- cultures and sustainable development in general, and the Secretary invited the Director of the Division of Creativity to respond.
- 150. The Director of the Division of Creativity, Ms Jyoti Hosagrahar , thanked the delegations for their supportive and encouraging comments. She spoke about the range of other activities undertaken in the Culture Sector to integrate culture, the SDGs and the 2030 Agenda where intangible cultural heritage was very much part of these efforts. These activities cut across the Sector and the culture Conventions and programmes, and were aimed at enhancing the role of culture in the SDGs, including in emergencies and education, but they also looked at the contribution of culture to making cities more inclusive and resilient, while enhancing livelihoods. Also ongoing was the effort to develop indicators across the Conventions and programmes to measure the contribution of culture to the SDGs and that included intangible cultural heritage, which would be discussed further [under agenda item 9] on the overall results framework.
- 151. The Chairperson then proceeded with the adoption of the draft resolution on a paragraph- by-paragraph basis. With no comments or objections, paragraphs 1 - 3 were adopted. It was noted that Latvia had a proposal in paragraph 4.
- 152. The delegation of Latvia noted that the General Assembly would consider the draft of the overall results framework later in its agenda, and its amendment respected the need to take the General Assembly's decision on that item before expressing its position on the future 4 importance of the framework. Its amendment would equally reflect the appreciation of the Secretariat's work.
- 153. The Chairperson noted that there were no objections and paragraph 4 was duly adopted. She then turned to paragraph 5 on the capacity-building programme of the Secretariat, which was duly adopted. Paragraph 6 on the new orientation taken by the Secretariat in the field of intangible cultural heritage and education was also adopted. Paragraph 7 concerned the new initiative on outreach and communication.
- 154. The delegation of Saint Kitts and Nevis wished to add a comma after ' Convention ' and ' to secure appropriate extrabudgetary funding ', which would read, ' welcomes the initiative to develop an outreach and communications plan aiming to enhance awareness about, and the visibility of, the Convention, including the visibility of funding needs from extrabudgetary sources ' . The delegation explained that everyone agreed with the commendable initiative but that visibly more funds were needed to raise the profile of the programme.
- 155. The Secretariat proposed 'as well as the pursuit of extrabudgetary resources ' instead of 'the visibility of funding needs' .
- 156. The delegation of Tunisia noted that the expression ' enhance awareness' was incomplete, and thus proposed, 'to enhance awareness on the importance of the Convention' or 'on the impact of the Convention'.
- 157. The Chairperson appealed to delegations to submit written proposals, which would help in formulating the amendments.
- 158. The Chairperson took note of the amendment in paragraph 7, which would read, 'Welcomes the initiative carried out to develop an outreach and communications plan aiming to enhance awareness about, and the visibility of, the Convention, as well as the pursuit of extra- budgetary resources' ; this was duly adopted. She then turned to paragraph 8 on the growing importance of intangible cultural heritage in the context of emergencies.
- 159. The delegation of Italy remarked on the importance of this issue, as expressed by many delegations. In fact, many of the delegations pointed out the importance of work carried out by the Secretariat, highlighting the connection not only with armed conflict - the theme of the strategy approved two years ago - but also with natural disasters. Thus, the delegation suggested an additional wording to the second part of paragraph 8, which would read, 'and