ACTIVITIES 2000
Professional training
Strategic management of museum resources
and inventories in Benin
Date: from May 29th to June 24th (at EPA)
Number of participants: 10 (coming from 7 museums in Benin)
Objectives: 
- To teach the basics of strategic management and museum documentation in Beninese museums
- To give participants tools to take an inventory of their museums’ collections by December 31, 2000
- To be an example for Africa in the field of museum documentation by making a centralised national inventory file based at the Cultural Heritage Directorate
WAMP Workshop
Date: from July 17 to 21 (at EPA, in Togo and in Ghana)
Number of participants: 15 (11 sub-Saharan African countries)
Theme: the image of museums in West Africa
Objectives: evaluate animation programmes in museums and give participants tools to enable them to conceive and make appropriate animation programmes in order to improve the image of their institutions and reinforce the collaboration with their community.
At the end of the workshop, each museum received from WAMP a donation of US$2000
2nd sub-regional course on the management
and conservation of immovable cultural heritage
Africa 2009
Date: from August 28 to November 17 (at EPA)
Number of participants: 18 (15 countries of sub-Saharan Africa)
Objectives: to bring together professionals in the area of immovable heritage and sensitising them to the most important aspects in planning and conservation management. The course also aimed at developing knowledge of problems and challenges which arise when directing conservation activities in an African context.
2nd seminar for cultural heritage directors
Africa 2009
Date: from November 13 to 17 (at EPA)
Number of participants: 15 (15 sub-Saharan African countries)
Objectives: to bring together cultural heritage directors working in the field of heritage and sensitising them to the most important aspects in planning and conservation management. The seminar also aimed at reinforcing the links between directors and their staff present at the course, thereby improving team work.
ACTIVITIES 2000
Providing of services
Mission on the rehabilitation of
the royal palace of Gbéhanzin - Abomey
Date: from September 10 to 17
Objectives: to study the feasibility of the restoration project and gather additional information in view of writing the final technical document to be submitted to the Japanese Government
Results :
- At the end of the mission, the palace restoration project is accepted and considered as deserving great attention
- The following propositions have been made:
- Restoration of existing surrounding walls
- Materialisation of the angles of disappeared walls
- Restoration of the Ajalala of Gbéhanzin and the surrounding buildings
- Japan could decide to finance the project (US$400 000) before the end of the Japanese current fiscal year (31/03/01)
PREMA-Abomey III project
Date: year 2000
Objectives: to enable the Abomey Historical Museum, now on UNESCO’s List of World Heritage in Danger to change this situation and to be financially independent
Results : 
- Management and promotion: organisation of a management workshop, survey on tourist impact, creation and maintenance of a website: http://www.epa-prema.net/abomeyGB/.
- Animation: launching of a programme of cultural events with conferences, staff reinforcement …
- Collections: revision of the permanent exhibition, staff reinforcement ...
- Architecture: restoration of certain buildings, rehabilitation and transformation of the entrance hall into a resting place for visitors, improvement of the drainage system of the whole site...
Project on the promotion of the cultural heritage of
the town of Porto-Novo
Date: from October 2000 to December 2001
Objectives :
Reinforce and promote the specific heritage of the town of Porto-Novo, characterised by a mixture of ancient cultures
Devise and launch an emergency and maintenance programme for the immovable cultural heritage of the town in collaboration with the families and other owners of selected buildings
Create and put at the disposal of researchers, architects and town planners a database on the safeguarding, rehabilitation and classification of sites and monuments
Set up a communication strategy towards the town’s key actors
ACTIVITIES 2000
Institutional promotion
| Colloquium "Territoires de la création : artistes, institutions et opérateurs culturels pour un développement durable en Afrique" organised by the AFAA from 26 to 28/09, Lille-France |
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