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Kazakhstan remains committed to UNESCO’s normative action in culture through efforts to increase the number of sites on the World Heritage List (there are currently three sites on the List and 11 sites on the Tentative List).

UNESCO Almaty works to strengthen the capacity of Government and local administrators to improve the quality and relevance of education service delivery. Technical assistance, capacity development, and analysis are provided to support the revision of education norms and standards and to improve the retraining system for teachers.

Intangible Heritage

Kazakhstan is committed to protecting and celebrating the priceless, non-physical assets of all people’s heritage and culture.

For centuries, ethno Kazakh and nomadic people’s history, traditions, values, lessons and folklore – and all aspects of survival through all seasons on the Great Steppe – were preserved and passed down by generations through intanbible means.

Kazakhstan is proactive in partnership with UNESCO programs to preserve these intanbible assets, particularly programs to safeguard these cultural assests in Central Asia:

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