Indigenous knowledge and community-based coping strategies provide a foundation for national adaptation planning that can be both appropriate and effective.

UNESCO: THEMES

The event included presentations by indigenous peoples of case studies where community-based knowledge complements and advances current scientific understandings, while sustaining cultural integrity and fulfilling local needs.

UNESCO: THEMES

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The twelve sessions of the workshop were intended to help equip participants with basic knowledge and skills to design and facilitate a community-based inventorying process tailored to the current circumstances of Timor-Leste.

UNESCO: Culture Sector - Intangible Heritage - 2003 Convention

Participants also had an opportunity to exchange views on the diverse opinions concerning the community-based inventorying and to share their knowledge experiences on the ways to record ICH locally.

UNESCO: Culture Sector - Intangible Heritage - 2003 Convention

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