Technical Assistance

The Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage (ARC-WH), in collaboration with Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities (BACA), conducted a field study of Manama, the capital of Bahrain, with the objective of evaluating the historic area and to provide initial insight and recommendations towards the strengthening, protection and management of [...]

The workshop was organised to support the State Parties of Egypt and Libya to retrospectively prepare a Statement of Outstanding Universal Value for a number of their already inscribed World Heritage sites. The purpose of the workshop was to address the various concepts of the World Heritage Convention in relation [...]

The Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage (ARC-WH), in collaboration with Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities (BACA), organised a workshop on ‘the World Heritage Nomination process and the technical requirements for the safeguarding of urban cultural heritage in Bahrain’. ARC-WH introduced the general concepts of World Heritage and its [...]

Lake Ichkeul, located in the National Park of Ichkeul, in northearn Tunisia, is the last remaining freshwater lake of a chain that once stretched across the northern areas of the vast African continent. On 9 May 2017, ARCWH visited the park, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1980, [...]

ARC-WH was invited to assist and participate in the meeting entitled “International Meeting of Experts on the Conservation and Revitalisation of the Kasbah of Algiers, a World Heritage Site” held in Algiers, Algeria, from 21 to 23 January 2018. The meeting addressed key issues related to the conservation and management [...]

Since 2018, ARC-WH has provided extensive support to the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) of Socotra, Yemen, in order to implement the International Emergency Assistance financed by the UNESCO World Heritage Fund to establish two regeneration plant nurseries of iconic endemic flora.  These florae were threatened by the destructive impacts left [...]

Since 2018, ARC-WH has provided extensive support to the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) of Socotra, Yemen, in order to implement the International Emergency Assistance financed by the UNESCO World Heritage Fund to establish two regeneration plant nurseries of iconic endemic flora.  These florae were threatened by the destructive impacts left [...]

ARC-WH, together with IUCN Mauritania, the IUCN World Heritage programme office for Central and Western Africa, and the Mauritanian Directorate of Heritage Conservation, organised two activities between 24 to 29 November in Nouakchott and the new headquarters of the World Heritage site of Banc d’Arguin National Park in Chami, Mauritania. [...]

ARC-WH visited two of Jordan’s World Heritage sites – Wadi Rum and Petra – to meet with site management teams, government representatives and other stakeholders with the aim of assessing the needs and implementation of the World Heritage Convention in these sites.

From 7 until 9 October 2017, ARC-WH, in collaboration with the Wadi Rum Protected Area and the Department of Antiquities in Jordan, organised a workshop on the preparation of the State of Conservation Report to the World Heritage Committee for the UNESCO World Heritage site Wadi Rum Protected Area on [...]

Following an official invitation by Iraq’s Ministry of Environment requesting ARC-WH’s technical guidance for the preparation of the State of Conservation (SoC) report of the natural components of the Ahwar World Heritage property, a two-day workshop was organised from 3 to 4 October 2017. Since this was the First State [...]

ARC-WH participated in a national workshop held from 6 to 7 September 2017 in Rabat, Morocco, to provide technical assistance to the National Team of Morocco to review and study the 13 sites on the Tentative List of Morocco, four of which are natural and have been on the list [...]