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Resources
Training materials, databases, publications and studies on IP and traditional knowledge, traditional cultural expressions and genetic resources.
Technical Assistance and Capacity Building
- Cultural Documentation and IP Management Training Program - trains indigenous peoples and local communities in documentation and management of traditional cultural expressions
- IP Management Guides for arts festival organizers, traditional handicrafts and museums, libraries and archives
- Traditional knowledge documentation
Databases
- Laws, treaties and regulations on the protection of traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions, and legislative texts relevant to genetic resources
- Collection of biodiversity-related access and benefit-sharing agreements
- Codes, guidelines and practices relating to the recording, digitization and dissemination of traditional cultural expressions
- List of online databases and registries of traditional knowledge and genetic resources
Publications, Studies and Documents
- General information and background briefs
- Information materials by topic: protection of TK and TCEs; access, benefit-sharing and disclosure; IP management; customary law.
