SESSION 3 Eighth Annual Meeting of the South East European Experts Network on Intangible Cultural Heritage 15-16 May 2014. Limassol, Cyprus Presentation by: Matteo Rosati, Programme Officer, Culture Unit; UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, Venice (Italy)

1. Capacity-building
strategy for
safeguarding intangible
cultural heritage
Progress, results, challenges
Limassol, Cyprus
16 May 2014

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Goals
• Create institutional and professional
environments for ICH safeguarding
• Promote broad public knowledge and
support for the Convention’s concepts
and objectives

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Field oriented
Ratio Headquarters/Field Offices of the budget
dedicated to capacity building since 2010

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Multi-faceted
• Revision of policies and legislation
• Redesign of institutional infrastructures
• Development of inventory methods
• Full involvement of diverse
stakeholders
• Technical skills to safeguard ICH

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Three axes
1. Content and materials
2. Network of expert facilitators
3. Delivering training

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Four initial areas
1. Ratification
2. Implementation at the national level
3. Community-based inventorying
4. Elaborating nominations

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Coming soon
• Elaborating safeguarding plans (testing
phase)
• ICH and sustainable development
• ICH and gender

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Facilitators
78 experts trained from all regions

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A dedicated website

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Multi-year tailored projects
Typical capacity-building country project extending from 18 to 36 months

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Evolution of workshops per theme
2011-2013
90 workshops all over the world
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90%
100%
2011 2012 2013
RAT
NOM
INV
IMP

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Workshops per electoral group
2011-2013
90 workshops all over the world
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Group I Group II Group III Group IV Group V(a) Group V(b)
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INV
NOM
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Specific audiences
Youth
• The Caribbean - Grenada, Nov. 2012
• Central Africa - Brazzaville, Nov. 2012
NGOs
• Libreville, Gabon – Sept. 2011
• Quito, Ecuador – Oct. 2011
Universities • Mombasa, Kenya - June 2012

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Resource mobilization
US$12 million

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Budget for ICH
2012-2013

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Monitoring and
evaluation
• EX 4
• Donor review meetings
• Periodic reports
• Reports to the Governing Bodies
• Regional review meetings
• IOS evaluation

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IOS evaluation
Achievements
• highly relevant international
instrument
• cultural heritage discourse
significantly broadened
• provisions largely integrated in
cultural policies and laws

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IOS evaluation
Challenges
• Insufficient integration in other
policies (agriculture, health,
tourism, etc.)
• lack of financial and human
resources at country level
• poor understanding of the
Convention’s concepts

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IOS evaluation
Capacity-building programme
 most important mechanism
 more support in policy and
legislative development
needed
 follow-up and assessment
of results achieved needed

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IOS evaluation
International mechanisms
 Representative List
overrated
 USL, BSP and IA underused
 Synergies with other Culture
Conventions and WIPO not
fully exploited

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IOS evaluation
 Monitoring and evaluation
framework lacking (beyond
periodic reports)
 Limited role of NGOs:
international and national
level
 High quality of the
Secretariat’s work

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Challenges (1)
No ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach /
customization
Adequacy and diversity of
participants
Complexity of facilitators’ roles

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Challenges (2)
Gaps in workshop organization
Prior knwoledge of participants,
national/local context
Local language/interpretation
Field exercises

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Challenges (3)
Curriculum and workshop materials
Customize
Update
New themes
Sharing

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Beijing Recommendations
• Prepare workshop checklist
• Improve reporting template
• Translate Convention text and ‘train’
local interpretors
• Upgrade facilitators’ competencies
• Train a new ‘layer’ of facilitators locally to
ensure multiplier effect