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Mongolia-ICHCAP Cooperatitve Projects

Mongolia-ICHCAP Cooperatitve Projects

Activities for ICH Information Building and Sharing from 2008 to 2013

2008
Project

Introducing the UNESCO Living Human Treasures System in Mongolia

Project Duration : July to December 2008

The ICH bearers actively participated in the action for documenting the ICH and its bearers

ICH bearers

A music instrument Tsuur is made of a special plant in Western Mongolia

The ICH bearers documenting process in the field

ICH bearers-Generation to generation

ICH bearers together with the Survey group members

Participants of the Meeting

ICH bearers in the town of Baganuur introducing their talent and skill

Visit at the bearer’s house

Practicing the Mongolian custom-going around 3 times and adding stones to the Ovoo

Under UNESCO Living Human Treasures Program, the project ‘Introducing UNESCO Living Human Treasures System in Mongolia’ has been successfully implemented in order to realize efforts in safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in Mongolia.
The main objective of this project aims to introduce and implement UNESCO Living Human Treasures System in Mongolia and so protect, maintain and encourage intangible cultural heritage and bearers in Mongolia within implementation efforts of the 2003 Convention.

The following activities have been defined and planned to implement within the project implementation work:

1. Review and analyze previous research study materials, data information and field survey findings on intangible cultural heritage and its bearers in Mongolia, and make general overviews upon current situations of intangible cultural heritage
2. Develop recommendations on designing a relevant legal framework for implementing UNESCO Living Human Treasures program in Mongolia and submit them to responsible governmental institutions for further approval and actions
3. Organize exchange tours of expert teams implementing the project in South Korea and Mongolia and so share viewpoints and experiences in safeguarding and maintaining intangible cultural heritage in reality
4. Appoint and send field research teams to some areas of Mongolia, namely some Western and Mongolian regional aimags in order to identify, survey, determine and document locations and distributions of certain bearers of intangible cultural heritage
5. Develop draft proposals of ‘List of types and forms of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Mongolia’, ‘The List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding’, ‘The Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Mongolia’ and submit them to MECS
6. Design an initial draft of reference manuals of intangible cultural heritage in Mongolia based on results and findings of all above reviews and research analysis. During the joint seminar meetings held on 12-13 December, 2008 the Mongolian and Korean expert teams withdrew general feedback upon ongoing implementation processes of the project and shared comments on achievements of project goals and objectives, in addition to defining some specific areas of further activities. It definitely contributed considerable inputs in efforts introducing ‘Living Human Treasures’ Program and thus safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in Mongolia