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ICH NGO Forum Annual Symposium 2024

Participatory approaches to Living Heritage: NGO perspectives

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Web Dossier on Intangible Cultural Heritage and sustainable tourism

Benefits and challenges when intangible cultural heritage (ICH) and tourism meet, and to develop sustainable living heritage tourism.

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Climate Change and the Environment

Online seminar series of the wg on ich, climate change and the environment

Dear Accredited NGOs, Please join us at our monthly seminar on Tuesday at 15h00 Paris UNESCO time. Chris Ballard will be presenting the Guidance note, Climate Action for Living Heritage, followed by a commentary on the part of Susanne Schnuttgen of the Living Heritage Entity. (French version follows / la version française…
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Will Heritage Save Us? ICH and the SD Turn

Summary Drawing on extensive ethnographic engagement with the social world of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, this Element explores the mainstreaming of sustainable development principles in the heritage field. It illustrates how, while deeply entwined in the UN standardizing framework, sustainability narratives are expanding…
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2025 Jeonju International Awards for Promoting ICH

Based on the Jeonju Declaration on the Protection of ICH adopted by the first international intangible heritage decree in 2017, the Jeonju International Awards for Promoting Intangible Cultural Heritage (JIAPICH) aims to encourage the model safeguarding practices of ICH in the global community regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, race, age,…
Legal and policy development
Webinar on Heritage skills, transmission and policies on 25th February
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Call for Nominations for the Executive Board Election for the Africa Region
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Call for abstracts: ICH, Climate Change and the Environment
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Call for presentations: NGOs Experiences and Reflections on ICH in Armed Conflicts
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Call for papers: Workshop on Living Heritage, ecological sustainability and climate action
Elections 2025
Call for Electoral Board / Appel à candidatures
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NGOs are a pillar for the safeguarding of the World’s living traditions, together with the holders of these traditions and the States. The Forum also welcomes NGOs that are active in the field of ICH and are in the process of accreditation.

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Messages to the 2003 Convention

The ICH NGO Forum invites individuals and actors from around the world to share their Messages Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage

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Sharing Experience

Share knowledge from fieldwork in communities and with practitioners, between the UNESCO accredited NGOs and experts, in order to learn from each other.