Proyecto

Identification, capacity-building, safeguarding and promotion of traditional dances of Togo as a vector of sustainable cultural development

Países beneficiarios: Togo

Implemented by CUL.DEV (Culture and Development), an accredited NGO under the Convention, this twenty-five-month project aims to identify, safeguard and promote traditional dances in Togo. The project involves inventorying the dances, including categorizing them and describing the related performance techniques, music, rhythms, contexts, dress and norms, as well as their social, spiritual and secular roles within the communities. The

Strengthening capacities for periodic reporting under the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Africa

Países beneficiarios: Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cabo Verde Camerún Chad Comoras Congo Côte d'Ivoire Djibuti Eritrea Eswatini Etiopía Gabón Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guinea Ecuatorial Kenya Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Malí Mauricio Mozambique Namibia Níger (el) Nigeria República Centroafricana República Democrática del Congo República Unida de Tanzania Ruanda Santo Tomé y Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Somalia Sudán del Sur Togo Uganda 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

Noticias y actividades:

  • Presupuesto del proyecto:
    250.000 US$
  • Origen:
    Saudi Arabia Funds-in-Trust
  • Fechas de implementación:
    01/07/2023 - 01/07/2024

Inventory, safeguarding and promoting knowledge of how to manufacture and play Togo’s traditional musical instruments (national phase)

Países beneficiarios: Togo

Implemented by the National Commission for Cultural Heritage, the project mainly aimed to inventory, safeguard and promote knowledge related to the manufacture and practice of traditional musical instruments in Togo. It built on lessons learned from the first phase of the project, which took place in the Maritime region (south Togo) between January 2016 and February 2017. The last general inventory of

Noticias y actividades:

Inventory, safeguarding and promoting knowledge of how to manufacture and play Togo's traditional musical instruments (Pilot phase in the Maritime region, south Togo)

Países beneficiarios: Togo

The last general inventory of the intangible cultural heritage, drawn up in 2011 in Togo, revealed some important principles and skills that had not yet been adequately documented; more intensive efforts to introduce and implement safeguarding measures were therefore required. A major gap in the inventory included the skills needed to manufacture and play traditional musical instruments and for their accompanying

Noticias y actividades:

  • Asistencia financiera:
    24.950 US$ otorgado en 2015
  • Fechas de implementación:
    09/12/2015 - 09/12/2016

General inventory of the intangible cultural heritage

Países beneficiarios: Togo

The project aimed to realize a general inventory of the intangible cultural heritage of Togo to contibute to the implementation of the 2003 Convention at the national level. The main objectives were to identify the elements of the intangible cultural heritage; develop safeguarding measures and identify the elements to be nominate to the Convention’s Lists; strengthen the capacity in inventory; establish a

  • Asistencia financiera:
    24.770 US$ otorgado en 2009
  • Fechas de implementación:
    01/03/2010 - 30/09/2011

Salguardia del PCI de los Batammariba de Koutammarkou

Países beneficiarios: Togo

Koutammarkou, a site in the North-East of Togo inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2004, shelters the Batammariba (“those who work the earth”) whose houses with turrets made of earth, the takyientas (“those who guard”), have become the symbol of Togo (see WHC data). This project aims at ensuring the safeguarding of the rich intangible cultural heritage of the Batammariba. That h

  • Presupuesto del proyecto:
    153.726 US$
  • Origen:
    Japan Funds-in-Trust
  • Fechas de implementación:
    01/04/2007 - 01/06/2009

Plan de Acción para la salvaguardia y promoción de la tradición oral del Gelede

Países beneficiarios: Benin Nigeria Togo

La ceremonia Gelede en honor de Iyà Nlà, la madre primordial, está dirigida por mujeres, hecho que pone de relieve la importancia que tienen éstas en la vida yoruba. Tras semanas de preparativos, la ceremonia nocturna se abre con cantos y percusiones, que después dan paso a una orquesta y a bailarines enmascarados y vestidos con espléndidos atuendos. La finalidad del p

  • Presupuesto del proyecto:
    194.925 US$
  • Origen:
    Japan Funds-in-Trust
  • Fechas de implementación:
    01/10/2003 - 01/11/2008
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