The heritage was disappearing, and those items that had survived were not the top assets, because if insects did not differentiate, thieves knew exactly what they were doing. The international response had been to instigate four programmes, all administered outside Africa, namely the Iccrom Programme, the PREMA French- and English-speaking programme, Senghor University launched by the International Agency for Francophony, which ran two-year postgraduate courses, and the French- and English-speaking monuments and sites programme, known as Africa 2008, launched by Iccrom and Grenoble University.
La réponse internationale a constitué en quatre programmes lancés et gérés hors de l’Afrique, à savoir le programme Icrom, le programme de formation francophone et anglophone PREMA, l’université Senghor lancée par l’Agence internationale de la francophonie, qui prépare des troisièmes cycles en deux ans, et le programme francophone et anglophone des monuments et des sites, dit Africa 2008, lancé par l’Icrom et l’université de Grenoble.