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	2019 Status Report on the Implementation of Integrated Water Resources Management in the Arab Region E/ESCWA/SDPD/2019/TP.4 This report provides an Arab region baseline for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicator 6.5.1: Degree of integrated water resources management implementation. The data presented in this... Arabic (23.53 MB) English (23.53 MB)
	Green Technologies, Innovations and Practice in the Agricultural Sector E/ESCWA/SDPD/2019/INF.8 The Arab region faces many challenges including severe water scarcity, rising population, increasing land degradation, aridity, unsustainable energy consumption, food insecurity and deficiency in... Arabic (704.16 KB) English (1.71 MB)
	ESCWA Water Development Report 8: The Water-related Sustainable Development Goals in the Arab Region E/ESCWA/SDPD/2019/5 Water-related SDGs have a central role in achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its interlinked Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and targets. While the dedicated goal on... Arabic (4.49 MB) English (3.22 MB)
	Examining multidimensional inequality in the Arab region through a capabilities lens: Presenting a pilot study in Lebanon with a focus on SDG 10 E/ESCWA/SDD/2019/TP.7 This study takes a critical look at Sustainable Development Goal 10 – aimed to reduce inequality within and among countries – and proposes an innovative research approach to capture... Arabic (1.83 MB) English (1.83 MB)
	Bridging the Inequality Gap among Youth in the Arab Region E/ESCWA/SDD/2019/TP.5 This policy brief discusses selected dimensions of inequality among Arab youth and highlight the gaps and challenges that affect youth policy development and implementation. It concludes with a... Arabic (436.82 KB) English (436.82 KB)
	National Institutional Structures for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Exploring the Implementation of Article 33 in the Arab Region E/ESCWA/SDD/2019/TP.3 This study examines Article (33) on “National Implementation and Monitoring” in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Article 33 is quite groundbreaking as it is the first... Arabic (1.02 MB) English (954.6 KB)
	Social Protection in the Syrian Arab Republic E/ESCWA/SDD/2019/TP.12 This country profile outlines the statutory social protection system in the Syrian Arab Republic including social insurance, social assistance, and social health-care provision. It furthermore... Arabic (1.59 MB) English (1.39 MB)
	Advancing the Implementation of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing in Arab Countries E/ESCWA/SDD/2019/INF.8 This policy brief provides an overview of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA) and its linkages to the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development. It highlights MIPAA’s... Arabic (754.36 KB) English (754.36 KB)
	Promoting Social Justice in the Arab Region through Capacity Building Interventions, Social Development Bulletin, Vol.7, No.3 E/ESCWA/SDD/2019/INF.7 This bulletin explores the connection between innovative capacity building and the ability of stakeholders to implement the SDGs. It details the capacity building work undertaken by ESCWA’s... Arabic (663.32 KB) English (663.32 KB)
	Leaving no one behind: Integrating marginalized groups in some Arab countries E/ESCWA/SDD/2019/4 Unprecedented social progress has been recorded around the world in the past few decades, with significant drops in poverty levels. However, this progress has been uneven as social and economic... Arabic (3.38 MB) English (3.93 MB)
	Arab Sustainable Development Report 2020 E/ESCWA/SDD/2019/2 Achieving sustainable development in the Arab region faces structural barriers that are often shared among the 22 Arab countries, despite variations in income level, natural resources, and...
	Manual for Building Capacities in Developing Social Protection Policies based on a Participatory Approach E/ESCWA/SDD/2017/TECHNICAL PAPER.9 The manual for building capacities in developing social protection policies based on a participatory approach is produced as part of ESCWA’s efforts aimed at strengthening... Arabic (3.81 MB) English (3.81 MB)
	ESCWA Disability Framework: 115 indicators to bridge the gap between policy and statistics E/ESCWA/SD/2019/TP.3 ESCWA Disability Framework: 115 indicators to bridge the gap between policy and statistics, is the first three-dimensional disability framework that maps disability-related indicators to three... Arabic (2.3 MB) English (1.49 MB)
	Arab Society: Demographic and Social trends Issue No. 14 E/ESCWA/SD/2019/5 Arab Society: A Compendium of Demographic and Social Statistics, Issue No. 14 is the latest in a series of biennial compendia of the Statistics Division of the Economic and Social Commission... Arabic (10.49 MB) English (5.47 MB)
	ESCWA Annual Report 2019 E/ESCWA/OES/2020/1 The last decade was difficult for the Arab region. A few countries fell into civil war while others suffered from serious political and economic instability. As a result, millions of people across... Arabic (3 MB) English (3.12 MB)
	Fiscal Policy Review of Arab States 2019 E/ESCWA/EDID/2019/WP.20 This fiscal review is first in the series following the ESCWA 2017 flagship report “Rethinking Fiscal Policy for the Arab Region”. A major focus of this fiscal policy review 2019 is to create a... Arabic (1.76 MB) English (2.14 MB)
	Ex-Post Evaluation of Lebanon’s Free Trade Agreements: The Cases of the FTA with the European Union and PAFTA with the Arab Countries E/ESCWA/EDID/2019/WP.13 This study examines the tangible impact of the integration agreements with Arab countries and the European Union on the Lebanese economy, as well as the reasons behind their relatively poor... Arabic (1.77 MB) English (1.77 MB)
	Assessing Arab Economic Integration: How Agricultural Trade can Affect the Achievement of the SDGs through Further Integration Third Edition E/ESCWA/EDID/2019/4 The severity of the COVID-19 pandemic and the scale of its impact across the Arab region highlight the need for collaborative economic integration that strengthens the region’s recovery and builds... Arabic (3.96 MB) English (2.77 MB)
	Trade and transport costs in the Arab region E/ESCWA/EDID/2019/3 Trade costs are a major determinant of trade competitiveness and integration in regional and global economies. The Arab region has high trade costs, resulting in low trade integration at the... Arabic (4.59 MB) English (3.11 MB)
	Operationalizing intersectionality in the Arab region: Challenges and ways forward E/ESCWA/ECW/2019/TP.5 The present paper focuses on intersectionality as an analytical approach and calls for a multidimensional understanding of gender in the Arab region, positing that this produces a more... Arabic (1.98 MB) English (1.92 MB)

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