AUTHORITY OF RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION FOR CULTURAL

HERITAGE (ARCCH)

HERITAGE SITE DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT DIRECTORATE.

AFRICAN HERITAGE DAY 2022

1. Name of The Event

 Celebrating African Heritage Day 2022 in Ethiopia, ARCCH.
2. Summary

This event is the 2022 African heritage month in Ethiopia by Authority of Research
and Conservation for Cultural Heritage (ARCCH), under Heritage site Development
and Management directorate.

Heritage in Africa is increasingly employed as a vehicle for development. The desire

to make heritage pay is palpable. Can one really put the onus on Africa’s past to not
only be self-sustaining but also to fuel development? How can Africa’s heritage be
used to shape and secure a sustainable future for the continent?

The day aims to explore the ways in which heritage can promote, secure or undermine
sustainable development in Africa, and in turn, how this development affects
conceptions of heritage in Africa. As the countries of Africa attempt to forge
burgeoning economies and societies in the twenty-first century, cultural heritage has a
role to play as the nexus where the past and the future meet.

It will attempt to explore and challenge the seemingly dichotomous relationships

between the past and the future, preservation and development, conservation and
innovation in Africa. It has two broad aims:

 to understand the relationship, tensions and challenges between heritage

management, development and sustainability in Africa,
 to understand how heritage is conceptualized in a diverse African context in
light of developing societies, economies and priorities.
The directorate will be interested in celebrating the heritage day which adopt local,
national, regional African Heritage Day awareness and understanding perspectives to
examine the dynamics of heritage and sustainable development, and expand our
understandings of the meaning of heritage from within a varied African constituency.

Giving awareness, in what ways do heritage, sustainability and development intersect

in African nations? Can heritage be conceived as a motor for innovation and change,
or is it a barrier to development? What challenges or tensions arise as nations, cities
and communities employ cultural heritage for economic, touristic, or societal
development? What can heritage professionals and stakeholders learn from the
African experience? This event adopts a perspective which explores African
conceptions of what heritage is or can be, and therefore the event encourages the
sectors which examine and challenge the relationships between tangible / intangible
aspects of heritage, natural / cultural heritage, and the moveable / immoveable. We
also encourage an interdisciplinary focus with innovative activities and dialogues
made between heritage studies, archaeology, anthropology, international
development, geography, sociology and museum studies.

3. Description of The Event

The Heritage site Development and Management directorate, ARCCH in view of its
mandate for hosting African Heritage Day, will take the lead in arranging the event,
on behalf of Government, together with the Government departments, academic
institutions, Provinces and other role-players listed below.

Given the importance of the event and the interest it will generate, the Directorate is
of the opinion that there should be a departure from the normal format. It is therefore
necessary that the process be driven by a ARCCH to give direction to the events that
will arise.

To give impetus and value to the Heritage of Ethiopia, it is also proposed that African
Heritage Month be celebrated in the true sense of the word this year. It is therefore
proposed that Heritage Month kicks off on may, 2023 and concludes in a large
campaign of awareness creation scale (Preparing one week) event on may, 2023 at the
office of ARCCH Buildings, Addis Ababa and other selected one world heritage site.

This year anniversary will be an important milestone for the creation of awareness in
the management and development of our heritage and heritage day.

African Heritage Month will range from formal ceremonies of state to spontaneous
popular events such as conference, exhibition, field trip and outside broadcasts. The
celebrations will see contributions from every sector of our society, making
partnership a central theme. They will have a national and international focus,
incorporating the programmes of across the world in the national plans. Already it is
evident that the celebrations that takes placed on May 5, 2023 will be expressed over
many months.

4. Aims and Objectives

The aims and objectives of the celebration of Heritage Day will be:

a) To Celebrate the African Heritage Day;

b) To educate and give awareness the public on the Heritage development and
management, World heritage sites National Symbols and their importance
with regard to national identity;
c) To give awareness about the current status of World heritage sites of Ethiopia
d) To give awareness about World heritage site development and management,
popularize the in a manner that all public develop a 'sense of ownership';
e) To build strategic partnerships so as to develop the necessary momentum for a
sustainable long-term plan for promoting the World heritage sites and
f) To utilize the African Heritage Day 2022 Celebrations to intensify efforts to
create a new moral and national consciousness.
5. Target Audience
6. Role-Players
7. Activities
 8. Formal Programme:

The event should take place at the office of ARCCH and selected one World site of
Ethiopia to symbolize the mandate of Government and to demonstrate in a tangible
way the commitment government is making to celebrate the day of African heritage.
It is therefore of utmost importance that the Heritage Day event ties in with the
objectives set out for the office. The formal event will include a keynote address by
the __ (concerned body) after an introduction, the invited scholars present different
studies , then the panel discussion will continue based on the objectives of the
seminar.

Promotional and educational material such as stickers, posters, banners, educational

booklets and flyers should be strategically distributed at points for the public.

9. Details about the sessions and time