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The Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage (ARC-WH) and the ICCROM-IUCN World Heritage Leadership (WHL) programme are seeking World Heritage Management Teams to join the regional capacity-building programme on “Improving Management Effectiveness of World Heritage Properties in the Arab States Region”, which will be held in three phases from June to November 2024.

On 5 April, ICCROM Director-General had the honour of receiving a courtesy visit from H.E. Nosipho Nausca J. Ngcaba, Ambassador of South Africa to Italy.

The 7th African World Heritage Youth Forum, held in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, 4–8 March, brought together young Africans brimming with ideas for climate action.

The ICCROM-IUCN World Heritage Leadership (WHL) programme was in London for a workshop to help integrate impact assessment for World Heritage in local authorities' planning and decision-making processes. This collaborative effort by Historic England, through ICCROM Council Member Alexandra Warr, and WHL was a step towards ensuring the wide involvement of local authorities and communities in...

From 12 to 13 March the Director-General was in Paris for institutional meetings with Member States, partners and UNESCO representatives.

India, as Host Country of the 46th session of the World Heritage Committee, UNESCO World Heritage Centre, ICCROM and IUCN, under the World Heritage Leadership Programme are pleased to announce that the 6th edition of the World Heritage Site Managers’ Forum (WHSMF24) will be organized in conjunction with the 46th session of the World Heritage Committee, with the theme: “Heritage and communities...

We were very pleased to welcome a delegation from the Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) of the Republic of Korea to ICCROM headquarters on 22 March 2024.

ICCROM, ICOMOS and the Critical Global Studies Institute of Sogang University, through the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea, convened in an international conference on Participatory Approaches to World Heritage in Seoul from 19 to 21 March 2024. Speakers from multiple sectors, such as international finance, urban development and heritage conservation...

In partnership with the Heritage Commission of the Ministry of Culture of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, we provided a regional capacity-building workshop on disaster risk management (DRM) and building resilience for World Heritage, with a special focus on the Gulf. Course participants analyzed DRM’s role in effective heritage management and reflected on climate-change related threats and how...

We were thrilled to welcome students of the Master in Advanced Public and Cultural Diplomacy programme at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore to ICCROM headquarters today, 8 March 2024.