France-UNESCO Cooperation Agreement
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The France-UNESCO Cooperation Agreement is a technical and financial treaty. It is an original framework which allows UNESCO to benefit from the technical support of experts from the French government, French institutions, and local authorities and associations. It is not a simple funds in trust, as is for example the funds in trust for Angkor.
Objective
- the management, conservation and valorisation of monumental, urban and natural heritage;
- the protection and management of large landscape sites;
- preparatory assistance for inscription on the World Heritage List;
- strengthening of legal and administrative frameworks;
- the promotion of cultural diversity for socio-economic development;
- cultural development to reduce poverty.
The principal missions of the Agreement are:
- encourage the establishment of decentralized cooperation with French local and territorial communities in the domain of heritage--establishment of new, more participative and democratic modalities of assistance and international cooperation;
- develop a partnership that takes into account the economic and social environment with a "sustainable" development perspective;
- create leverage in order to bring out existing potential in developing countries which lack financial means and technical capability;
- initiate the development of cooperation agreements and projects financed by multilateral or bilateral funds (MFA-PSF, FDA, EU, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank; Asian Development Bank, African Development Bank, etc.).
Actions taken with a long-term perspective:
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