Funding Partners

We express our sincerest gratitude to the Government of Italy and the Government of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, for hosting our headquarters and regional office in their respective territories.

Through its Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Italian Government has been supporting ICCROM and its programmes for more than 60 years. ICCROM is honoured to have close cooperation with our host country which continues to play a leading role in cultural heritage protection at the international level.

With the gracious and continued support of the Government of Sharjah and His Highness Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Ruler of Sharjah and Supreme Council Member, ICCROM’s Regional Office has become a leading force for cultural heritage advocacy and capacity building in the region delivering such activities as the ICCROM Sharjah Awards, the Arab Forum for Cultural Heritage and a variety of training initiatives.

Partners providing financial contributions

Public entities

	Since 2000, the Agency for Cultural Affairs has participated in the secondment scheme at ICCROM to help strengthen its human resources and expertise while ensuring a mutual exchange of perspectives and approaches. In addition, thanks to BUNKA-CHO’s active support, ICCROM regularly delivers several international courses for heritage professionals in Japan.
	The Australian Government has supported the joint Capacity Development Project on Climate Action for World Heritage, which is implemented by UNESCO and the three advisory bodies to the World Heritage Convention: ICCROM, ICOMOS and IUCN. Australia's generous contribution to the World Heritage Leadership programme will underpin the first phase of this initiative and will play a critical role in responding in a meaningful and sustainable way to climate impacts at World Heritage sites and their related communities.
	Through its Cultural Protection Fund, established in partnership with the UK Government Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the British Council has helped ICCROM carry out several key activities, including field projects in Western Sudan and Kenya, the knowledge-building initiative Climate.Culture.Peace and the new project on Cultural Heritage for Inclusive Growth in Southeast Asia.
	The Canadian Conservation Institute and the Canadian Heritage Information Network participate in and support several initiatives at ICCROM, including Our Collections Matter, RE-ORG, First Aid and Resilience for Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis (FAR) and the relaunch of the Bibliographic Database of the Conservation Information Network (BCIN). We also work together to enable organizations worldwide to translate our key co-publications on risk management into a variety of languages.
	Over the past ten years, the Korean Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) has generously contributed to CollAsia, an educational programme for heritage professionals in Southeast Asia, helping ICCROM deliver capacity-building activities and publications. Since 2019, CHA has extended its support to ICCROM’s World Heritage Leadership Programme. In 2022, ICCROM and CHA signed a new five-year agreement to build heritage management and conservation capacities in the Asia-Pacific region and internationally.
	The Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE) has supported ICCROM's Digital Transformation initiative which seeks to modernize the organization's Information Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure and enhance its training capabilities. As part of this process, the Secretariat is expanding ICCROM’s online services and training courses to provide a better offering to our Member States, partners, course participants, and other stakeholders.
	By providing Voluntary Contributions for staff positions, the Swiss Federal Office of Culture helped ICCROM embark on a restructuring initiative to improve its efficiency. Our Resource Mobilization function was established thanks to the support from the Swiss Government.
	With its generous contribution, the Government of Spain is facilitating the use of the Spanish language in ICCROM's activities in 2023. This support, primarily directed towards translations and the dissemination of information in Spanish, underscores our shared commitment to enhance ICCROM's offerings for the Ibero-American region.
	Through the Ministry of Culture (MiC), the Italian government provides ICCROM with the necessary premises, currently as part of the Complesso Monumentale di San Michele. In addition, representatives of Istituto Centrale per il Restauro (ICR) are regularly participating in the work of the ICCROM Council as ex officio members.
	The Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia has entrusted ICCROM with the condition assessment and planning for the long-term conservation programme of the Orlando Column in the Dubrovnik town centre. Other cooperation activities include the international symposium, PREVENT - Mitigating Fire Risk for Heritage jointly organized by the Ministry, the City of Trogir and ICCROM in October 2022.
	The Directorate General for Development Cooperation of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has joined forces with ICCROM in making Africa’s heritage a source of economic and social opportunity for youth in the continent, as addressed by the recently launched Youth.Heritage.Africa programme.
	Since 2013, ICCROM has been engaged in a fruitful collaboration with the National Cultural Heritage Administration of China, which includes the scholarship fund for course participants and interns set up by the Chinese authority. In January 2022, as part of the framework of cooperation between ICCROM and NCHA, a five-day online course on World Heritage management with a focus on China was delivered in collaboration with the China Academy of Cultural Heritage.
	ICCROM is providing support to its long-term partner, the National Museums of Kenya, for a project to preserve a 1.5-million-year-old human footprint fossil in Kenya, which is made possible through a contribution from the British Council’s Cultural Protection Fund. This initiative goes beyond mere conservation as it strives to engage the local community and youth.
	Within the framework of cooperation between ICCROM and the National Museum of Oman, ICCROM-Sharjah has provided technical and scientific advice and assisted in implementing the project, Rehabilitation of Royal Houses in Old Muscat, which converts historic houses into museums and tourist sites.
	Along with ICCROM and IUCN, the Norwegian Ministry for Climate and Environment is one of the founding partners of the World Heritage Leadership programme which applies a place-based and people-centred approaches to the management of heritage places. By connecting People, Nature and Culture, the programme provides ready-to-use tools and knowledge to improve heritage management practice through the work of the World Heritage Convention. In 2022 the Ministry renewed its commitment to fostering future leaders of the World Heritage Convention by extending its support to the programme’s second phase.
	Our collaboration with Nottingham Trent University’s Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Global Heritage includes work within a joint research project on the sustainable reconstruction method for seismic-prone heritage areas in India and the implementation of the ICCROM Heritage Recovery Programme in Mosul.
	Thanks to the continued support from the Principality of Monaco, the ICCROM programme on First Aid and Resilience for Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis (FAR) has released several significant publications, including PATH - Peacebuilding Assessment Tool for Heritage Recovery and Rehabilitation and Community-Based Heritage Indicators for Peace: A Tool for Measuring Peace.
	The United States is supporting ICCROM’s efforts in building Ukrainian professionals’ capacities to conduct post-event on-site damage and risk assessments for tangible and intangible heritage, as well as safeguard and recover their cultural heritage. Thanks to the generous contribution from the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP), ICCROM’s FAR programme is developing national capacities for crisis response and recovery of heritage in Ukraine. This project marks the first phase of ICCROM's four-phase strategy, which has been formulated by the FAR programme based on the findings from the investigative mission conducted by ICCROM-ICOMOS in July 2022.

Multilateral partners

ICCROM has engaged in the EU-funded APACHE (Active & intelligent PAckaging materials and display cases as a tool for preventive conservation of Cultural Heritage) project, primarily through general advisory, coordination and dissemination services, which enhance the communication and impact of the project.

In 2022 ICCROM joined ARCHE (Alliance for Research on Cultural Heritage in Europe) - a spearheading coordination network of researchers, innovators, heritage professionals, institutional bodies and citizens which develops a pan European framework for a holistic approach to cultural heritage research and innovation.

E-RIHS is the European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science that supports research on heritage interpretation, preservation, documentation and management. ICCROM contributes to E-RIHS by devising strategic partnerships at international and intergovernmental levels and by favouring measurement of sector statistics and performance indicators.

Our long-term partner UNESCO has helped us carry out a wide range of activities. Currently, ICCROM is supporting UNESCO's initiative, Revive the Spirit of Mosul, by delivering a two-year capacity-building programme for local heritage professionals and craftspeople, in partnership with the University of Mosul and with generous financial contributions from the United Arab Emirates and the European Union.

As a strong supporter of ICCROM’s First Aid and Resilience for Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis programme, UNESCO helped prepare, translate and disseminate its key manual, Endangered Heritage: Emergency Evacuation of Heritage Collections.

The most recent activities supported by UNESCO include a capacity development initiative carried out by ICCROM in Ukraine. This initiative focuses on enhancing emergency preparedness, reducing risks, and providing first-aid training.

ICCROM’s activities aimed at improving the conservation and management of World Heritage properties are carried out in close collaboration with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre. As an Advisory Body to the World Heritage Convention, ICCROM has a specific capacity-building role in implementing the Convention.

Other partners

	In 2020-2023 ICCROM and ALIPH are collaborating on the Alliance for Cultural Heritage First Aid, Peace and Resilience – a ground-breaking project that aims to strengthen capacities for risk reduction, preparedness, response and recovery among communities adversely affected by armed conflicts, extreme hazard events and epidemics in the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan region (MENAP).
	The ICCROM Library has joined the vibrant network of libraries and their communities across Europe participating in the European Cultural Foundation’s 2022 Europe Challenge. This partnership will facilitate the creation of a new special collection on themes related to heritage education and a dedicated space for young readers to ensure multicultural and multilingual variety.
	The Getty Conservation Institute has been a strong supporter of ICCROM in its various activities, among the most prominent being MOSAIKON – a collaborative initiative dedicated to improving the conservation of ancient mosaics in the Mediterranean region. Recently, the GCI helped ICCROM relaunch the BCIN Database and implement the international workshop “Connecting Collections: Unlocking Value in Heritage Samples Archives,” in Évora, Portugal.
	To strengthen the capacities of heritage professionals from Saudi Arabia and neighbouring countries, ICCROM-Sharjah and the Saudi Heritage Preservation Society (SHPS) have launched a training series on international cultural heritage conventions and other cultural programmes called the Experts Program. This initiative is carried out thanks to the gracious support of the Ministry of Culture of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (MoC).
	The Swedish Postcode Foundation has supported the First Aid and Resilience for Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis programme in its attempts to integrate cultural heritage into disaster risk management, climate action and peacebuilding - making it possible to deliver the project Culture Cannot Wait – Heritage for Peace and Resilience, release the publication A Story of Change and, more recently, to implement Net Zero: Heritage for Climate Action, a multilevel capacity development project that aims to leverage indigenous and traditional knowledge for climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Reporting period: January 2022 - September 2023