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Context
By being Parties to the 1972 World Heritage Convention, 193 countries have already recognized that the sites located on their national territory, and which are inscribed on the World Heritage List, constitute a world heritage “for whose protection it is the duty of the international community as a whole to cooperate”.
Reactive Monitoring is defined as being the reporting to the World Heritage Committee on the state of conservation of specific sites inscribed on the World Heritage List and which are under threat. To this end, reports are prepared by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and the Advisory Bodies (ICOMOS and IUCN). States Parties can also ensure the accuracy of those reports, inter alia by submitting their own reports within the statutory deadlines, early information on any development or restoration project, by providing sufficient and relevant information during missions, etc.
Since 1979, over 3.300 reports on the state of conservation of 536 World Heritage properties have been examined by the World Heritage Committee. On average, 150 properties are monitored yearly through the Reactive Monitoring process, including those inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger.
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Outcomes
& Beneficiaries
- Clear guidelines on the purpose of the Reactive Monitoring process and its organization will be proposed, accompanied by a set of recommendations addressed to the various stakeholders of the Convention to further streamline the process and the procedures, and improve both their effectiveness and wide understanding.
- The evaluation will also provide a better understanding of benefits of the inscription of properties on the List of World Heritage in Danger.
Appropriate information material will be developed both to better communicate on the Reactive Monitoring process and its procedures with all key actors, especially decision-makers, national focal points, site-managers, local communities and the civil society, and to overcome the current negative perceptions of the List of World Heritage in Danger.