Second Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) Community-Based Inventorying Workshop

The Community-based approach recognises the vital importance of traditional custodians in the preservation of intangible cultural heritage and seeks to place the community at the centre of the inventorying process.

The workshop is aimed at Ministry officials, community based organizations (CBOs), local community members, researchers and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) playing an active role in designing and conducting inventories of intangible cultural heritage.

At the end of a workshop, participants should be better equipped to engage in designing and conducting community-based inventorying in their respective countries and communities. Depending on the role that participants play the respective inventorying processes, i.e. as supervisors, local facilitators, field workers, etc.