The workshop is a follow-up to the sub-regional meeting that
the Section of Intangible Cultural Heritage organized on the implementation
of the 2003 Convention and ICH inventorying in November 2006 in
Dar es Salaam. It is the first of a series of three to be organized
for African states; the second one will involve States non parties
to the Convention in Central and Western Africa; and the last workshop
will bring together States Parties to the Convention from all of
Sub-Saharan Africa.
Considering the rapid development of the implementation of the
2003 Convention at the international level and the fact that many
States Parties to the Convention have already started preparing
nomination files for the Lists, UNESCO considers it timely to organize
a workshop whose objective is to further inform African Non-States
Parties to the 2003 Convention about the Convention with special
attention to the preparation of nomination files for inscriptions
on the Lists of the Convention and requests for international assistance.
Through the workshop, UNESCO hopes to encourage the ratification
of the 2003 Convention.
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