1st Annual Meeting of the World Heritage Related Category 2 Centres and of Relevant UNESCO Chairs and other Higher Education and Research Institutions

The "Bahrain Report" is the outcome of the First annual meeting of World Heritage related Category 2 Centres and of relevant UNESCO Chairs and Higher Education and Research Institutions, which was held on 19-20 December 2010 in Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain, hosted by the Ministry of Culture of the Kingdom of Bahrain and jointly organized by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and by the Kingdom of Bahrain.

This meeting was held following Resolution 17 GA 9, adopted by the General Assembly of States Parties to the World Heritage Convention at its 17th session (UNESCO, 2009), which "request[ed] the World Heritage Centre to convene in 2010 through extra budgetary funding a meeting of the existing UNESCO Category 2 Centres active on World Heritage issues together with representatives of relevant UNITWIN networks, UNESCO Chairs and other regional and national research centres at the regional and national levels and graduate programmes in order to facilitate their activities and to strengthen their regional relevance" (Resolution 17 GA 9).