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The handbook "Cultural heritage and local development: A Guide
for African local governments" was created in response to the
request formulated during the special session 'Africans towns and
heritage', organised by the World Heritage Centre and the France-UNESCO
Co-operation agreement at the Summit Africities 3 (Yaounde, Decembre
2003). This guide was designed as a tool to help with the decision-making
process in matters dealing with culture and heritage in sub-Saharan
African countries.
It is structured in three parts:
- A thoroughly illustrated "definitions" chapter, providing
answers to questions dealing with the definition of heritage,
and more particularly, the African heritage
- A second chapter is dedicated to the links existing between
the heritage resources and the development of the territory; it
tackles the following questions: why should we be interested in
heritage? How can we integrate heritage into regional planning
policies? How can we reconcile heritage and modernity?
- A third part gives indications for the implementation of a development
policy which integrates cultural heritage and provides a series
of examples of operations.
- This handbook is the result of the vast involvement and participation
of several African professionals. A call for participation was
issued on the African continent for more than 250 professionals
in the field of culture to contribute on a number of selected
topics.
Written with the support of the World Heritage Centre, the Ecole
du Patrimoine Africain(EPA), the EAMAU (Ecole Africaine des Métiers
de l'Architecture et de l'Urbanisme, Lomé, Togo)and the Municipal
Development Programme (PDM), this handbook is co-edited by the France-UNESCO
Cooperation Agreement and CRATerre-ENSAG.
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