Decision of the Intergovernmental Committee: 9.COM 11

The Committee,

  1. Having examined document ITH/14/9.COM/11,
  2. Recalling Article 8.3 of the Convention, paragraphs 27 and 28 of the Operational Directives and Rules 20 and 49 of its Rules of Procedure,
  3. Having suspended the application of Rules 37 and 39 of its Rules of Procedure for the duration of this meeting,
  4. Decides to amend its Rules of Procedure to include provisions governing voting by secret ballot and requests the Secretariat to propose draft provisions to this effect for examination at its tenth session;
  5. Takes note of the fact that not all Electoral Groups were able to propose more than one non-governmental organization, which limited its choice to define the composition of the Evaluation Body;
  6. Encourages States Parties to ensure that at least two candidatures for both experts and accredited non-governmental organizations for each Electoral Group are sent to the Secretariat by the Chairperson of the Electoral Group concerned;
  7. Establishes a consultative body to be known as the ‘Evaluation Body’ for the evaluation in 2015 of nominations for inscription on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding and on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, of proposed programmes, projects and activities that best reflect the principles and objectives of the Convention and of international assistance requests greater than US$25,000, and adopts its terms of reference as annexed to this Decision;
  8. Decides to establish a system of rotation among the seats on the Evaluation Body, as follows:

Seats to be filled in 2016:

EG I NGO

EG II NGO

EG V(a) Expert

Seats to be filled in 2017:

EG III Expert

EG IV Expert

EG V(b) NGO

Seats to be filled in 2018:

EG III NGO

EG IV NGO

EG V(b) Expert

Seats to be filled in 2019:

EG I Expert

EG II Expert

EG V(a) NGO

  1. Appoints the following individual experts and accredited non-governmental organizations as members of the Evaluation Body for 2015:

Experts representatives of States Parties non-Members of the Committee

  1. EG I: Amélia Maria de Melo Frazão Moreira (Portugal)
  2. EG II: Saša Srećković (Serbia)
  3. EG III: Víctor Rago (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela)
  4. EG IV: Masami Iwasaki (Japan)
  5. EG V(a): Sidi Traore (Burkina Faso)
  6. EG V(b): Ahmed Skounti (Morocco)

Accredited non-governmental organizations

  1. EG I: Nederlands Centrum voor Volkscultuur / Dutch Centre for Folklore and Intangible Heritage
  2. EG II: International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM)
  3. EG III: Associação dos Amigos da Arte Popular Brasileira - Museu Casa do Pontal / Association of Friends of Brazilian Folk Art - Casa do Pontal Museum
  4. EG IV: 中国民俗学会 / China Folklore Society (CFS)
  5. EG V(a): The Cross-Cultural Foundation of Uganda (CCFU)
  6. EG V(b): The Syria Trust for Development.

Annex

Terms of Reference of the Evaluation Body for the 2015 Cycle

The Evaluation Body

1.

shall be composed of twelve members appointed by the Committee: six experts qualified in the various fields of the intangible cultural heritage representatives of States Parties non-Members of the Committee and six accredited non-governmental organizations, taking into consideration equitable geographical representation and various domains of intangible cultural heritage;

2.

shall elect its Chairperson, Vice-Chair and Rapporteur;

3.

shall hold private meetings in accordance with Rule 19 of the Rules of Procedure of the Committee;

4.

shall be responsible for the evaluation of nominations for inscription on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding and on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, of proposed programmes, projects and activities that best reflect the principles and objectives of the Convention and of international assistance requests greater than US$25,000, in conformity with the Operational Directives for the Implementation of the Convention. It shall, in particular, include in its evaluation:

 

a.

an assessment of the conformity of nominations to the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding with the inscription criteria as provided in Chapter I.1 of the Operational Directives, including an assessment of the viability of the element and the feasibility and sufficiency of the safeguarding plan, and an assessment of the risks of its disappearing, as provided in paragraph 29 of the Operational Directives;

 

b.

an assessment of the conformity of nominations to the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity with the inscription criteria as provided in in Chapter I.2 of the Operational Directives;

 

c.

an assessment of the conformity of proposed programmes, projects and activities that best reflect the principles and objectives of the Convention with the selection criteria as provided in Chapter I.3 of the Operational Directives;

 

d.

an assessment of the conformity of international assistance requests greater than US$25,000 with the selection criteria as provided in Chapter I.4 of the Operational Directives;

 

e.

a recommendation to the Committee to inscribe or not to inscribe the nominated element on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding; to inscribe or not to inscribe the nominated element on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity or to refer the nomination to the submitting State(s) for additional information; to select or not to select the proposed programmes, projects and activities that best reflect the principles and objectives of the Convention; or to approve or not to approve the international assistance requests greater than US$25,000;

5.

shall provide the Committee with an overview of all files and a report of its evaluation;

6.

shall cease to exist following submission to the tenth session of the Committee of the report of its evaluation of the files to be examined by the Committee in 2015.

Once appointed by the Committee, the members of the Evaluation Body shall act impartially in the interests of all the States Parties and the Convention.

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