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Botswana to host 18th session of the Committee next year
Periodic reporting
On the implementation of the Convention
On Urgent Safeguarding List elements
Wosana ritual and associated practices
2024____
Seperu folkdance and associated practices
2019____
Dikopelo folk music of Bakgatla ba Kgafela in Kgatleng District
2017____
Earthenware pottery-making skills in Botswana’s Kgatleng District
2012____
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Botswana (2020 - 2024)Project
Sustaining Seperu folk dance and associated practices
2 August 2023 – 28 February 2025Amount (US$) 94,447
Strengthening capacities for periodic reporting under the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Africa
1 July 2023 – 1 July 2024Amount (US$) 250,000
Strengthening sub-regional cooperation and national capacities in the countries of Southern African sub-region
6 February 2025 – 6 February 2025Amount (US$) 59,571
Strengthening sub-regional cooperation and national capacities in seven Southern African countries for implementing the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (Phase III)
1 May 2018 – 1 June 2019Amount (US$) 117,467
Strengthening sub-regional cooperation and national capacities in the countries of Southern African sub-region
6 February 2025 – 6 February 2025Amount (US$) 51,114
Promotion of earthen ware pottery-making skills in Kgatleng district
17 February 2017 – 30 June 2018Amount (US$) 68,261
Strengthening sub-regional cooperation and national capacities in seven Southern African countries for implementing the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Part II
1 March 2016 – 31 July 2017Amount (US$) 250,000
Strengthening sub-regional cooperation and national capacities in seven Southern African countries for implementing the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
1 December 2013 – 1 March 2015Amount (US$) 250,000
Strengthening national capacities for effective safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage in Botswana, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe
1 February 2011 – 1 April 2013Amount (US$) 399,785
A series of pilot projects in community-based intangible heritage inventorying on a grassroots-level in six selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa
1 September 2009 – 1 December 2011Amount (US$) 275,000