Fourteenth session of the Committee

Invitation of Colombia to host the 14th session of the Committee in Bogota
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This year, the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage will meet in Bogota, Colombia from 9 to 14 December. The gathering at the Agora Bogotá Centro de convenciones will be the first time the Committee will meet in Latin America and the Caribbean. Ms María Claudia Lopez Sorzano, Secretary of Culture, Recreation and Sports of the city of Bogotá, will chair this fourteenth session.

In the course of six days, the twenty four members of the Intergovernmental Committee will take stock of recent developments in the implementation of the 2003 Convention and make important decisions about its implementation.

For example, the Committee will consider guidelines on how to best safeguard living heritage in emergency situations and will continue its reflection on how to improve the participation of non-governmental organizations in the implementation of the Convention. An update regarding the reform of the periodic reporting mechanism to be launched in 2020 in the Latin American and the Caribbean is also included on the Committee’s agenda. Moreover, Committee members will examine the status of elements inscribed on the Urgent Safeguarding List and on the use of International Assistance granted to States for supporting their efforts of safeguarding living heritage.

As is the case every year, the Committee will consider elements for inscription on the Lists of the Convention. Six elements for inscription on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding and forty-two on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity will be examined as well as three proposals for selection on the Register of Good Safeguarding Practices. Three International Assistance requests will also be tabled for the Committee’s consideration.

Committee Members

Bureau: composition & meetings

Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Cameroon, China, Colombia, Cuba, Cyprus, Djibouti, Guatemala, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Mauritius, Netherlands, Palestine, Philippines, Poland, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Togo and Zambia

Files presented for this session

4 reports on an element inscribed on the Urgent Safeguarding List (item 9.a)
6 nominations to the Urgent Safeguarding List (item 10.a)
42 nominations to the Representative List (item 10.b)
3 proposals to the Register of Good Safeguarding Practices (item 10.c)
1 request for International Assistance (item 10.d)
63 accreditation requests and 81 activity reports due by NGOs (item 17)

Agenda, documents and recordings

Download all documents (02-12-2019 version): English/French

Committee Members wishing to submit amendments are invited to fill in following form (Amendments) and to send it to ICH-amendments@unesco.org.

Out of concern for the environment and in order to reduce costs, printed copies of the documents will not be provided.

	Item of the agenda	Documents
1	Opening	LHE/19/14.COM/INF.1 Rev.: English\|French General information
2	Adoption of the agenda	LHE/19/14.COM/2 Rev.: English\|French LHE/19/14.COM/INF.2.1: English\|French Provisional timetable LHE/19/14.COM/INF.2.2 Rev.: English\|French Provisional list of documents
3	Observers	LHE/19/14.COM/3 Rev.: English\|French
4	Adoption of the summary records of the thirteenth session of the Committee	LHE/19/14.COM/4: English\|French
5.a	Report by the Committee on its activities	LHE/19/14.COM/5.a: English\|French
5.b	Report by the Secretariat on its activities	LHE/19/14.COM/5.b: English\|French
6	Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund: voluntary supplementary contributions and other issues	LHE/19/14.COM/6 Rev: English\|French
7	Draft plan for the use of the resources of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund in 2020–2021	LHE/19/14.COM/7 Rev: English\|French LHE/19/14.COM/INF.7: English\|French Financial report for the period 1 January– 30 June 2019
8	Reform of the periodic reporting mechanism	LHE/19/14.COM/8: English\|French
9.a	Examination of the reports of States Parties on the current status of elements inscribed on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding	LHE/19/14.COM/9.a: English\|French
9.b	Reports of States Parties on the use of International Assistance from the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund	LHE/19/14.COM/9.b: English\|French
10	Report of the Evaluation Body on its work in 2019	LHE/19/14.COM/10: English\|French LHE/19/14.COM/INF.10: English\|French Opinion of the Evaluation Body on nominations for the 2019 cycle concerned by the ‘provisional upstream dialogue’ process
10.a	Examination of nominations for inscription on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding	LHE/19/14.COM/10.a: English\|French See the 6 nominations
10.b	Examination of nominations for inscription on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity	LHE/19/14.COM/10.b Add.2: English\|French See the 42 nominations
10.c	Examination of proposals to the Register of Good Safeguarding Practices	LHE/19/14.COM/10.c: English\|French See the 3 proposals
10.d	Examination of requests for International Assistance	LHE/19/14.COM/10.d: English\|French See the request
11	Modification of the name of an inscribed element	LHE/19/14.COM/11: English\|French
12	Follow-up on elements inscribed on the Lists of the Convention	LHE/19/14.COM/12: English\|French
13	Intangible cultural heritage in emergencies	LHE/19/14.COM/13 Rev.: English\|French LHE/19/14.COM/INF.13: English\|French Summary records of the expert meeting on intangible cultural heritage in emergencies
14	Reflection on the listing mechanisms of the Convention	LHE/19/14.COM/14: English\|French
15	Reflection on the participation of non-governmental organizations in the implementation of the Convention	LHE/19/14.COM/15: English\|French
16	Report of the informal ad hoc open-ended working group	LHE/19/14.COM/16: English\|French
17	Accreditation of new non-governmental organizations and review of accredited non-governmental organizations	LHE/19/14.COM/17: English\|French See the 63 accreditation requests and 81 activity reports due
18	Establishment of the Evaluation Body for the 2020 cycle	LHE/19/14.COM/18: English\|French
19	Follow-up on the implementation of the relevant recommendations of the Open-Ended Working Group on the Governance, Procedures and Working Methods of the Governing Bodies of UNESCO (39 C/Resolution 87)	LHE/19/14.COM/19: English\|French
20	Date and venue of the fifteenth session of the Committee	LHE/19/14.COM/20: English\|French
21	Election of the members of the Bureau of the fifteenth session of the Committee	LHE/19/14.COM/21: English\|French
22	Other business
23	Adoption of the list of decisions
24	Closure