Proyecto

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

Países beneficiarios: 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

  • Asistencia financiera:
    99.601 US$ otorgado en 2024
  • Fechas de implementación:
    12/08/2024 - 31/08/2026
  • Documentos:
    Formulario de solicitud ICH-04: inglés|francés
    Budget and timetable: inglés|francés
    Progress report: inglés

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

Países beneficiarios: 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

  • Asistencia financiera:
    98.203 US$ otorgado en 2023
  • Fechas de implementación:
    02/04/2024 - 17/03/2026
  • Documentos:
    Formulario de solicitud ICH-04: inglés|francés
    Budget and timetable: inglés|francés
    Progress report 2: inglés
    Progress report 1: inglés

Imbalu ceremonies

Países beneficiarios: 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

  • Asistencia financiera:
    7.970 US$ otorgado en 2024
  • Fechas de implementación:
    23/09/2024 - 30/04/2025
  • Documentos:
    Final report: inglés

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

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

Países beneficiarios: 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

Noticias y actividades:

  • Asistencia financiera:
    61.471 US$ otorgado en 2019
  • Fechas de implementación:
    06/05/2020 - 10/06/2022
  • Documentos:
    Formulario de solicitud ICH-04: inglés|francés
    Budget and timetable: inglés|francés
    Progress report: inglés
    Final report: inglés

Strengthening capacities for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in Eastern Africa

Países beneficiarios: Eritrea Etiopía Kenya Seychelles Somalia Sudán del Sur 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

Noticias y actividades:

  • Presupuesto del proyecto:
    59.571 US$
  • Origen:
    UNESCO - Presupuesto regular
  • Fechas de implementación:
    18/06/2026 - 18/06/2026

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

Países beneficiarios: 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

  • Asistencia financiera:
    97.582 US$ otorgado en 2017
  • Fechas de implementación:
    26/06/2017 - 31/12/2020
  • Documentos:
    Formulario de solicitud ICH-04: inglés|francés
    Budget and timetable: inglés|francés
    Progress report: inglés
    Final report: inglés

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

Países beneficiarios: Uganda

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:

  • Asistencia financiera:
    232.120 US$ otorgado en 2017
  • Fechas de implementación:
    23/02/2018 - 10/02/2020
  • Documentos:
    Formulario de solicitud ICH-04: inglés|francés
    Budget and timetable: inglés|francés
    Final report: inglés

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

Países beneficiarios: 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

Noticias y actividades:

  • Asistencia financiera:
    24.990 US$ otorgado en 2015
  • Fechas de implementación:
    01/09/2015 - 31/08/2017
  • Documentos:
    Formulario de solicitud ICH-04: inglés|francés
    Budget and timetable: inglés|francés
    Progress report: inglés
    Final report: inglés

Inventorying the intangible cultural heritage of four communities in Uganda

Países beneficiarios: 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

Noticias y actividades:

  • Asistencia financiera:
    216.000 US$ otorgado en 2012
  • Fechas de implementación:
    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

Países beneficiarios: 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

  • Presupuesto del proyecto:
    275.000 US$
  • Origen:
    Flanders Funds-in-Trust
  • Fechas de implementación:
    01/09/2009 - 01/12/2011

Revitalización de los tejidos de corteza de árbol en Uganda

Países beneficiarios: Uganda

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

  • Presupuesto del proyecto:
    91.485 US$
  • Origen:
    Japan Funds-in-Trust
  • Fechas de implementación:
    01/10/2006 - 01/08/2009
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