The World Heritage Leadership Programme:

The Significance for Norway and the Norwegian Sites Aim:

To improve conservation practice for culture and nature through the work of the World Heritage Convention, as an integral component of the contribution of World Heritage properties to sustainable development Focus:

• Setting and testing the leading standards for conserving sites • Ensuring a contribution to communities and sustainable development through engaging in World Heritage Focus:

• Providing high profile, widely translated documented advice on conservation • Providing platforms for learning and for capacity building • Providing diverse training events, exchanges, and other capacity- building activities Focus:

• Establishing a network of internationally recognised learning sites • Building international networks between nature and culture practitioners and institutions World Heritage Leadership: Pilot Phase

September 2015 – March 2016 Effective Management Promoting People- Centred Approaches: Engaging Communities in the Conservation of Nature and Culture Rome and the Bay of Naples, Italy 5 – 16 October 2015 2 Lines Title

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Resilience Capacity Building Activities in Response to the Earthquake in Nepal

Kathmandu, Nepal 21 – 26 February, 2016

Resilience ICOMOS Colloquium on Post-Trauma Reconstruction

ICOMOS - Charenton Le Pont, France 4 March 2016

Leadership Networks Workshop for Nordic Professionals

Rolle, Switzerland 23 – 27 November 2015

Leadership Networks Workshop for Latin American Professionals

Rome, Italy 8 – 12 February 2016

Modules:

• Effective Management: Nature, Culture, and Communities • Resilience • Impact Assessment • Learning Sites • Leadership Networks Effective Management: Nature, Culture, and Communities

• Training Courses and Materials • Joint Resource Manual • Links to University Programmes • Emphasis on setting standards for rights and people based approaches and sustainable development Linking Nature and Culture in World Heritage Site Management

Røros Mining Town and the Circumference, Norway 6 – 16 June 2017 Resilience:

• Training Courses and Materials • Revised Resource Manual • Guidance on Climate Adaptation Impact Assessment:

• Training Courses and Materials • Tool Kit for Impact Assessment for both Cultural and Natural Heritage • Communication Strategy for States Parties and the IA Community Learning Sites:

• Case study sites which  Will serve as examples of good practice  Be willing to experiment or innovate to develop good practice Leadership Networks:

• Leadership Forum • Networking of Nordic World Heritage sites • Involvement of Nordic professionals in World Heritage activities Norwegian World Heritage Properties

• Bryggen • Urnes Stave Church • Røros Mining Town and the Circumference • Rock Art of Alta • Vegaøyan -- The Vega Archipelago • Struve Geodetic Arc • West Norwegian Fjords – Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord • Rjukan-Notodden Industrial Heritage Site Norwegian World Heritage Tentative List

• Islands of Jan Mayen and Bouvet (serial transnational nomination) • Svalbard Archipelago • The Laponian Area - Tysfjord, the fjord of Hellemobotn and Rago (extension) • The Lofoten islands • Viking Monuments Sites / Vestfold Ship Burials and Hyllestad Quernstone Quarries Some Questions Integrating Management of Culture and Nature:

• How much has Norway already been able to adopt these integrated approaches? • Are there good examples/case studies that can be identified? • If not, what can we do to promote these approaches in Norway and beyond? Some Questions Resilience:

• How much has Norway been able to adopt a proactive planning approach to disaster risk management? • Do sites have disaster risk plans (for fire, earthquake, flooding, etc)? • Are there emergency plans in place at sites (and nationally) to cover the period during a disaster? • Are there guidelines for recovery in the post-disaster phase? • Are steps being planned to mitigate climate related risks? • What are some of the best examples? • What can we do to promote these approaches? Some Questions Impact Assessment:

• How well is cultural heritage (and World Heritage in particular) taken into account in the Impact Assessment process in Norway? • Are there good examples of Impact Assessments that have successfully blending concern for both cultural and natural of heritage, along with more general environmental and social concerns? • What steps might need to be taken for a more comprehensive approach to Impact Assessment in Norway?