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Tel.: +98 21 88 35 13 40

Postal address: No. 6, 3rd floor, Salamas Sq., Golha Sq., Jalal Al-e Ahmed Exp. Way 1431753133 Tehran

Main countries where active: Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Vision

A world in which ICH is recognized both as having heritage value and as an important cultural, social and economic resource for bearer communities to improve their lives and livelihoods.

Mission

To raise awareness of the value of ICH for bearers and also for the wider society, to develop the capacities of ICH bearers, especially women and girls, to identify, safeguard, and continue to practise and transmit their ICH and to empower women ent

Informations

Year of creation: 2011

Safeguarding measures:

- identification, documentation, research (including inventory-making)
- preservation, protection
- promotion, enhancement
- transmission, (non-)formal education
- revitalization
- other: Museum affairs (including conventional, ICH, ethnographic, virtual, site museums, as well as ICH parks and ICH villages); investigating and developing cultural tourism; providing legal and policymaking advisory services)

Main areas of work related to the Convention:

Relevant projects and initiatives

PGILH has collaborated with an Iranian heritage NGO active on a project for safeguarding Varamin Pottery as an ICH element (in Tehran Province), for its effective transmission
and future viability. Conducted through close collaboration with a group young people who were trained by four senior masters from the local community, this project also aimed
to provide young people with economic opportunities tied to the element. PGILH has also conducted a comprehensive field survey on the impacts of Covid-19 on handicraft
workshops across Iran, in collaboration with IRCI (Japan).