UNESCO in collaboration with CEHRD and Shikharapur CLC is conducting a consultation workshop for the CLCs to aware, train and mobilize them to share the best practices they have been doing in their respective community to learn from each other and find ways out to more further.  As a community organization, CLCs should come first to partner/collaborate with local government to combat this situation. This intervention plans to implement some activities to explore some innovative ideas to respond against Covid 19 in their community

This virtual workshop is co-organized by the UNESCO Office in Kathmandu and the Department of Archaeology (DOA), Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation of Nepal,  in close cooperation with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, as a follow-up to the three previous sub-regional workshops (1st in September 2014 in Kathmandu, 2nd and 3rd September 2017 and November 2018 in Xi’an, China). The workshop, with financial support from the UNESCO/Korean Funds-in-Trust Silk Roads project, will bring together representatives and experts from four South Asian countries (Bhutan, China, India, and Nepal) as well as international experts, ICOMOS and UNESCO to discuss potential serial and transnational World Heritage nominations of the Silk Roads cultural routes network in South Asia. The main purposes of the workshop will be to contribute to: Developing a holistic approach to heritage routes through Nepal and South Asia through improved data, enhanced legal frameworks and enhanced capacity for site management and conservation; Reinforcing the discussion and coordination platform for Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, ICOMOS, UNESCO as well as international experts for the South Asian Silk Roads Transboundary Serial Nomination, and Cultural Landscape Initiative; Better understanding of the heritage corridors and cultural landscapes in South Asia.  

UNESCO Kathmandu Office is celebrating the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage (27 October) in Nepal on 10 November 2020. The Culture and Communication and Information units are jointly organizing a webinar on the theme "Your window to the world" to highlight the importance of audiovisual heritage and need for their safeguarding.

UNESCO in collaboration with the Nepal Academy and the Language Commission is organizing a poetry recitation competition and a seminar on the theme "Languages without borders". The events are being organized to celebrate the International Mother Language Day.