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Declaration for Safeguarding of ICH for Climate Change: the approved text DocumentsNews

Declaration for Safeguarding of ICH for Climate Change: the approved text

(Cliquez ici pour la version française) The Declaration for the Safeguarding of Intangible Culture Heritage for Climate Action approved by the ICH NGO Forum on 6 June 2024 recommends policies and action steps to address the threats to intangible cultural heritage from climate change.  It makes the case for prioritizing…
ICH NGO Forum
July 31, 2024
Harnessing Living Heritage for a Sustainable Future: a thematic webinar – 13 April 2023 News

Harnessing Living Heritage for a Sustainable Future: a thematic webinar – 13 April 2023

Living heritage is a reservoir of the world’s cultural diversity. It encompasses traditional knowledge systems and cultural practices, including of Indigenous Peoples. Living practices are an enabler to build pro-planet societies, achieve environmental sustainability as well as improve economic growth and well-being. Living heritage practices and knowledge systems sustain communities…
ICH NGO Forum
April 12, 2023
Red Arrayán de Cultura, Patrimonio y Medio Ambiente Europe and North AmericaNGOs

Red Arrayán de Cultura, Patrimonio y Medio Ambiente

Since its creation in 1996, the main objective of the organization Red Arrayán de Cultura, Patrimonio y Medio Ambiente has been the sustainable development of rural areas, offering value and innovation to groups and sectors of different territorial ecosystems at the national level and in the Ibero-American community. Closely linked…
ICH NGO Forum
January 15, 2023
Online webinar and launch – ICH NGO Forum web dossier on ICH and sustainable tourism News

Online webinar and launch – ICH NGO Forum web dossier on ICH and sustainable tourism

ONLINE WEBINAR and LAUNCH ICH NGO Forum web dossier on intangible heritage and sustainable tourism A new and rich resource to be launched on 27 October 2022 27 October 2022 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm CEST On ZOOM - https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81091438904 REGISTRATION - To register click here (version française en-dessous) You are active in…
ICH NGO Forum
October 21, 2022
The webinar series “Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development” News

The webinar series “Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development”

As a reservoir of experiences, developed across different cultures, Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) offers inspiring examples of alternative ways of understanding the relationship with the nature and the environment, of healing and taking care of each other, of strengthening social bonds and sustaining livelihoods. In this sense, ICH can be…
ICH NGO Forum
October 7, 2022
Pottery-making tour, Botswana Case Studies

Pottery-making tour, Botswana

Earthenware pottery-making skills are practised among the Bakgatla ba Kgafela community in south-eastern Botswana. The women potters use clay soil, weathered sandstone, iron oxide, cow dung, water, wood and grass to make pots of different forms, designs and styles that relate to the traditional practices and beliefs of the community.…
ICH NGO Forum
October 7, 2022
Gambia’s Ninki Nanka Trail Case Studies

Gambia’s Ninki Nanka Trail

The Ninki Nanka Trail was created in the 1980’s to open up Gambia to tourism through the Gambia river. The trail is based on a responsible, collaborative tourism approach, in a collaborative way, and gives clear benefits to local communities as well as tourism stakeholders in the area.71 While following…
ICH NGO Forum
October 7, 2022
Macau food souvenirs marketing Case Studies

Macau food souvenirs marketing

Following Macau’s handover to China in 1999, the number of tourists increased considerably. Macau did not suffer under the cultural revolution like mainland China, so it has a strong continuity of cultural traditions.89 Portuguese influences are still visible in Macau’s gastronomy, for example in the local pastries. “perishable gifts rather…
ICH NGO Forum
October 7, 2022
Andean Lodges, Peru Anantapata TamboCase Studies

Andean Lodges, Peru

Andean Lodges is a privately owned tourism company founded with the goal of preserving and safeguarding the cultural heritage and ecological integrity of the Ausangate region. Its goal was to create a circuit around Mt. Ausangate that strategically positions ecolodges at key sites and includes local communities in actively presenting…
ICH NGO Forum
October 7, 2022
The Savoy Cheese Route Case Studies

The Savoy Cheese Route

The Cheese Route of Savoie 75 is a network of sites designed to help the local population and tourists discover the cheeses of two French departments united around the same cheese culture. The cheeses produced in this network of sites have a Registered Designation of Origin, which proves their distinctiveness,…
ICH NGO Forum
October 7, 2022
Viennese coffeehouse culture Case Studies

Viennese coffeehouse culture

Viennese coffeehouse culture was designated as intangible cultural heritage in 2011 in the Austrian inventory of the UNESCO’s National Agency for the Intangible Cultural Heritage.73 It combines the intangible heritage with its tangible dimensions: gastronomy, atmosphere, customary practices and social relations, along with interior decor, architecture, food and drink, furnishings,…
ICH NGO Forum
October 7, 2022
Handmade in Bruges, an initiative to safeguard local handicrafts Case Studies

Handmade in Bruges, an initiative to safeguard local handicrafts

A network of partners has developed the programme 'Handmade in Bruges'98 in the spirit of promoting and safeguarding the intangible cultural heritage of craftsmanship in this city in Belgium, This partnership is endeavouring to realise a sustainable tourism approach in the context of over-tourism. One of its initiatives involves assigning…
ICH NGO Forum
October 7, 2022
The Shewula Mountain Camp Case Studies

The Shewula Mountain Camp

The Shewula Mountain Camp was created in the Shewula community of Eswatini in 2000 and aims to allow tourists to discover the way of life of the community while helping it to develop and improve sustainably. It is an accommodation project that makes it possible for guests to live with…
ICH NGO Forum
October 7, 2022
Patachitra, India Experience on the ground

Patachitra, India

Patachitra is a type of scroll painting practiced by a unique community of folk artists who are painters, lyricists, and singers belonging to the Naya village of West Bengal, India. The tradition itself can be traced back to the 13th century; the scroll painting is called Patachitra and the songs…
ICH NGO Forum
October 6, 2022
Dokra, India Experience on the ground

Dokra, India

Dokra is an age-old craft of lost-wax metal casting used to handcraft figurines, deities, decorative pieces, jewelry, and pots, practiced by specific ethnic communities in the village of Bikna in West Bengal, India. The hamlet consisting of 60 Dokra artist households who settled here in the 1960s is now an…
ICH NGO Forum
October 6, 2022
Tocatì, Europe Castello in Piazza Erbe, Verona, Tocatì 2015Experience on the ground

Tocatì, Europe

Tocatì is a community-led, multi-actor movement established for the safeguarding of Traditional Games and Sports (TGS) as social practices and expression of ICH. TGS are living practices that exist in an informal environment, as part of daily life, and also in ritual and festive contexts.
ICH NGO Forum
October 6, 2022

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