Heritage and development
PROYECTO REGIONAL PATRIMONIO CULTURAL, URBANO- AMBIENTAL PARA AMÉRICA LATINA Y EL CARIBE (RLA)
(1976 - 1995)



A.13 Informes de Monitoreo
A.13.1(a) Monitoreo Sistemático. Sitios de Patrimonio Mundial en América Latina, el Caribe y Mozambique. Informe 1991/1994. Recomendaciones y Perspectivas Internacionales.

A.13.1(b) Systematic Monitoring. World Heritage Sites (WHC) Latin America, the Caribbean and Mozambique. Report 1991/1994. Findings and International Perspectives.



El monitoreo entrañó el establecimiento de un proceso consultivo continuo y permanente en el campo, en el sitio, en el que interactuaron las instituciones nacionales y locales y el personal técnico de los estados parte involucrados, en relación a la gestión Global e Integral de la Conservación. La experiencia demostró’ que, el ejercicio de monitoreo, se debe aprovechar las habilidades regionales, nacionales y locales, estableciendo una interacción y coordinación a través de una infraestructura regional existente, y con un apoyo logístico y técnico apropiado. Este ha sido nuestro caso y consideramos que la estructura fue de incalculable valor.

El ejercicio en ALC se llevó a cabo aplicando un enfoque metodológico y un sistema de participación asociativa. La metodología contempla la elaboración periódica y regular de “recomendaciones” al Centro Patrimonio Mundial y al Comité del Patrimonio Mundial, y, sobre todo, al Estado Parte involucrado, así como al personal técnico, científico y gerencial in situ en un determinado sitio del Patrimonio Mundial. No debería haber diferencia alguna entre evaluador y evaluado; el monitoreo era una acción conjunta. Por lo tanto, el monitoreo estaba principalmente dirigido a todos los niveles de los Estados Partes involucrados.

El seguimiento de un ejercicio de monitoreo estableció proyecciones sobre la base de la realidad en el campo, dentro del contexto de las cambiantes circunstancias socioeconómicas y ambientales. El trabajo monitoreo in situ, así como los estudios en oficina, habían estado a cargo de consultores de nuestro Proyecto, bajo la supervisión y coordinación del Asesor Técnico Principal del Proyecto Regional PNUD/Unesco. Este ejercicio subrayó, una vez más, la imposibilidad de considerar los Sitios del Patrimonio Mundial en forma aislada, y plantea un firme llamado a su integración dentro de su propio entorno.


This is the first ever published monitoring report for an area of the world in this case LAC and Lusophone Africa (Mozambique). Monitoring should be treated as a continuous process. The exercise in LAC was carried out with a methodological approach and a system partnership. The methodology envisaged the creation of periodical and regular “recommendations” to the World Heritage Center and the World Heritage Committee, and above all, to the State Party concerned as well as to the technical, scientific and managerial staff at a given World Heritage Site. There was no distinction between evaluator and evaluee; monitoring was a joint action. The monitoring, therefore, was primarily addressed to State Parties concerned at all levels. The follow-up monitoring exercise established projections based on field realities in the context of changing circumstances of the socio-economic and environmental situations. The monitoring work in situ as well as desk studies have been carried out by consultants working with our Project, under the supervision and coordination of the Chief Technical Advisor of the UNDP/Unesco Regional Project.

The exercise further emphasized how impossible it is to consider World Heritage Sites in isolation, and strongly called for their integration within their own surroundings. Indeed, each single site increasingly had to be regarded as a living entity that was not only permanently nurtured by it immediate environment, but that in turn also nourished its environment. Therefore it seemed that the ideal preservation and conservation of a given World Heritage Site could only be ensured on a long term basis if such symbiosis could be warranted.

Systematic monitoring undertaken in 1992, 1993 and 1994 spanning sites such as Quito, Lima, Machu Picchu, Potosí, Sucre, Bahia, Bom Jesus de Congonhas, Olinda, Brasilia, Jesuit Missions of the Guarani and Chiquitos, Cartagena, Havana, Santo Domingo, Antigua, Tikal, Copan, Portobelo, El Tajin, Oaxaca, Zacatecas, La Fortaleza, and the Island of Mozambique. It comprises the monitoring reports of the sites as undertaken by national and regional contracted experts by UNDP for the RLA Project with funding from the WHC and State Parties concerned. The sites in Mexico were reviewed by the State Party itself and are included in the book.

Includes essays from: Sylvio S. Mutal (NL, Ing), Dora Arízaga (Ecu, Arq), Jorge Gamboa (Mex, Arq), Elías Mujica (Per, Arq), Ramón Gutiérrez (Arg, Arq), Brianne E. Bicca (Bra, Arq), Jozef Buys (Be, Arq) and Kevin Johnston (USA, Arq)

Introduction: Sylvio S. Mutal (ATP/ Regional Coordinator RLA-LAC PNUD/Unesco)
Published in 1994, 148 pag, English, español, illustrated
In collaboration with: WHC



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