As part of the implementation of the 2015 Policy document for the Integration of a Sustainable Development Perspective into the Processes of the World Heritage Convention and recognising the important role heritage contributes to foster equitable and sustainable development and promoting peace aligned with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals [...]
The Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage (ARC-WH) and the 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” that will be held in three phases from June [...]
The Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage (ARC-WH) and the International Centre for the Interpretation and Presentation of World Heritage Sites (WHIPIC) are looking for 20 Heritage site managers and practitioners to join a regional capacity building workshop on Interpretation and Presentation of World Heritage in the Arab Region. The [...]
Natural World Heritage sites are celebrated as the most significant protected areas on Earth, recognised for their Outstanding Universal Values. These unique places conserve many of the largest protected lands and seas, and of the most biodiverse places on the planet. On the other hand, the IUCN Green List offers [...]
Regional Workshop for Arab States on Impact Assessment in a World Heritage Context [IAWH23 ARB] The Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage (ARC-WH) and the ICCROM-IUCN World Heritage Leadership (WHL) programme are looking for 20 World Heritage site managers and practitioners to join a regional capacity building workshop on Impact [...]
The training workshop on the World Heritage Convention and the nomination process for World Heritage sites took place from 21 to 23 March 2023 at the premises of the Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage (ARC-WH) in Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain. The importance of this workshop lies in the fact [...]
‘Dive into Heritage’ is a project supported by the Ministry of Culture in Saudi Arabia that aims at creating an innovative online platform to present digital data of UNESCO World Heritage sites in the Arab region and its related intangible heritage. The project, which underwent a regional survey, a reflection [...]
The workshop on ‘Climate Action for World Heritage: Advanced Workshop on Risk Management in World Heritage Sites in the Arab States Region’, which was held from March 5 to 9, is the second workshop in a joint training programme between the Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage and the International [...]
Underwater cultural heritage is one of the most important types of human heritage, with UNESCO estimating that there are millions of sunken marine artefacts worldwide and other underwater historical sites, many of them in the Arab region. Accordingly, the Arab Regional Center for World Heritage, in cooperation with the Heritage [...]
The Impact Assessment on World Heritage was organised by the Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage in cooperation with the Heritage Commission in Kingsom of Saudi Arabia and the ICCROM-IUCN World Herirage Leadership programme. The workshop was attended by 25 Saudi Heritage professionals from variuos field of Heritage related sectors [...]
ARC-WH organised an online training workshop for 15 Arab experts and professionals from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine. The experts and specialists from Arab countries engaged in this workshop will be part of a roster of resource people that could be involved in delivering capacity-building workshops with ARC-WH [...]
The five-day workshop included 19 participants from 12 countries (Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, UAE, and Yemen), including World Heritage site managers from the Arab region. To ensure continuity, ARCWH offered a series of online meetings to work with the participants on their site-specific [...]