Project

Safeguarding and promoting Gbofe

Benefitting country(ies): Côte d'Ivoire

To be implemented by the Office Ivoirien du Patrimoine Culturel (the Ivoirian Cultural Heritage Office), this two-year project aims to ensure the viability of the Gbofe, a transverse trump and a performance of the Tagbana community that encompasses music, song and dance. The element was incorporated in 2008 in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (originally proclaimed

  • Financial assistance:
    US$ 100,000 granted in 2024
  • Dates of implementation:
    04/11/2024 - 31/08/2026
  • Documents:
    Request form ICH-04: English|French
    Budget and timetable: English|French
    Progress report: French

Strengthening capacities for periodic reporting under the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Africa

Benefitting country(ies): Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cabo Verde Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo Côte d'Ivoire Democratic Republic of the Congo Djibouti Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Eswatini Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Kenya Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Seychelles Somalia South Sudan Togo Uganda United Republic of Tanzania Zambia Zimbabwe

Africa is the fourth region to be undertaking periodic reporting under the revised regional cycle approved by the General Assembly of States Parties to the Convention Decision 14.COM 8. The present project aims to strengthen the human and institutional capacities of States Parties in the region, in conducting a thorough review of the state of safeguarding policies, programmes, and initiatives in

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  • Project budget:
    US$ 250,000
  • Source:
    Saudi Arabia Funds-in-Trust
  • Dates of implementation:
    01/07/2023 - 01/07/2024

Inventory of the intangible cultural heritage present in Côte d'Ivoire in view of its urgent safeguarding

Benefitting country(ies): Côte d'Ivoire

The political and military crisis that the country experienced between 2002 and 2011 halted the active efforts engaged by Côte d’Ivoire since many years in the identification of elements of the intangible cultural heritage present in its territory and affected it negatively, notably by the interruption of certain practices violently suppressed or the denaturation of certain elements emptying them of their value an

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  • Financial assistance:
    US$ 299,972 granted in 2015
  • Dates of implementation:
    09/12/2015 - 08/12/2018
  • Documents:
    Request form ICH-04: English|French
    Budget and timetable: English|French
    Final report phase 1: French
    Progress report: French
    Final report: French

Gbofe d’Afounkaha

Benefitting country(ies): Côte d'Ivoire

A contract was signed between UNESCO and the Cote d’Ivoire National Commission for UNESCO, the organization designated for the project’s implementation. The Secretariat was obliged to cancel the contract and request reimbursement of the advance as no nomination file was submitted within the statutory time-limits. However, it is to be noted that Côté d’Ivoire subsequently submitted a nomination, The Gbofe

  • Financial assistance:
    US$ 6,000 granted in 2008
  • Dates of implementation:
    19/12/2008 - 30/06/2010
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