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All India Artisans and Craftworkers Welfare Association (AIACA)

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Description	AIACA, a nationwide network of handicraft and handloom clusters, directly addresses the need to empower traditional artisan clusters across India through professionalization of their craft based skills for sustainable enterprise development. AIACA specializes in sustainable craft based livelihood initiatives through skill development, design innovation and product diversification, entrepreneurship development, direct market access, access to social entitlements and schemes and policy advocacy. AIACA has a unique national certification proramme, Craftmark (www.craftmark.org), that certifies and improves the economic competitiveness of genuine handmade craft processes and products of India and brings under its fold, artisans, SHGs, cooperatives, associations, social enterprises, and individual practitioners to gain from its business development and promotional services thus creating dignity and pride in the practice of traditional crafts in the long run. AIACA has over 75 Craftmark members (outreach of over 20,000 artisans across 22 states of India) and has documented over 80 traditional craft processes practiced in the country.
Phone(Office)	+91-11-26272492, 26270493/94
Email	madhura@aiacaonline.org	Web Site	www.aiacaonline.org
Address	B –223 Basement, Chittaranjan Park, New Delhi -110019

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ICH NGOs in South Asia
Bridging ICH communities and governments, NGOs play an integral role in networking and implementing projects to safeguard ICH. The importance of NGOs in ICH safeguarding has been emphasized in the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. In this issue of the ICH Courier, we present three profiles of ICH NGOs working to safeguard ICH in the South Asian sub-region.

DR. MADHURA DUTTA, Executive Director/ NIRIELLA PARAKRAMA BANDARA, Artistic/Chief Executive Director/ TULASI DIWASA, President 2016

SS00000088 Dr. Madhura Dutta
Dr. Madhura Dutta is Director at banglanatak dot com (www.banglanatak.com), a 20 years old UN accredited social enterprise working towards inclusive and sustainable development using culture-based approaches. She leads international collaboration and research initiatives. She has 19 years of global work experience including UNESCO (as National Programme Officer), All India Artisans & Craftworkers Association (as Executive Director), and as advisor for CSRs. She has extensive experience in programme design, development and management, and policy research and advocacy, focusing on Culture and Development issues. She has a PhD from the School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Mumbai), and MA degrees in Sustainable Development under a Commonwealth Scholarship (Staffordshire University, UK) and Sociology (Calcutta University). She is also a freelance writer.

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