International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property 
The workshop is part of Ireland’s renewed ambition for World Heritage and highlights its commitment to strengthening the implementation of the Convention nationally through capacity building and multi-sectoral dialogue.
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.
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...
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...
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...
At the end of 2023, in addition to the fellows and interns who continued their assignments, we welcomed to ICCROM headquarters a new intern, Ms Euiyeon Lee from the Republic of Korea, who joined the World Heritage Leadership (WHL) programme.
I would like to thank all of you for the outstanding support I received during my six-year term as Director-General. Some moments have proved challenging but always very stimulating, and through the continuous and valuable support of our Member States and partners, the Organization has successfully achieved many goals for the protection and preservation of cultural heritage.
The 2022 Guidance and Toolkit for Impact Assessment in the Context of World Heritage is continuing to spread around the world, becoming a fundamental resource for those managing and working with World Heritage. As its dissemination continues, the need for the Guidebook and Toolkit in various languages increases.
Between October and December 2023, Mauritius collaborated with the ICCROM-IUCN World Heritage Leadership (WHL) programme, the Africa Unit of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre (WHC) and ICOMOS International to deliver hybrid capacity building on Impact Assessment for World Heritage.