Policy Compendium
Theme: | 1.1.2 - World Heritage Committee |
Resolution: | 1 EXT.GA 3 |
Theme: | 1.1.2 - World Heritage Committee |
Decision: | 35 COM 12B |
Theme: | 1.1.2 - World Heritage Committee |
Decision: | 43 COM 7.1 |
Theme: | 1.2 - UNESCO standard-setting texts and synergies with other Conventions and Programmes |
Resolution: | 16 GA 10 |
Theme: | 1.2 - UNESCO standard-setting texts and synergies with other Conventions and Programmes |
Decision: | 40 COM 7 |
Theme: | 1.2 - UNESCO standard-setting texts and synergies with other Conventions and Programmes |
Decision: | 41 COM 7 |
Theme: | 1.2 - UNESCO standard-setting texts and synergies with other Conventions and Programmes |
Decision: | 41 COM 14 |
Theme: | 1.2 - UNESCO standard-setting texts and synergies with other Conventions and Programmes |
Decision: | 42 COM 5A |
Theme: | 1.2 - UNESCO standard-setting texts and synergies with other Conventions and Programmes |
Decision: | 42 COM 7 |
Theme: | 1.2 - UNESCO standard-setting texts and synergies with other Conventions and Programmes |
Decision: | 43 COM 5C |
6. Further recognizes the need to employ innovative and transformative solutions for reconciling World Heritage and Sustainable Development that will take into account the nature, complexity and specificity of socio-economic constraints that these less developed countries continue to face;
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11. Further calls upon African States Parties to focus their development efforts to benefit local communities, including them in the decision-making, and building on their knowledge and needs with progressive and proactive conservation of natural and cultural heritage; and to create enabling environments for innovative solutions inclusive of green and blue economies while progressing towards other SDGs."
Theme: | 1.2 - UNESCO standard-setting texts and synergies with other Conventions and Programmes |
Decision: | 43 COM 5D |
Theme: | 1.2 - UNESCO standard-setting texts and synergies with other Conventions and Programmes |
Decision: | 43 COM 7.2 |
11. Noting that the protection of Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) must be a central objective for all World Heritage properties, requests States Parties to develop visitor management plans and strategies that address the seasonality of tourism (smoothing visitor numbers over time and spreading visitors across sites), encourage longer more in-depth experiences promoting tourism products and services that reflect natural and cultural values, and limit access and activities to improve visitor flows and experiences, while reducing pressures on the attributes which underpin OUV."
Theme: | 1.2 - UNESCO standard-setting texts and synergies with other Conventions and Programmes |
Decision: | 43 COM 7.3 |
Theme: | 1.3.2 - International Assistance |
Decision: | 42 COM 7 |
Theme: | 1.4 - Heritage policies at national level |
Decision: | 41 COM 5C |
4. "[The World Heritage Committee] (...) requests the States Parties to take a systematic and holistic approach to mainstreaming the WH-SDP [(Policy Document for the integration of a sustainable development perspective into the processes of the World Heritage Convention)] into their national and local policies, processes, and initiatives related to the implementation of the Convention and to development in and around World Heritage properties."
Theme: | 1.4 - Heritage policies at national level |
Decision: | 43 COM 5C |
Theme: | 1.5 - Relation between culture and nature |
Decision: | 23 COM XIIIA.2-12 |
37. "Recalling that the World Heritage Convention explicitly links the concepts of cultural and natural heritage, highlights the importance of promoting integrated approaches that strengthen holistic governance, improve conservation outcomes and contribute to sustainable development;
38. [The World Heritage Committee] notes with appreciation the growing interest and efforts by the States Parties and heritage practitioners to develop and apply integrated approaches to conservation of natural and cultural heritage, and encourages the States Parties, the World Heritage Centre and the Advisory Bodies, in cooperation with universities and other relevant actors, to continue and expand these efforts, in accordance with the Policy Document for the integration of a Sustainable Development Perspective into the Processes of the Convention (2015)."
Theme: | 1.5 - Relation between culture and nature |
Decision: | 41 COM 7 |
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