This is the largest section of our website and contains all the information about our projects. Links to them are all listed below, sorted by UNESCO’s programme priorities.

• Cultural Diversity Programming Lens - A useful tool which can help you address cultural diversity in programming and implementing projects.

• Trafficking and HIV/AIDS Project - Tackles HIV/AIDS, trafficking, and non-traditional drug use, by researching, developing, and implementing programmes which crosscut these issues.

• Cultural Mapping - A crucial tool and technique in preserving the world's intangible and tangible cultural assets.

Culture Project Archive

• Andaman Sea Project - A project run in cooperation with the Science unit.

• Plain of Jars, Lao PDR - The UNESCO-LAO Project to Safeguard the Plain of Jars is intended to remove the danger of unexploded ordnance, help to rehabilitate the plateau's agricultural land and identify priority areas for protection for archaeological research and tourism development

• Geographic Information Systems and Cultural Resources Management - Promotes and provides technical support for developing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in managing cultural resources.

• World Heritage Education Project - Gives young people a chance to voice their concerns and to become involved in the protection of our common cultural and natural heritage.

• Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for Culture Heritage Conservation - Recognizes the achievements in successfully restoring structures of heritage value.

• Asian Academy for Heritage Management - A network of institutions offering professional training in the field of heritage management.

Cultural Project Archive

• Vat Phou, Lao PDR - Preservation of Vat Phou and Surrounding Archaeological Landscape within a Framework of Sustainable Development of Champasak, Lao PDR

• Integrated Community Development and Cultural Heritage Site Preservation Through Local Effort in Asia and the Pacific (LEAP) - Fosters local community stewardship over the vast and varied heritage resources of Asia and the Pacific.

• Culture Heritage Management and Tourism: Models for Co-operation among Stakeholders - Aims open and structure avenues of communication between the tourism industry and those responsible for the conservation and maintenance of cultural heritage properties.

• Namha Ecotourism Project - This project from northern Lao PDR is recognized as a best practice project by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and has set new standards for community-led local development through ecotourism activities.

• IMPACT: The Effects of Tourism on Culture and the Environment in Asia-Pacific - A series of publications designed to educate and foster cooperation between tourism industry personnel and heritage site managers.

• My Son World Heritage, Viet Nam - Demonstration and Training in the Application of International Standard of Conservation at My Son G Monuments

•  Intangible Cultural Heritage

Culture Project Archive

• Cultural Survival and Revival in the Buddhist Sangha - Reviving traditional decorative arts and building crafts, and developing preventative conservation skills among local caretakers of heritage.

• Underwater Cultural Heritage in Asia-Pacific Waters - Promoting the protection of our Underwater Cultural Heritage.

• Award of Excellence for Handicraft Programme - Established to create standards of quality and to enhance international market awareness of handicrafts.

• Cultural Industries in Asia and the Pacific - Aims to raise awareness of the potential of cultural industries, and to stimulate their growth in the region.

• Arts in Education - Established to review and promote the current status and role of arts within basic education in the Asia Pacific region.

Culture project archive

• Asia-Pacific Performing Arts Network (APPAN) - Preservation of tradition and creativity from traditional resources through awareness raising, conservation of traditional forms, and capacity building among youth.