Report on the World Heritage Thematic Programmes

WHC-14/38.COM/5E

The present document was requested by the 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (Saint-Petersburg, 2012, Decisions 36 COM 5D and 36 COM 5E) and presents a brief updated report on the activities of the following World Heritage Thematic Programmes and Initiatives:

• World Heritage Cities Programme, adopted in 2001;
• World Heritage Forests Programme, adopted in 2001;
• World Heritage Earthen Architecture Programme, adopted in 2001;
• World Heritage Sustainable Tourism Programme, adopted in 2001/2012;
• Small Island Developing States Programme, adopted in 2005;
• World Heritage Marine Programme, adopted in 2005;
• World Heritage Thematic Programme on Prehistory, adopted in 2008 and re-named as Human Evolution: Adaptations, Dispersals and Social Developments (HEADS); and
• Astronomy and World Heritage Initiative, adopted in 2005.