CHDA enters into multiple partnership to enhance capacity to preserve cultural diversity

Name of the Organisation and e-mail address: Office of the Pro-Vice- Chancellor (Teaching and Learning), King’s Gate, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE17RU, Newcastle upon Tyne, UNITED KINGDOM.

Contract / Application Reference number: DCI-HUM/2009/207-631

Project Title: En-compass - an international diamond of cultural dissemination, capacity building with countries from the North, East, South and West

Geographical location of the action: Newcastle-upon-Tyne (United Kingdom); Haikou, Hainan Province (People’s Republic of China); Mombasa (Kenya); and, Georgetown (Guyana)

1. Increase the capacity of heritage practitioners in China, Kenya and Guyana; 
2. Identify, promote and safeguard cultural heritage with specific focus on indigenous and minority groups in these territories; and,
3. Increase the access of these local groups  to different forms of  heritage.

Expected results (max 4 lines):

1. Greater awareness of the threats to indigenous and minority cultural heritage;
2. A database of at risk heritage resources;
3. Increased access to heritage information and products
4. Increased expertise in protection, management and interpretation of heritage; and,
5. Well-trained students to develop in-country capacity-building to support preservation of tangible and intangible heritage.

Target group(s):

1. Ethnic minority groups in China, primarily the Li Miao in Hainan Province;
2. Indigenous African peoples in Kenya and Anglophone Africa; and,
3. Amerindian communities in Guyana, especially the Makushi.

Final Beneficiaries:

1. The arts, music, heritage and museum sectors in the: North of England and the UK; Hainan Province and China; Kenya and Anglophone Africa; and, Guyana; and,
2. Society at large in the UK, China, Kenya and Anglophone Africa, and, Guyana.

Total estimated cost of the action: € 943 751.16

Amount of EU grant: € 849 375

Partners:

1. Hainan Province, People’s Republic of China, via the Hainan Provincial International Cultural Exchange Centre;
2. Centre for Heritage Development in Africa, Kenya; and, 3) Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development, Guyana.

Webpage: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sacs/icchs/

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