An intangible cultural heritage expression can be proposed for listing on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, if the viability of the expression is at risk, despite all efforts to ensure its safeguarding by the community, group or government concerned. In specific cases, immediate threats to particular elements of intangible cultural heritage that may place its continuation at risk, constitute sufficient reason for an inclusion, even if the elements seemed viable at the time of nomination.

A nomination dossier needs to be based on a safeguarding plan, which has been developed with the widest possible participation of heritage practitioners and guardian communities and requires their informed, explicit and prior consent.

think heritage! with its network of experts both in the safeguarding of specific expressions of intangible cultural heritage but also in wide community participation and consultation processes, offers to support the entire process of preparing your nomination. These services include among others the strategic planning and design of safeguarding campaigns, collection of data and documentation required for the nomination dossier as well as provision of writing skills for the nomination document to be submitted to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Secretariat. The team will be selected according to the requirements of your intangible cultural heritage elements and will build on your existing local capacities.

For further information and quotations, please contact:
ich[at]thinkheritage.com