UN-ESCWA will open its Regional Workshop on National Accounts at 9:30 am on Tuesday 19 December 2006 at the Ramses Hilton Hotel in Cairo. This workshop will continue until Thursday 21 December.

An Expert Group Meeting on Open Source Software Solutions for the Public Sector in the Arab Region is being organized by UN-ESCWA and the Information and Communication Technology for Development in the Arab Region (ICTDAR) – a regional programme of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),

UN-ESCWA in cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO) and Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP), is holding a workshop on “Capacity-Building of National Focal Points” from 20 to 21 December 2006 at the Kuwait Conference Hall, WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo.

The Jordanian capital, Amman, is set to host three regional UN-ESCWA meetings between 18 and 21 December 2006.

Western Asian countries maintained their fourth consecutive year of robust growth as a result of rising oil prices in the first half of 2006.

Integrated Social Policy in Egypt, why and what’s the purpose? Is there a difference between social policy and social services? Will the absence of social policy lead to a vacuum? Who will fill this vacuum? Irresponsible factions or extremists?

UN-ESCWA is organizing the “Arab Regional Forum on Energy for Sustainable Development: Strategies, Policies and Plans”, which will be held in cooperation with the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi, the CAMRE Technical Secretariat and UNEP/ROWA at the Hilton Hotel, Abu Dhabi, on 1 February, following

Participants in the “National Conference on Integrated Social Policy in Egypt” held by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN-ESCWA) and the Egyptian Ministry of Social Solidarity on 7 and 8 February 2007 at the Pyramisa Cairo Hotel will discuss studies on the succ