The World Heritage properties of Africa face a variety of threats from armed conflict to development pressures, rapid urbanisation, growth and climate change. Several of these properties are located in conflict and post-conflict areas, which creates very specific challenges for conservation and protection. The impact of climate change increasingly constitutes an additional conservation challenge. Other significant threats affecting the state of conservation of a number of properties include management and institutional factors, such as inadequate governance structures, ineffectiveness, or the lack of management plans and inadequate management systems, increasing pressure from development projects incompatible with heritage values, the lack of capacities, encroachment, as well as the unsustainable use of natural resources. Currently, 12 of the 38 natural properties in the Africa region (31.57%) are inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger. In addition, today, the identified properties have not developed a DSOCR. By setting clear objectives and benchmarks, the Centre works cooperatively towards them following an established DSOCR and a set of corrective measures, including a timeframe for their implementation.
Support the removal of the identified properties from the List of World Heritage in Danger by strengthening the technical capacities of the sites’ management teams and of relevant stakeholders in the elaboration of the DSOCR.
This project will contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in particular,
The States Parties, UNESCO and IUCN
This project is made possible thanks to the financial support of
the Norwegian government.
Le Comité du patrimoine mondial,
Le Comité du patrimoine mondial,
Le Comité du patrimoine mondial,
Le Comité du patrimoine mondial,