9 October 2016 - 14 October 2016

Event

Community-based inventorying workshop with the Calabar community

Date
9 October 2016 - 14 October 2016
Location(s)
Cross River State
Country
Nigeria
Type
Capacity-building workshop

This workshop is an activity of a two-year (2014-2016) project financed by UNESCO/Japan Fund-in-Trust, to support effective implementation of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Nigeria. The objective of this workshop is to develop the capacities of the local community members through community-based inventorying training. A team comprising some UNESCO staff, representatives of the Federal Ministry of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation and its parastatals. The workshop was facilitated by UNESCO-trained facilitator Silverse Anami and national facilitator Professor G.G Darah.

The workshop was attended by 15 practitioners and 10 of which were selected to conduct a six-month inventorying exercise.

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