7 April 2022 - 8 April 2022

Event

Inter-regional inception workshop for the project ‘Capacity-building for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in emergencies in Small Island Developing States in the Pacific and the Caribbean’

Date
7 April 2022 - 8 April 2022
Location(s)
Online
Country
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Type
Capacity-building workshop

Together with the UNESCO Offices in Apia and in Kingston, the Living Heritage Entity is organizing the Inter-regional inception workshop for the project ‘Capacity-building for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in emergencies in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Pacific and the Caribbean’, which is funded through the Japanese Funds-In-Trust. The workshop is held online with participants from different time zones:
3:30 pm – 5:30 pm (Belize, UTC-6) 7 April 2022
4:30 pm – 6:30 pm (Jamaica, UTC-5) 7 April 2022
5:30 pm – 7:30 pm (Bahamas, Jamaica UTC-4) 7 April 2022
11:30 pm – 01:30 am (France, UTC+2) 7/8 April 2022
8:30 am – 10:30 am (Vanuatu, UTC+11) 8 April 2022
9:30 am – 11:30 am (Fiji, UTC+12) 8 April 2022
10:30 am – 12:30 pm (Samoa, Tonga, UTC+13) 8 April 2022

The objective of the workshop is to launch this three-year project by bringing together key project actors from the five beneficiary SIDS - the Bahamas and Belize in the Caribbean, and Fiji, Tonga, and Vanuatu in the Pacific – and to build a shared understanding of the project, which aims to integrate intangible cultural heritage safeguarding into disaster risk reduction strategies through capacity-building approaches.

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