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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
World Heritage and Sustainable Development policy explained: A guide and a collection of good practices to support ... Based on a strong appeal from national and local stakeholders, the 2030 Agenda adopted by the UN General Assembly integrated, for the first time, the role of culture, through cultural heritage and creativity, as an ... Sustainable Development 2022-06-27
Developing an official UNESCO World Heritage Mobile application 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 ... Science & technology 2022-06-27
Developing an online tool for the World Heritage Policy Compendium The World Heritage Policy Compendium (2015-2019) The proposed activities are presented in the framework of the ongoing development of a compendium of policy for the World Heritage Convention, a project that was ... 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
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Science & technology		 2022-06-27
Heritage of Science and Technology: World Heritage Potential of Space Technology The issues of identification and preservation of the heritage of science and technology have been discussed at a number of international meetings organized within the framework of the UNESCO Thematic Initiative ... 2022-06-27
Improving the Effectiveness of the World Heritage Reactive Monitoring Process The Reactive Monitoring process established under the World Heritage Convention is one of the most comprehensive systems of monitoring ever developed under an international legal instrument in conservation. However, ... 2022-06-27
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
Rapid Response Facility (RRF) Protecting natural World Heritage sites in times of crisis Natural World Heritage sites face many challenges that threaten their existence. They represent a global heritage recognized as being of outstanding universal value, unique and irreplaceable. As the rate of global ... Conservation of Cultural Sites
Conservation of Natural Sites		 2022-06-27
Strengthening World Heritage properties’ resilience to face climate change Climate change is becoming one of the most significant threats to World Heritage properties, jeopardizing the disappearance of their Outstanding Universal Value, their integrity and the potential for economic and ... Climate Change 2022-06-27
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