Renforcement des capacités

As part of ARC-WH’s engagement with the local communities, ARC-WH held a series of events in cooperation with Bahrain University. ARC-WH’s natural heritage specialist was a guest speaker for the School of Environmental Studies at the university. The lecture focused on the Tabe’a Programme and the current status of natural [...]

Coinciding with Bahrain-European environment week, ARC-WH launched the translated publication “Case Studies on Climate Change and World Heritage”, which includes studies and research carried out to understand the impacts of climate change on cultural and natural sites worldwide. The book was published by UNESCO in 2007, has had three reprints, [...]

In response to the current situation facing cultural heritage in the region, ARC-WH, in partnership with the UNESCO office in Beirut and ICCROM-Athar, organised a workshop on Risk Preparedness for Syrian experts. A total of 23 participants joined the workshop from different parts of Syria, including Aleppo, Idleb, Deir Al-Zor, [...]

The workshop aimed at raising the capacity building of participants with the necessary skills and knowledge of global comparative analysis. The analysis provided justification for why a nominated property should be inscribed on the World Heritage List. The training course introduced participants to advanced concepts, procedures, and sources of information [...]

As part of the initiative of ARC-WH to support cultural heritage in danger, a First Aid Course to Build Heritage in Syria was organised in Beirut, Lebanon, with the participation of several experts from Syria. This initiative stemmed from the MoU that was signed between ARC-WH and the Directorate-General 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]