UNESCO-accredited ICH facilitator Paritta Chalermpow Koanantakool talks about the use of photos and videos in an ICH recording from the perspective of fieldwork.

UNESCO-accredited ICH facilitator Suzanne Ogge gives a lecture on how to fill the forms for ICH inventorying.

Local ICH expert Nguyen Thi Thu Trang analyzes the current state of surviving intangible cultural heritages in Vietnam from the perspectives of population, livelihood, society, economy and culture.

During the five-day training, UNESCO-accredited ICH facilitators Paritta Chalermpow Koanantakool and Suzanne Ogge, along with Nguyen Thi Thu Trang, a local expert in ICH safeguarding, gave lectures on the Inventorying of Intangible Cultural Heritage under the framework of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.

The ICH capacity-building workshop combined online lectures and group discussions with fieldwork in local communities. Paritta Chalermpow stressed the role the community can play during the process of ICH Inventorying and talked about the use of photos and videos in ICH recording from the perspective of fieldwork as well as preparations for interviewing local community members. Nguyen Thi Thu Trang analyzed the current state of surviving intangible cultural heritages in Vietnam from the perspectives of population, livelihood, society, economy and culture.

The workshop emphasized the involvement of and fieldwork in local communities during the process of ICH inventorying. Cultural officials from seven Vietnamese provinces who attended the workshop as trainees each talked about their community-based ICH inventorying experiences and the most recent progress in their work. Two ICH transmitters from local communities who attended the workshop as trainees also shared their observations about the current situation in ICH inventorying and the latest development in community-government cooperation in this field.