Contact Base
IndiaContact: +91 33 40 04 74 83
Postal address: 188/89 Prince Anwar Shah Road Kolkata 700045
Geographic Coverage of NGO’s expertise: India
URL: https://www.banglanatak.com
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Empower communities with the knowledge, skills and resources to negotiate their rights and use cultural capital as an asset for inclusive development and building peace.
Mission
To foster socio economic empowerment of rural and indigenous communities through safeguarding ICH and developing grassroots creative enterprise and community led cultural tourism, promoting cultural diversity and pluralism through multiregional cultu
Safeguarding measures:
- identification, documentation,
research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal
education
- revitalization
- other
- promoting culture for
employment and growth; using culture for
innovating new goods and services
Main areas of work related to the Convention:
Relevant projects and initiatives
The Art for Life initiative of Contact Base has led to safeguarding of ICH and
sustainable development of 50,000 rural traditional practitioners (60% women,
90% belonging to minority and indigenous groups) in three states of India. More
than 40 ICH elements have been inventoried and documented, awareness raised
and heritage education and skill transmission, use of IP tools for protection of
artists’ rights supported. 15 artist villages have become destinations of heritage
education and cultural tourism with community-run village folk art centres.
Communities enjoy recognition and reach new audiences nationally and
globally.