Engabu Za Tooro begins a one week residential capacity building workshop on Empaako safeguarding at Fort Breeze Hotel, Fort Portal

Banner for the capacity building workshop

Engabu Za Tooro (Tooro Youth Platform for Action) has started a one week residential capacity building workshop at Fort Breeze Hotel, Fort Portal – Uganda aimed at building the capacity of Empaako bearers to document their own heritage.

The one week capacity building workshop which will attract 30 participants from Empaako communities of Banyoro, Batooro, Batagwenda, Banyabindi, Basongora and Batuku aims at empowering them with basic knowledge of documenting intangible cultural heritage, train Empaako practitioners to document their own practices, develop and adopt data collection tools for documenting Empaako naming system.

The 12 Empaako's

During the one week capacity building workshop, a practical guide to community self-documentation of intangible cultural heritage will be launched, a study on Empaako naming system will be conducted and teams of data collection tools will be commissioned.

After the one week workshop, 30 practitioners of Empaako naming system will be equipped with the basic knowledge of their intangible cultural heritage, 30 Empaako practitioners will also be sufficiently prepared to document their own practices of Empaako naming system, an interview guide for collecting data on Empaako naming system will be developed and adopted and a scrip for video production of Empaako naming ceremonies will be developed and adopted.

Data collection teams in documentation of Empaako naming system will be constituted and commissioned, a network of ICH documenters will be established and commissioned, a practical guide to community self-documentation of intangible cultural heritage will be launched and two focus group discussions will have generated data on the whole interview guide on Empaako naming system during the one week residential workshop.

Workshop participants

The one week capacity building workshop will be facilitated by community based professionals in different ICH fields who have gone through training of trainers for community self-documentation of intangible cultural heritage who will be supervised by three specialists in key areas based on the workshop topics.

Engabu Za Tooro is currently implementing a one billion Uganda shillings two year UNESCO co-funded project UGA 01210 on documentation and revitalization of ceremonies and practices associated with Empaako naming system in Uganda.

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