Project

Strengthening capacities for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in disaster contexts

  • Project budget:
    • US$ 100,000
  • Source:
    • Switzerland earmarked contribution to the Fund
  • Dates of implementation:
    • 01/06/2020 - 30/12/2024
  • Documents:

Benefitting country(ies): Honduras, Philippines

Overview:

In the context of the [[global capacity-building programme|page:00326]], this activity aims to strengthen capacities for integrating disaster risk reduction into community-based inventories of intangible cultural heritage through pilot activities in Honduras and the Philippines. The project will comprise: *Online training workshops on intangible cultural heritage and disaster risk reduction; *Pilot-inventorying activities integrating awareness for disaster risk reduction; *Awareness-raising activities ›››

News and activities:

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

  • Financial assistance:
    • US$ 99,986 granted in 2022
  • Dates of implementation:
    • 06/02/2023 - 30/08/2024
  • Documents:

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

Overview:

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 ›››

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

  • Financial assistance:
    • US$ 99,990 granted in 2024
  • Dates of implementation:
    • Approved in 06/2024 - not yet under implementation
  • Documents:

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

Overview:

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 ›››

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