11th Annual Meeting of the South-East European Experts Network on Intangible Cultural Heritage “Funding the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage”. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 27-28 June 2017

1. POLICIES FOR SAFEGUARDING
THE INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE
IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA
Andrei PROHIN
NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR THE SAFEGUARDING OF THE ICH

2. LEGAL SYSTEM FOR SAFEGUARDING THE ICH
2003 Convention was ratified in 2006
Law on the protection of the ICH adopted in 2012
• Ministry of Culture
• National Commission for the Safeguarding of the ICH
• National Centre for the Preservation and Promotion of the ICH
• authorities of the local public administration
National Inventory of the ICH (vol. A) issued in 2012
Culture Development Strategy (2016-2020) concerns also the ICH

3. RECENT ACTIVITIES (2016-2017)
State Program for the Safeguarding of the Custom “Men’s group
colindat”, included in the UNESCO Representative List of the ICH of
Humanity (2016-2020), approved in December 2016
• inquiries for the documentation, protection and transmission of
the custom
• field research in representative villages of this tradition
• support for the current and new bands of carollers
• inclusion in the school education
• promotion by means of mass-media

4. RECENT ACTIVITIES (2016-2017)
New normative acts were updated and approved in December
2016
• amendments to the Regulation on the implementation of the Law on the
protection of the ICH
• Norms for the accreditation of experts in the field of the ICH
• Regulation on the activity of the National Commission for the Safeguarding
of the ICH
• Regulation on bestowing the Title of Living Human Treasure
• Regulation on the National Inventory and Local inventories of ICH
• Regulation on the National Catalogue of archives with recordings of ICH

5. RECENT ACTIVITIES (2016-2017)
The UNESCO Mission for the assessment of the necessities in the
field of implementing the UNESCO Convention on the Safeguarding
of the ICH, November 2-11, 2016

6. RECENT ACTIVITIES (2016-2017)
1 December 2016
Traditional wall-carpet craftsmanship in Romania and the Republic
of Moldova inscribed in the UNESCO Representative List of the ICH

7. RECENT PUBLICATIONS (2017)

8. PROMOTING THE ICH (2016-2017)
Yearly festive events
National Day of the Folk Costume
National Carpet Fair
Local Festivals and Fairs
Yearly scientific meetings
Forum of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
Academic conferences
Topic seminars

9. FURTHER PROJECTS
• local inventories of the ICH
• complete corpus of carols from the Republic of Moldova
• training experts in the field of the ICH
• new nomination files
traditional game “oina”
traditional dance “hora”

10. FURTHER PROJECTS
• local inventories of the ICH
• complete corpus of carols from the Republic of Moldova
• training experts in the field of the ICH
• new nomination files
traditional game “oina”
traditional dance “hora”