The week-long training on United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) workshop on implementing the 2003 Convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage of Bhutan ended in Paro yesterday.
The workshop aims to train government officers, mainly from the Department of Culture on planning and developing strategies for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage.
Intangible cultural heritage refers to a set of traditional knowledge and skills that communities have inherited and transmitted from generation to generation by ways of recreating.
Around 27 participants took part in the workshop and underwent series of lectures and practical trainings on how to identify and document elements of intangible cultural heritage.
The workshop was facilitated by two resource persons from Thailand and India. Similar advanced trainings will be held in future.
It was organized by the UNESCO in collaboration with the Department of Culture. It was funded by Japanese Funds-in-Trust to UNESCO.
