Caribbean Sub Regional Meeting for Periodic Reporting Exercise

From 4 - 8 April 2011, the State Party of Barbados will host the UNESCO Meeting on Small Island Developing States and the Periodic Reporting Exercise of the Caribbean Sub Region of Latin America and the Caribbean. The UNESCO SIDS Meeting is organized for 4 to 6 April 2011, and aims to discuss progress made in the implementation of the 2005 Mauritius Strategy (available at www.unesco.org/en/sids ), which includes the conservation of World Heritage sites, and more in particular the areas in which the Caribbean Member States can make a contribution and in what way they should do so.

Cultural and natural focal points and site managers representing those countries of the Caribbean Sub Region will attend the meeting which have ratified the 1972 World Heritage Convention , accompanied by regional and international experts to elaborate a platform for deeper sub-regional cooperation, as well as the Advisory Bodies (ICCROM, ICOMOS and IUCN) of the World Heritage Convention .

The meeting is part of a series of sub-regional meetings, launched by the World Heritage Centre/LAC Unit in Buenos Aires, Argentina in November 2009, and will continue to 2013 for the Caribbean and South American Sub-Region. it is being organized by the Barbados National Commission for UNESCO, in close cooperation with the World Heritage Centre. Valuable funding support is provided by the World Heritage Fund, the Netherlands Funds in Trust, the Spanish Funds in Trust, and the Government of Barbados.

For further information, please contact:

Ms.Nuria Sanz - Latin America and the Caribbean Unit, UNESCO WHC
Email:  n.sanz@unesco.org

Mr. Ron Van Oers - Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Programme
Email: r.vanoers@unesco.org