This forum will address young people and seek to provide a sustainable platform for youth in Africa that could increase the involvement of youth in the promotion and protection of World Heritage in Africa, and also deliver essential feedback to UNESCO, the World Heritage Committee and the African World Heritage Fund (AWHF) on youth challenges, accomplishments and actions related to the implementation of the World Heritage Convention in the region. It responds to the interest expressed by States Parties to hold a youth forum at a regional level as well as to the Second Cycle of Periodic Reporting in the Africa Region, which called for increased involvement and benefits for local communities in World Heritage.
This is the first regional youth forum on World Heritage in Africa. It will address Anglophone youth. A second forum is planned for 2017 targeting francophone youth in Africa.
World Heritage Youth Forums
The UNESCO World Heritage Education Programme is one of UNESCO's most successful flagship programmes for young people, generating awareness-raising and capacity building activities that enhance the visibility of the Convention and facilitate the greater involvement of young people, including women and indigenous communities, their empowerment and inclusion to contribute to World Heritage conservation. One of the major activities is the World Heritage Youth Forum that has become an annual event, organized and held in close conjunction with the yearly session of the World Heritage Committee.
These fora provide the opportunity for young people to exchange experiences, to discuss common concerns, to discover new roles for themselves in heritage conservation and have their voices heard. Each youth forum take up specific issues linked to World Heritage and carry out hands-on activities that provides some basic skills in conservation and preservation, contributing to the promotion of World Heritage education and youth involvement.
World Heritage Youth Forum (2016) Africa
jeudi 28 avr. 2016
mercredi 04 mai 2016
mercredi 04 mai 2016
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Where
Robben Island, South Africa
Robben Island, South Africa
Actualités (6)
- 5 mai 2017 - Journée du patrimoine mondial africain mardi 2 mai 2017
- La Déclaration de Ngorongoro : Une avancée majeure pour le patrimoine mondial africain et le développement durable lundi 6 juin 2016
- Message de Mme Irina Bokova à l’occasion de la Journée du patrimoine mondial africain, 5 mai 2016 jeudi 5 mai 2016
- [Uniquement en anglais] Call for Participants: Regional Youth Forum for World Heritage in Africa (Deadline 31 January 2016) vendredi 11 décembre 2015
- 5 mai: Journée du Patrimoine Mondial Africain mercredi 18 novembre 2015
- L’UNESCO célèbre les actions accomplies par le Fonds du patrimoine mondial africain depuis dix ans vendredi 13 novembre 2015
Events (2)
- Exposition - Le patrimoine mondial africain : un horizon pour le développement 18 mai 2016-14 juin 2016
- Forum régional africain des jeunes francophones sur le patrimoine mondial 26 avr. 2017-5 mai 2017