In June the secretariat received 9 projects following the 11th Call for application to the International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD) fund. In order to ensure that the best projects were pre-selected and sent to UNESCO for approval, the secretariat conducted an internal/preliminary review of the projects received to shortlist the best projects. After the internal review, the secretariat constituted a pre-selection panel that considered the shortlisted projects and pre-selected two projects which have been sent to UNESCO for evaluation and approval.