Global Strategy for a representative, balanced and credible World Heritage List: Report on the Follow-up to Resolution 19 GA 9

WHC-15/20.GA/9

The General Assembly, at its 17th session, requested the World Heritage Centre to submit to its 18th session the independent evaluation by UNESCO’s external auditor on the implementation of the Global Strategy from its inception in 1994 to 2011.The 18th Session of the General Assembly approved the recommendations of the independent evaluation and decided to establish an open-ended working group, whose mandate was, on the one hand, to produce an implementation plan for the recommendations of the independent evaluation for consideration by the World Heritage Committee and, on the other hand, to present a final report to the 19th Session of the General Assembly. The 19th Session of the General Assembly, in its Resolution 19 GA 9, endorsed the recommendations for the implementation of the recommendations of the independent evaluation presented in the open-ended working group’s final report and requested that a progress report on the implementation of the recommendations on the Global Strategy be presented to its 20th Session in 2015.

The purpose of this document is to present the follow-up of the implementation of the recommendations on the Global Strategy since the 19th Session of the General Assembly, as shown by the decisions of the 38^th and 39^th Sessions of the World Heritage Committee. It first presents the follow-up of the recommendations which were not yet implemented by the 19th Session, and then, a table of the status of the plan prepared by the open-ended working group for the implementation of the recommendations of the independent evaluation.