Submitting States and priorities for 2017 cycle

Below are the files received by the UNESCO Secretariat for a potential examination in the 2017 cycle. This list includes nominations for the Urgent Safeguarding List or Representative List, proposals for the Register of Best Safeguarding Practices and requests for International Assistance greater than US$25,000.

The Committee will examine at least one file per submitting State during the two cycles of 2017 and 2018. It determined the total number of files for these two cycles to be 100 (50 in 2017 and 50 in 2018).

For the 2017 cycle, files are presented below in the order corresponding to Committee decision 9.COM 12 to have at least one file per submitting State processed over the two cycles of 2016 and 2017 (the first 20 States did not have a national file treated in 2016) and to the level of priorities stated in paragraph 34 of the Operational Directives:

• (i) files from States having no elements inscribed, best safeguarding practices selected or requests for International Assistance greater than US$25,000 approved, and nominations to the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding;
• (ii) multinational files; and
• (iii) files from States with the fewest elements inscribed, best safeguarding practices selected or requests for International Assistance greater than US$25,000 approved, in comparison with other submitting States during the same cycle.

The States that do not have a file examined in 2017 will have priority during the 2018 cycle (decision 10.COM 13).