Assistance technique

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 [...]

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 [...]

The management planning process included three main phases: data collection and assessment, policy-making and plan compilation and finalizing the Cultural Management Framework Plan by integrating the management plan of natural components. During the one-day technical meeting which was organized in Basra to launch a consultation process, special attention was given [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]