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UNESCO’s Efforts to Promote Community-based Approach to ICH Safeguarding
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Manage No DI00000753 Country Republic of Korea Author Ashley Cunningham (Programme Specialist, UNESCO ICH Section) Published Year 2018 Language English Copyright 
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| Description | Community participation in identifying, inventorying, managing and safeguarding intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is a central tenet of the Convention (e.g. see Article 11(b) and Article 15). States can involve communities in various activities under the Convention (this is discussed further in Participant’s text 7.4 below). However, the Convention and the ODs do not give precise indications about how to identify the relevant communities, groups and individuals. Nor do the Convention and the ODs give much guidance about how to involve them in actions concerning their ICH. This gives considerable leeway to States Parties to respond to their specific situations. It is, for example, equally possible to start by identifying specific ICH elements and then work with the people who practise and transmit them (who would be defined as [part of] ‘the community concerned’); or by first identifying communities and then, together with them, identifying their ICH. | ||
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