The “Sustainable Heritage Management Foundation Course” is organized by UNESCO Bangkok in cooperation with Think City Institute and the Asian Academy for Heritage Management network. This course will offer participants exposure to fundamental principles, innovative tools, good practices and on-the-ground case studies for sustainable cultural heritage management.The Sustainable Heritage Management Foundation Course is divided into five modules which will focus on the five Core Competencies defined under UNESCO’s new Competence Framework. Each module is led by a leading university in the Asia-Pacific region in the area of cultural heritage management.

Established by the Fifth Meeting of States Parties (Resolution5.MSP 13, May 2019), the first meeting of the Working Group on the Revision of the Internal Regulation of the Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property (Convention 1970), will held on 1st March 2021, from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. at UNESCO Headquarters in Room XI.

A regional dialogue on the future of international cooperation in the fight against illicit trafficking on cultural property and the return and restitution of cultural property in the Africa region

Meeting to share the results of the research and documentation conducted by seven eastern Africa countries on Intangible Cultural Heritage practices/ traditional knowledge systems.