missions
The missions of the Foundation for the Safeguarding of Cultural Heritage of Rabat
The Foundation for the Safeguarding of Cultural Heritage of Rabat acts as a real catalyst vis-à-vis the competent authorities (central administration, local and decentralized authorities, international organizations and NGOs) in matters of safeguarding and enhancing Rabat’s cultural heritage, while promoting participatory approaches that take care to integrate representatives of civil society and international and national experts in the various fields of heritage preservation.
The Foundation is an Institution dedicated to monitoring and promoting the synergy of actors concerned with safeguarding heritage, raising awareness, promoting and evaluating the state of heritage conservation. It works to perpetuate and transmit the historical, architectural, artistic, landscape, material and immaterial values inherent in the cultural heritage of Rabat.
To this end, the Foundation’s mission is to:
- 1. Promote research and studies aimed at knowing and making known the cultural heritage;
- 2. To promote projects of conservation-restoration, preservation and rehabilitation of architectural, archaeological and landscape heritage;
- 3. To raise awarness of institutions and actors concerned by the implementation of heritage safeguard strategies;
- 4. To carry out campaigns of awarness raising and promotion of the cultural heritage through the organization of socio-cultural events federating the action of other associations which work for the heritage safeguard;
- 5. To conclude partnership agreements with the State, the territorial communities and the other legal entities whether governed by public or private law as well as with natural entities, national or foreign for the implementation and the financing of the actions aiming at the heritage safeguard;
- 6. To work for the respect of the cultural heritage and the preservation of its integrity, its authenticity and its historical value;
- 7. To assess periodically, at least once a year, the state of conservation of cultural heritage;
- 8. To label the elements of the heritage or examples of good practices in terms of heritage safeguard;
And in general, to undertake any action and any activity likely to allow directly or indirectly the realization of the social object described above.
