A standing committee for hawker culture

No standing body joins the two halves of hawker culture in Government: MSE and NEA own the centres and the trade's schemes; MCCY and NHB own the Convention and the report to UNESCO. The plan asks that the UNESCO nomination committee co-chaired in 2018–20 by the CEOs of NHB and NEA and the President of FMAS be revived, meeting twice a year and publishing one page a year: the at-risk count, HSS transfers, new entrants and exits, and what was done about the marketing risk UNESCO named. It receives the yearly count; until it exists, NHB does, as the Convention's focal point.

Who pays

The library gives this mechanism no who-pays tag of its own.

What it builds on

The 14-member UNESCO nomination committee of 2018–20 was set up for the nomination alone, and the public record shows no meeting after the inscription. FMAS itself carries on. Asked on 7 Oct 2026 whether a formal mechanism should identify the trades at risk, MCCY pointed to the schemes already running and left the question open (§3.8).

The ask of Government

Decision

A permanent committee for hawker culture – the 2018–20 UNESCO nomination committee (co-chaired by the CEOs of NEA and NHB and the President of FMAS, which is itself a standing federation) brought back as a permanent body; it meets twice a year and publishes one page a year: the at-risk count, HSS transfers, new entrants and exits, and what was done about the marketing risk UNESCO named

Instrument

NEA, NHB and FMAS (administrative); MSE and MCCY agree its terms

Fiscal cost

Zero

What it buys

Singapore's own table, restored rather than a critic's adopted: the body that won the inscription keeps what it won. It gives the count one owner and four agencies one answer (§3.8).

From §7.7, §3.8, §3.6.

Who gains

Hawkers

A body on which the trade's federation sits as co-chair (§3.8).

Government

One owner for the count, and one answer from four agencies (§7.7).