This organisation represents the traditional Gandharba music community, a community of occupational caste musicians, functioned as the sole organised means of information and entertainment for the numerous isolated communities across the mountains of Nepal. The Gandharba Cultural Art Organisation (GCAO) is a non-profit social organisation based in Kathmandu, Nepal. Since 1995, GCAO has endeavoured to keep the Gandharba traditions alive, and to improve their economic and educational status. They have plans of documenting the tradition as well as promoting it as they feel it is endangered. The GCAO represents the Gandharba in many rural districts of Nepal, such as Gorkha, Lamjung, Tanhun, Chitwan, Dhading, Palpa, Bhojpur, Dhang and Kaski, and is currently reaching out to incorporate further districts where Gandharba communities reside.

Banglanatak dot com is a social enterprise working across India for inclusive and sustainablendevelopment using culture-based approaches. Art for Life initiative of the organization revivesnintangible cultural heritage and develops grassroot cultural industries. The organization isnaccredited by the UNESCO 2003 Intangible Cultural Heritage Committee and has SpecialnConsultative Status to UN ECOSOC. Banglanatak is working in South Asia to develop a network ofnNGOs working for safeguarding ICH and contributing to sustainable development in collaborationnwith ICHCAP and UNESCO.

As one of the most complete surviving historic city centers with a multicultural living heritage on the Straits of Malacca, George Town was inscribed as a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in 2008, together with Melaka. To manage, monitor, and promote the George Town World Heritage Site, George Town World Heritage Incorporated (gtwhi.com.my) was established in 2010 by the state government of Penang.\nGTWHI works closely with the council and community to overcome day-to-day challenges with regard to promoting sustainable tourism, revitalizing traditional trades, remodeling local market ecology, redefining the use of space, and driving residents back to the city center. We also accumulate baseline data through systematic and scientific research to develop mid- and long-term heritage conservation programs and policies. Our approaches are highly organic and community based, and we take serious commitments to sustain the coexistence of diversity, which is divided according to geographical area, linguistic groups, religious identity, and social status.