Latin America and the Caribbean

Pinelands Creative Workshop (PCW), founded in 1978, is a Barbados-based, social enterprise and non-profit organization focused on community empowerment and social equity. PCW drives grassroots development, youth empowerment, and economic self-sufficiency by leveraging cultural arts and vocational education. Main Activities: Cultural Preservation: Delivers afro-caribbean folk traditional dance, drumming, wire sculpting,…

Weaveweave Association is a civil, non-governmental and non- profit organization located at the department of Magdalena, Colombian Atlantic Coast. Since our creation in 2005 we are committed with the strengthening of cultural heritage, preserving environment and sustainable development of the country´s rural and indigenous communities. We Provide services and consultancy…

Mundo Espiral Foundation is a non-governmental non-profit organization, whose main purpose is to contribute to peaceful coexistence, as well as to the Integral and Sustainable Human Development of the population, through the execution of projects, programs, and plans based on human rights, the differential approach and the ethics of action…

The INDICRI Foundation is dedicated to research, training and documentary rescue of ICH in Panama. Year of accreditation: 2021 Main domain(s) of the ngo's activities: oral traditions and expressions, performing arts, social practices, rituals and festive events, traditional craftsmanship Main country where the NGO works: Panama Local, national or international…

Year of accreditation: 2020 Main domain(s) of the ngo's activities: oral traditions and expressions, social practices, rituals and festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe, traditional craftsmanship Main country where the NGO works: Bonaire, Caribbean Netherlands Local, national or international level of the NGO: Local, National

The National Archaeological and Anthropological Memory Management (NAAM) is a prime cultural resource centre in Willemstad, Curaçao (Caribbean). Having started as a museum in the year 1998, NAAM has developed into a dynamic organization that stands for cultural resource management in the broadest sense of the word. NAAM manages a…

Since 1986, Traditions for Tomorrow, an international non-governmental network, accompanies the efforts of Indigenous People and minorities concerned to safeguard their cultural identity in a dozen countries of Latin America. Several hundreds of very concrete cultural or educational initiatives, chosen and conducted by the groups, were carried out in the…

Since 1991, the Erigaie Foundation has opened several lines of work that involve what is now defined as Intangible Heritage. These lines of work are based on a main strategy: regard research as a tool for development, for dialogue and transfer of knowledge, and as an instrument to mediate between…

WHO WE ARE ArteSol started its works in 1998 and became a Civil Society Organization of Public Interest in 2002. Its institutional mission is to contribute to the safeguarding of traditional craftwork and to improve the living standards and self-esteem of their practitioners in areas of Brazil with low human…