Project

Consolidating and upscaling efforts of community museums to safeguard six intangible cultural heritage elements in Uganda

Benefitting country(ies): Uganda

Implemented by the Uganda Community Museums Association (UCOMA), an accredited NGO, this two-year project aims to increase the capacity of community museums to sustainably safeguard Uganda’s intangible cultural heritage inscribed on the Lists of the 2003 Convention. It is the second phase of the project entitled ‘Strengthening the capacity of community museums to promote inscribed intangible cultural heritage’, which was implemented from

  • Financial assistance:
    US$ 99,601 granted in 2024
  • Dates of implementation:
    12/08/2024 - 31/08/2026
  • Documents:
    Request form ICH-04: English|French
    Budget and timetable: English|French
    Progress report: English

Consolidating the promotion of intangible cultural heritage education in institutions of higher learning in collaboration with bearer communities

Benefitting country(ies): Uganda

Implemented by the Cross-Cultural Foundation of Uganda (CCFU), an accredited non-governmental organization under the 2003 Convention, this two-year project aims to promote intangible cultural heritage education in higher-learning institutions. The project builds on the achievements of a previous intervention aimed at raising awareness of the relevance of living heritage in Uganda’s current development context among the management and academic staff of f

  • Financial assistance:
    US$ 98,203 granted in 2023
  • Dates of implementation:
    02/04/2024 - 17/03/2026
  • Documents:
    Request form ICH-04: English|French
    Budget and timetable: English|French
    Progress report 2: English
    Progress report 1: English

Imbalu ceremonies

Benefitting country(ies): Uganda

Implemented by the Inzu Ya Masaaba/Institution of the Umukuuka, this project is aimed at preparing a nomination file to the Urgent Safeguarding List for the Imbalu Ceremonies in Uganda. The ceremonies are a rite of passage for young men that involve many activities, from cultural education, to running, dancing and beer brewing. They culminate with the circumcision of initiates

  • Financial assistance:
    US$ 7,970 granted in 2024
  • Dates of implementation:
    23/09/2024 - 30/04/2025
  • Documents:
    Final report: English

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

Strengthening the capacity of community museums to promote inscribed intangible cultural heritage elements

Benefitting country(ies): Uganda

Implemented by the Uganda Community Museums Association, this project was intended to strengthen the capacities of community museums to promote inscribed elements of intangible cultural heritage in Uganda. Although several safeguarding measures have been proposed for these elements, the concept of intangible cultural heritage was still not well-understood, particularly among young people, and the elements were not sufficiently visible at

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  • Financial assistance:
    US$ 61,471 granted in 2019
  • Dates of implementation:
    06/05/2020 - 10/06/2022
  • Documents:
    Request form ICH-04: English|French
    Budget and timetable: English|French
    Progress report: English
    Final report: English

Strengthening capacities for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in Eastern Africa

Benefitting country(ies): Eritrea Ethiopia Kenya Seychelles Somalia South Sudan Uganda

This activity aims to strengthen national capacities for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in Eastern Africa by supporting States Parties with capacity building for carrying-out community based inventories of ICH. It will also aim to secure ratification by Somalia, the last Member State in the region left to ratify the 2003 Convention. For countries developing culture policies, efforts will be made to

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  • Project budget:
    US$ 59,571
  • Source:
    UNESCO - Regular budget
  • Dates of implementation:
    13/06/2026 - 13/06/2026

Promoting intangible cultural heritage education in institutions of higher learning in Uganda

Benefitting country(ies): Uganda

In line with Uganda’s National Cultural Policy, which underscores the importance of intangible cultural heritage, the three-year project aimed at raising awareness of a core group of twenty management and academic staff from four universities in Gulu, Kampala, Nkozi and Fort Portal, on the relevance of intangible cultural heritage in Uganda’s current development context. For the moment, there are only iso

  • Financial assistance:
    US$ 97,582 granted in 2017
  • Dates of implementation:
    26/06/2017 - 31/12/2020
  • Documents:
    Request form ICH-04: English|French
    Budget and timetable: English|French
    Progress report: English
    Final report: English

Community-self documentation and revitalization of ceremonies and practices associated with Empaako naming system in Uganda

Benefitting country(ies): Uganda

Inscribed on the Urgent Safeguarding List in December 2013, Empaako is a traditional naming system whereby, in addition to their family and given names, a child is given an Empaako from a list of twelve shared by the entire community. The practice is associated with rituals and ceremonies whose meaning is central to the identity and belief systems of the communities

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  • Financial assistance:
    US$ 232,120 granted in 2017
  • Dates of implementation:
    23/02/2018 - 10/02/2020
  • Documents:
    Request form ICH-04: English|French
    Budget and timetable: English|French
    Final report: English

Safeguarding and promotion of Bigwala, gourd trumpet music and dance of Busoga Kingdom in Uganda

Benefitting country(ies): Uganda

The project merged with ongoing safeguarding initiatives of the Busoga communities of Eastern Uganda to revitalize and strengthen Bigwala music and dance traditions, which play a key role in maintaining Busoga collective memory, cultural values and social unity. Involving the performance of five or more gourd trumpet players, each producing a single tone blown in hocket to produce a melody

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  • Financial assistance:
    US$ 24,990 granted in 2015
  • Dates of implementation:
    01/09/2015 - 31/08/2017
  • Documents:
    Request form ICH-04: English|French
    Budget and timetable: English|French
    Progress report: English
    Final report: English

Inventorying the intangible cultural heritage of four communities in Uganda

Benefitting country(ies): Uganda

In July 2013, Uganda launched a multi-year project to enable four local communities to identify their living heritage, as an essential step for its safeguarding. The Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development will coordinate the establishment of a national strategy for inventorying intangible cultural heritage and organize a workshop in the capital in order to train local coordinators on the

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  • Financial assistance:
    US$ 216,000 granted in 2012
  • Dates of implementation:
    05/07/2013 - 31/03/2015

A series of pilot projects in community-based intangible heritage inventorying on a grassroots-level in six selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa

Benefitting country(ies): Botswana Eswatini Lesotho Malawi Uganda Zambia

The project was implemented by conducting a series of pilot ICH inventory-making activities, on a grassroots level, in six beneficiary Sub-Saharan African countries, namely Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Uganda, Swaziland and Zambia. It was composed of four phases: Phase I dealt with the selection of six pilot communities (one in each country) in a demand-driven manner; Phase II was the initial

  • Project budget:
    US$ 275,000
  • Source:
    Flanders Funds-in-Trust
  • Dates of implementation:
    01/09/2009 - 01/12/2011

Revitalization of bark cloth making in Uganda

Benefitting country(ies): Uganda

The Mutaba tree provides the raw material for the delicate manufacture of bark-cloth. Produced for the royal family and other Buganda community members and highly recognized as a marker of cultural traditions, this precious cloth is worn at coronations and healing ceremonies, funerals and social gatherings. The objectives of the safeguarding project are to: train craftspersons, especially young artisans, in

  • Project budget:
    US$ 91,485
  • Source:
    Japan Funds-in-Trust
  • Dates of implementation:
    01/10/2006 - 01/08/2009
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