'Risk Preparedness and Listed World Heritage'

Setting Strategies to Achieve Enhanced Protection for Cultural Heritage in accordance with the Draft Guidelines Issued by the Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflicts for the Implementation of the 1999 Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954

WATCH in Action - Summer 2009

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

WATCH calls on the wider concerned Cultural Heritage community to propose a site to be selected to conduct a strategic study aimed at the enforcement of the 1954 Hague Convention (HC) in accordance with the Draft Guidelines to the 1999 Second Protocol of the HC issued by the Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the event of Armed Conflicts1.

This initiative aims to contribute to:

produce the necessary supporting documentation for the local authorities (if eligible) to apply for the enhanced protection status as Listed World Heritage (LWH);

introduce a milestone for a methodological approach in the design of protective strategies and implementation of policies aimed at establishing preventive measures for LWH during times of crisis; and

offer grounds for further development of the set strategies and the possibility to apply them to different sites in various countries and circumstances

Funding: This is not a Grant based call.

Interested Applicants can download the Call Dossier in the Downloads area in this page.

Deadline: June 15 2009

(last updated : 18/05/2009)

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