Culture, Cultural Heritage, Tourism, Architecture, Governance, Education and Training, Cultural development, Economic and social development, Communication, Monitoring and evaluation, Urban Plannning, Infrastructure Engineering
credits: DaiWebStudio

Ghagha Island is located to the east of the Qatar arch on the eastern side of the Arabian Peninsula; the island is the westernmost of the Abu Dhabi islands, which stretch along the coast of Arabian Peninsula.

The vision for this assignment is to provide a comprehensive strategy for the long-term conservation and management of Ghagha Island as a cultural landscape and implement immediate conservation and protective measures for the cultural resources of the Island.

The main objectives of the assignment are to:

• Document and understand the individual cultural resources of the island as a cultural landscape;
• Establish a Site Management Plan for the Ghagha Island, that incorporates the policies and strategies for the protection, conservation, management and presentation of the island as a cultural landscape and for the individual components;
• Implement the policies and strategies through a Heritage Master Plan for the Island, design and implement a pilot restoration project for one representative unit of the 1990s houses;
• Design the immediate protection and conservation measures for the individual components of the island.