Africa’s rich cultural heritage is increasingly threatened by climate change, with floods, storms, droughts, and erosion posing significant risks to built heritage, particularly earthen architecture. Many heritage sites in Africa lack clear adaptation policies and preventive risk management strategies, leaving them vulnerable to irreversible damage. The impact extends beyond heritage, affecting local communities that benefit from it culturally, economically, spiritually, and socially. There is an urgent need for heritage professionals to have the knowledge and tools to take sustainable and effective measures to cope with or prevent the effects of climate change on their heritage.
In this context, ICOMOS is offering a capacity-building programme for its members from Africa who are young and mid-career cultural heritage professionals, in order to better tackle the challenges raised by climate change for the conservation of earthen architecture sites. This training course is taking place in Burkina Faso at the Royal Court of Tiébélé, a recently inscribed World Heritage site, and is conducted in collaboration with ICOMOS Burkina Faso. International and national experts, including members of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Earthen Architectural Heritage (ISCEAH) are involved in the delivery of the training.
This project is supported by ALIPH.
