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Developing Risk Management in Sudanese Cultural Institutions
On 22-24 October 2019, the UNESCO Khartoum office and National Corporation of Antiquities and Museums (NCAM) organized the 2nd Workshop on Risk Management in the Sudanese National Museum (SNM) and two World Heritage Sites (Gebel Barkal (GB) & Meroe Island (MI)). The event took place in the Grand Holiday Villa hotel, Khartoum, attracting 42 Sudanese heritage professionals, including 23 women and 10 persons from out of Khartoum / Omdurman / Bahri metropolis. The attendants were from different Sudanese museums, Jebel Barkal and Merowe Island sites, Alahlia University, Preventive Security and Consumer Protection Association. The WS was organized in frameworks of the project 鈥淒evelopment of Emergency Preparedness and Response Plans for the Sudanese National Museum and Two Cultural World Heritage Properties鈥 funded by the Heritage Emergency Fund (*).
The workshop aimed to strengthen capacities of the Sudanese cultural institutions in Risk Management. The participants discussed the risk management issues on the base of risk assessment reports and risk mitigating action plans for the SNM and JB and MI Sites, which were delivered by the project leaders, Prof. Maamoun Abdelkarim (Syria) and Prof. Assaad Asseif (Lebanon), who were directors of Antiquities in appropriate countries during political crises in them.
During the opening session, the General Director of the NCAM, Dr. Abdelrahman Ali, and the UNESCO Representative to Sudan, Dr. Pavel Kroupkine, delivered speeches explaining the originating issues, and encouraging participants to become familiar with the Risk Management technics and practices.
Prof. Maamoun led the technical sessions of the workshop. During the 1st day, he discussed the risk assessment and risk management report for the SNM and the difficulties and challenges of implementing the risk management plan in it. In the 2nd day, he presented the Risk Management for the World Heritage (WH) sites in General, and discussed with the participants the risk assessment reports for the JB and MI WH Sites. The last day of the workshop he dedicated to drafting the risk management plans for JB and MI, involving the participants in a practical exercise of mitigating existing risks of their practice. In addition to this, Prof. Maamoun discussed existing difficulties and challenges for implementing the risk management plans in the JB and MI World Heritage sites.
漏UNESCO: Workshop on Risk Management in Sudanese Cultural Institutions: the stage. Khartoum, 22-24 October 2019
During the opening session, the General Director of the NCAM, Dr. Abdelrahman Ali, and the UNESCO Representative to Sudan, Dr. Pavel Kroupkine, delivered speeches explaining the originating issues, and encouraging participants to become familiar with the Risk Management technics and practices.
Prof. Maamoun led the technical sessions of the workshop. During the 1st day, he discussed the risk assessment and risk management report for the SNM and the difficulties and challenges of implementing the risk management plan in it. In the 2nd day, he presented the Risk Management for the World Heritage (WH) sites in General, and discussed with the participants the risk assessment reports for the JB and MI WH Sites. The last day of the workshop he dedicated to drafting the risk management plans for JB and MI, involving the participants in a practical exercise of mitigating existing risks of their practice. In addition to this, Prof. Maamoun discussed existing difficulties and challenges for implementing the risk management plans in the JB and MI World Heritage sites.
漏UNESCO: Workshop on Risk Management in Sudanese Cultural Institutions: the technical session. Khartoum, 22-24 October 2019
(*) The Heritage Emergency Fund was established by UNESCO in 2015, to enable the Organization to respond quickly and effectively to crises resulting from armed conflicts and disasters caused by natural and human-made hazards all over the world. UNESCO works to achieve this objective by strengthening the ability of nations to prevent, mitigate and recover the loss of cultural heritage and diversity in emergencies and by advocating for the incorporation of the protection of culture into humanitarian action, security strategies and peace-building processes, including by harnessing the potential of culture to strengthen resilience and support recovery.
The Fund finances activities in the area of emergency preparedness and response within the domains of the immovable cultural and natural heritage, movable cultural heritage, cultural repositories, underwater cultural heritage, intangible cultural heritage and the diversity of cultural goods, services and expressions.
The current contributors to the HEF are the Qatar Fund for Development, the Kingdom of Norway, the Government of Canada, ANA Holdings INC., the Principality of Monaco, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Republic of Estonia, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Slovak Republic and the Principality of Andorra.
