ICOMOS Heritage and the Sustainable Development Goals: Policy Guidance for Heritage and Development Actors

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“ICOMOS members, heritage professionals, and development actors”

Labadi, S., Giliberto, F., Rosetti, I., Shetabi, L., Yildirim, E., ICOMOS

2021

“At the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), we strongly believe that heritage - natural and cultural, tangible and intangible - is fundamental to addressing the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but more work is needed to demonstrate these links. To address this gap, the ICOMOS SDGs Working Group, in cooperation with the wider ICOMOS membership, has prepared this Policy Guidance document to illustrate the many ways in which heritage can address the SDGs. By providing guidance to ICOMOS members, heritage professionals, and development actors, among others, the document aims to demonstrate the potential for harnessing heritage to assist in achieving sustainable development.”

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The resource outlines the contribution, or possible contribution, of heritage to all SDGs. The resource can help to communicate this contribution and strengthen the contribution that heritage makes to sustainable development, supporting a number of SDG targets, notably 11.4 (strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard cultural and natural heritage), 16.B (adopt policies that contribute to sustainable development), 17.14 (policy coherence for sustainable development), and targets relating to global (17.16) and national (17.17) partnerships. In providing an overview of how heritage can support sustainable development, the resource supports 4.4 (skills for work), 4.7 (Education for Sustainable Development) and 8.9 (supporting sustainable tourism).

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SDG 4.4: Increase the Number of People with Relevant Skills for Financial Success
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Number of young people and adults in skills-development activities and programmes drawing on collections, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship.
Increase in number of young people and adults in such programmes.
Number and proportion of staff who have received training in the last year, to better support their contribution to the SDGs.
Programs and processes in place to ensure the availability of a skilled workforce.
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SDG 4.7: Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Numbers of people in each type of programme drawing on collections from different demographic groups.
Increases in numbers of people in each type of programme from different demographic groups.
Proportion of people involved in such programmes in relation to overall audience size.
Evidence that learners have acquired knowledge and skills to promote sustainable development.
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SDG 8.9: Promote Beneficial and Sustainable Tourism
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Numbers of jobs created or supported that relate to sustainable tourism drawing on local products (e.g. craft producers).
Develop and implement plans to reduce and remove negative impacts of tourism.
Numbers of activities and/or products drawing on local culture.
Value to artisans and source communities of activities and products drawing on local culture.
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SDG 11.4: Protect the Worlds Cultural and Natural Heritage
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Total expenditure (public and private) per capita spent on the preservation, protection and conservation of all cultural and natural heritage, by type of heritage.
Plans, policies and procedures in place for the safe use of collections for a variety of purposes, protecting and safeguarding both collections and those who use them.
Plans, policies and procedures in place for the identification, safeguarding and protection of cultural and natural heritage at risk.
Collecting programmes in place to protect, safeguard and make use of cultural and natural heritage, addressing the needs of communities and stakeholders, and ensuring that collections can be an effective resource for sustainable development.
Number and diversity of educational, awareness-raising, research programmes, and partnerships that aim to strengthen protection of cultural and natural heritage.
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SDG 16.B: Promote and Enforce Non-Discriminatory Laws and Policies
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Proportion of population [audience/users/non-users] reporting having personally felt discriminated against or harassed in the previous 12 months on the basis of a ground of discrimination prohibited under international human rights law.
Number and proportion of policies that incorporate sustainable development considerations, in the full sense of recognizing all three of social, economic and environmental considerations.
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SDG 17.14: Enhance Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Proportion of policies that incorporate sustainable development considerations, linking to SDGs and targets.
Incorporation of policy considerations from outside the collections sector into policies of collections-based institutions, to facilitate partnerships and effectiveness.
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SDG 17.16: Enhance the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Number and/or increase in number, and diversity of global and international multi-stakeholder partnerships that share collection-related knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources to address the SDGs, or that otherwise involve collections-based organisations and institutions.
Number and/or increase in number, and diversity of global and international multi-stakeholder partnerships involving developing countries that share collection-related knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources to address the SDGs.
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SDG 17.17: Encourage Effective Partnerships
Our Collections Matter indicators:
Amount of United States dollars committed to public-private and civil society partnerships.
Number and/or increase in number, and diversity of local, national and regional multi-stakeholder (public, public-private and civil society) partnerships that address the SDGs drawing on collections, or that otherwise involve collections-based organisations and institutions.
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