19 July. As part of its training activities, the AFRICA 2009 Programme is organizing, the fifth technical course on 'Preparing Nomintations to the World Heritage List', in Butare, Rwanda. The course is held in partnership with the Institut des Musées Nationaux du Rwanda (IMNR), Ministère de la Jeunesse, de la Culture et des Sports.

The World Heritage List aims to reflect humanity in its entirety. Africa, founding continent, in which traces of the most remote civilizations can be found, should have a prominent position. However, with only 8% of inscribed property on the World Heritage List, Africa’s place remains marginal.

Some fifty countries in the world still do not have World Heritage inscribed properties. Nine of these countries are represented by participants in this course.

It is important to fill the gaps on the List and correct this imbalance by offering States the means to prepare admissible nomination proposals. This then is the goal of the technical course being offered to sixteen professionals from sixteen African countries.

Member States represented: Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Congo (Republic of the), Côte d’Ivoire, Madagascar, Rwanda and Senegal.

updated on: 24 November, 2007