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A 6-day international training workshop will start from December 12 to inscribe rich Intangible Cultural Heritage on UNESCO'S Representative List of Humanity that will bring Pakistan on the cultural map of the world and would promote its soft image. National history and Literary Heritage Division (NH&LH), Ministry of Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage in collaboration with CRIHAP and UNESCO, is organising the 6-day training workshop on community based inventorying under UNESCO 2003 Convention on safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Mohsin Haqqani, Federal Secretary for NH&LH along with dignitaries from China will participate in the inaugural event that will continue till December 18. NH&LH Division has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with CRIHAP, UNESCO and category II office at Beijing, China. The aim of the MoU is to build capacity of the heritage professionals of Pakistan for inscription of elements of Intangible Cultural Heritage on UNESCO'S representative list of humanity.
The CRIHAP is training the staff of National History and Literary Heritage Division and its subsidiary organisations. The staff of the Provincial Directorates of culture has also been involved so that the rich Intangible Cultural Heritage of Pakistan could be inscribed on UNESCO'S Representative List of Humanity. Participants from all provinces including Azad Jammu Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan are attending the Workshop. Artisans have also been invited to attend the Workshop. The International Training Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region under the auspices of UNESCO (hereinafter referred to as "CRIHAP") is an international institution in the field of the intangible cultural heritage (ICH) established in Beijing, China on 22nd February 2012 under the Agreement between the Government of the People's Republic of China and UNESCO.
As a regional and international organisation and co-ordinating agency in the field of ICH under the auspices of UNESCO, CRIHAP is committed to conducting international training activities in the field of ICH, proactively building up a regional and international exchange and co-operation platform, engaging in the implementation of the Global Capacity-Building Strategy of UNESCO for strengthening national capacities for implementing the Convention, and making contributions to ICH safeguarding undertakings in the Asia-Pacific Region and worldwide.

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