The fifth annual coordination meeting of the UNESCO World Heritage-related Category 2 Institutes and Centres will be held at the UNESCO Category 2 Centre on Natural World Heritage Management and Training at Wildlife Institute of India here on Tuesday. This meeting will be followed by consultative dialogue on Kailash Sacred landscape as a World Heritage Site on Thursday, informed officials.
The officials of the centre state that the purpose of holding the annual coordination meeting of the UNESCO World Heritage-related Category 2 Institutes and Centres is to build institutional capacity through a focus on international cooperation and to build synergies for effective natural heritage conservation.
The four coordination meetings have been held so far at Manama in Bahrain in 2010, at Milan in Italy during 2012, at Oslo in Norway in 2013 and at Shanghai in China during 2014, as well as the First Coordination Meeting of C2C Institutes and Centres and UNESCO Chairs/UNITWIN Networks during December 2015 at Paris in France.
The day after the annual coordination meeting will be marked by the consultative dialogue with the intention to discuss the different dimensions of Kailash sacred landscape as a proposed Cultural landscape/Mixed World Heritage Site. Towards this end, the dialogue will attempt to develop a World Heritage landscape Governance Capacity Framework for Kailash sacred landscape, focusing on the capabilities to understand landscape dynamics, to achieve coherence in landscape diversity, to make institutions and policies work for the landscape, to create market value and to manage landscape resources.