Managing World Heritage

All the resources you need to learn about effective heritage management.

Managing World Heritage

The foundational manual focused on the elements of the World Heritage management system and the importance of adopting heritage place-based and people-centred approaches.

Explore

Enhancing Our Heritage Toolkit 2.0

This World Heritage-tailored resource helps evaluate the effectiveness of the heritage management system to identify what works and what changes are needed.

Explore

Impact Assessment in a World Heritage Context

This is the go-to reference manual for those commissioning, implementing or reviewing an impact assessment in the context of World Heritage.

Explore

Funded by

The Managing World Heritage platform provides essential resources to strengthen effective heritage management — from key foundational theoretical concepts to practical, evidence-based strategies that support the management and conservation of heritage places the ground.

Led and coordinated by the ICCROM-IUCN World Heritage Leadership Programme, the platform offers multilingual, shareable, and printable resources on heritage management, along with access to news, course announcements, and other capacity-building opportunities delivered by the programme and partner institutions.

All resources on the platform are the joint product of UNESCO, ICCROM, ICOMOS, and IUCN, developed to support site managers, focal points, and heritage professionals in their diverse roles and responsibilities related to World Heritage management.

Many resources for you

Browse our resources collection to find tools, case studies, publications related to World Heritage Management

Resources

Latest news

World Heritage

Internships contribute to ICCROM's work worldwide

At the end of 2023, in addition to the fellows and interns who continued their assignments, we welcomed to ICCROM headquarters a new intern, Ms Euiyeon Lee f

Jan 22 2024

World Heritage

Visit from ICCROM Council Member Ola Wetterberg and his conservation students

On 10 January 2024, ICCROM warmly welcomed our first visitors in the new year!

Jan 10 2024

World Heritage

World Heritage Leadership, UNESCO and IRPMZ enhancing World Heritage management in Latin America and the Caribbean

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, velit deserunt sit aliqua ut excepteur qui laborum elit sunt irure voluptate sit labore voluptate fugiat veniam ad aliquip quis dolor exercitation laborum non tempor laborum

Jan 09 2024

Impact assessment

Building capacity in Mauritius to strengthen capacities on conducting impact assessment for World Heritage

Between October and December 2023, Mauritius collaborated with the ICCROM-IUCN World Heritage Leadership (WHL) programme, the Africa Unit of the UNESCO W

Dec 04 2023

World Heritage

Heritage professionals convene in Beijing for an international World Heritage management effectiveness course

From 5 to 16 November 2023, ICCROM, together with the National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA) and the China Academy of Cultural Heritage (CACH),

Nov 28 2023