Expresses concern regarding the alarming decline of support for the implementation of the capacity-building programme, despite the strong demand from countries who have not yet benefitted and continued requests from countries whose needs have only been partially met; Further expresses deep concern regarding the growing disparity between the increased workload of the Secretariat and the human resources available; Calls on States Parties to offer further support, particularly in the form of earmarked contributions to the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund for operational projects and contributions to the sub-fund for enhancing the human resources of the Secretariat in order to allow it to address the ongoing demands for the continued effective governance and implementation of the Convention. Annex Assessment by Performance Indicator Governing bodies of the 2003 Convention exercise sound 38C/5 Performance governance thanks to effective organization of their statutory Indicator 1 meetings Likelihood that Assessment of progress: Target target will be 01/01/2016 to 30/06/2017 attained Decisions 15 statutory meetings held with High providing decisions providing strategic guidance strategic and/or financial support for the guidance implementation of the Convention: and/or financial one General Assembly (30 May support for the to 1 June 2016); implementation one Intergovernmental of the Committee (28 November to 2 Convention December 2016); taken in a five meetings of the Evaluation dozen Body (March 2016, June 2016, statutory September 2016, March 2017 meetings. and June 2017); 100 three face-to-face meetings of the safeguarding Bureau of the Committee for (June 2016, October 2016 and intangible May 2017); cultural four electronic consultations of heritage, the Bureau of the Committee including (March to April 2016, June 2016, indigenous February to March 2017 and May and 2017); endangered One open-ended languages, intergovernmental working group developed meeting (Chengdu, 11 to 13 June and/or 2017). implemented for the use of the resources of the by Member Fund adopted; Operational Directives States. (OD) revised concerning the increase 30 in the ceiling for International International Assistance (IA) to be examined by the Assistance Bureau; a new OD chapter adopted on requests the safeguarding of intangible cultural submitted and 5 effectively
Expresses concern regarding the alarming decline of support for the implementation of the capacity-building programme, despite the strong demand from countries who have not yet benefitted and continued requests from countries whose needs have only been partially met; Further expresses deep concern regarding the growing disparity between the increased workload of the Secretariat and the human resources available; Calls on States Parties to offer further support, particularly in the form of earmarked contributions to the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund for operational projects and contributions to the sub-fund for enhancing the human resources of the Secretariat in order to allow it to address the ongoing demands for the continued effective governance and implementation of the Convention. Annex Assessment by Performance Indicator 38C/5 Performance Indicator 1 Governing bodies of the 2003 Convention exercise sound governance thanks to effective organization of their statutory meetings Target Assessment of progress: 01/01/2016 to 30/06/2017 Likelihood that target will be attained Decisions providing strategic guidance and/or financial support for the implementation of the Convention taken in a dozen statutory meetings. 100 safeguarding for intangible cultural heritage, including indigenous and endangered languages, developed and/or implemented by Member States. 30 International Assistance requests submitted and 5 effectively 15 statutory meetings held with decisions providing strategic guidance and/or financial support for the implementation of the Convention: one General Assembly (30 May to 1 June 2016); one Intergovernmental Committee (28 November to 2 December 2016); five meetings of the Evaluation Body (March 2016, June 2016, September 2016, March 2017 and June 2017); three face-to-face meetings of the Bureau of the Committee (June 2016, October 2016 and May 2017); four electronic consultations of the Bureau of the Committee (March to April 2016, June 2016, February to March 2017 and May 2017); One open-ended intergovernmental working group meeting (Chengdu, 11 to 13 June 2017). for the use of the resources of the Fund adopted; Operational Directives (OD) revised concerning the increase in the ceiling for International Assistance (IA) to be examined by the Bureau; a new OD chapter adopted on the safeguarding of intangible cultural High
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