This international workshop aims at discussing and defining a
preliminary suitable template for a National Inventory of Intangible
Cultural Heritage in Madagascar.
Its main objectives are to:
- enhance knowledge of intangible cultural heritage;
- establish methodologies for inventorying intangible cultural
heritage and produce an inventory form;
- familiarize national officials with the mechanisms of the Convention
for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003),
and provide them with information to begin inventorying intangible
cultural heritage;
- organize training in the documentation of intangible cultural
heritage.
Organized by the UNESCO Office in Dar es Salaam, the workshop
will be attended by government officials working in the field of
culture at the central and regional levels. |