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Periodic reporting
On the implementation of the Convention
On Urgent Safeguarding List elements
Xeedho
2023____
Key references
Ratification of the Convention on
30 August 2007Read the Convention in: [name_language]
Committee Member
Committee Member
Djibouti (2018 - 2022)Listing of ICH
Xeer Ciise: Oral customary laws of Somali-Issa communities in Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somalia (2024, RL)
2 elements inscribed
On-going nomination(s)
Project
Xeedho
23 September 2022 – 31 January 2025Amount (US$) 116,450
Strengthening capacities for periodic reporting under the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Africa
1 July 2023 – 1 July 2024Amount (US$) 250,000
Capacity building in community-based inventorying
2 September 2019 – 31 March 2021Amount (US$) 82,080
Strengthening national capacities for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in eight countries in Africa and the Arab Region: assessing needs and developing project proposals
1 May 2014 – 1 March 2019Amount (US$) 259,419
Strengthening capacities for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in Eastern Africa
17 May 2025 – 17 May 2025Amount (US$) 51,114
Safeguarding traditional games of the Afar and the Somali people in the Horn of Africa
1 December 2006 – 1 March 2009Amount (US$) 53,000
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