ESCWA provides members States with analysis, policy advice, technical assistance, capacity-building and knowledge sharing on a host of governance matters, including political reform and transition, crisis and conflict management, and damage and loss assessment

ESCWA is uniquely placed to mitigate the adverse effects of occupation and conflict in its member States. It focuses on raising awareness of the cost of conflict and demonstrating the mutually beneficial effects of peace, respect for human rights and development.



Each year, ESCWA prepares a note by the United Nations Secretary-General on the impact of Israeli occupation on the living conditions of the Palestinian people in occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan.