UNESCO La Habana
UNESCO Havana
UNESCO Kingston
Caribbean Sub-regional workshop on the implementation of the
World Heritage Convention
Havana, Cuba, 15 - 17 September 2010
DRAFT CONCEPT NOTE
About the Workshop
The workshop, which is jointly organized by the UNESCO Havana and Kingston offices, aims at strengthening capacities in the Caribbean to implement the 1972 Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (the World Heritage Convention.
By using the training modules developed under the Caribbean Capacity Building programme (CCBP), financed with Netherlands as well as Italian and Andorran’ FIT, the workshop will address the following subjects:
1. The core concepts used in the Convention and its Operational Directives, such as “outstanding universal value”, “integrity” and “authenticity”.
2. General policies adopted by the World Heritage Committee, such as the Global Strategy for a Representative, balanced and Credible List (1994) and the World Heritage Strategic Objectives (2002).
3. Core obligations of States Parties, such as the sustainable management of World Heritage sites, the preparation of tentative lists and the preparation of periodic reports on the implementation of the Convention at the national level.
4. International mechanisms provided by the Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the Convention, such as nomination processes and requests for International assistance.
Each topic will be presented by one or two experts with the use of case studies, and shall be followed by a Q&A session.
World Heritage
The 1972 Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage developed from the merging of two separate movements: cultural heritage conservation and nature conservation. By recognizing natural as well as cultural heritage, the World Heritage Convention reminds us of the ways in which people interact with nature, and of the fundamental need to preserve the balance between the natural and human-made environment.
With regard to World Heritage, UNESCO seeks to:
• Encourage countries to become signatories to the World Heritage Convention and to ensure the protection of the natural and cultural heritage;
• Urge States Parties to the Convention to nominate sites within their national territory for inclusion on the World Heritage List;
• Encourage States Parties to establish management plans and set up reporting systems regarding the state of conservation of their World Heritage properties;
• Assist States Parties in safeguarding World Heritage properties by providing technical assistance and professional training;
• Provide emergency assistance for World Heritage Properties in immediate danger;
• Support States Parties in their public awareness raising activities for World Heritage conservation;
• Foster participation of the local population in the preservation of their cultural and natural heritage;
• Promote international cooperation in the conservation of the world’s cultural and natural heritage.
The uniqueness of the World Heritage Convention lies in its universal application: States Parties recognize that the properties located on their national territory and inscribed on the World Heritage List constitute, without prejudice to national sovereignty or ownership, heritage for whose protection it is the duty of the international community as a whole to cooperate. However, by signing the Convention, each country pledges to conserve not only the World Heritage properties situated in its territory, but also to protect its national heritage.
States Parties are encouraged to integrate the protection of their cultural and natural heritage into regional planning programmes, set up staff and services at their sites, undertake scientific and technical conservation research and adopt measures that give this heritage a function in the day-to-day life of the communities.
The Convention is much more than an international treaty. It is a living and evolving tool: the worldwide network of experts linked to its implementation meant that the Convention not only became a leading worldwide instrument in heritage conservation but also a think tank for a continuous reflection on the evolution of the significance and concept of heritage and a laboratory for managing the challenges imposed on heritage conservation by global changes.
The key difference between properties protected at national level and those inscribed on the World Heritage List lies in the term “outstanding universal value”: cultural and/or natural significance which is so exceptional as to transcend national boundaries and to be of common importance for present and future generations of all humanity. A property has outstanding universal value if the World Heritage Committee considers it meets one or more of the following criteria:
Nominated properties shall:
i) represent a masterpiece of human creative genius;
ii) exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town planning or landscape design;
iii) bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared;
iv) be an outstanding example of a type of building or architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates (a) significant stage(s) in human history;
v) be an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture (or cultures), or human interaction with the environment especially when it has become vulnerable under the impact of irreversible change.
vi) be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance;
vii) contain superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance;
viii) be outstanding examples representing major stages of earth’s history, including the record of life, significant on-going geological processes in the development of landforms, or significant geomorphic or physiographic features.
ix) be outstanding examples representing significant on-going ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of terrestrial, fresh water, coastal and marine ecosystems and communities of plants and animal.
x) contain the most important and significant natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity, including those containing threatened species of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation.
As of August 2010, the World Heritage List includes 911 properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value. These include 704 cultural, 181 natural and 26 mixed properties in 151 States Parties. 124 sites, of which 86 cultural, 35 natural and 3 mixed are located in Latin America and the Caribbean (13.6 % of the total).
|Category |AFR |ARB |APA |EUR |
|Antigua and Barbuda |01/11/1983 | | | |
|Bahamas |- | | | |
|Barbados |09/04/2002 | | | |
|Belize |06/11/1990 | |1 |1 |
|Cuba |24/03/1981 |7 |2 |9 |
|Dominica |04/04/1995 | |1 |1 |
|Dominican Republic |12/02/1985 |1 | |1 |
|Grenada |13/08/1998 | | | |
|Guyana |20/06/1997 | | | |
|Haiti |18/01/1980 |1 | |1 |
|Jamaica |14/06/1983 | | | |
|St Kitts and Nevis |10/07/1986 |1 | |1 |
|St Lucia |14/10/1991 | |1 |1 |
|St Vincent and the Grenadines |03/02/2003 | | | |
|Suriname |23/10/1997 |1 |1 |2 |
|Trinidad and Tobago |16/02/2005 | | | |
|Aruba (NL) |26/08/1992 | | | |
|Bermuda(UK) |29/05/1984 |1 | |1 |
|British Virgin Islands (UK) |29/05/1984 | | | |
|Cayman Islands (UK) |29/05/1984 | | | |
|Guadeloupe (FR) |27/06/1975 | | | |
|Martinique (FR) |27/06/1975 | | | |
|Netherlands Antilles (NL) |26/08/1992 |1 | |1 |
|Puerto Rico (US) |07/12/1973 |1 | |1 |
|Virgin Islands (US) |07/12/1973 | | | |
|Total | |14 |6 |20 |
There has been an improvement at sub-regional level in the efforts made by States Parties to inscribe new sites. This efforts, which may be a direct result of the implementation of the Global Strategy for a more Representative, Balanced and Credible List adopted by the World Heritage Committee in 1994, has led to the inscription, since 1995, of 15 sites and the ratification of the Convention by all Caribbean States, except one.
In 2004 the World Heritage Committee took note of the Periodic Report, endorsed the Strategic Framework for Action and the Action Plans for World Heritage for Latin America and the Caribbean and welcomed the particular attention paid to the Caribbean sub-region. In this sense, a capacity building tool was developed in order to support the effective implementation of the Convention in the Caribbean, the Caribbean Capacity Building programme, CCBP.
The Caribbean Capacity Building Programme (CCBP) for World Heritage
The CCBP is a long-term training programme focusing on cultural heritage management and aiming to create a Caribbean network of heritage experts. They, in turn, can share knowledge, know-how and expertise on the modus operandi of the World Heritage Convention. It was endorsed by the World Heritage Committee in 2004 as part of the Caribbean Action Plan for World Heritage.
The CCBP is composed of a core and mandatory training module on the Application of the World Heritage Convention and a series of other modules focusing on the various aspects of management (tourism, historic centres, risks and cultural landscapes). Each module lasts 30 hours and encompasses practical exercises, analysis of regional case studies and discussions. The five modules already published are:
1. Application of the World Heritage Convention;
2. Tourism Management in Heritage Sites;
3. Risk Preparedness;
4. Management of Cultural Landscapes;
5. Management of Historic Centres.
A new module 6 on Management of Natural Heritage is under preparation and will be available in 2011.
Periodic Reporting in Latin America and the Caribbean
According to article 29 of the World Heritage Convention, States Parties are requested to periodically submit reports to the UNESCO General Conference through the World Heritage Committee on the legislative and administrative provisions they have adopted and other actions which they have taken for the application of the Convention, including the state of conservation of the World Heritage properties located on their territories.
Periodic Reporting serves four main purposes:
1. to provide an assessment of the implementation of the World Heritage Convention by the State Party;
2. to provide an assessment as to whether the outstanding universal value of the properties inscribed on the World Heritage List is being maintained over time;
3. to provide updated information about the World Heritage properties to record the changing circumstances and state of conservation of the properties;
4. to provide a mechanism for regional co-operation and exchange of information and experiences between States Parties concerning the implementation of the Convention and World Heritage conservation.
In 2004 the World Heritage Committee took note of the first Periodic Report on the implementation of the Convention in Latin America and the Caribbean and submitted it to the General Conference for information.
The second Periodic Report is due in 2013.
|The Periodic Reporting Process |
|World Heritage Committee establishes a 6 year periodic reporting cycle |
|Implementation of regional strategies to provide for: |
|Participatory process |
|Involvement of States Parties, competent institutions and regional expertise |
|Assistance to States Parties in preparing reports |
|Exchange of experiences among States Parties |
|Analysis of reports in regional context |
|Preparation of Regional State of the World Heritage Report |
|Submission of Regional State of the World Heritage Report |
|Regional State of the World Heritage Report examined by the World Heritage Committee |
|World Heritage Committee responds to the Regional State of the World Heritage Report (formulates recommendations to |
|States Parties, draws conclusions for its own policy and decision making) |
|World Heritage Committee response included in its report to the General Conference of UNESCO |
|Global strategy related activities developed in the Caribbean |
|1995 |First Meeting Directors of Cultural Heritage of Latin America and the Caribbean, Cartagena Colombia |
|1996 | Experts Meeting on Fortifications of the Caribbean. Cartagena, |
| |Workshop on the World Heritage convention, St Kits and Nevis; |
|1997 |Second Meeting Directors of Cultural Heritage of Latin America and the Caribbean, Cartagena, Colombia; |
| |Ninth Forum of Ministers of Culture Latin America and the Caribbean, Cartagena, Colombia; |
|1998 |Workshop on the Cultural Heritage of the Caribbean and the World Heritage Convention. Fort de France, |
| |Martinique; |
| |Regional Conference on the Social, Cultural and Economic Relevance of World Heritage to the Caribbean, Dominica |
|2000 |The Natural Heritage of the Caribbean and the World Heritage Convention, Paramaribo, Suriname; |
|2001 |Plantations Systems in the Caribbean. Sponsored by UNESCO World Heritage Center, undertaken jointly with the |
| |UNESCO Slave Route Project. Suriname; |
| |Regional training course on the Application of the World Heritage Convention and its role in Sustainable |
| |Development and Tourism in the Caribbean, September, Dominica; |
|2003 |Caribbean Wooden Treasures, Expert Meeting on Wooden Architecture, Guyana |
| |Caribbean Meeting for preparation of the Periodic Report, June, Haiti |
| |Harmonization of Tentative Lists and possibilities for Serial and Transboundary Nominations for Eastern |
| |Caribbean State Parties, November Saint Vincent; |
|2004 |Caribbean survey on Training Needs in the Caribbean, March, Jamaica; |
| |Conference on the Development of a Caribbean Action Plan, February, Castries, St. Lucia; |
| |Identification of Archaeological Sites of the Caribbean, Martinique; |
| |Implementation structure of the Caribbean WH Action Plan, September, Jamaica |
| |Caribbean World Heritage Action Plan, October, Colombia; |
|2005 |Development of a Statement of Significance f or the Fountain Cavern. Anguilla; |
| |Cultural Landscapes in the Caribbean, November, Santiago de Cuba; |
|2006 |Workshop on the World Heritage Convention and the Tentative Lists, Trinidad & Tobago; |
| |Meeting of Experts on OUV, Authenticity & Integrity in the Caribbean, May, Barbados; |
|2007 |Experts Meeting for the Caribbean Capacity Building (CCBP), March, Havana, Cuba; |
| |Workshop on the management of the Historic-Archaeological Park La Isabela and the World Heritage Convention, |
| |June, Dominican Republic |
| |Morne Trois Pitons National Park WH site Workshop, June, Dominica; |
|2008 |Workshop on Module 3: First Workshop on Risk Reduction for Cultural Heritage in the Caribbean, June, Havana, |
| |Cuba; |
| |Training on the application of the World Heritage Convention, September, Santo Domingo; Dominican Republic |
|2009 |Workshop on CCBP Module 5: Management of Historic Centres, September, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
| |Workshop on CCBP Module 4: Management of Cultural Landscapes, October, Havana, Cuba |
|2010 |Caribbean Sub-regional workshop on the implementation of the World Heritage Convention, 15-17 September, Havana,|
| |Cuba. |
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