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British Council Cultural Protection Fund in partnership with DCMS

The British Council’s Cultural Protection Fund, set up in partnership with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, is directly responding to the threat to cultural heritage in and around the Middle East and North Africa, whilst promoting opportunities for sustainable social and economic development in the region. Utilising £30m in Official Development Assistance from the UK Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, the Cultural Protection Fund offers grants to organisations to deliver projects that protect, record, conserve and restore cultural heritage at risk. In doing so, we are creating opportunities for sustainable development through providing skills; increasing capacity in the heritage workforce; and supporting communities to better understand, value and benefit from their heritage. Grants have been awarded to 51 initiatives taking place across the region. By 2020, over 3000 people in the cultural heritage sector will have received training and developed new skills as part of CPF projects and thousands of new records for threatened heritage sites have been created and are being monitored across the region. Over 10,000 people have undertaken activities that increase understanding of, or engagement with, cultural heritage.

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British Council Cultural Protection Fund in partnership with DCMS Projects

Kusunda Studentsc Archive Nepal

Safeguarding the Kusunda (The Ban Rajas) Language and Culture for future generation

Aims to preserve the critically endangered Kusunda language through school courses, online learning, and bilingual children’s books to increase usage and awareness among youth…

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Preservation and revival of Maithil women's wall painting and sculpting arts

Reviving traditional Maithil wall art and mud decoration by training local women in Kuwa village. The project empowers women, preserves cultural heritage, and enhances the loc…

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Palmyrene Voices

Palmyrene Voices is a civil society initiative whose mission is to provide a platform for the voices of the Palmyrene people to reach the international community; to support t…

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HIERAPOLIS PROJECT: Protection and documentation of heritage in Munbij

The project aims to implement emergency interventions at three heritage sites dating from the late Byzantine to early 20th century. The sites are located within the city of Ma…

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Protection and Participation: IAAS Archive of Sudanese Intangible Cultural Heritage

This project led by TransforMedia hopes to conduct remote digitisation to permanently preserve the collection and make it more widely accessible.

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Syrian Cassette Archives: Three New Collections

As part of this project, music will be documented, digitalised, recorded and safeguarded for future generations.

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Mitigation of Present and Future Climate Change Impact on the 3.6 million-years Laetoli Footprint Site and Winde Slaves’ Warehouse along the Tanzanian Coast

Through digital documentation, training and community engagement, the project will address the threats facing the physical sites as well as capturing local stories, myths, dan…

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Developing Capacities in Marine Cultural Heritage Management and Protection

This project focuses on the protection of endangered Marine Cultural Heritage in Gaza and Libya through capacity building in maritime archaeology. Marine Cultural Heritage in …

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Urgent Action: Safeguarding the Diverse Cultural Heritage of Jerusalem

The Khalidi Library – Khalidi Waqf will lead a project to support the preservation of, and efforts to increase public access to East Jerusalem’s written and archaeological her…

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