Here you will find materials developed by Government Departments, International Organizations and NGOs which contribute to the discourse on documenting and safeguarding living heritage.

Ministry of Health, Government of Belize 

• Healthy Flavours from Southern Belize

World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO

• Documenting Traditional Knowledge – A Toolkit (2017)
• Intellectual Property and Folk, Arts and Cultural Festivals (2018)
• Minding Culture: Case Studies on Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions (2004)
• Intellectual Property and the Safeguarding of Traditional Cultures: Legal Issues and Practical Options for Museums, Libraries and Archives (2012)

United Nations World Tourism Organization, UNWTO

• Tourism and Intangible Cultural Heritage (2012)
• United Nations World Tourism Organization – Summary Study on Tourism and Intangible Cultural Heritage **
• Recommendations on Sustainable Development of Indigenous Tourism (2019)
• Tourism and Culture Syngergies (2018)
• Tourism and Culture Partnerships in Peru – Models for Collaboration between Tourism, Culture and Community (2016)
• Georgia Declaration on Wine Tourism. Fostering sustainable tourism development through intangible cultural heritage

United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

• The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF

• Know Your Rights! United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – for indigenous adolescents

International Council of Monuments and Sites

• Conservation of Intangible Heritage – A Bibliography
• The Heritage of Sport – A Bibliography
• Sustainable Tourism – A Selective Bibliography