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Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:39:23 +1030
To: wac@...
From: Claire.Smith@...
Subject: [Wac] Call for applications - UNITAR workshop on World Heritage Impact Assessment, April2009

Dear Colleagues,

We have the pleasure to send you some information on our forthcoming workshop on the Management and Conservation of World Heritage Sites.  We would be happy if you could identify (and nominate) appropriate candidates from Asia and the Pacific.  In addition, kindly contact us if you would like to:
- send a representative of your organization as an expert/observer to the workshop;
- send some participants to the workshop covering their travel costs (subject to final selection to be made by UNITAR) - from Asia and the Pacific or elsewhere.

Also, kindly consider putting the information on your website.

Please find below a standard call for application letter, and feel free to forward it to any appropriate institutions or individuals.  Should you have any question, please feel free to contact us.  

With thanks in advance and kind regards,

Hiroko Nakayama

UNITAR Series on the Management and Conservation of World Heritage Sites
19 - 24 April 2009
Hiroshima
Japan

The UNITAR Hiroshima Office Series on the Management and Conservation on World Heritage Sites aims to facilitate a better utilization of the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention through providing support to national policy making and planning, and information exchange on best practices and case studies. Newly developed "values-based management" methodologies are applied in all the aspects of natural and cultural heritage management. Since 2008, "Conservation for Peace" has been adopted as an underlying principle of the Series.

The sixth workshop of the Series will be organized from 19 to 24 April 2009 in Hiroshima, Japan, focusing on issues surrounding the World Heritage Impact Assessment.  Study tours to two World Heritage sites in Hiroshima -the A-Bomb Dome and the Itsukushima Shinto Shrine - will provide additional case studies and learning opportunities.  

The specific objectives of the 2009 workshop will be to:

- Review the basics of the World Heritage regime and its implications for peace, incorporating available information, updates  and current trends;
- Elucidate the underlying principles of "values-based heritage management", with a particular focus on peace building or - nurturing;
- Introduce the basics of World Heritage impact assessment;
- Examine leading assessment policies and strategies, identifying best practices and lessons learned;
- Through reality-based practical exercises, extract key concepts and common issues while developing impact assessments for given sites;
- Contribute to the development of a manual for site managers on impact assessment in World Heritage management;
- Enhance long-term peer learning and exchange among the participants.

The participants will be selected from actual or potential heritage site managers; natural/cultural conservation specialists and trainers; and decision makers and government officials within national World Heritage administrations, such as Ministries of Environment, Culture, Forestry or Tourism. A few slots will be made available to representatives of national academic institutions, think-tanks and civil society. Priority will be given to official working on World Heritage nomination projects and/or tentatively-listed World Heritage sites.

We would like to ask you to submit the names of suitable candidates to participate in the training workshop for final selection by an ad hoc selection committee. UNITAR scholarships, given in priority to least developed country participants, will cover tuition fees, travel, accommodation and meals. Candidates from industrialized countries are welcome to apply - they are requested to obtain financial support from their own countries/organization but may be accorded an exemption of the tuition-fee. Number of places being limited, those wishing to be selected should send their application package as soon as possible and no later than 2 March 2009.  Please refer to the attached leaflet and our website www.unitar.org/hiroshima/unitar-activities/world-heritage-sites/2009 for more information. Should you have any questions, please contact Ms. Hiroko Nakayama at hiroko.nakayama@..., or Mr. Berin McKenzie at berin.mckenzie@....

We thank you in advance for your assistance in the nomination/information dissemination process.


With our kind regards,


Nassrine Azimi
Director
UNITAR Hiroshima Office



Dina HANGGRAINI

United Nations Institute for Training
and Research (UNITAR)

Palais des Nations
CH-1211 Geneva 10
Switzerland
Tel.: 41-22-917-8533
Fax: 41-22-917-8047
http://www.unitar.org/

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