East Africa World Heritage Network and stakeholder priorities.

By sketching links between tangible and intangible heritage, rights and entitlements, and past and present, the paper illustrates how the stakeholders of a heritage site perceive the relevance and potential of World Heritage status. Ilha in Mozambique and Bergen in Norway are both World Heritage Cities. Ilha was considered a site at risk when it requested support from Norway in 1999. Together the two cities formulated a collaboration project (2003–2007) that both contributed towards raising living conditions and heritage management expertise on Ilha. An East Africa World Heritage Network was established that has contributed significantly to traditional knowledge being shared between Zanzibar in Tanzania, Lamu in Kenya and Ilha. This has bridged gaps between UNESCO expectations of World Heritage management standards and the resources and skills available on Ilha. Main outcomes of the collaboration (and the East Africa World Heritage Network) are conservation and adaptive reuse of World Heritage designated buildings through local employment and community empowerment. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]