Unión, a unos 200 km de la capital.

En Conchagua se llevará a cabo una práctica sobre el terreno que permitirá a los participantes adquirir una experiencia de primera mano en la confección de inventarios, así como poner en práctica algunos de los conocimientos adquiridos durante la sesión teórica en ámbitos como el establecimiento de relaciones de comunicación con la comunidad, la obtención de su consentimiento libre, previo e informado, la aplicación práctica de un método determinado, la elaboración de preguntas o la generación de información para el marco de confección de inventarios, o el sometimiento a prueba del marco elaborado.

Animadas por los facilitadores formados por la UNESCO, María Ismenia Toledo de Venezuela y Enrique López de México, estas jornadas forman parte del proyecto regional financiado gracias a la generosa contribución de España al Fondo del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de fortalecimiento de capacidades para la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial en América central que se está llevando a cabo a lo largo de 2013. Como tal, esta actividad no sólo cuenta con el apoyo de la Coordinación Educativa y Cultural Centroamericana (CECC/SICA) y de la Secretaría de Cultura del Salvador sino que también acoge a los puntos focales del proyecto en Honduras y Nicaragua.

Documentos

• Lista de participantes: español
• Programa: español

Chengdu International Conference on Intangible Cultural Heritage in Celebration of the Tenth Anniversary of UNESCO’s Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage

Chengdu, China, 14 to 16 June 2013

Practical information
The Conference will be held at the Shangri-La Hotel in Chengdu. It will take place in conjunction with the Fourth International Festival of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Chengdu. Languages of the Conference will be English, French and Chinese.

Ten years have passed since the adoption of the 2003 Convention, including seven years of actual implementation at the international level. This high-level conference will look back on that decade in order to reflect on the Convention’s function, role and value while also looking forward to its future. The aim is to reflect profoundly on the life of the 2003 Convention so far, providing a strategic opportunity to discuss the intentions of its framers, to identify its achievements thus far and to define priorities for the future.

Scientific and legal experts and States Parties officials who took part actively in the preparation of the 2003 Convention will participate in a series of plenary round-table panels seeking to look backward and forward at the same time, focussing particularly on the challenges facing the Convention today:

• Achievements of the Convention: changing the discourse of ICH and implanting new concepts
• Inventorying and listing
• Parallel universes: intellectual property, world heritage and cultural goods and services
• Safeguarding experiences in the States Parties
• Open questions and future directions

Working Documents

• Programme
  ITH/13/EXP/1 Rev.: inglés|francés|chino en preparación
• Concept note: the Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention: its first decade
  ITH/13/EXP/2: inglés|francés|chino
• Round-table 1: Achievements of the Convention: changing the discourse of intangible cultural heritage and implanting new concepts
  ITH/13/EXP/3: inglés|francés|chino
• Round-table 2: Inventorying and listing
  ITH/13/EXP/4: inglés|francés|chino
• Round-table 3: Parallel universes: intellectual property, world heritage and cultural goods and services
  ITH/13/EXP/5 Rev.: inglés|francés|chino
• Round-table 4: Safeguarding experiences in the States Parties
  ITH/13/EXP/6: inglés|francés|chino
• Round-table 5: Open questions and future directions
  ITH/13/EXP/7: inglés|francés|chino
• Chengdu recommendations
  ITH/13/EXP/8: inglés|francés|chino

Information Documents

• List of documents
  ITH/13/EXP/INF.1.1: inglés|francés|chino en preparación
• Practical information
  ITH/13/EXP/INF.1.2: inglés|chino
• List of participants
  ITH/13/EXP/INF.1.3: inglés en preparación|francés en preparación|chino en preparación

Do you want to learn more about the history of the 2003 Convention?

Please see the following meetings between 1973 and 2003 that led up to the Convention:

• History and precursors 1973-2000
• Drafting the text of the Convention 2001-2003

The Conference will be held under the patronage of the Chinese Ministry of Culture, Sichuan Provincial People’s Government, Chinese National Commission for UNESCO and UNESCO, and will be organized by the Chengdu Municipal People’s Government, China National Centre for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sichuan Provincial Department of Culture, International Training Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (CRIHAP) and UNESCO Section for Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Contacts

• Beate Strøm
  Section for Intangible Cultural Heritage, UNESCO
  7, place du Fontenoy
  75352 Paris 07, France
  Tel: +33 (0)1 45 68 47 39
  e-mail: b.strom@unesco.org

• Yuan Jie
  International Training Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region under the Auspices of UNESCO (CRIHAP)
  Jia 1 Huixin Beili, 100029 Chaoyang District, Beijing, P.R. China
  Tel: +86-10-6496-6526 ; fax: +86-10-6496-9281
  e-mail: benyuanjie@126.com

Lao’s national capacities to safeguard its intangible heritage are increasing, thanks to an eight-day workshop organized from 11 to 18 June 2013 within the UNESCO capacity building strategy for the effective safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage. Made possible by a generous contribution from the Republic of Korea, the workshop is part of a project that specifically aims at enhancing the national capacity of Lao PDR, both in government institutions and in civil society to safeguard its intangible cultural heritage through the effective implementation of the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage on a long-term basis. The workshop will be facilitated by UNESCO trained experts Shubha Chaudhuri and Paritta Koanantakool.

The Heritage Department of the Lao Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism, in coordination with the UNESCO Office in Bangkok, has been very active in the organization of the forthcoming workshop in order to maximize the participation of local community members and practitioners. To accomplish this, some key village officials and practitioners will participate in the workshop that will be held in Thalat, Vientiane Province near the Pakkayong Village where also two days of field documentation and inventorying will be conducted.

The Ministry initiated a practical field survey and inventorying of ICH elements in the Pahari communities in the villages of Khaopsi (Kavre District), Badikhel (Lalitpur District) and Thokarpa (Sindhupalanchowk District). The UNESCO template developed during the community-based inventorying workshop in Jiri, Dolkha District (January 2013) was used in the inventorying of the following ICH practices in the Pahari communities:
• Traditional carpentry and woodworking
• Maruni/Khyali Naach (dance by men in costume with ornamentation of women)
• Hasa thayagu (traditional bamboo weaving)
• Dhami-jhakri (shamanistic practices covering religious and social aspects of the Paharis)

A new step in a series of training activities for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage will take place in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan from 28 to 31 May 2013. A workshop will bring together participants from governmental, academic and educational institutions as well as communities to improve their knowledge and skills for developing nominations to the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding and the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. They will also learn how to apply for international assistance and how to elaborate proposals for the Register of Best Safeguarding Practices.

Made possible by a generous contribution from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund, the workshop is part of a two-year collaboration between UNESCO and Kyrgyzstan aimed at equipping public institutions and civil society with a solid foundation for safeguarding the intangible cultural heritage within the country. The workshop is organized by the UNESCO Office in Almaty and the National Commission for UNESCO of the Kyrgyz Republic.
Participants will also discuss current safeguarding measures in all administrative areas of the Republic and will agree on future activities.

The workshop will be facilitated by Mr Ilya Fetisov from Ukraine and Ms Sabira Soltongeldieva from Kyrgyzstan.

© UNESCO

The seventh annual regional meeting of experts on Intangible Cultural Heritage in South East Europe will take place in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 27-28 May 2013. The event, organized by the Sofia Regional Center on Intangible cultural heritage in South-East Europe, with the support of the UNESCO Regional Office for Culture and Science in Europe (Venice, Italy).

The regional encounter is a follow-up to the previous meetings (Arbanassi, Bulgaria, June 2007; Safranbolu, Turkey, May 2008; Zagreb, Croatia, April 2009, Râmnicu-Vâlcea, Romania, May 2010; Belgrade, Serbia, May 2011; Athens, Greece, May 2012) which have been organized to enhance a common understanding of opportunities and challenges linked to the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage in the region, such as: national inventory policies, the process of revitalization, the management of sustainable cultural tourism, the role and involvement of the local communities, the transnational dimension of intangible cultural heritage, as well as training and capacity-building.

The annual meetings serve as a regional platform for sharing knowledge and good practices, and stimulating a collective reflection on the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage as a key asset of South-East European cultural diversity.

The meeting in Sofia will focus its debates on three topics: the status of implementation of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in the respective countries of the region; cases and best practices in promoting intangible cultural heritage as a driver for local sustainable development (tourism, private/public partnerships); and proposals for common action in the areas of training and capacity-building. The meeting will also allow experts to discuss, more specifically, the various ways of integrating intangible heritage in tourism and development policies, while fostering the responsible and ethical use of these living assets and forms of expressions.

Documents

• Draft agenda: inglés
• List of participants: inglés

For more information, click here.

Un taller de capacitación sobre la aplicación de la Convención de 2003 a nivel nacional se organiza en Cap Haitien (Haití) del 13 al 17 de mayo. Estas sesiones se llevan a cabo en el marco de un programa regional de fortalecimiento de capacidades en el Caribe financiado por el Fondo del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial, gracias a las generosa contribución de Noruega, y cuenta con el apoyo del Ministerio de Cultura, la Comisión Nacional Haitiana de Cooperación con la UNESCO y la Oficina Nacional de Etnología.

Durante cinco días, unos veinte participantes del Departamento Norte de Haití recibirán una formación intensiva sobre los objetivos, los conceptos clave y los mecanismos internacionales de la Convención de 2003, así como sobre las obligaciones nacionales de los Estados Partes. Dirigido por dos miembros de la red de expertos formados por la UNESCO, la Sra. Soledad Mujica (Perú) y la Sra. Claudine Augée Angoué (Gabón), el taller también tiene como objetivo estimular una mayor coordinación de los diferentes actores que trabajan en este campo, tanto a nivel institucional como de la sociedad civil, resaltando el papel de la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial como un medio a través del cual el desarrollo puede encontrar caminos apropiados y sostenibles.

Documentos

• Lista de participantes: francés
• Orden del día: francés

Un taller de capacitación sobre la aplicación de la Convención de 2003 a nivel nacional se está llevando a cabo en Les Cayes, Haití, del 6 al 10 de mayo. Se trata de la primera actividad del proyecto regional de fortalecimiento de capacidades en el Caribe, que cuenta con el apoyo del Fondo del patrimonio cultural inmaterial gracias a la generosa contribución voluntaria de Noruega, que beneficiará específicamente a Haití.

Durante cuatro días, unos veinte participantes del Departamento Sur de Haití recibirán una formación intensiva sobre los objetivos, los conceptos clave y los mecanismos internacionales de la Convención de 2003, así como sobre las obligaciones nacionales de los Estados Partes. Dirigido por dos miembros de la red de expertos formados por la UNESCO, la Sra. Soledad Mujica (Perú) y la Sra. Claudine Augée Angoué (Gabón), el taller también tiene como objetivo estimular una mayor coordinación de los diferentes actores que trabajan en este campo, tanto a nivel institucional como de la sociedad civil, resaltando el papel de la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial como un medio a través del cual el desarrollo puede encontrar caminos apropiados y sostenibles.

Documentos

• Lista de participantes: francés
• Orden del día: francés

Results achieved in the field of ICH safeguarding in Southern Africa since 2009, revolve primarily around to specific extrabudgetary programmes financed by Flanders, notably:

• A series of pilot projects in community-based intangible heritage inventorying on a grassroots-level in six selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia and Uganda), completed in 2011; and
• Strengthening national capacities for implementing the Convention for the Safeguarding of ICH in 4 selected Southern African countries (Botswana, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe) completed in 2012.

Based on the results achieved through these projects as well as the specific ICH component of MDGF Culture and Development Programme implemented in Namibia, the Southern African ICH experts experimented with the development of the specific national ICH “trainers” expertise in a workshop held in Waterberg, Namibia from 8 to 19 April 2013 .

As an immediate follow up, the Southern African ICH experts in cooperation with the UNESCO offices in Harare and Windhoek, agreed on conducting a consultation meeting in Harare, Zimbabwe from 30 April to 2 May. The objective of this meeting is twofold:
1. Develop a sub-regional ICH strategy for Southern Africa;
2. Discuss the concept of national capacity development based on the model of the April workshop held in Namibia and seek the possibility of its replication in all Southern African States Parties to the Convention.

Documents

• Lista de participantes: inglés

For detailed information on this activity, please click here.

This Second Community-based Inventorying of Intangible Cultural Heritage Workshop is organized within the framework of the project entitled ‘Strengthening capacity building for the promotion and implementation of intangible cultural heritage in Timor-Leste’. This project is part of the regional capacity building efforts in the Asia-Pacific Region and is funded by the Japan Funds-in-Trust for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.

The workshop is intended to equip community members and key stakeholders from Timor-Leste with the basic knowledge and skills to design, facilitate and implement a community-based inventorying process tailored to their particular circumstances.

For more info, click here.

This meeting was financed by the Netherlands’ Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, via the Museo Arubano. The purpose of that meeting was to bring together all the territories of the Kingdom to assess the needs and possibilities to jointly implement the Convention.

Un taller de capacitación sobre la aplicación de la Convención de 2003 a nivel nacional se está llevando a cabo en Guatemala del 15 al 17 de abril. Se trata de la primera actividad del proyecto regional de fortalecimiento de capacidades en América Central, que cuenta con el apoyo del Fondo del patrimonio cultural inmaterial gracias a la generosa contribución voluntaria de España, que beneficiará específicamente a Guatemala.

Durante tres días, representantes del Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte y gestores culturales de diferentes ámbitos recibirán una formación intensiva sobre los objetivos, los conceptos clave y los mecanismos internacionales de la Convención de 2003 así como sobre las obligaciones nacionales de los Estados Partes. Dirigidas por dos miembros de la red de expertos formados por la UNESCO, la Sra. Soledad Mujica (Perú) y la Sra. Eva Martínez (Honduras), estas sesiones brindarán una visión exhaustiva de este instrumento normativo internacional y de las directrices operativas para su aplicación que tratará de servir como marco para reflexionar sobre una estrategia nacional de salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial que integre los puntos de vista y las aspiraciones de los diferentes actores guatemaltecos involucrados en este campo.

Documentos

• Lista de participantes: español
• Orden del día: español

© UNESCO Almaty Office

Three years after ratifying the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, Tajikistan is moving forward to strengthen its capacities for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage. Implemented within UNESCO’s global capacity-building strategy, a two-year project was launched in 2012 thanks to the generous support of Norway. The aim is to build a critical mass of experience and knowledge, both in government institutions and in civil society, so that Tajikistan will be equipped with an appropriate sustainable framework for safeguarding intangible heritage and implementing the Convention on a long-term basis.

The project entails a long-term, multi-faceted approach including the revision of policies and legislation, the strengthening of institutional infrastructures, the development of inventory frameworks and methods that fully involve the communities concerned, and the reinforcement of technical skills required to safeguard intangible cultural heritage. Its first stage focused on the implementation of the 2003 Convention at the national level, and a five-day workshop held in August 2012 focused on core concepts of the Convention, while providing the participants with a thorough understanding of the obligations of all stakeholders at the national level.

The international mechanisms of the Convention are at the core of the current stage of the project. Governmental, academic and educational institutions, representatives from craft and traditional music communities, and members of civil society have met in a workshop organised by UNESCO Almaty and the Tajik National Commission for UNESCO from 10 to 13 April 2013 in Dushanbe to acquire the knowledge required to elaborate nominations for inscription on the Lists of the Convention, proposals for Best Safeguarding Practices and requests for International Assistance. The workshop was facilitated by Ms Sabira Soltongeldieva and Mr Ilya Fetisov.

Documents

• Agenda: inglés
• List of participants: inglés

For more information, please consult the webpage of UNESCO Almaty.

A seminar entitled ‘UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention’ was organized by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport of Brunei Darussalam and UNESCO on 10 April, 2013. The Forum brought together representatives from the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Law, along with district officials, local representatives, academics from the University of Brunei Darussalam, local NGOs, and experts and policy makers in the field of culture, in order to discuss the ways for the safeguarding and promoting of the country’s Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). The forum also provided further information on UNESCO’s implementation strategy for the ICH Convention and efforts to strengthen internal networks amongst different levels of stakeholders.

For more information, click here.

The implementation of the capacity building strategy for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage in Namibia is moving to its second phase. After a series of successful community-based ICH inventorying exercises carried out within the broader framework of the MDGF Culture and Development programme, the UNESCO Office in Windhoek and the Ministry of Youth, National Service, Sports and Culture (MYNSSC) trained a group of 20 local trainers to ensure sustainability of the ICH inventorying and safeguarding efforts. A national Training of Trainers workshop was held from 8 to 19 April 2013 at Waterberg, Namibia.

20 participants, selected from different parts of the country, focused on specific aspects of ICH identification, inventorying and community interactions. In addition, a component on participatory training methods has been a part of the workshop programme, facilitated by two Southern African intangible cultural heritage training experts, Mr Stephen Chifunyise of Zimbabwe and Mr Lovemore Mazibuko of Malawi.

The experience of this pilot workshop in Namibia and its possible replication within the region will be discussed during the upcoming workshop “Southern African Regional ICH strategy, focus on the national Training of Trainers processes” to be organised by UNESCO Windhoek Office in Harare, Zimbabwe from 30 April to 2 May 2013.

A Workshop on Community-based Inventorying of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) was held in Phuntsholing, a border town in southern Bhutan, from 2 to 9 April 2013. Funded the Japanese Funds-in-Trust, this Workshop focused on; i) community involvement in inventorying cultural resources, ii) importance of cultural protocol in community-based inventorying, iii) a hands-on experience in preparing field work.

For more information, please click here.

Following the previous theoretical trainings, a pilot inventorying experience was launched in April 2013 and concluded in November 2013 in the city of Buenos Aires. This field work was aimed at providing first-hand experience in drawing up inventories to a team made of tango bearers, government officials and members of relevant non-governmental organizations.
Guided by the main project facilitator, Ms Mónica Lacarrieu (Argentina), the inventory team chose, among the different musical, poetic and human elements of the practice of tango, to focus on milongas, the popular evenings where men and women gather in local clubs to dance the tango and the music that carries that same name. According to the inventory team, beyond the worldwide known dance itself, some elements related to tango are exposed to threats and need to be safeguarded. The milongas of Buenos Aires were identified as part of these ‘less healthy’ elements of tango and selected for the pilot inventory exercise. The following milongas were selected according to criteria of age, close ties with their neighbourhoods, liveliness of the gatherings and transmission of the knowledge associated with tango and consent from the milongueros:
• Sunderland (Villa Urquiza, Buenos Aires)
• Sin Rumbo (Villa Urquiza, Buenos Aires)
• Lo de Celia (Constitución-San Cristóbal, Buenos Aires)
• Huracán (Parque Patricios, Buenos Aires)
• La Tierrita (Parque Avellaneda, Buenos Aires)

Un taller intensivo de cinco días de capacitación sobre la aplicación de la Convención de 2003 a nivel nacional se está llevando a cabo en Tegucigalpa, Honduras del 18 al 22 de marzo. Con esta reunión se inaugura el proyecto regional de fortalecimiento de capacidades en este ámbito que las oficinas de la UNESCO en San José y Guatemala llevarán a cabo en América Central, gracias a la generosa contribución de España al Fondo del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial.

Esta primera actividad, que cuenta con el apoyo de la Coordinación Educativa y Cultural Centroamericana (CECC/SICA), reunirá a los principales actores hondureños involucrados en la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial, y en particular la Secretaría de Cultura, Artes y Deportes, así como representantes del Instituto Nicaragüense de Cultura y la Secretaría de Cultura de la Presidencia salvadoreña. Dirigidas por dos miembros de la red de expertos formados por la UNESCO, el Sr. Enrique Pérez López (México) y la Sra. María Ismenia Toledo (Venezuela), estas sesiones están pensadas para proporcionar a los puntos focales del proyecto en cada uno de los países beneficiarios una visión general de los objetivos, los conceptos clave y los mecanismos internacionales de la Convención de 2003 así como de las obligaciones nacionales de los Estados Partes.

Documentos

• Lista de participantes: español
• Orden del día: español

Más de 25 especialistas de instituciones gubernamentales y no gubernamentales, de universidades y representantes de las comunidades de diferentes regiones de República Dominicana participarán en el primer taller sobre la aplicación de la Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de 2003 que tendrá lugar en Santo Domingo del 11 al 15 de marzo.

Animado por los facilitadores formados por la UNESCO, Adriana Molano de Colombia y Edis Sánchez de República dominicana, el taller quiere ofrecer una visión general de los objetivos y de los conceptos fundamentales de la salvaguardia según la Convención de 2003 así como de las obligaciones nacionales de los Estados partes y de los mecanismos de cooperación internacional. Su objetivo es crear una masa crítica de actores tanto gubernamentales como de la sociedad civil para sentar las primeras bases de un marco sostenible adecuado para la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial a largo plazo.

Con esta actividad, la Oficina Regional de Cultura para América Latina y el Caribe de la UNESCO, con la colaboración de la Comisión Nacional Dominicana para la UNESCO, lanzan en República dominicana el proyecto regional para el fortalecimiento de capacidades para la salvaguardia del patrimonio cultural inmaterial en el Caribe que se llevará a cabo a lo largo de 2013, con la financiación del Fondo del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial gracias a la generosa contribución de Noruega.

Documentos

• Lista de participantes: español
• Orden del día: español

SUBREGIONAL PROGRAM FOR THE SAFEGUARDING OF THE INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE
LIVESTRONG PROJECT
Workshop I: Implementation of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage 2003 of Unesco at the national level
March 7 and 8, 2013
Place: Archivo Nacional- Mariscal Estigarribia e / Iturbe.
Asuncion, Paraguay

Tras el taller sobre la confección de inventarios del patrimonio cultural inmaterial, llevado a cabo el pasado mes de noviembre en la provincia de Matanzas, una misión preparatoria se organizó del 31 de enero al 3 de febrero con el fin de obtener el consentimiento de la comunidad de Majagua, en el centro de Cuba, para realizar un inventario.

La manifestación seleccionada por la comunidad para realizar este primer ejercicio de campo fue la Fiesta campesina de los Bandos Rojo y Azul de Majagua, conocida en toda las isla como una institución social duradera que atrae residentes de varias generaciones a un bando u otro en torno a amistosas competiciones y rivalidades. El ejercicio se llevará a cabo del 28 de febrero al 5 de marzo bajo la supervisión de los facilitadores formados por la UNESCO, María Ismenia Toledo de Venezuela y Enrique López de México. Esta actividad cuenta no sólo con el apoyo de la comunidad de Majagua sino también con el de las autoridades provinciales del ámbito del patrimonio cultural y las Casas de Cultura de Ciego de Ávila. El equipo a cargo del ejercicio está integrado por cinco miembros de la comunidad, expertos procedentes de las provincias de Guantánamo, Camaguey, Matanzas y Ciego de Ávila y dos representantes de la Comisión Nacional para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial. Se trata de la primera actividad de campo que forma parte de un proyecto de capacitación de la UNESCO, llevado a cabo gracias al generoso apoyo de Noruega a través del Fondo del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial.

Documentos

Del 25 de febrero al 1 de marzo de 2013, representantes gubernamentales y de la sociedad civil de Argentina, Paraguay y Uruguay continúan el programa de capacitación que se puso en marcha en octubre del 2012 con el generoso apoyo del Fondo fiduciario UNESCO/Japón. Esta vez, se trata de una formación intensiva sobre la confección de inventarios de patrimonio cultural inmaterial. De nuevo, Mónica Lacarrieu y Francisco López Morales estarán a cargo de la formación que hará hincapié en el papel fundamental que la Convención para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de 2003 concede a la comunidades en la identificación y definición de su patrimonio.

Estas jornadas tienen por objetivo dotar a los participantes de los conocimientos y las técnicas fundamentales que permiten diseñar y facilitar un proceso de confección de inventarios con la participación de las comunidades y adaptado a sus circunstancias particulares. Sentarán las bases para el ejercicio de campo que durante cinco meses llevará a cabo la comunidad tanguera de Buenos Aires.

Documentos

• Lista de participantes: español
• Programa: español

Organized by UNESCO Almaty in close co-operation with the National Commission for UNESCO and ISESCO and the National Federation of UNESCO Clubs, the workshop was held from 18 to 21 February 2013 in Almaty.
It targeted primarily Kazakh participants, mainly from the National Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, the Agency for Tourism and Sport, leading universities and museums in the country, as well as NGOs in the field of crafts, traditional music and dance. In order to strengthen sub-regional cooperation, three participants from the neighbouring Central Asian countries (one from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) attended the workshop. The majority of the 21 participants were experts (only two practitioners) between 40 and 60 years of age and almost half of them were women. Six participants participated in a workshop on implementation of the Convention, five of them within the current project (April 2012, Astana).
The workshop provided an opportunity to improve participants’ knowledge on international mechanisms of the Convention. The presence of experts on intangible cultural heritage from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan offered an excellent opportunity to exchange experiences in safeguarding and allowed participants to discuss prospects for possible nominations of elements shared by communities in Central Asian countries.
The most heated debates were raised around the question of if it was appropriate to consider professional performers of traditional music and dance as bearers of intangible cultural heritage. Discussions also involved the administration of intellectual property rights for traditional knowledge and cultural expressions.

Cambodia is reinforcing a community-based focus in its existing and new efforts to document and inventory living heritage. For this purpose and with generous funding from Japan, over 35 participants came together in Siem Reap from 14 to 21 February this year to build their knowledge and develop this new approach.
UNESCO provided the substantive support through two members of its certified facilitators’ network, Mr Rahul Goswami from India and Ms Suzanne Ogge from Australia. The programme included 8 days of intensive course work and field-based practicum carried out in the rural areas of Siem Reap and the town itself. Fieldwork included a visit to the School of Fine Arts and two local communities, with forms of ICH documented including traditional weaving processes, martial arts skills and techniques, and performing arts. Participants learned, through hands-on training, field-based techniques of interviewing and audio-visual recording. A visit was also conducted to the Eco-Global Museum (supported by UNESCO) located in the Preah Vihear Province, to learn about a concrete inventory project underway which combines audio-visual documentation of living heritage among a local indigenous community with the documentation of associated cultural objects.
So far, Cambodia’s Living Human Treasures programme has included documentation efforts, though its methods have not as yet been extended to community-based approaches recommended by the 2003 Convention. The capacity-building workshop on inventorying with a strong community focus thus provided participants - most of whom are provincial directors – with further skills and knowledge for their field practices. In addition, the training placed much emphasis on developing mutually supportive networks among cultural professionals and communities to support national efforts to document and inventory living heritage.
The participants included those who had attended the first capacity-building workshop on implementation held in 2012 August in Phnom Penh, and new participants. Among them were representatives of civil society organizations. While several mentioned the need for long-term and reliable financial support and stability for safeguarding, all participants confirmed that the training was extremely useful and they would integrate the new approach in their current work and future programmes.

¿Cómo pueden los Estados árabes poner en práctica de manera efectiva los principios de la Convención de 2003 a nivel nacional? ¿Qué se puede hacer para promover la cooperación regional en el mundo árabe y para el fortalecimiento de las capacidades en los grupos de interés concernientes? ¿Cuáles son las mejores formas de aumentar la conciencia de las personas y asegurar la participación de las comunidades interesadas en el proceso de salvaguardia?

Estos son algunos de los temas que serán debatidos por los representantes de los ministerios de cultura de todos los países de la región árabe en la reunión sobre ‘Los retos de la creación de capacidades en el ámbito del patrimonio cultural inmaterial “que tendrá lugar en Doha del 14 al 17 enero de 2013.
Con el generoso apoyo financiero de Qatar y co-organizado por el Ministerio de Cultura, Artes y Patrimonio de Qatar, la ALECSO y la UNESCO, esta reunión será la ocasión para planificar una estrecha cooperación dentro de la región para una salvaguardia eficaz del patrimonio cultural inmaterial.

La reunión será co-facilitado por un grupo de expertos de la Región, todos los miembros de una red de 77 expertos capacitados para utilizar los programas de la UNESCO específicamente diseñado para crear capacidades en la aplicación de la Convención.