Creating a budget for your ICH initiative will allow you to understand the costs of implementation and demonstrate your financial needs to funders. See the How to Make a Budget section of this toolkit for more information on how to create your budget.
Sample Indigenous Cultural Heritage Budget
| Goal (List the goals you are trying to achieve) | Activities (List activities needed to reach the goal) | Tasks (if needed, break activities into smaller steps) | Resources Needed (List the detailed costs for each activity) | Costs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ICH sites and landscapes are recorded, managed and protected | Conduct research on ICH sites and landscapes | Develop research plan | Salary for ICH researcher (part-time) | $30,000 |
| Conduct research | Salary for ICH researcher (part-time) | Recorded above | ||
| Host a series of community engagement sessions to gather information on ICH sites and landscapes and to determine values and priorities for land use | Hire facilitator | Community engagement facilitator: $250 x 3 Facilities: $500 x 3 meetings Food: $100 x 3 meetings | $2550 | |
| Book facilities | Recorded above | |||
| Schedule and promote sessions | Recorded above | |||
| Conduct meeting | Recorded above | |||
| Create an inventory of ICH sites | Compile information from engagement sessions into inventory | Salary for ICH researcher | Recorded above | |
| Review inventory with Knowledge Keepers | Salary for ICH researcher | Recorded above | ||
| Draft a heritage policy with this information | Employ a heritage policy writer | Salary for heritage policy writer | $60,000 | |
| Conduct research | Hire student researcher | $10,000 | ||
| Form advisory committee | Honoraria x 4 people x $250 x 4 sessions | $4000 | ||
| Draft heritage policy | Salary for heritage policy writer | Recorded above | ||
| Publish and promote the policy | Graphic design Community presentation | $2000 $1000 | ||
| Total Cost | $109,550 |