The 5th World Parks Congress (WPC) is the most important international event focusing on protected areas. 2,500 protected area experts from around the world will be attending this once per decade event. Park managers, high level government representatives, NGO's, multi-lateral organizations, national overseas development agency officials, community level stakeholders, United Nations agencies will all meet to advance the conservation of the world's protected natural areas.
The World Heritage Convention has received extraordiary recognition at the WPC - it has been selected as one of three Congress wide cross cutting themes. Given the Convention's pre-eminent role and growing expertise in identifying and promoting international cooperation in the protection of the natural protected areas of the planet, the World Heritage Centre has prepared a series of presentations, workshops and special events during the WPC to help stimulate discussion, advance projects, overcome challenges and increase cooperation.
The table below lists the inputs to the WPC that deal with World Heritage issues in particular. We hope it proves useful to WPC participants in organizing their activities during the WPC.
| PLENARY / STREAM / EVENT | DATE / TIME | DETAILS / TITLE |
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| Symposium A Benefits to People | Tuesday 9,
14:00 – 17:00 | Presentation
Peace and Security: the Benefits of Protected Areas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – by Eulalie Bashige, Director General, ICCN, DRC |
Symposium C
Community and Parks | Wednesday 10,
9:00 – 12:00 | Presentation
Building Community Support for Protected Areas Globally and Locally – World Heritage and Biosphere Approaches Walter Erdelen, Assistant Director General, UNESCO; and Francesco Bandarin, Director, World Heritage Centre, UNESCO
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Plenary 2:
Briefing for the Workshop Streams and cross cut themes | Wednesday 10,
14:00 – 17:00 | Presentation
World Heritage Cross Cutting Theme. Natarajan Ishwaran, Chief, Natural Heritage Section, World Heritage Centre, UNESCO |
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| Post workshop plenary | Wednesday 17, | Presentation
Summary findings and recommendations of the World Heritage cross cut theme – presentation by N. Ishwaran and/or others |
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Discussion of World Heritage motion
(recommendations) no: 5.21 | Monday 8,
10:00 – 11:30
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Tuesday 9,
17:00 – 18:30 | Discussion group
Discussions to amend and revise the motion 5.21 on World Heritage already posted on WPC website.
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Thursday 11,
17:00 – 18:00 | Discussion group
Additional time for discussions of motion 5.21 |
Friday 13,
17:00 – 18:00 | Discussion group
Adoption of motion 5.21 |
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Special workshop on World Heritage and Marine Protected Areas
(Centre focal point – Marjaana Kokkonen)
Holiday Inn Garden Court Marine Parade Hotel, Durban
Panel comprising UNESCO/WHC, IUCN, NOAA (USA) and others – public event by invitation only | Sunday 7,
09:00 – 17:30 | Dedicated full day World Heritage Workshop |
| 9:00 – 9:10 | Introductions |
| 9:10 – 9:20 | Opening Remarks |
| 9:20 – 10:30 | Presentations by World Heritage marine site managers |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Update on Marine World Heritage Initiatives:
i) Results of the World Heritage Marine Biodiversity workshop (15 min)
ii) Pilot projects (45min), presentations by site representatives
iii) Marine Strategy (30 min)
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| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch offered by the organizers |
| 13:30 – 15:00 | Working group discussions on:
i) Establishment and functioning of a World Heritage Marine Site
Managers network
ii) Establishment and functioning of a Marine World Heritage partnership alliance
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| 15:30 – 15:45 | Coffee break |
| 15:45 – 17:00 | Results of the working group discussions and discussion |
| 17:00 – 17:15 | Way forward during and after the Parks Congress |
| 17:15 – 17:30 | Closing Remarks |
| 17:30 | Adjourn |
Wednesday 10,
17:00 – 19:00
| Dedicated evening panel
Presentation of workshop outcome and the launch of a Marine World Heritage areas network |
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| STREAM #1: LINKAGES (Centre Focal Point – M. Rossler)
| Friday 12,
09:45
| Presentation
World Heritage and Cultural Landscapes – Mechtild Rossler |
Friday 12,
15:45 – 16:00 | Presentation
The World Heritage Convention How can WH sites be protected in a multiple use environment? Mechtild Rössler (one of several workshop presentations) |
Saturday 13
11:00 – 12:30 | Presentation
Using World Heritage to link Nature and Culture, Mechtild Rossler (one of several workshop presentations) under the the protected areas and sacred natural sites workshop; Mechtild Rossler is also the facilitator for the workshop |
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STREAM #2:
Building Broader Support 1 Opening Plenary
7 Parallel Workshops
1 Closing Plenary (Centre Focal Point – Guy Debonnet)
| Thursday 11,
11:00 – 12:30 | Workshop #6
UNF-UN Partnership for Biodiversity Conservation and Protected Areas: World Heritage as an International Tool for Conservation Cooperation, by Seema Paul and Will Kennedy |
Thursday 11,
11:00 – 12:30 | Workshop #6
World Heritage in Danger: How it Can Build Political Support, by Bernd von Droste, Rob Milne, and N. Ishwaran International Support and Politics |
Thursday 11,
14:00 – 15:30 | Workshop #3
Supporting Protected Areas in a Time of Political Turmoil: The Case of World Heritage Sites in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Panel discussion: John Hart, Guy Debonnet, Malembe Mbo and Deo Bizimana) |
Thursday 11,
14:00 – 15:30 | Workshop #6
Using Global Conventions and Programmes to Build Support for Protected Areas (World Heritage, Ramsar, Convention on Biological Diversity, MAB, Year of the Mountains, WSSD Plan of Implementation, etc.) |
Thursday 11,
16:00 – 17:30 | Workshop #3
Los Katios National Park: World Heritage in the Midst of Conflict, by Edgar Emilio Rodriguez |
Thursday 11,
16:00 – 17:30 | Workshop #3
A World Heritage Site Caught in the Middle: The Case of Mt. Nimba, West Africa, by Salamady Toure, Director of the Management Centre for Mt. Nimba |
Thursday 11,
17:30 – 19:00 | Side event
World Heritage Partnerships in Sustainable Tourism: An overview of activities and a discussion on future opportunities.
Refreshments served. |
Friday 12,
9:00 – 10:30 | Workshop #3
Dealing with impacts of insurgency on a World Heritage Site in Assam: The Case of Manas National Park, by Asheem Srivastav |
Saturday 12,
11:00 – 12:30 | Workshop #3
Recovering from War: The case of Plitvice World Heritage Site, Croatia by Vinko Bartalac |
Saturday 12,
14:50 – 15:05 | Workshop #5
Fostering Attachment to Heritage, by Alfredo Arellano (Director Sian-Ka’an Biosphere Reserve), and N. Ishwaran (UNESCO) |
Saturday 13,
11:00 – 11:20 | Workshop #1
Using World Heritage to link Nature and Culture (Mechtild Rossler)
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STREAM #3:
Governance
(Centre Focal Point - Sarah Titchen) | Thursday 11,
14:00 – 17:00
| Workshop (World Heritage dedicated)
A Panel on International Governance – IUCN/ELC and World Heritage Centre; participation of S.Titchen (WHC) and Felipe Cruz (Galapagos) – International Designations and Global Governance |
| N/a | Background paper for workshop
Paper prepared with inputs from S.Titchen of the Centre and contains three sections: - The International Governance Regime, (Michael Jeffrey), a section on protected area certification (Nigel Dudley and Tomme Young) and an Executive Summary (John Scanlon). |
| N/a | Publication
World Heritage Convention: Effectiveness 1992-2002 and Lessons for Governance - by Jim Thorsell, of IUCN; a IUCN/World Heritage Publication – a Lunch reception for launch of the book foreseen |
| N/a | Paper
World Parks Congress Preparatory Workshop on Sustainable Financing for Protected Areas and World Heritage Sites (Lee Thomas) |
Wednesday 10,
evening | Reception
For governance stream participants |
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STREAM #4:
Capacity Building (Centre Focal Point – N.Ishwaran and Salamat Ali Tabassum)
| Thursday 11,
14:00 – 14:15 | Presentation
Draft World Heritage Training Strategy – by N. Ishwaran and Peter Valentine |
Saturday 13,
14:00 – 17:00 | Panel Discussion
Global Protected Area Training Strategy; panel participation in the “Making it Possible” workshop. – N. Ishwaran and/or Peter Valentine
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| To be notified at the time of the Congress | Workshop presentations foreseens
• Malaysia Sabah Parks Board on Kinabalu World Heritage areas, Malaysia.
• Honduras. Reserva de la Biosfera Rio Platano.
• Indonesia, Ujung Kulon National Park & World Heritage Site.
• Mexico. Reserva de la Biosfera SianKa’an, Quintana Roo.
• Mexico. Reserva de la Biosfera del Vizcaino, Baja California Sur. (Poster)
• ARCBC / WH UNESCO. Networks
• Overview and report from World Heritage Sites and Capacity Building (Alfredo Arellando and Victor Sanchez)
• Capacity Building for species recuperation in El Vizcaino (Poster)
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| STREAM #5: Management Effectiveness (Centre focal point – N.Ishwaran)
| Saturday 6,
11:00 start
Sunday 7
11:00 start | Pre-Congress project assessment meeting
Mid-project assessment – Monitoring for management effectiveness in WH Sites
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Thursday 11,
Session 2a
14 :30 | Presentation
Cultural Indicators, Participatory Processes and PA Management Dermot Smyth (TILCEPA) and Indigenous representative Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, Australia |
Thursday 11,
Session 2b
15:10 | Presentation
Developing a standardised assessment system for natural World Heritage sites – the Enhancing our Heritage project: Sue Stolton and Nigel Dudley, Equilibrium Consultants and Lindsey Chong Seng, Aldabra World Heritage Site |
Thursday 11,
Session 2b
15:30 | Lessons learned from management effectiveness assessment around the world – a summary of an international workshop in Melbourne Fiona Leverington, Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service. (workshop partly financed by WHC) |
Thursday 11,
Session 2e
16 :30 | Presentation
Management effectiveness evaluation in India and Nepal (3 WH Sites) Vinod Mathur, B.C. Choudhury, N.K. Vasu, B Praveen |
Friday 12,
Session 3b
10:00 | Presentation
Experiences in practical capacity-building for management effectiveness assessment – the MIST project in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, World Heritage Site, Uganda. John Makombo, Chief Warden at Bwindi and Klaus Schmitt, GTZ |
Friday 12,
Session 3b
10:30 | Presentation
Assessing the state of conservation of World Heritage Properties – lessons learnt from the periodic reporting process in the Asia Pacific Region Hugh Logan, Department of Conservation, New Zealand |
Friday 12,
Session 3b
10:45
| Presentation
State of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area Report -- an evaluation of management effectiveness under the 1992 management plan Glenys Jones, Parks and Wildlife Service, Tasmania. |
Friday 12,
Session 4b
16:30 | Presentation
State of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area Report -- an evaluation of management effectiveness under the 1992 management plan Glenys Jones, Parks and Wildlife Service, Tasmania. |
Friday 12,
Session 3d
9:20
| Presentation
Lessons from field-testing: Galapagos Island Marine Reserve. Manuel Bravo, Galapagos National Park |
Friday 12,
Session 4b
16:30 | Presentation
"Fighting Back : GEF as part of the solution" Galapagos and other cases Alan Tye, Darwin Foundation, Galapagos |
Friday 12,
Session 4c
15: 20 | Presentation
Case study in ecological integrity measurement: Banff and Fathom Five reserve, Canada. Gilles Seutin, Parks Canada |
Friday 12,
Session 4d
14:10 | Presentation
A Case in South Africa: St. Lucia Marine Reserve. Jean Harris, KZN Wildlife Service |
Friday 12,
Session 4d
14:40
| Presentation
Evaluation and Monitoring in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Jon Day, Great Barrier Marine Park Authority |
Saturday 13,
Session 5c
9:45
| Presentation
Standardised self-reporting in World Heritage Sites: Vinod Mathur, WII |
Saturday 13,
Session 5d
9:35
| Presentation
Case study: Use of evaluation results for resource allocation
Moses Mapesa, Uganda Wildlife Authority or John Makombo, Chief Warden at Bwindi, Uganda
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| Thursday 11 | Panel discussion
Assessment of Management Effectiveness |
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STREAM #6: Sustainable Financing
(Centre focal point – Marc Patry)
| April 29-30 | Preparatory workshop
World Parks Congress Preparatory Workshop on Sustainable Financing for Protected Areas and World Heritage Sites |
Friday 12,
AM 2hrs and 30 minutes duration
| Workshop (World Heritage dedicated)
Using World Heritage Status to Maximize Effectiveness of Sustainable Financing Strategies:
1. Commentary on World Heritage Site Financing; .
2. How Much is Needed? (10 minutes)
3. Three Case Studies (50 min.)
4. Moderated Panel Discussion (1 hr)
5. Conclusions (20 minutes) A rapporteur will present a summary of the workshop’s most interesting aspects and the panel moderator will invite participants to comment and contest.
Outputs:
• develop a renewed sense of World Heritage Sites as a logical focus for global conservation priorities.
• see World Heritage Sites as a logical focus around which to rally a waning international interest in protected areas conservation
• have identified ways in which they can promote this vision through their own professional activities
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| STREAM #7: Filling the Gaps (Centre focal point – Elizabeth Wangari and Guy Debonnet)
| January 27-31,
2003 | Preparatory workshop
Regional Workshop on Protected Areas in West and Central Africa |
| To be Released during the Congress | Preparatory study
UNEP- WCMC to release the publication on the State of the World Parks including specific sections on World Heritage; other types of analyses undertaken by Conservation International – e.g. irreplaceable parks coverage of World Heritage; biodiversity coverage of African World Heritage sites etc., to be released at the time of the Congress; |
Saturday 13,
9:00 – 13:00 | Workshop (World Heritage Dedicated)
World heritage sites and transboundary conservation: building a comprehensive world heritage list.
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| 9:00 – 9:45 | General Introduction
1. “Reviewing the Natural World Heritage Network”
by Stuart Chape / World Conservation Monitoring Centre. 9.00 – 9.15 2. “Transboundary World Heritage Sites: Identifying gas and building bridges”
by Elizabeth Wangari / UNESCO World Heritage Centre and Juliet Fall / University of Geneva 9.15 – 9.30 3. “Using the World Heritage as a tool for transboundary sites”
by Prof. Mumma, Faculty of Law of Nairobi. 9.30 – 9.45
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| 9:45 – 10:45 | Case studies: World Heritage Sites and transboundary cooperation:
4. “Beloveshskaya Pushcha / Bialowieza Forest Transboundary World Heritage Site”
by Dr. Bogdan Jaroszewicz/ Bialowieza National Park. 9.45 – 10.00 5. “Les Monts Nimba: Site transfrontalier du patrimoine mondial”
by Saramady Touré/ UNDP, Guinée. 10.00 – 10.15 6. “Transborder Cooperation in the Virunga mountains /Bwindi National Park / Virunga National Park”
by Annette Lanjouw/ International Gorilla Conservation Programme
10.15 – 10.30 7. “The preparation of a transborder World Heritage nomination in Kalimantan (Indonesia) and Sarawak (Malaysia)”
by Dr.Manggil Penguang (Sarawak Forest department, Malaysia)
10.30 – 10.45
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| 11:15 – 12:15 | Future prospects:
8. “Prospects for using the World Heritage Convention to promote transborder protected areas and build a comprehensive World Heritage List”
by G. Debonnet and N. Ishwaran / UNESCO World Heritage Centre.
11.15 – 11.30
“Prospects for using the World Heritage Convention to promote transborder protected areas and build a comprehensive World Heritage List”
by G. Debonnet and N. Ishwaran / UNESCO World Heritage Centre.
11.15 – 11.30 “Prospects for Transboundary Cooperation in Eastern Africa”
by Prof. Eric Edroma / University Nkumba of Kampala.
11.30 – 11.45 “The Great Rift Valley, A Serial Nomination Site of Culture and Nature - a new global concept”.
By Dr. Yossi Leshem / International Centre for the Study of Bird Migration
11.45 – 11.55 “The Greater Limpopo Transfrontier Park : Challenges and opportunities”
by Jorge Ferrao/ Regional Coordinator of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park
11.55 – 12.05 “Maiombe Forest: a transfrontier conservation area”
by Tamar Ron / UNDP /Ministry of Urban Affairs and Environment, Angola
12.05 – 12.15 |
| 12:15 – 13:00 | Panel Discussion moderated by N. Ishwaran (UNESCO – WHC) |
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| Special workshops and events outside of the Streams and Themes (Centre Focal Point – Marc Patry)
Rapporteurs for the workshop – Terrence Hay-Eddie and Salamat Ali Tabassum
| Tuesday 9,
Wednesday 10 | Knowledge Gathering Workshop – UNF Projects
Representatives from 10 different UNF projects implemented by UNESCO/WHC and UNDP-GEF will presented and analyzed to draw lessons. Projects to be analyzed include, Galapagos, Congo, Tourism, Management effectiveness, Filling Critical Gaps and Brazilian Planning Grants implemented by UNESCO-WHC; and COMPACT, Cardamom, Sunderbans, Central Surinam and Panama projects implemented by UNDP-GEF A panel comprising 5 (including Bernd Von Droste, the previous Director of the Centre) will be responsible for drawing lessons. Mr. Terrence Hay-Eddie will be the Rapporteur and will be assisted by Salamat Ali Tabassum
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Tuesday 16,
17:00 – 19:00
| World Heritage Partnerships – a two hour panel cum public event by invitation only
Important findings of the Lessons Learned Workshop will be presented; other short presentations on: Rapid Response Facility (Fauna and Flora International), CI-UNF-UNESCO Partnership (CI) and general themes such as promoting cluster and transborder World Heritage area nominations will be highlighted and discussed. |
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| World Heritage Partnership Kiosk
(Centre focal point – Marc Patry)
(Congress assistance from Jane Degeorges and David Martel) | Throughout the Congress | An exhibit cum public access space for displaying achievements and work of World Heritage being implemented by WHC, IUCN, UNF, CI, UNEP-WCMC and other partners.
A number of films, posters, maps and other exhibits and display materials as well as internet and web accessible information, brochures and demonstration sites will be in place. Continuous presence of Centre, IUCN and/Or UNF/UNFIP Representatives will be assured to talk to visitors to the kiosk |
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| Special sites in World Heritage Centre Web-sites
(Centre focal point – Marc Patry in co-operation with Maria Lepeigne-Cobo and Mario Santana)
| Starting from last week of August till the end of the Congress. After the Congress, one of the sites will be changed to “World Heritage and Parks”; the other will continue as “Biodiversity Partnerships” | Two new locations, under the rubrics World Heritage and World Parks Congress and Biodiversity Partnerships will be opened in the Centre Web-site and managed throughout the Congress through direct and regular communication with Centre based staff
Regular and updated news and press briefs deriving from World Heritage case studies, panel discussions and other events happening during the build-up towards and at the time of the Congress.
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