Tangible Heritage

Heritage is mankind’s legacy from the past. Tangible cultural heritage comprises of monuments, buildings and natural sites of outstanding universal values.

SANKALP’s activities in tangible culture are guided by the UNESCO Convention concerning the Protection of the World Culture and Natural Heritage, 1972.

The Organisation has been conducting educational and information programmes to strengthen appreciation and respect towards the cultural and natural heritage. These programmes emphasise the importance of identification, protection, conservation, preservation, presentation, transmission and diffusion of the cultural and natural heritage as well as keep the public broadly informed of the dangers threatening this heritage. 

SANKALP has been adopting the World Heritage Education Project, launched by the UNESCO in 1994 under the “Young People's Participation in World Heritage Preservation and Promotion”. The broad objectives of the project include;

•  to encourage young people to become involved in heritage conservation on a local, regional as well as on a national level; 
• to promote awareness among young peopleof the importance of our common world heritage and of the UNESCO 1972 World Heritage Convention; and 
• to develop effective educational approaches and materials by creating a new synergy among educators and heritage conservation experts in order to introduce World Heritage Education into the curricula of secondary schools. 

The activities covered under the tangible culture include; youth sensitizations, teachers’ trainings; and skill-development workshops.