In the framework of the Third Cycle of the Periodic Reporting Exercise in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), which started in September 2021, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre has organized two workshops (one in English and one in Spanish) for World Heritage site managers in the region.
These meetings, held respectively on 8 March (English) and 10 March (Spanish) 2022 online on the Zoom platform, aimed to provide practical advice, clarification and guidance to all site managers, in particular on the completion of Section II of the Periodic Reporting questionnaire on the implementation of the World Heritage Convention at World Heritage property-level.
The Periodic Reporting process is one of the fundamental conservation monitoring mechanisms of the World Heritage Convention. Every six years, States Parties are invited to submit to the World Heritage Committee a Periodic Report on the implementation of the Convention in their territory.
The managers of the 147 World Heritage properties (101 cultural, 38 natural and 8 mixed) in the Latin America and Caribbean region are were invited to evaluate the situation of their respective property by means of an online questionnaire, to be submitted by the end of July 2022.
In total, approximately 200 participants met during the two sessions and the meetings were also attended by representatives of the Advisory Bodies, UNESCO category II centres and UNESCO field offices in the LAC region. It was also noted that a number of national focal points actively joined the meetings.