| The National Museums of Kenya - in collaboration with the African
World Heritage Fund (AWHF) and the Nordic World Heritage Foundation
- is hosting this planning workshop on the nomination of Great Rift
Valley serial and trans-boundary sites to the World Heritage List.
The workshop is a follow up to the “Scientific Workshop on
the Great Rift Valley Serial Trans-National World Heritage Property”
held from 26 to 29 March 2007 at the headquarters of the United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi.
At that workshop, a steering committee - comprising of Malawi (for
southern Africa), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (for Central
Africa), Kenya (for East Africa including Ethiopia and Eritrea)
- was appointed to take a lead in the process. The following institutions
were also asked to provide advice: Birdlife International, The World
Conservation Union (IUCN), the International Council on Monuments
and Sties ( ICOMOS), the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, the Secretariat
of the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory
Waterbirds (AEWA) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
The main objective of the workshop is to discuss and coordinate
steps for nominating trans-boundary sites in the Great Rift Valley
that may have outstanding universal value. The initiative contributes
not only in enhancing cooperation amongst countries along the Great
Rift Valley in the implementation of the World Heritage Convention,
but also to improve the representation of African heritage on the
World Heritage List.
The workshop is generously sponsored by the Nordic World Heritage
Foundation.
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