Future of the World Heritage Convention

WHC-11/18.GA/11

In conformity with Decision 35 COM 12A (UNESCO, 2011), this document provides the Strategic Action Plan and Vision as developed by the World Heritage Committee through a working group established as a consultative body at its 33rd (Seville, 2009), 34th (Brasilia, 2010) and 35th (UNESCO, 2011) sessions respectively and was finalized subsequently by the Chair of the working group in cooperation with the World Heritage Centre.

The Committee recommended furthermore that "the 18th session of the General Assembly takes note of documents WHC-11/35.COM/12A, WHC-11/35.COM/12B, WHC-11/35.COM/12C, WHC-11/35.COM/12D and WHC-11/35.COM/INF.7C, as part of a summary of the work undertaken in relation to the reflection on the future of the Convention." These documents are available at https://whc.unesco.org/en/sessions/35COM/documents/. All decisions on the "Reflection of the Future of the World Heritage Convention" (35 COM 12A to 35 COM 12E) are available in the Decisions Report of the 35th session of the World Heritage Committee at https://whc.unesco.org/en/sessions/35COM