Technical Assistance

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 [...]

The Ahwar of Southern Iraq: Refuge of Biodiversity and the Relict Landscape of the Sumerian Cities is a mixed site comprised of seven components, three archaeological sites and four wetland marshes. To ensure effectual conservation and management efforts are implemented to preserve natural values of the property, ARC-WH held a [...]

Nestled within Tubli Bay, located in Bahrain, are the Mangroves of Ras Sanad. ARC-WH and the Supreme Council of Environment (SCE) of Bahrain organised a field visit to the site to examine the status of the wetland environment and determine what areas of conservation needed to be improved. ARC-WH and [...]

The Tabe’a Programme conducted a mission organised by the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage (SCTH) to the State Party of Saudi Arabia between 18 to 21 September 2016. The mission came as a response to the request by the SCTH for technical advice on the identification of potential [...]

The Tabe’a Programme at ARC-WH was invited by the Ministry of Health and Environment (MoHE) to the State Party of Iraq to provide technical guidance and support on the understanding of the World Heritage nomination process and best practices for the management of natural values of the proposed site of [...]

A ‎delegation from ARC-WH, represented by its director Mounir Bouchenaki, visited ‎the oasis of Al-‎Ahsa, inscribed in 2015 on the World Heritage Tentative List. The Al-Ahsa oasis lies ‎65km inland from the Arabian Gulf in eastern Saudi Arabia and is one of the ‎world’s largest oases in the world.‎ ARC-WH [...]

ARC-WH, in cooperation with UNESCO Amman, the WRPA (Wadi Rum Protected Area)/ Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA) and the Jordanian Department of Antiquities (DoA), conducted a mission to provide technical guidance and support to the management plan of Wadi Rum, a mixed World Heritage site, to implement the World [...]

In cooperation with the Supreme Council for the Environment (SCE) in the Kingdom of Bahrain, ARC-WH explored ideas to support Bahrain in expanding its work on the nomination file for the Hawar Islands. A series of meetings and activities were held to prepare an IUCN Red List assessment which focused [...]

Following its inscription in 2014, ARC-WH director, Dr. Mounir Bouchenaki, visited Erbil Citadel and held a series of meetings with the local authorities in Erbil to discuss the status of management and conservation of the site.

ARC-WH held a series of meetings with local authorities in Mauritania to discuss methods of support towards the conservation and preservation of cultural and natural heritage in Mauritania. Upon the completion of the mission, four major areas of cooperation were identified: 1) Capacity building on the 1972 World Heritage convention. [...]

The main aim of the coordination workshop for ‎international and Iraqi experts on “The Ahwar of Southern Iraq and the Relict Landscape of the ‎Mesopotamian Cities” was to develop a management plan that safeguarded the integrity of ‎the site.‎ The workshop is part of the UNEP-UNESCO initiative to use the [...]