IFCD approves 72,197 USD for “Validating Jamaica’s Cultural & Creative Industry through Economic Impact Assessments and National Statistical System”

Culture

The Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions has approved the application submitted by the Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) to implement the project entitled “Validating Jamaica’s Cultural & Creative Industry through Economic Impact Assessments and National Statistical System (JAM NSS-CCI)” (in Decision 14.IGC […]

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The workshop on UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property/UNIDROIT Convention

culture

The workshop on UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property and the UNIDROIT Convention was held in Kingston, Jamaica, from 2-5 March 2020.  It provided a platform for exchanging practices and identifying measures to help Caribbean Member […]

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Community-based inventorying of intangible cultural heritage: wrap up workshop

other-projects

A wrap-up workshop of the project “Community-based inventorying of intangible cultural heritage” was organized in July in Kingston, Jamaica five months after its launching. Since March, members from three communities of Kingston were invited to join capacity building workshops on community-based inventorying and conduct inventorying of their living heritage. | READ MORE

Pilot Community-based Inventorying of Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Urban Context of Kingston, Jamaica

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The African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank (ACIJ/JMB), in collaboration with the Jamaica National Commission for UNESCO and the UNESCO Cluster Office for the Caribbean, coordinated a pilot, community-based, training workshop on the inventorying of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) in the urban context of Kingston on March 11, 2019 […]

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UNESCO’s IPDC Funds Training Workshop for Caribbean Journalists, 2011

Communication & Information

July 2011: Twenty-one journalists from 10 Caribbean countries participated in the training workshop “Media and Democracy” which was held in Kingston, Jamaica. This workshop was organized by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA) with funds provided by UNESCO’s International Programme for Development of Communication (IPDC), in collaboration with the Caribbean Broadcasting Union […]

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