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| Empaako naming ceremony among the Batuku community |
Engabu Za Tooro is now consolidating
the achievements of a UNESCO co-funded Empaako project through ongoing
dissemination of the project results like Empaako book titled, “Ceremonies and
practices associated with Empaako naming system.”
The organization is also
disseminating Empaako naming videos for the five Empaako communities of
Batooro, Banyoro, Banyabindi, Batuku & Batagwenda which can be accessed on http://www.youtube.com/user/Engabuzatooro.
Public meetings, online Empaako communities’ engagement and mobile exhibition of
Empaako naming materials like books and videos is also ongoing throughout
Empaako communities.
As
part of efforts to document, promote and sustainably safeguard Empaako tradition
as an Intangible Cultural Heritage, Engabu Za Tooro is consolidating an already
developed online Empaako platform which can be accessed on www.empaako.org. Engabu Za
Tooro is consolidating the online Empaako platform through training members
from Empaako communities to learn how to interact with the online system so
that an engaged online Empaako network is expanded and strengthened which will
create awareness on Empaako Intangible Cultural Heritage and also advocate for continued
Empaako safeguarding.
Audio-visual studio which was a
project that emerged out of a UNESCO co-funded Empaako project is currently
documenting intangible cultural heritage of Empaako communities and training
Empaako community members in audio-visual documentation skills to enable them
sustainably safeguard their own heritage threatened with extinction through
audio-visual documentation.
During the two year UNESCO
co-funded project, ritual guides were organized and trained in safeguarding their
heritage through documentation and dissemination and now Engabu Za Tooro is
involved in strengthening and expanding a network of ritual guides to
sustainably safeguard heritage of Empaako communities. The organization is also
training more ritual guides from Empaako communities in documentation and
dissemination of their heritage to enable them sustainably safeguard their
heritage.
Engabu
Za Tooro implemented a two year UNESCO co-funded project UGA 01210 titled,
“Documentation and revitalization of ceremonies and practices associated with
Empaako naming system in Uganda.”
Engabu
Za Tooro is accredited to provide advisory services to UNESCO (ICH Convention)
and accredited as an observer of the Intergovernmental Committee on
Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore
by World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
