Managing World Heritage

All the resources you need to learn about effective heritage management.

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The Managing World Heritage platform offers a range of essential resources to learn more about effective heritage management providing both theoretical concepts to evidence-based strategies for improving the conservation of heritage places on the ground.
In this platform you can find multilingual resources about heritage management both shareable and printable formats. You can also access news, courses, events, other capacity building activities offered by the World Heritage Leadership Programme and other institutions.

All resources in this platform are the shared product of UNESCO, ICCROM, ICOMOS and IUCN, and these have been designed to assist site managers, focal points, and heritage professionals in caring for heritage places in their diverse roles and responsibilities in relation to World Heritage management.

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Internships contribute to ICCROM's work worldwide

At the end of 2023, in addition to the fellows and interns who continued their assignments, we welcomed to ICCROM headquarters a new intern, Ms Euiyeon Lee from the Republic of Korea, who joined the World Heritage Leadership (WHL) programme.
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Visit from ICCROM Council Member Ola Wetterberg and his conservation students

On 10 January 2024, ICCROM warmly welcomed our first visitors in the new year! It was our pleasure to receive ICCROM Council Member Ola Wetterberg and a group of his Objects and Built Heritage Conservation students from the University of Gothenburg.

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World Heritage Leadership, UNESCO and IRPMZ enhancing World Heritage management in Latin America and the Caribbean

The ICCROM-IUCN World Heritage Leadership (WHL) programme, the Unit for the Caribbean and Latin America of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, and the Regional World Heritage Institute in Zacatecas (IRPMZ) have come together to support World Heritage in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).

Impact assessment

Building capacity in Mauritius to strengthen capacities on conducting impact assessment for World Heritage

Between October and December 2023, Mauritius collaborated with the ICCROM-IUCN World Heritage Leadership (WHL) programme, the Africa Unit of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre (WHC) and ICOMOS International to deliver hybrid capacity building on Impact Assessment for World Heritage.
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Heritage professionals convene in Beijing for an international World Heritage management effectiveness course

From 5 to 16 November 2023, ICCROM, together with the National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA) and the China Academy of Cultural Heritage (CACH), in collaboration with the Changping Ming Tombs Administrative Centre, hosted the international course on assessing the effectiveness of World Heritage Management systems.