The Secretariat of the Convention organizes an information and exchange session on the provisional upstream dialogue for nominations to be examined in 2019 by the Intergovernmental Committee on Friday, 1 March 2019. This meeting takes place in Room XI (Fontenoy) from 3 to 5 p.m.

This meeting is co-organized by the Secretariat of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Permanent Delegation of Colombia to UNESCO in its capacity as representative of the Chairperson of the Intergovernmental Committee and of the informal ad hoc open-ended working group.

The purpose of this meeting is to present and discuss, in the presence of the members of the Evaluation Body, a proposed procedure for the provisional upstream dialogue mechanism. This meeting is open to interested States Parties, which are not members of the Committee and States not party to the Convention.

• Presentation of the Secretariat: English|French
• Information note: English|French
• Timetable of work of the Evaluation Body in 2019: English|French