World Heritage Centre

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Mission

The World Heritage Centre, established in 1992, is the Secretariat to the 1972 Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. It is based in Paris at UNESCO Headquarters.

Disaster Reduction Goal

With respect to DRR, the World Heritage Centre's goal is to strengthen the resilience of World Heritage properties through policy development, capacity building, awareness raising and actual interventions on the ground.
At the same time, the World Heritage Centre aims to foster and promote the positive contribution of a well protected World Heritage to disaster risk reduction in general.

DRR activities

Policies and Programmes in DRR

was adopted by the World Heritage Committee in 2007

Disaster Reduction Focal Point(s)

Giovanni Boccardi

Websites

http://whc.unesco.org/en/disaster-risk-reduction/

Education, information and public awareness (HFA 3)

The organization has no registered commitments.

allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.

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Hazards

Country and region

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Training event

In person

12 September 2015 - 28 September 2015

Kyoto, Kobe and Tohoku area

International Training Course (ITC) on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage 2015

Earthquakes and floods cause immense damage to cultural heritage. North Italy earthquake of 2012 caused widespread damage to the historic city of Ferrara while earthquake in Philippines in 2013 damaged historic Bohol churches.

Publication

6 April 2006

Integrating traditional knowledge systems & concern for cultural & natural heritage into risk management strategies

This document presents the proceedings of the special session which had two main themes in the context of the ICCROM/World Heritage Centre partnership, to promote the integration of the traditional knowledge systems into risk management strategies.