Activities

ARC-WH hosted an Arab expert preparatory meeting to draft a unified charter for the protection and promotion of cultural Heritage in the region. The expert meeting was jointly organised by the Arab Organization for Education, Science and Culture (ALECSO) ARC-WH and Athar/ICCROM.

ARC-WH, represented by its director Mounir Bouchenaki participated in the international workshop held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France and the embassy of Iraq to UNESCO. The meeting focused on the situation of cultural heritage in Iraq. The urgent plan of action, [...]

ARC-WH hosted the fourth Capacity Building Workshop on Wadi Al-Salam Cemetery in collaboration with UNESCO’s Office of Iraq. The central theme of the workshop was the preparation of the nomination file for the site. It aimed to build the Iraqi policymakers, Site Managers and researchers’ capacities to be capable of [...]

The third national workshop on the ‘application of the ecosystem approach to maintaining oyster beds in the Kingdom of Bahrain’ was organised on 18 March 2014 and was attended by the general public, representatives from the private sector, civil society organisations and academics. The workshop fell within the framework of [...]

This coordination meeting came as a continuation of the efforts undertaken since 2009. Supporting the compilation of the nomination process requirement and designating Iraq’s Marshlands as a World Heritage site, this workshop brought together the United Nations Environmental Programme-Regional Office for West Asia (UNEP-ROWA), the Arab Regional Office for World [...]

Under the patronage of the Tourism Sector of the Ministry of Culture and ARC-WH, and in collaboration with the Supreme Council for the Environment (SCE), the Embassy of France to the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Coastal Protection Agency, UNEP-ROWA and IUCN organised a seminar on the “Tourism Development and World [...]

ARC-WH, in coordination with IUCN and the Ministry of Environment of Iraq, conducted a field visit, which formed part of the technical support programme for the nomination preparation process of the Marshlands and its conservation and management. This mission progressed the programme to a more advanced level of support, as [...]

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 [...]

L’ARC-WH a mené une mission d’experts dans la ville historique de Zabid, au Yémen, le 29 septembre 2013, afin d’identifier et de soutenir les techniques de réhabilitation urbaine pour préserver la valeur universelle exceptionnelle (VUE) de cette ancienne cité et son inscription sur la Liste du patrimoine mondial de l’Unesco. [...]