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09.12.2014 -

Meeting of the Flanders Department of Foreign Affairs, the Flemish Commission for UNESCO and several UNESCO experts

Since several years the Flanders Department of Foreign Affairs (Belgium) supports UNESCO via an extra-budgetary Fund in Trust. Flanders’ support focusses (among others) on protecting heritage, more particularly in Southern Africa. The supported activities may take the form of support to projects and programs, secondments, contributions to Unesco Special Accounts and small scale activities.

 

On December 4th the Flanders Department of Foreign Affairs, the Flemish Commission for UNESCO and several UNESCO experts gathered in order to discuss the past, ongoing and future projects.

Under the accurate presidency of Mrs Jessica Jeavons, Chief of the Section for Bilateral Governmental Funding Sources of UNESCO, and Mrs Anne Van Autreve, Head of the Global Challenges Division Department of the Flanders Department of Foreign Affairs the meeting started with a general policy debate. After this debate, the following projects were presented:

- The evaluation of UNESCO’s standard-setting work of the Culture Sector;

- The reactive monitoring and trends information system for an improved state of conservation of the World Heritage properties;

- The ecosystem-based marine spatial planning for the conservation of World Heritage Marine Sites;

- The Africa Nature Programme and sustainable tourism;

- The Centenary of World War I and Underwater Cultural Heritage;

- The safeguarding of Syria’s Cultural Heritage;

- And the strengthening of sub-regional cooperation and national capacities in seven Southern African Countries for implementing the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.

The members of the Steering Committee welcomed not only the project coordinators but also the esteemed representatives of the different cultural sections, such as Mrs Mechtild Rossler, Deputy Director of the World Heritage Centre, Mrs Cécile Duvelle, Chief of the Section for Intangible Heritage, and the Director of the UNESCO Liaison Office in Brussels, Mrs Marie Paule Roudil.

UNESCO praised the flexibility and impact of the Flanders Trust in Fund and thanked the Government of Flanders for the continuous generous contribution.




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