Pays bénéficiaire(s) : Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Ouganda, Zambie

Résumé :

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:

1. Phase I dealt with the selection of six pilot communities (one in each country) in a demand-driven manner;
2. Phase II was the initial capacity-building training workshops that took place in all six abovementioned countries;
3. Phase III included several months of fieldwork involving the selected communities and cultural officers to inventory ICH; and
4. Phase IV was follow-up sessions that were organized to evaluate the quality of exercises and improve methodologies.

Several achievements that are commonly shared by the six participating countries:

• Awareness about the concept of intangible cultural heritage, the 2003 Convention, as well as the importance of ICH in society was raised;
• The capacity of the communities, government institutions and civil society was built and they were encouraged to support intangible cultural heritage safeguarding and inventorying;
• Capacity in inventorying and other ICH safeguarding measures was reinforced among national and regional cultural officers and members of the communities;
• Measures for continued safeguarding and inventorying at national and community levels were devised;
• The traditional leadership was very much involved as some helped with resources which showed how welcoming they were as they also gave vital information. This made it possible for the field workers to work freely within the communities;
• The involvement of youths was recognized during the inventorying exercises.

15/12/2009 - 31/12/2011 – Inventaire du patrimoine culturel immatériel des Seychelles01/03/2010 - 30/09/2011 – Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel immatériel