The Strategy Plan for the Protection and Conservation of the Fortifications of Portobelo and San Lorenzo is a collaboration of the Santa Maria la Antigua Catholic University (USMA) to the National Directorate of Historical Heritage (DNPH) of the National Institute of Culture of Panama (INAC), in the search for instruments that allow the preservation and conservation of both national historical monuments, as well as the elimination of their inclusion in the List of World Heritage in Danger of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Culture (UNESCO).

The document is based on the observations and recommendations issued by the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) in February 2014, following its visit to Panama as an Advisory Mission to UNESCO, in view of the continuing deterioration structures of fortifications, advances in institutional arrangements in the planning of protection and management policies, and the need to create resources for the adoption of corrective measures and implementation of strategies of action, among others.

The Strategy Plan aims to be a resource for INAC and DNPH in which to rely on the definition of new strategies that allow to fulfill the mission to protect and conserve the Fortifications of Portobelo and San Lorenzo based on the deep understanding of its original historical - cultural attributes that transmit the Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) that own these architectural works and that are part of the World Heritage.