UNESCO launches a call for candidatures for the 2009 session of its Awards for cultural
heritage conservation in Asia and the Pacific. It thus recognises individuals or
organisations having contributed to highlighting historic structures or buildings restored
during the past 10 years. Contributions must reach the organisers before the 31 March
2009.

The UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for Culture Heritage Conservation have been established to recognize the achievement of individuals and organizations within the private sector, and the public-private initiatives, in successfully restoring structures of heritage value in the region.

This project advances UNESCO’s global strategic objective of “promoting the drafting and implementation of standard setting instruments in the field of culture”. Within this global framework, it builds on the regional pillar of “localization and empowerment of the culture profession to develop and implement standards”.
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