ICCROM's role as an Advisory Body to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee with Special Attention to

the World Heritage Capacity Building Strategy

Joseph KingUnit Director – Sites Unit, ICCROM

2nd International Congress of Restorers, Kazan – September 2015

• Created in 1956 by General Conference of UNESCO• Intergovernmental organization with 134 Member States• Russia is a Member State since 2014

Promote the conservation of movable and immovable worldwide

InformationInformation

CooperationCooperationAdvocacyAdvocacy ResearchResearch

TrainingTraining

Areas of Activity

ICCROM and Russia

• 20 participants and 1 lecturer on ICCROM courses

• 2 visiting researchers

• 32 missions by ICCROM staff or consultants to Russia

• 6 visits by groups or delegations from Russia

• MoU with UNESCO Chair in Urban and Architectural Conservation

• MoU with Kizhi State Open Air Museum of History, Architecture and Ethnography

ICCROM Programmes – 2012-2017ICCROM Programmes – 2012-2017

1. Disaster and Risk Management

2. Material Science and Technology for Conservation

3. Improving Practices through the World Heritage Convention

4. People Centered Approaches -- Conservation and Living Heritage

5. Building Regional Collaboration

International Course on Stone Conservation

Conservation of Sound and Image Collections

• Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage

• Adopted in November 1972

• Came into force in December 1975

• Currently 191 State Parties

World Heritage Convention

World Heritage Committee Duties

• Identify and inscribe sites on the WH List

• Examine the State of Conservation of sites on the WH List

• Make decisions on the inclusion/exclusion of sites from the World Heritage List in Danger

• Make decisions on sites to delete from the WH List

• Make policies and decisions related to international assistance

• Determine use of resources

Russia and the World Heritage Committee

• Russia ratified the Convention in 1988

• Russia has been a member of the World Heritage Committee 2 times:

2001– 2005

2009 - 2013

• Russia hosted the 36th session of the World Heritage Committee in 2012 in Saint Petersburg

• Russia has 26 properties inscribed on the WH List and 27 properties on its Tentative List

The Advisory Bodies

IUCN, ICOMOS, and ICCROM

• Advise on implementation of the Convention

• Assist in preparing documentation for Committee meetings

• Assist with development and implementation of the Global Strategy, Global Training Strategy, Periodic Reporting, and other activities

• Monitor State of Conservation of sites

• Evaluate International Assistance requests

• Evaluate properties nominated for the WH List (IUCN and ICOMOS)

• Priority partner for training (ICCROM) and support capacity building

• Attend meetings of the Committee

State Parties and Sites by Region

State Parties

Properties

Currently 1031 Sites (802 culture, 197 nature, 32 mixed)

Ten Countries with Most Sites

Italy 51China 48Spain 44France 41Germany 40Mexico 33India 32U.K. 29Russia 26U.S.A. 23

Australia, Brazil, and Japan each have 19

Region SPs SitesEurope/North America 7 254Asia/Pacific 2 80Latin America/Caribbean 1 33

367

2 State Parties (1%) have almost 10% of properties

After Inscription

• Management of the properties• Periodic reporting• Conservation/restoration work• Training• Education and promotion• Reactive monitoring• List in Danger• Removal from the List

Issues After Inscription

Russian State of Conservation Reports (both culture and nature)

Year and Number of properties

• 2015: 7 reports• 2014: 13 reports• 2013: 10 reports

Key Issues

• Legal frameworks• Management issues / management

plans• Monitoring • Infrastructure including transportation

infrastructure• Economic activities / developments

including extractive industries• Tourism• Land conversion

Capacity Building for Longer Term Solutions

World Heritage Capacity Building

• “Global Training Strategy for Cultural Heritage” adopted in 2000

• “Global Training Strategy for Cultural and Natural Heritage” and Priority Action Plan adopted in 2001

• World Heritage Capacity Building Strategy adopted in 2011

Changes in the Context for Training

1. New actors• University courses and programmes• UNESCO Category 2 Centres• Other training centres with WH focused

activities• UNESCO Chairs• Forum UNESCO – University and Heritage

2. Changes in delivery methods• Internet/on-line training• Social networking• Video conferencing

3. New strategic issues• Disaster risk reduction• Impacts of Climate Change• Sustainable Development• Factors affecting properties often come from

outside

New WH Capacity Building Strategy

The First Paradigm Shift: From Training to Capacity Building

• strengthen the knowledge, abilities, skills and behavior of people with direct responsibilities for heritage conservation and management

• improve institutional structures and processes through empowering decision-makers and policy-makers

• and introduce a more dynamic relationship between heritage and its context and, in turn, greater reciprocal benefits by a more inclusive approach

• Target audiences: practitioners, institutions, communities and networks

The Second Paradigm Shift: Connecting Capacity Building for Cultural and Natural Heritage

New WH Capacity Building Strategy

Levels of Strategy

Key Goals Based on the 5Cs

Implementation To Date

• Courses on HIA and Conservation of the Built Heritage

• Translation of resource materials in a variety of languages

• Workshops to expand the network of the Advisory Bodies in various regions

• Capacity Building Primer (in development)

• Capacity Building Newsletter

Example: Effects of Disaster Risk and Conflict

ICCROM Contributions

• Course on First Aid in Times of Crisis

• Publications and Resource Materials

• Courses on Management of Disaster Risk

• Field workshop in Haiti and Nepal following earthquake

• Partnering with other organizations in our activities (ICOMOS, Smithsonian, UNISDR, Ritsumeikan University, etc.)

First Aid to Cultural Heritage in SyriaBeirut, Lebanon, 1-10 June 2015

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