01428nas a2200133   4500000000100000008004100001260003100042100001700073245004600090856015300136300001200289520094600301020004701247                                       d  bSpringer Berlin Heidelberg1 aR. Bernecker00aInternational Fund for Cultural Diversity  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84955732701&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-642-25995-1_20&partnerID=40&md5=dbd9d87f5ff05826c0458274e4b3313a  a465-4793 aThe availability of resources for implementing policy measures and for taking concrete actions in order to reach the objectives laid down in a standard-setting instrument can be considered as crucial. It is one thing to set political goals and to define measures and instruments to that end. It is another to create the material conditions to put these into practice and to move ahead. Therefore, whether a fund is established in the framework of a convention is seen by many as a touchstone for how seriously parties are engaged in the issue they are negotiating. During the negotiation of UNESCO’s Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (CSICH) of 2003, when some developed countries tried to avoid compulsory contributions to the fund which was being established in that convention, developing countries reacted by placing the interest of these countries in the issues of the CSICH as a whole into question.  a9783642259951 (ISBN); 9783642259944 (ISBN)