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C + D nº. 20 / march 09 C + D The Dance of the Devils, an indigenous Lenca tradition, is the oldest theatrical work in Hon- duras; it is performed in Comayagua, where AECID develops its revitalisation programme. Spanish cooperation in the sphere of cultural heritage aims to contribute to its use as an engine for development in regions with great cultural and natural wealth. The use and sustainable management of cultural heritage, understood as a set of (tangible and intangible) assets and property that constitute the back- bone and physical environment of the communities, as well as their ways of life and communicating, artistic expressions, beliefs and traditions, is a right and a resource for society. If the right to protect identity-related heritage is an essential aim in the context of comprehensive human development, the sustainable exploitation of said heritage values as generators of material wealth can turn them into a central resource in the fight against poverty. In this sense, cultural heritage is generally an irreplaceable asset linked with a certain place and society whose value does not depend on economic and financial wealth, hence its singular interest as a resource for the most disadvantaged populations, and hence also its particular vulnerability in the context of the trend to globalisation and cultural standardisation. From this perspective, the different dimensions of cultural heritage (tangible and intangible, natural, architectural and ethnographic) should be regarded in a comprehensive way to lay out strategies for use, always under communi- ty leadership and with community approval. As for the culture and development sector, the current Master Plan for Spanish Cooperation 2009-2012 establishes a line of cooperation for the sustainable management of cultural heritage for development, as embodied in these priority actions: support for processes of conserva- tion, restoration and social use of tangible and intangible heritage assets from an economic, cultural and civic and local participation perspective; intervention in conflict and emergency situations aimed at recomposing the development of signs of identity in affected areas; and intervention in improving liveability in heritage settings. The current “P>D Heritage for Development” programme, led by AECID’s Directorate for Cultural and Scientific Relations, relies on the legacy of 25 years of experience with Spanish cooperation in this field, especially in Ibero-America, which translates into support for more than 40 plans to revitalise historic complexes, around 200 interventions for heritage rehabi- litation, various programmes to turn sites into cultural landscapes and the establishment of more than 40 workshop schools that have trained 12,000 young people. Present in around 30 countries (mostly in Latin America and the Caribbean), in recent years the programme has been expanding to other regions and countries, especially in Africa, which involves the movement of €9 million in AECID’s 2009 budgets, as well as the African Heritage Fund. In addition to these projects, many of AECID’s Cultural Centres have historic buildings whose restoration and rehabilitation has been useful for recovering and making use of locally-important heritage, and thereby contributing to the socio-cultural revitalisation of a degraded or depressed setting. Intervention processes are currently underway in Mexico City, Quito and Puerto Príncipe. Her i tage for development Printed on paper made from virgin pulp from certified sources, under sustainable forest management criteria CULTURE + DEVELOPMENT Culture + Development suggestion box: [email protected] www.aecid.es
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C+Dnº. 20 / march 09
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The Dance of the Devils, an indigenous Lenca tradition, is the oldest theatrical work in Hon-duras; it is performed in Comayagua, where AECID develops its revitalisation programme.
Rehabilitation Programmefor the Historic City Centre of HebronThe Rehabilitation Programme for the Historic City Centre of Hebron began in 1996 with the establish-ment of the Hebron Rehabilitation Committee (HRC) by decree of then-President Yasser Arafat in response to deteriorating living conditions and economic activity among the Palestinian people in their historic areas, especially after the Ibrahim Mosque massacre in 1994.
The programme has a manifold aim: fi rst, to maintain the Palestinian population in Hebron by improving living conditions and economic activity; and also to preserve the urban fabric and common and organic residential stone architecture (known as the hosh model), which makes for a rich identity-based heritage.
The HRC has developed a particularly complex and effi cient way of managing and reoccupying empty and abandoned buildings designed to attract new residents on a rental basis. As a result, the city centre has been coming back to life in recent years.
Spanish cooperation’s contribution to this programme, which began in 1999, has been signifi cant. It began with the neighbourhood of Al-Swakneh, where residential buildings and Al-Dweik palace, the current headquar-ters of the HRC, were renovated. Next, actions were supported in the neighbourhoods of Harret Jaber (2001-2005) and Rajabí (from 2006 to the present). A total of €5,230,000 has been provided, including funds intended for the creation of a school-workshop in the last two years (around €420,000). All this money falls under AECID’s bilateral cooperation funds managed by the corresponding geographical management team.
The Rehabilitation Programme for the Historic City Centre of Hebron has been distinguished
with the international Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
Spanish cooperation in the sphere of cultural heritage aims to contribute to its use as an engine for development in regions with great cultural and natural wealth.
The use and sustainable management of cultural heritage, understood as a set of (tangible and intangible) assets and property that constitute the back-bone and physical environment of the communities, as well as their ways of life and communicating, artistic expressions, beliefs and traditions, is a right and a resource for society. If the right to protect identity-related heritage is an essential aim in the context of comprehensive human development, the sustainable exploitation of said heritage values as generators of material wealth can turn them into a central resource in the fi ght against poverty.
In this sense, cultural heritage is generally an irreplaceable asset linked with a certain place and society whose value does not depend on economic and fi nancial wealth, hence its singular interest as a resource for the most disadvantaged populations, and hence also its particular vulnerability in the context of the trend to globalisation and cultural standardisation. From this perspective, the different dimensions of cultural heritage (tangible and intangible, natural, architectural and ethnographic) should be regarded in a comprehensive way to lay out strategies for use, always under communi-ty leadership and with community approval.
As for the culture and development sector, the current Master Plan for Spanish Cooperation 2009-2012 establishes a line of cooperation for the sustainable management of cultural heritage for development, as
embodied in these priority actions: support for processes of conserva-tion, restoration and social use of tangible and intangible heritage assets from an economic, cultural and civic and local participation perspective; intervention in confl ict and emergency situations aimed at recomposing the development of signs of identity in affected areas; and intervention in improving liveability in heritage settings.
The current “P>D Heritage for Development” programme, led by AECID’s Directorate for Cultural and Scientifi c Relations, relies on the legacy of 25 years of experience with Spanish cooperation in this fi eld, especially in Ibero-America, which translates into support for more than 40 plans to revitalise historic complexes, around 200 interventions for heritage rehabi-litation, various programmes to turn sites into cultural landscapes and the establishment of more than 40 workshop schools that have trained 12,000 young people.
Present in around 30 countries (mostly in Latin America and the Caribbean), in recent years the programme has been expanding to other regions and countries, especially in Africa, which involves the movement of €9 million in AECID’s 2009 budgets, as well as the African Heritage Fund.
In addition to these projects, many of AECID’s Cultural Centres have historic buildings whose restoration and rehabilitation has been useful for recovering and making use of locally-important heritage, and thereby contributing to the socio-cultural revitalisation of a degraded or depressed setting. Intervention processes are currently underway in Mexico City, Quito and Puerto Príncipe.
Heritagefor development
Comprehensive Development Programmefor the communities of the Colca River ValleyThe Comprehensive Development Programme covers an area comprising 17 villages characterised by extreme poverty that lie along almost 100 km of the deep Colca River Valley in Peru, at a height of between 3,200 and 4,500 metres above sea. It is also a land with rich cultural and natural heritage. Throughout the centuries, humans’ modelling actions on the environment, while respecting its morphology, optimising basic resources (water, soil) and preserving its linguistic and ethnographic values, have shaped an absolutely unique cultural landscape.
Through its Heritage for Development programme, AECID, has been inter-vening in the Colca River Valley since 1997, initially with church restoration works and efforts to catalogue cultural assets. With the participation of the Colca Autonomous Authority (AutoColca), the current Heritage Exploitation and Sustainable Management Programme has been set up and the Technical Offi ce for Heritage and Culture Management has been created in Chivay.
Prominent among the results obtained is the comprehensive restora-tion of ten 17th-century churches; the recovery of public spaces, such as the handicraft market and the artisanal production community centre in Coporaque; the creation of district offi ces for creating and designing urban master plans; and the rehabilitation of more than 100 homes, providing them with basic services. In addition, the programme has trained more than 400 people in restoring architecture and movable assets, traditional architecture, handicrafts, culture and identity.
At present, a Plan for Spatial Conditioning in Colca (PAT COLCA) is being put into motion. This plan will regulate spatial development with a comprehensive and sustainable focus, taking the effects of tourism especially into account.
Likewise, a new school-workshop is starting in Achoma to offer training and job placement for young people in the trades of traditional construc-tion, heritage conservation and hotel services; as well as in local produc-tion and tourist services.
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On the initiative of AECID’s “Heritage for Development” programme, there are plans to launch a Central American Master in Cultural Heritage Conservation and Management for Development in October 2009.
In May-June 2008, contact was established with various university-linked cultu-ral heritage protection organisations and architecture and engineering schools in six Central American countries in order to establish the viability of a Master’s degree in Urban Architectural Restoration and Intervention. In June 2008, AECID’s training centre held the fi rst meeting for the institutions involved in Antigua, Guatemala. The meeting touched on the teaching programme, human resources, organisation, logistics, money and funding, and drafted a declaration of intent signed by the deans of the participating universities.
The 2nd Seminar-Workshop was held from 16 to 20 February to defi ne the curriculum. The Master’s programme will be multidisciplinary and executed through six modules studied in-person, one for each participating Central American country. The fi rst three modules will be general: “Heritage and Deve-lopment”, “Contemporary Cultural Heritage” and “Methods of Analysis”. The fi nal three modules will place emphasis on the topics of “Conservation” and “Heritage Management” separately, thereby offering these two specialities.
Central American Masterin Cultural Heritage Conservation and Management for Development
The graduation and certifi cate-awarding ceremony for the fi rst class of students at the San Pedro de Ycuamndiyú School-Workshop took place in mid-March. The graduates were 80 young people between 16 and 23 years of age who had been trained in 7 specialties linked with the fi elds of the environment and civil construction over a period of two years.
The event was attended by the President of the Republic of Paraguay, Fernando Lugo, and many government minsters; the Spanish Ambassa-dor, Miguel Ángel Cortizo Nieto; and the Mayor of San Pedro, Pastor Vera Bejarano.
President Lugo highlighted the importance of the school-workshop’s mission to promote social investment in human resource training and give young people from poor families technical job skills that are not accessible in the Paraguayan educational system without assistance.
Headed by the President of the Republic, the committee visited the district of Manduara where the City of San Pedro, with AECID’s technical and fi nan-cial support, will soon begin the fi rst phase of a project to provide basic services to poor families in a municipal settlement on the outskirts of the city. The San Pedro School-Workshop will carry out this work.
AECID, the ACS Foundation and Spain’s Royal Board on Disability have established the Accessibility Awards for Latin American Municipalities in order to recognise and foster municipal initiatives linked with accessibility and the removal of architectural and urban barriers.
In 2008, the award-winning municipalities in the different categories were Guadalajara (Mexico), Pergamino (Argentina), San José (Costa Rica) and San Isidro (Peru).
This year, these Latin American awards will be part of the Queen Sofi a Universal Accessibility Award for municipalities, which the Royal Board on Disability and the ACS Foundation have organised nation-wide since 2005.
Accessibility Award for Latin American Municipalities
7th Meeting on Historic Urban Centre Management
Given the number and variety of aspects linked with city or town centre management, the “Heritage for Development” programme aims to gradually conso-lidate a Latin American network for managing histo-ric urban centres through an annual meeting aimed at learning about experiences and exchanging ideas on all aspects related with analysing problems, planning, management, intervention, etc.
This year, the 7th Meeting on Historic Urban Centre Management, “Urban rehabilitation and law in the city: the challenge of social equity” will be held from 27 to 31 July in Cartagena de Indias. This meeting aims to offer refl ections on housing policies in historic urban centres, public policies for improving the urban landscape, public space design, mobility, planning for street trading and civic participation.
National Inventory of Cultural Assets of NicaraguaThe Andalusian Historical Heritage Institute (IAPH) is advising Nicaraguan authorities on the development of a National Inventory of Cultural Assets that would be used to improve protection and understanding of the country’s cultural heritage. Thanks to AECID’s support, local teams belonging to the Nicaraguan Cultural Institute have successfully developed a pilot project for the Department of Granada in order to extend said methodology to the rest of the country.
As part of this consulting project, the IAPH has given the National Inventory the databases of the Historical Heritage of Andalusia Information System (SIPHA) on movable and immovable heritage, a graphic data-base and thesaurus management systems.
This award is part of the collaboration agreement signed in 2007 between the Consortium of the City of Santiago and AECID that includes various initiatives to improve management and planning in Latin American cities, especially with regard to their heritage sites.
Now in its second year, the 2008 award went to the project “Rehabilitation of the Municipal Market of Gracias – Lempira, phase 1”, presented by the City of Gracias (Honduras). The jury was especially impressed with the cross-cutting and multi-sectoral nature of the proposal.
The Colosuca School-Workshop is planned to participate in the work, with the support of AECID as part of the National School-Workshop Program-me of Honduras.
Santiago de Compostela Award for Urban Cooperation
School-Workshop in San Pedro de Ycuamndiyú (Paraguay)
Granada (Nicaragua)
Accessibility Award for the city of San Isidro (Peru).
Working group in the 2nd Seminar-Workshop in Antigua, Guatemala.
On the initiative of AECID’s “Heritage for Development” programme, there are plans to launch a Central American Master in Cultural Heritage Conservation and Management for Development in October 2009.
In May-June 2008, contact was established with various university-linked cultu-ral heritage protection organisations and architecture and engineering schools in six Central American countries in order to establish the viability of a Master’s degree in Urban Architectural Restoration and Intervention. In June 2008, AECID’s training centre held the fi rst meeting for the institutions involved in Antigua, Guatemala. The meeting touched on the teaching programme, human resources, organisation, logistics, money and funding, and drafted a declaration of intent signed by the deans of the participating universities.
The 2nd Seminar-Workshop was held from 16 to 20 February to defi ne the curriculum. The Master’s programme will be multidisciplinary and executed through six modules studied in-person, one for each participating Central American country. The fi rst three modules will be general: “Heritage and Deve-lopment”, “Contemporary Cultural Heritage” and “Methods of Analysis”. The fi nal three modules will place emphasis on the topics of “Conservation” and “Heritage Management” separately, thereby offering these two specialities.
Central American Masterin Cultural Heritage Conservation and Management for Development
The graduation and certifi cate-awarding ceremony for the fi rst class of students at the San Pedro de Ycuamndiyú School-Workshop took place in mid-March. The graduates were 80 young people between 16 and 23 years of age who had been trained in 7 specialties linked with the fi elds of the environment and civil construction over a period of two years.
The event was attended by the President of the Republic of Paraguay, Fernando Lugo, and many government minsters; the Spanish Ambassa-dor, Miguel Ángel Cortizo Nieto; and the Mayor of San Pedro, Pastor Vera Bejarano.
President Lugo highlighted the importance of the school-workshop’s mission to promote social investment in human resource training and give young people from poor families technical job skills that are not accessible in the Paraguayan educational system without assistance.
Headed by the President of the Republic, the committee visited the district of Manduara where the City of San Pedro, with AECID’s technical and fi nan-cial support, will soon begin the fi rst phase of a project to provide basic services to poor families in a municipal settlement on the outskirts of the city. The San Pedro School-Workshop will carry out this work.
AECID, the ACS Foundation and Spain’s Royal Board on Disability have established the Accessibility Awards for Latin American Municipalities in order to recognise and foster municipal initiatives linked with accessibility and the removal of architectural and urban barriers.
In 2008, the award-winning municipalities in the different categories were Guadalajara (Mexico), Pergamino (Argentina), San José (Costa Rica) and San Isidro (Peru).
This year, these Latin American awards will be part of the Queen Sofi a Universal Accessibility Award for municipalities, which the Royal Board on Disability and the ACS Foundation have organised nation-wide since 2005.
Accessibility Award for Latin American Municipalities
7th Meeting on Historic Urban Centre Management
Given the number and variety of aspects linked with city or town centre management, the “Heritage for Development” programme aims to gradually conso-lidate a Latin American network for managing histo-ric urban centres through an annual meeting aimed at learning about experiences and exchanging ideas on all aspects related with analysing problems, planning, management, intervention, etc.
This year, the 7th Meeting on Historic Urban Centre Management, “Urban rehabilitation and law in the city: the challenge of social equity” will be held from 27 to 31 July in Cartagena de Indias. This meeting aims to offer refl ections on housing policies in historic urban centres, public policies for improving the urban landscape, public space design, mobility, planning for street trading and civic participation.
National Inventory of Cultural Assets of NicaraguaThe Andalusian Historical Heritage Institute (IAPH) is advising Nicaraguan authorities on the development of a National Inventory of Cultural Assets that would be used to improve protection and understanding of the country’s cultural heritage. Thanks to AECID’s support, local teams belonging to the Nicaraguan Cultural Institute have successfully developed a pilot project for the Department of Granada in order to extend said methodology to the rest of the country.
As part of this consulting project, the IAPH has given the National Inventory the databases of the Historical Heritage of Andalusia Information System (SIPHA) on movable and immovable heritage, a graphic data-base and thesaurus management systems.
This award is part of the collaboration agreement signed in 2007 between the Consortium of the City of Santiago and AECID that includes various initiatives to improve management and planning in Latin American cities, especially with regard to their heritage sites.
Now in its second year, the 2008 award went to the project “Rehabilitation of the Municipal Market of Gracias – Lempira, phase 1”, presented by the City of Gracias (Honduras). The jury was especially impressed with the cross-cutting and multi-sectoral nature of the proposal.
The Colosuca School-Workshop is planned to participate in the work, with the support of AECID as part of the National School-Workshop Program-me of Honduras.
Santiago de Compostela Award for Urban Cooperation
School-Workshop in San Pedro de Ycuamndiyú (Paraguay)
Granada (Nicaragua)
Accessibility Award for the city of San Isidro (Peru).
Working group in the 2nd Seminar-Workshop in Antigua, Guatemala.
C+Dnº. 20 / march 09
C+D
The Dance of the Devils, an indigenous Lenca tradition, is the oldest theatrical work in Hon-duras; it is performed in Comayagua, where AECID develops its revitalisation programme.
Rehabilitation Programmefor the Historic City Centre of HebronThe Rehabilitation Programme for the Historic City Centre of Hebron began in 1996 with the establish-ment of the Hebron Rehabilitation Committee (HRC) by decree of then-President Yasser Arafat in response to deteriorating living conditions and economic activity among the Palestinian people in their historic areas, especially after the Ibrahim Mosque massacre in 1994.
The programme has a manifold aim: fi rst, to maintain the Palestinian population in Hebron by improving living conditions and economic activity; and also to preserve the urban fabric and common and organic residential stone architecture (known as the hosh model), which makes for a rich identity-based heritage.
The HRC has developed a particularly complex and effi cient way of managing and reoccupying empty and abandoned buildings designed to attract new residents on a rental basis. As a result, the city centre has been coming back to life in recent years.
Spanish cooperation’s contribution to this programme, which began in 1999, has been signifi cant. It began with the neighbourhood of Al-Swakneh, where residential buildings and Al-Dweik palace, the current headquar-ters of the HRC, were renovated. Next, actions were supported in the neighbourhoods of Harret Jaber (2001-2005) and Rajabí (from 2006 to the present). A total of €5,230,000 has been provided, including funds intended for the creation of a school-workshop in the last two years (around €420,000). All this money falls under AECID’s bilateral cooperation funds managed by the corresponding geographical management team.
The Rehabilitation Programme for the Historic City Centre of Hebron has been distinguished
with the international Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
Spanish cooperation in the sphere of cultural heritage aims to contribute to its use as an engine for development in regions with great cultural and natural wealth.
The use and sustainable management of cultural heritage, understood as a set of (tangible and intangible) assets and property that constitute the back-bone and physical environment of the communities, as well as their ways of life and communicating, artistic expressions, beliefs and traditions, is a right and a resource for society. If the right to protect identity-related heritage is an essential aim in the context of comprehensive human development, the sustainable exploitation of said heritage values as generators of material wealth can turn them into a central resource in the fi ght against poverty.
In this sense, cultural heritage is generally an irreplaceable asset linked with a certain place and society whose value does not depend on economic and fi nancial wealth, hence its singular interest as a resource for the most disadvantaged populations, and hence also its particular vulnerability in the context of the trend to globalisation and cultural standardisation. From this perspective, the different dimensions of cultural heritage (tangible and intangible, natural, architectural and ethnographic) should be regarded in a comprehensive way to lay out strategies for use, always under communi-ty leadership and with community approval.
As for the culture and development sector, the current Master Plan for Spanish Cooperation 2009-2012 establishes a line of cooperation for the sustainable management of cultural heritage for development, as
embodied in these priority actions: support for processes of conserva-tion, restoration and social use of tangible and intangible heritage assets from an economic, cultural and civic and local participation perspective; intervention in confl ict and emergency situations aimed at recomposing the development of signs of identity in affected areas; and intervention in improving liveability in heritage settings.
The current “P>D Heritage for Development” programme, led by AECID’s Directorate for Cultural and Scientifi c Relations, relies on the legacy of 25 years of experience with Spanish cooperation in this fi eld, especially in Ibero-America, which translates into support for more than 40 plans to revitalise historic complexes, around 200 interventions for heritage rehabi-litation, various programmes to turn sites into cultural landscapes and the establishment of more than 40 workshop schools that have trained 12,000 young people.
Present in around 30 countries (mostly in Latin America and the Caribbean), in recent years the programme has been expanding to other regions and countries, especially in Africa, which involves the movement of €9 million in AECID’s 2009 budgets, as well as the African Heritage Fund.
In addition to these projects, many of AECID’s Cultural Centres have historic buildings whose restoration and rehabilitation has been useful for recovering and making use of locally-important heritage, and thereby contributing to the socio-cultural revitalisation of a degraded or depressed setting. Intervention processes are currently underway in Mexico City, Quito and Puerto Príncipe.
Heritagefor development
Comprehensive Development Programmefor the communities of the Colca River ValleyThe Comprehensive Development Programme covers an area comprising 17 villages characterised by extreme poverty that lie along almost 100 km of the deep Colca River Valley in Peru, at a height of between 3,200 and 4,500 metres above sea. It is also a land with rich cultural and natural heritage. Throughout the centuries, humans’ modelling actions on the environment, while respecting its morphology, optimising basic resources (water, soil) and preserving its linguistic and ethnographic values, have shaped an absolutely unique cultural landscape.
Through its Heritage for Development programme, AECID, has been inter-vening in the Colca River Valley since 1997, initially with church restoration works and efforts to catalogue cultural assets. With the participation of the Colca Autonomous Authority (AutoColca), the current Heritage Exploitation and Sustainable Management Programme has been set up and the Technical Offi ce for Heritage and Culture Management has been created in Chivay.
Prominent among the results obtained is the comprehensive restora-tion of ten 17th-century churches; the recovery of public spaces, such as the handicraft market and the artisanal production community centre in Coporaque; the creation of district offi ces for creating and designing urban master plans; and the rehabilitation of more than 100 homes, providing them with basic services. In addition, the programme has trained more than 400 people in restoring architecture and movable assets, traditional architecture, handicrafts, culture and identity.
At present, a Plan for Spatial Conditioning in Colca (PAT COLCA) is being put into motion. This plan will regulate spatial development with a comprehensive and sustainable focus, taking the effects of tourism especially into account.
Likewise, a new school-workshop is starting in Achoma to offer training and job placement for young people in the trades of traditional construc-tion, heritage conservation and hotel services; as well as in local produc-tion and tourist services.
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