Safeguarding and inventories of children's tales and narratives in Mauritania

Benefitting country(ies): Mauritania

Overview:

Implemented by Association Maison des Théâtres, this eighteen-month project aims to safeguard children’s tales and narratives in Mauritania by creating an inventory and ensuring the transmission of the practice to future generations. The project involves the implementation of community workshops on how to develop participatory inventories, followed by the identification and inventorying of children’s tales and narratives across Mauritania. The tales ›››

Safeguarding the Oulad Mbarek epic

Benefitting country(ies): Mauritania

Overview:

Given the ever-decreasing number of bearers, namely the griot, the project aims to collect the repertoire of poems in writing, sound and image to promote access to and facilitate transmission of the tradition. The project, which is being implemented by the International Foundation of the Aïn Farba Festival in close collaboration with local communities, is based on three major axes: ›››

National Oral Traditions (NOT), additional collection component

Benefitting country(ies): Mauritania

Overview:

The project is an additional component of the National Oral Traditions (NOT) project, implemented by the Mauritanian Institute for Research and Training in Heritage and Culture (IMRFPC). The project was set up in 2015 to safeguard and enhance the sound corpus of the IMRFPC. Despite the high value of the corpus of oral traditions housed at the IMRFPC, it is not ›››

Safeguarding intangible cultural heritage through strengthening national capacities in Morocco, Mauritania and Tunisia

Benefitting country(ies): Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia

Overview:

The aim of this project is to assist three countries in the Maghreb sub-region in the safeguarding of their intangible cultural heritage through the effective implementation of the Convention. It aims to build a critical mass of experience and knowledge, both in government institutions and in civil society, so that the beneficiary countries will be equipped with a suitable framework ›››

News and activities:

• 2018-09-12 – Closing workshop for the project 'Safeguarding intangible cultural heritage through strengthening national capacities in Morocco, Mauritania and Tunisia'
• 2018-06-28 – Final consultation and validation meeting of the multi-year national strategy for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage

Strengthening the capacities of NGOs active in the field of intangible cultural heritage in Mauritania

Benefitting country(ies): Mauritania

Overview:

The twelve-month project was implemented by the Conservation Nationale du Patrimoine Culturel, aiming to strengthen the capacities of NGOs active in the field of intangible cultural heritage in Mauritania. There are around fifty NGOs across Mauritania working on various activities related to living heritage, comprising a large part of the bearers responsible for safeguarding, disseminating and promoting living heritage. A ›››

News and activities:

• 2020-02-17 – Mauritania launches an International Assistance project on strengthening capacities of NGOs in the field of Intangible Cultural Heritage

La conservation et la mise en valeur du patrimoine culturel immatériel Imraguen

Benefitting country(ies): Mauritania

Overview:

The assistance resulted in the submission of a best practice proposal for the 2011 cycle; amendments to the Operational Directives at the third session of the General Asembly in 2010 made the proposal ineligible, since it concerned a future project not yet being implemented. ›››

Moorish epic T’Heydinn

Benefitting country(ies): Mauritania

Overview:

The assistance resulted in the submission of a USL nomination examined in 2011, at which time the Committee inscribed the Moorish epic T’heydinn (Decision 6.COM 8.13). ›››