Project

Building capacities for safeguarding living heritage and preparing nominations to the Lists of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Africa

Benefitting country(ies): Comoros Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Eswatini Gabon Guinea-Bissau Lesotho Sao Tome and Principe South Sudan

The project aims to safeguard and promote the rich diversity of intangible cultural heritage in Africa with a focus on nine countries that do not yet have any living heritage element inscribed on the Lists and Register of the 2003 Convention (at the end of the nineteenth session of the Intergovernmental Committee in December 2024) – these are Comoros, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini,

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  • Project budget:
    US$ 606,650
  • Source:
    Japan Funds-in-Trust
  • Dates of implementation:
    01/09/2024 - 01/09/2027

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

A systemic approach to advancing SDGs by supporting citizenship and social protection for hard-to-reach populations in Gabon

Benefitting country(ies): Gabon

Within the framework of an agreement between Gabon and the United Nations on the access to citizenship and social protection in Gabon, a joint programme involving six United Nations funds and agencies (UNICEF, UNFPA, WHO, UNESCO, UNAIDS, ILO) is being implemented to achieve several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to social protection. A small but significant number of people from

  • Project budget:
    US$ 214,000
  • Source:
  • Dates of implementation:
    01/01/2020 - 01/12/2021

Inventory and promotion of the intangible cultural heritage of the Pygmy populations of Gabon

Benefitting country(ies): Gabon

Having benefited from capacity building activities, Gabon has recognized the need for a safeguarding action towards the intangible cultural heritage of Pygmy populations, for which surveys conducted with these populations highlighted the endangered elements constituent to their identity. The project led to the development of an inventory of the intangible cultural heritage of the Pygmy populations Babongo, Baka and Bakoya

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  • Financial assistance:
    US$ 24,560 granted in 2015
  • Dates of implementation:
    01/09/2015 - 01/12/2017
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