UCHM Seminar Kicked off [Archives:2001/03/Local News]

Organized by the Urban Cultural Heritage Strategy and Management Program, a 3-day seminar on urban cultural heritage management (UCHM) started in Sana’a yesterday at the Culture and Tourism Ministry. The seminar marks the kick off of the 5-year program financed by the Dutch Government at $ 1.7 million that will assist the Yemeni government in setting up policies for the revitalization of all historic cities in Yemen.
In his inaugural speech, Dr. Abdulmalik Mansour, Culture and Tourism Minister stressed the importance of protecting the cultural heritage in which our identity is embodied. He said that the Yemeni government singled out $30 million for protecting old cities since 1984, urging all donor countries in collaboration with the Yemeni government to conduct a map for the historic sites in Yemen. He also said that technology should be included in the research works about cultural heritage. Mr. Dick A.J ter Steege, Team Leader said that the seminar wants to interact with the stockholders of the historic cities to make an update on the issues and problems related to the development of historic cities.
The seminar will limit itself to the issues and problems related to the built environment, which consists of the buildings, monuments and townscape of historic cities and participants will determine what the most pressing problems of the historic cities in Yemen are.
The program in general aims at developing a national strategy and a general institutional framework to manage Yemens urban cultural heritage protection and conservation.

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