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Chief Executive Officer [CEO] Kingsley Ofosu Ntiamoah of Ghana's Museums and Monuments in a statement on the occasion of this day said that his outfit "is currently updating and establishing a national registry of heritage sites and will include a mapping of rural landscapes to be included in the National Heritage Register "
Below the complete statement
This year's International Day of Monuments and Sites (IMDS) provides another opportunity for the global community of heritage curators and heritage officials to raise awareness of the relevance of rural landscapes and the challenges they pose for their conservation. , the benefits that these landscapes provide and the way in which rural landscapes are fundamentally linked to sustainable development.
The Day is once again a unique opportunity to foster communication and build relationships with communities while recognizing their involvement in the creation, existence, evolution and richness of these rural landscapes and, without no doubt, in their preservation.
In 1982, the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) declared April 18 the International Day of Monuments and Sites. UNESCO approved it the following year at its 22nd General Conference. Since then, April 18 has been a day of celebration and promotion of cultural heritage.
Every year, on April 18, ICOMOS celebrates the International Day of Monuments and Sites, whose creation was approved by the 22nd General Conference of UNESCO in 1983 under different themes.
IMDS 2019 is presented under the theme "Rural Landscapes", which refers to tangible and intangible heritage places in rural areas. Rural landscapes encompbad physical attributes such as productive land, water, vegetation infrastructure, human settlements, vernacular architecture, as well as physical, cultural and environmental links and environments wider.
Some rural landscape sites in Ghana are:
Kakum National Park, traditional Ashanti building, Mole National Park, Ada-Keta Songhor Lagoon settlers, Kwahu Mountain Farm settlers, etc.
Benefits of rural landscapes
Rural landscapes offer various economic and tourism benefits when they are closely linked to the communication and enhancement of their heritage values.
The threats to rural landscapes in Ghana are:
· Demographic and cultural (Population growth in urban areas and depopulation in rural areas, urban expansion, development pressures, loss of traditional practices, local knowledge and culture.
· Environment (climate change, pollution and environmental degradation, including unsustainable mining of resources).
Heritage should play an important role in the recognition, protection and promotion of rural landscapes and biocultural diversity because of the important values that it represents.
Criteria / Strategies for Action for Preservation of Rural Landscapes in Ghana:
The specific measures are: Protect, sustainably manage the transformation, communicate and transmit rural landscapes and their heritage values through:
· Documentation on the heritage values of rural landscapes in Ghana
· Inventory and cataloging of rural landscapes
· Promoting extensive and ongoing cooperation between public institutions, non-governmental organizations and universities for research, information sharing, technical badistance and coordination of a wide variety of projects. knowledge building activities.
The Ghana Museum and Monument Commission is in the process of updating and compiling a national register of heritage sites and will include a mapping of rural landscapes to be included in the National Heritage Register.
We (GMMB) call on all stakeholders to support us in heritage conservation for posterity. Without this, we have no identity as a people.
Long live Ghana, long live the GMMB
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