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 Ecuatorial, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Malí, Mauricio, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Níger (el), 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

Resumen:

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:

• 2024-04-22 – Milestone achieved as Africa participates in its first regional cycle of periodic reporting

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

Países beneficiarios: Uganda

Resumen:

To be 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 i ›››

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

Países beneficiarios: Uganda

Resumen:

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 ›››

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

Países beneficiarios: Uganda

Resumen:

Implemented by the Uganda Community Museums Association, this twenty-four-month projectwas 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 ›››

Noticias y actividades:

• 2022-09-28 – Ugandan museums as key actors for the safeguarding of living heritage

Strengthening capacities for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in Eastern Africa

Países beneficiarios: Eritrea, Etiopía, Kenya, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudán del Sur, Uganda

Resumen:

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 ›››

Noticias y actividades:

• 2022-01-18 – La UNESCO publica varios estudios de caso sobre el patrimonio vivo y el cambio climático en África Oriental
• 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

Países beneficiarios: Uganda

Resumen:

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 ›››

Documentación y revitalización comunitarias de las ceremonias y prácticas del ‘empaako’, sistema onomástico de Uganda

Países beneficiarios: Uganda

Resumen:

Inscrito en la Lista de Salvaguardia Urgente en diciembre 2013, el “empaako” es un sistema onomástico utilizado por algunas comunidades de Uganda para imponer a un niño, además del nombre y el apellido de su propia familia, uno de los doce apellidos que comparten en común todas esas comunidades. Esta práctica tradicional está vinculada a rituales y ceremonias cuyo significado constituye la base d ›››

Noticias y actividades:

• 2020-08-27 – Participación de cinco comunidades de Uganda Occidental en la documentación y revitalización del patrimonio cultural inmaterial del empaako
• 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

Países beneficiarios: Uganda

Resumen:

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 ›››

Noticias y actividades:

• 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

Países beneficiarios: Uganda

Resumen:

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 ›››

Noticias y actividades:

• 2015-02-12 – Financial assistance, a key mechanism for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage in Africa
• 2013-07-02 – En Uganda, cuatro comunidades emprenden la confección de un inventario de su patrimonio cultural inmaterial

Madi bow lyre music, O'di

Países beneficiarios: Uganda

La ceremonia de purificación de niño a muchacho (Dwoko Atin Awobi lot)

Países beneficiarios: Uganda

Resumen:

The assistance resulted in the submission of a USL nomination to be examined for possible inscription in 2014. ›››

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

Países beneficiarios: Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Uganda, Zambia

Resumen:

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 ›››

Revitalización de los tejidos de corteza de árbol en Uganda

Países beneficiarios: Uganda

Resumen:

El árbol mutuba proporciona el material utilizado para la delicada fabricación de tejidos de corteza vegetal. Producido para la familia real y otros miembros de la comunidad baganda y muy valorado como símbolo distintivo de las tradiciones culturales, este preciado tejido se usa principalmente en ceremonias de coronación y curación, así como en funerales y reuniones sociales. Los objetivos del proye ›››