Project
Consolidating and upscaling efforts of community museums to safeguard six intangible cultural heritage elements in Uganda
Benefitting country(ies): Uganda
Overview:
Consolidating the promotion of intangible cultural heritage education in institutions of higher learning in collaboration with bearer communities
Benefitting country(ies): Uganda
Overview:
Imbalu ceremonies
- Financial assistance:
- US$ 7,970 granted in 2024
- Dates of implementation:
- 23/09/2024 - 30/04/2025
Benefitting country(ies): Uganda
Overview:
Strengthening capacities for periodic reporting under the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Africa
- Project budget:
- US$ 250,000
- Source:
- Saudi Arabia Funds-in-Trust
- Dates of implementation:
- 01/07/2023 - 01/07/2024
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-Bissau, Guinea, 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
Overview:
News and activities:
- 2024-04-22 – Milestone achieved as Africa participates in its first regional cycle of periodic reporting
Strengthening the capacity of community museums to promote inscribed intangible cultural heritage elements
Benefitting country(ies): Uganda
Overview:
News and activities:
Strengthening capacities for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in Eastern Africa
- Project budget:
- US$ 59,571
- Source:
- UNESCO - Regular budget
- Dates of implementation:
- 07/12/2024 - 07/12/2024
Benefitting country(ies): Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan, Uganda
Overview:
News and activities:
- 2022-01-18 – UNESCO publishes case studies on living heritage and climate change in East Africa
- 2021-04-30 – Regional Online Conference on Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage for Biodiversity Conservation, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction in Eastern Africa
Promoting intangible cultural heritage education in institutions of higher learning in Uganda
Benefitting country(ies): Uganda
Overview:
Community-self documentation and revitalization of ceremonies and practices associated with Empaako naming system in Uganda
Benefitting country(ies): Uganda
Overview:
News and activities:
- 2020-08-27 – Five communities in Western Uganda participated in documenting and revitalizing Empaako intangible cultural heritage
- 2018-08-01 – Training of trainers workshop on ICH documentation
Safeguarding and promotion of Bigwala, gourd trumpet music and dance of Busoga Kingdom in Uganda
Benefitting country(ies): Uganda
Overview:
News and activities:
- 2017-03-20 – Basoga communities of Uganda engage in the safeguarding of the Bigwala
- 2016-06-01 – Workshop in Bigwala and drum playing and Bigwala dance
Inventorying the intangible cultural heritage of four communities in Uganda
Benefitting country(ies): Uganda
Overview:
News and activities:
- 2015-02-12 – Financial assistance, a key mechanism for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage in Africa
- 2013-07-02 – Four communities in Uganda commence inventory making of their intangible cultural heritage
Madi bow lyre music, O'di
- Financial assistance:
- US$ 10,000 granted in 2013
- Dates of implementation:
- 23/12/2013 - 31/03/2015
Benefitting country(ies): Uganda
The male-child cleansing ceremony of the Lango people of North Central Uganda (Dwoko Atin Awobi lot)
- Financial assistance:
- US$ 8,570 granted in 2012
- Dates of implementation:
- 20/03/2012 - 31/03/2013
Benefitting country(ies): Uganda
Overview:
A series of pilot projects in community-based intangible heritage inventorying on a grassroots-level in six selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Project budget:
- US$ 275,000
- Source:
- Flanders Funds-in-Trust
- Dates of implementation:
- 01/09/2009 - 01/12/2011
Benefitting country(ies): Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Uganda, Zambia
Overview:
Revitalization of bark cloth making in Uganda
- Project budget:
- US$ 91,485
- Source:
- Japan Funds-in-Trust
- Dates of implementation:
- 01/10/2006 - 01/08/2009
Benefitting country(ies): Uganda