Capacity-building for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage through creation of community-based inventory for Luang Prabang

Benefitting country(ies): Lao People's Democratic Republic

Overview:

The proposed twenty-four-month project – being implemented by the Intangible Cultural Heritage Team of the Department of Information, Culture and Tourism in Luang Prabang – is geared at building capacities for safeguarding living heritage through the creation of a community-based inventory for Luang Prabang. In the long term, the project plans to merge intangible cultural heritage mapping with the existing Luang Prabang Wor ›››

Strengthening national capacities for effective safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage in Asia and the Pacific

Benefitting country(ies): Fiji, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Mongolia, Samoa, Sri Lanka

Overview:

With the successful completion of Phase I, thanks to the continued generous contribution of the Government of Japan, it was possible to implement the second phase of the regional programme for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage through the strengthening of national capacities from April 2015 to October 2017. The principal aims of the second phase were the following: *Reinforce the human and institutional ›››

News and activities:

• 2017-07-24 – Laos reflects on the linkages between intangible cultural heritage and development
• 2017-06-01 – Community based Inventorying in Mongolia

Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage through the Strengthening of National Capacities in Lao PDR

Benefitting country(ies): Lao People's Democratic Republic

Overview:

This project aims at building up a critical mass of national capacity, both in government institutions and in civil society, and to provide general programmatic and managerial support to the Organization’s activities in safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in Lao PDR and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region. To that end, the project has started to implement an integrated capacity-building strategy, ›››

News and activities:

• 2014-01-30 – The Lao People’s Democratic Republic’s national capacities reinforced
• 2014-01-20 – Training on the use of the mechanisms of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Lao PDR