Project

Empowering communities for the safeguarding of Belize's foodways: a community-based inventory project for sustainable development and disaster resilience

Benefitting country(ies): Belize

To be implemented by the National Institute of Culture and History (NICH), this twenty-four-month project aims to strengthen community capacity and create a comprehensive inventory of foodways in Belize, which faces threats related to globalization, rapid urbanization and climate change. The project will equip community members and cultural officers with the knowledge and skills to document, inventory and safeguard living

  • Financial assistance:
    US$ 98,600 granted in 2024
  • Dates of implementation:
    15/04/2025 - 30/04/2027
  • Documents:
    Request form ICH-04: English|French
    Budget and timetable: English|French
    Progress report: English

Exchange of experiences and cultural dialogues for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage of Afro-descendant peoples through the preparation of inventories in the SICA region and Cuba

Benefitting country(ies): Belize Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Republic El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Panama

To be implemented by the Central American Educational and Cultural Coordination (CECC/SICA) in cooperation with the Regional Center for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Latin America (CRESPIAL) and with the involvement of the Central American Black Organization (ONECA), this eighteen-month multinational project aims to build collective and participatory knowledge on the processes of inventorying the living

  • Financial assistance:
    US$ 99,990 granted in 2024
  • Dates of implementation:
    24/03/2025 - 23/10/2026
  • Documents:
    Request form ICH-04: English|French
    Budget and timetable: English|French

Latin America and the Caribbean: Strengthening capacities for resilient communities through Sustainable Tourism and Heritage Safeguarding

Benefitting country(ies): Belize Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Republic El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Mexico Nicaragua Panama

The project aims to enhance the role communities play in managing and safeguarding the region’s cultural and natural heritage and is designed to strengthen synergies between tangible and intangible cultural heritage safeguarding. It will support the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development through integrating heritage safeguarding into urban planning while enhancing sustainable tourism in the region. The project is being implemented during 2

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  • Project budget:
    US$ 2,300,000
  • Source:
    Saudi Arabia Funds-in-Trust
  • Dates of implementation:
    01/06/2023 - 01/06/2026

Capacity building for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in emergencies in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Pacific and the Caribbean

Benefitting country(ies): Bahamas Belize Fiji Tonga Vanuatu

In line with the Operational principles and modalities for safeguarding living heritage (or ICH) in emergencies, the project addresses the severe threats from natural disasters to the transmission and viability of ICH in five Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Caribbean and the Pacific, notably: Belize, the Bahamas, Fiji, Tonga and Vanuatu. It aims to integrate ICH safeguarding into

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  • Project budget:
    US$ 500,000
  • Source:
    Japan Funds-in-Trust
  • Dates of implementation:
    01/04/2022 - 01/12/2025

Strengthening capacities for preparing nomination files for the Lists of the 2003 Convention in Small Island and Developing States (SIDS) in Latin America and the Caribbean

Benefitting country(ies): Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Belize Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic Grenada Guyana Haiti Jamaica Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago

In the context of the 2003 Convention’s global capacity-building programme, this project aims at building capacities of Small Island and Developing States (SIDS) in the Caribbean on the preparation of nomination files for the Lists of the 2003 Convention, with a view to improve the effective safeguarding of living heritage across the region and contribute to greater geographical balance of the elements i

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  • Project budget:
    US$ 75,000
  • Source:
    Netherlands earmarked contribution to the Fund
  • Dates of implementation:
    01/10/2022 - 01/06/2025
  • Documents:
    Progress report: English

Capacity building for community leaders and public managers to safeguard the living heritage of Afro-descendant communities in the SICA region and Cuba

Benefitting country(ies): Belize Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Republic El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Panama

This project aims to build a common conceptual and methodological basis for the safeguarding intangible cultural heritage of Afro-descendants in Belize, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. It is the first stage (preparation and planning) of a larger initiative titled ‘Safeguarding of the Afro-descendant Intangible Cultural Heritage of the SICA region and Cuba,’ to be

  • Financial assistance:
    US$ 99,986 granted in 2022
  • Dates of implementation:
    06/02/2023 - 30/08/2024
  • Documents:
    Request form ICH-04: English|French
    Budget and timetable: English|French
    Progress report (July 2023): English
    Progress report (June 2023): English
    Final report: English

Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage of Belize, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago through strengthening their capacities for implementation of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage

Benefitting country(ies): Belize Jamaica Trinidad and Tobago

The 3.5 year project saw the implementation of an integrated strategy with a series of workshops and activities aimed at reinforcing the capacity of Belize, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago to safeguard their intangible cultural heritage. To this end, it included: (i) policy advice, (ii) workshops on the implementation of the Convention, (iii) workshops on community-based inventorying and (iv) pilot inventorying

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  • Project budget:
    US$ 300,000
  • Source:
    Japan Funds-in-Trust
  • Dates of implementation:
    01/06/2012 - 01/12/2015
  • Documents:
    Project brochure: English

Action Plan for the Safeguarding of the Garifuna Language, Music and Dance

Benefitting country(ies): Belize Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua

The Garifuna communities, spread over Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, have kept alive their common language, oral traditions, music and dances. Although still practiced on various occasions, these are changing considerably as the Garifuna language is less often spoken. The safeguarding project focuses mainly in the preservation of the Garifuna language through language revitalization, lexical expansion programs and the promotion

  • Project budget:
    US$ 226,000
  • Source:
    Japan Funds-in-Trust
  • Dates of implementation:
    01/04/2006 - 01/06/2009
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