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Objectives of Training

Core Objectives

  • Understand the need for an integrated approach to disaster risk management for cultural heritage in urban areas.
  • Undertake integrated disaster risk assessment and build systems for disaster risk management of cultural heritage; incorporating various measures aimed at reducing disaster risks, responding to disasters and recovering from them.
  • Formulate disaster risk management plans for cultural heritage that correspond to urban and regional planning and disaster management systems.
  • Implement, monitor and update disaster risk management plans and collaborate with the local community and other stakeholders at each stage of the disaster risk management process.
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Additional Objectives

As a result of the training courses, other initiatives in the fields of disaster risk management and cultural heritage can be supplemented. These could potentially include:

  • Establishing new networks and supplementing existing international scientific networks for risk management of cultural heritage in order to build institutional capacity across the world.
  • Highlighting specific issues of disaster risk pertaining to a geographical and cultural context and including the training courses as a part of a greater exercise in building awareness amongst local stakeholders and the community.
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Understanding the risks to heritage and the various approaches involved in addressing these risks forms the core of the International Training Course series.

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