Activities

Under the title of the legislative framework for natural World Heritage in the Arab countries, a workshop on natural World Heritage in the Arab region was held from 19 to 21 January 2014. The workshop took place at ARC-WH in Manama, Bahrain, and was organised within the technical cooperation programme [...]

The mission undertaken from 6 to 13 January 2014 was a joint IUCN/World Heritage Centre reactive monitoring mission to Banc d’Arguin to assess the conservation status of the site. The mission followed the World Heritage Committee decision no. 37 COM 7B.8. The rapidly increasing pressures upon the site encouraged the [...]

ARC-WH led an expert’s mission to the Historic City of Zabid, in the Republic of Yemen on 29 September 2013, in order to identify and support urban rehabilitation techniques to preserve its Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) and its inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List.  ARC-WH offered technical and financial [...]