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| Title | Sites | State Parties | Description | Category | Date updated |
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| Capacity Building | Understanding, managing and conserving World Heritage properties requires up-to-date knowledge and well-honed skills. To help build the capacity of all stakeholders in World Heritage – whether they are ... | 2024-09-02 | |||
| Building a Global Sustainable Network of World Heritage Site Managers | The overarching vision of this World Heritage project is to establish links and channels of communication among World Heritage Site Managers around the world by providing a web and a social media platform to share ... | 2022-06-27 | |||
| Engaging Youth in World Heritage: developing policy guidance and good practices for State Parties and World ... | UNESCO advocates the reaffirmation of identity, mutual respect, dialogue, and unity in diversity, solidarity and a positive interaction among the cultures of the world. This is valid for all areas, including for ... | 2022-06-27 | |||
| Enhancing the credibility of the World Heritage List: Tentative List good practices | Tentative Lists are inventories of sites forming part of the cultural and natural heritage of a State Party, which have a strong potential to be inscribed on the World Heritage List. These national inventories are ... | 2022-06-27 | |||
| Periodic Reporting Tools and Guidance for World Heritage Site Managers in Spanish Language | The World Heritage Committee at its 41st session launched the Third Cycle of Periodic Reporting and requested the World Heritage Centre ensure a holistic approach across all regions, by developing tools and guidance ... | 2022-06-27 | |||
| Uplifting the perception of the List of World Heritage in Danger | Article 4 of the World Heritage Convention refers to the conservation of properties inscribed on the World Heritage List and indicates that “Each State Party to this Convention recognizes that the duty of ensuring ... | 2022-06-27 | |||
| Urban Heritage Atlas: Understanding attributes of historic cities and settlements| Stone Town of Zanzibar (United ... | Stone Town of Zanzibar | United Republic of Tanzania | Although the overall urban fabric and townscape give Stone Town its unique character, many individual buildings of historical and architectural significance represent local architecture and building traditions. ... | 2024-10-07 | |
| Understanding urban heritage: New and Old Towns of Edinburgh (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) | Old and New Towns of Edinburgh | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | New and Old Towns of Edinburgh (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)UNESCO Urban Heritage Atlas: Cultural mapping of historic cities and settlements © Chris Fleming, CC BY-SA 2.0, via ... | 2024-10-07 | |
| UNESCO Urban Heritage Atlas: Cultural mapping of historic cities and settlements| Ancient ksour of Ouadane, ... | Ancient Ksour of Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichitt and Oualata | Mauritania | Founded in the 11th and 12th centuries to serve the caravans crossing the Sahara, these trading and religious centres became focal points of Islamic culture. They have managed to preserve an urban fabric that ... | 2024-10-23 | |
| UNESCO Urban Heritage Atlas: Cultural mapping of historic cities and settlements| Historic Centre of Cordoba (Spain) | Historic Centre of Cordoba | Spain | Historic Centre of Cordoba (Spain) UNESCO Urban Heritage Atlas: Cultural mapping of historic cities and settlements Jocelyn Erskine-Kellie, CC BY-SA, via Flickr World Heritage Cities UNESCO ... | 2024-10-23 | |
| “Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System: New steps towards its sustainable conservation” | Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System | Argentina · Bolivia (Plurinational State of) · Chile · Colombia · Ecuador · Peru | The 2021 publication compiles good practices and expert perspectives on the conservation and sustainable management of this serial property, including regarding tangible and intangible heritage conservation, ... | Knowledge & Skills | 2022-06-27 |
| Cash for work: promoting local employment through heritage conservation in historic cities (Yemen) | Historic Town of Zabid Old City of Sana'a Old Walled City of Shibam |
Yemen | In the context of long-standing conflict, a cash-for-work scheme provides young people with employment opportunities while contributing to the conservation of urban heritage in four historic cities. | Gender Equality Peace & Security Prosperity & Livelihood |
2023-02-16 |
| Creative youth at Indonesian heritage sites | Borobudur Temple Compounds Cultural Landscape of Bali Province: the Subak System as a Manifestation of the Tri Hita Karana Philosophy Prambanan Temple Compounds |
Indonesia | A programme by UNESCO Jakarta and Citi Foundation aims to promote youth entrepreneurship and raise awareness about cultural and natural heritage by linking local communities’ livelihoods with the heritage sites. | Prosperity & Livelihood | 2022-06-27 |
| Cultural entrepreneurship in Cidade Velha, Ribeira Grande (Cabo Verde) | Cidade Velha, Historic Centre of Ribeira Grande | Cabo Verde | A wide-ranging programme aims to build capacity amongst local residents to understand the potentials offered by cultural heritage, by supporting and enhancing local cultural entrepreneurship. The initiative includes ... | Gender Equality Prosperity & Livelihood |
2023-02-16 |
| Developing a new methodology for urban regeneration: the ROCK project in Bologna (Italy) | The Porticoes of Bologna | Italy | A pilot project to enhance public spaces using participatory processes helped to identify key lessons which can be later applied to other areas and cities. | Knowledge & Skills | 2023-02-16 |
| Disaster Risk Management Plan for Quebrada de Humahuaca | Quebrada de Humahuaca | Argentina | This project aims to fund the elaboration of a Risk Management Plan for the property Quebrada de Humahuaca by providing technical support to the State Party of Argentina and to provide specific training to the local ... | Conservation of Cultural Sites Conservation of Natural Sites |
2022-06-27 |
| Emergency Safeguarding of the Portico of the Temple of Bel in Palmyra | Site of Palmyra | Syrian Arab Republic | In summer 2016, the Temple of Bel, among other important archaeological monuments of the World Heritage Site of Palmyra, was intentionally destroyed. An element of the structure of the Temple, the Portico, remained ... | Conservation of Cultural Sites | 2022-06-27 |
| Heritage Impact Assessments at World Heritage Properties: Database and Guidance Tools | Heritage impact assessments (HIAs) and Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) are increasingly required to analyze possible effects and consequences of development on the Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) of World ... | Convention Cross-Cutting Science & technology |
2022-06-27 | ||
| Heritage-based urban planning for Sustainable Development in Gwalior and Orchha (India) | India | A new initiative aims to implement the approach of the 2011 UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape in the Indian cities of Gwalior and Orchha. The project is born out of a collaboration between the ... | Environment & Resilience Knowledge & Skills |
2022-06-27 | |
| Identification and Promotion of Muslim Heritage in Central Europe | The Muslim heritage of Central Europe is very rich. It is a synthesis of Eastern and European cultural elements, embodied in the values of tangible and intangible culture. This are primarily mosques and mizars ... | 2022-06-27 | |||
| Improving the connection between heritage and young people in archaeological sites in Djémila (Algeria) | Djémila | Algeria | An ongoing programme in a remote Algerian town aims to connect the local community with the archaeological site through workshops and activities for young residents. | Inclusion & Participation Knowledge & Skills |
2023-02-16 |
| Integration of Conservation, Tourism and Local Livelihood Strategies at World Heritage sites after COVID-19 pandemic | Cabo Verde · Honduras · Tunisia · Viet Nam | Funded by the Government of Japan through the UNESCO/Japanese Funds-in-Trust, implementation from 2022 to 2024. Four World Heritage sites from Asia, Africa, the Arab region and Latin America and the Caribbean work ... | 2024-04-17 | ||
| Management of World Heritage Sites in Armenia | Cathedral and Churches of Echmiatsin and the Archaeological Site of Zvartnots Monasteries of Haghpat and Sanahin Monastery of Geghard and the Upper Azat Valley |
Armenia | UNESCO seeks to encourage the identification, protection, preservation and conservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity. This is embodied in the ... | Site Management | 2023-10-03 |
| Mitigating threats to Rock Art Heritage in Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe has benefited from several initiatives in the field of Rock Art conservation. These initiatives mainly consisted of participation in training programmes with sub-regional scope that took place about a ... | 2022-06-27 | ||
| Online Training for the Periodic Reporting Exercise in Asia and the Pacific | Online Training for the Periodic Reporting Exercise in Asia and the Pacific | Periodic Reporting | 2023-11-14 | ||
| Participatory Management Plan for Jesuit and Franciscan Missionary Heritage | This project aims to strengthen the management capacity between the authorities responsible for cultural heritage management in Bolivia, and ensure the active participation of departmental, regional and local ... | Conservation of Cultural Sites | 2022-06-27 | ||
| Polo del '900: an inclusive, multi-functional cultural centre in downtown Turin (Italy) | Residences of the Royal House of Savoy | Italy | The model of the Polo del 900 proposes collaboration as a solution for institutional and cultural fragmentation which forms the core of a new ecology of creative cultural systems and puts community at the core of ... | Environment & Resilience Gender Equality Inclusion & Participation Knowledge & Skills |
2023-02-16 |
| Promoting field-based heritage education in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) | Port, Fortresses and Group of Monuments, Cartagena | Colombia | In early 2020, the University of Pennsylvania carried out a field research seminar in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. The educational exercise was used as an opportunity to study the city’s cultural heritage in more ... | Knowledge & Skills | 2022-06-27 |
| Promoting local development through heritage conservation and enhancement and tourism in the Island of Saint-Louis ... | Island of Saint-Louis | Senegal | After the World Heritage Committee warned in 2016 that the poor state of conservation of the property could lead to its inscription on the List of World Heritage in Danger, a number of local, national and ... | Environment & Resilience Prosperity & Livelihood |
2023-02-16 |
| Properties of Religious Interest – Sustainable Management [PRI-SM] Thematic Paper & General Guidance | The issue of the protection and management of properties of religious interest is increasingly prominent in contemporary conservation debates. In today’s interconnected world grappling with serious socio-economic ... | Cultural Religious & Sacred |
2022-06-27 | ||
| Reconstruction of the destroyed mausoleums of Timbuktu (Mali) | Timbuktu | Mali | After armed conflict resulted in the destruction of several historical mausoleums, these were reconstructed using traditional knowledge systems as part of an international cooperation campaign. The reconstruction of ... | Peace & Security | 2023-07-12 |
| Renforcement des capacités nationales pour la réalisation des études d’impact sur le patrimoine mondial en Egypte | Egypt | Le but de ce projet est de financer des ateliers de formation au profit des gestionnaires du patrimoine mondial en Egypte en vue de leur permettre de maîtriser les techniques de réalisation des études d’impacts de ... | 2022-06-27 | ||
| Revival of the Historic City of Sankhu (Nepal) | Nepal | Sankhu is a traditional Newar settlement located in the North East of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, and was inscribed on the tentative World Heritage List in 2008. The April and May 2015 earthquakes had a ... | Conservation of Cultural Sites | 2022-06-27 | |
| Setting up a World Heritage management framework in Kyiv (Ukraine) | Kyiv: Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra | Ukraine | A new, unified buffer zone and a management plan aim to preserve the Outstanding Universal Value of the World Heritage site “Kyiv: Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra” and ... | Environment & Resilience | 2023-02-16 |
| SIDS Capacity Building | Small Islands Developing States (SIDS) have a rich cultural and natural heritage, yet this is not currently fully reflected in the World Heritage List. Between 2011 and 2016, SIDS States Parties to the World ... | 2022-06-27 | |||
| Stratégie pour le tourisme durable dans le Parc National du Banc d’Arguin | Banc d'Arguin National Park | Mauritania | Le projet vise à aider le Parc National du Banc d’Arguin (PNBA) à développer une stratégie pour le tourisme durable dans ce bien du patrimoine mondial, en donnant un rôle effectif aux communautés locales des ... | 2022-06-27 | |
| Strengthening Sustainable Resource Management and Local Livelihoods in Los Katíos National Park | This project aims to strengthen sustainable natural resource management in Los Katíos National Park in a way that also provides sustainable livelihood options for local communities living in the area and its buffer ... | 2022-06-27 | |||
| Transmitting and documenting the vernacular architecture of the Asante Traditional Buildings (Ghana) | Asante Traditional Buildings | Ghana | Published in 2021, a new edition of the 1999 reference publication “Asante Traditional Buildings” updates and expands this important record of their outstanding architecture, making it once again available for the ... | Knowledge & Skills | 2023-02-16 |
| World Heritage, Sustainable Development and Community Involvement | Historical Monuments at Makli, Thatta Ruins of the Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur |
Bangladesh · Pakistan | With an emphasis on sustainable development and the interaction between communities and their shared heritage, this project aims to help local communities in South Asia develop traditional crafts suitable for ... | Cultural Education & Training Sustainable Development |
2022-06-27 |
| Safeguarding Koguryo Tombs & Mural Paintings in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea | Complex of Koguryo Tombs | Democratic People's Republic of Korea · Republic of Korea | Since 2001, with the support of the UNESCO/Republic of Korea Funds-in-Trust, the World Heritage Centre coordinates conservation and capacity building activities in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to ... | Conservation of Cultural Sites Cultural Earthen Architecture Religious & Sacred Restoration Science & technology |
2022-04-20 |
| Urban Heritage Atlas: Understanding attributes of historic cities and settlements| A Modernist African City ... | Asmara: A Modernist African City | Eritrea | "Located at over 2,000 m above sea level, the capital of Eritrea developed from the 1890s onwards as a military outpost for the Italian colonial power. It is an exceptional example of early modernist urbanism at the ... | 2024-10-23 | |
| Urban Heritage Atlas: Understanding attributes of historic cities and settlements| Historic City of Ahmedabad ... | Historic City of Ahmadabad | India | Historic City of Ahmedabad (India) UNESCO Urban Heritage Atlas: Cultural mapping of historic cities and settlements Teen Darwaza, gate of the historic city walls © AnilD / ... | 2024-10-23 | |
| Urban Heritage Atlas: Understanding attributes of historic cities and settlements| Historic Monuments Zone of ... | Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro | Mexico | Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro (Mexico) UNESCO Urban Heritage Atlas: Cultural mapping of historic cities and settlements Plaza de Armas © Roberto Galán / Shutterstock.com* World ... | 2024-10-23 | |
| Urban Heritage Atlas: Understanding attributes of historic cities and settlements| Medina of Tunis (Tunisia) | Medina of Tunis | Tunisia | Under the Almohads and the Hafsids, from the 12th to the 16th century, Tunis was considered one of the greatest and wealthiest cities in the Islamic world. Some 700 monuments, including palaces, mosques, mausoleums, ... | 2024-10-23 | |
| Urban Heritage Atlas: Understanding attributes of historic cities and settlements| Old Towns of Djenné (Mali) | Old Towns of Djenné | Mali | Inhabited since 250 B.C., Djenné became a market centre and an important link in the trans-Saharan gold trade. In the 15th and 16th centuries, it was one of the centres for the propagation of Islam. Its traditional ... | 2024-10-07 | |
| Urban Heritage Atlas: Understanding attributes of historic cities and settlements| Samarkand - Crossroad of ... | Samarkand – Crossroad of Cultures | Uzbekistan | Houses in the historical centre of Samarkand are rarely more than 100 years old but follow centuries-old traditions in their sitting and typological organisation, use of interior spaces and construction practices. ... | 2024-10-07 |