Report on the Follow-up to Resolution 18 GA 8 on the Evaluation of the Global Strategy and PACT initiative

WHC-13/19.GA/9

The General Assembly, at its 17th session, requested the World Heritage Centre to submit to the General Assembly at its 18th session in 2011 the independent evaluation by UNESCO’s external auditor on the implementation of the Global Strategy from its inception in 1994 to 2011 and the Partnerships for Conservation Initiative (PACT), which were provided in documents WHC-11/18.GA/8 and WHC-11/18.GA/INF.8.

By Resolution 18 GA 8 the General Assembly decided to establish an open-ended working group to examine the report of the External Auditor, in order to produce an implementation plan for the recommendations for consideration by the World Heritage Committee and to present a final report to the 19th session of the General Assembly.  The open-ended working group met twice in May 2012 and February 2013 at UNESCO and provided detailed reports to the 36th (WHC-12/36.COM/9A) and 37th sessions (WHC-13/37.COM/INF.5D) of the World Heritage Committee. These detailed reports can be found at https://whc.unesco.org/archive/2012/whc12-36com-9A-en.pdf and https://whc.unesco.org/archive/2013/whc13-37com-5Dinf-en.pdf. This document provides a full report on the implementation of the recommendations of the Report of the External Auditor on the Global Strategy and the PACT initiative.