As part of the Cultural Partnership Initiative of 2016, ICHCAP invited ICH professionals from Malaysia, Mongolia, Sri Lanka and Tonga. Each participant researched ICH topics of interest that relate to comparative studies, sustainable development, traditional medicine, and safeguarding organizations. Tuul Machlay from Mongolian National Commission for UNESCO researched how intangible cultural heritage has been inventoried in both Mongolia and Republic of Korea. This comparative study explored that each country has its own challenges and its own way to implement community based inventorying therefore implementing the 2003 Convention depending on their own conditions.