An effective asset management system must consider three essential elements, namely a reference legal framework that defines the reasons for its very existence, an institution that shapes organizational and decision-making needs and resources, human, financial and intellectual, used to make it operational. Having clarified the areas and the meaning of these three decisive elements, it becomes easier to plan, implement and monitor the actions identified to ensure the conservation and management of the assets and values associated with them in a sustainable way.
The management systems are aimed at achieving results that benefit the site and its stakeholders and include planning, implementation and monitoring cycles, aimed at carrying out activities aimed at conservation, interpretation and access to the site, also taking care of the sustainable use and sharing of benefits. Obviously each management system must be regularly reviewed and updated in order to respond to changes in the site and in the context, making the necessary adjustments.
With the powerful work undertaken by Civita to update the three Management Plans of the UNESCO sites of "val di Noto", "Siracusa and the Necropolis of Pantalica" and "villa romana del Casale" of Piazza Armerina, the goal was to develop an integrated system of the three different floors, related to three different contiguous sites, which has no precedent. From this unprecedented and extraordinary coordination it will be possible to reap mutual benefits, economies of scale and common strategies, for example, linked to the unpredictability of the risk of natural disasters or fluctuations in financial resources.
Particular emphasis must be given to the participatory approach used in the drafting of the three Management Plans, through the shared understanding of the site, and its identity, by all interested parties with their involvement in the construction of technical contributions that is premised on involvement in management processes and also foundations- efficiency in terms of reactivity that only the continuous exchange of results and outputs can ensure, feeding the monitoring and reprogramming phases
