This document provides an overview of the opportunities available to SMEs in energy services.It explores business prospects in the field of energy efficiency and renewable energy, focuses on the barriers facing SMEs in the field of energy services and mechanisms for promoting the operation of SME

This guide promotes the adoption and integration of the Sustainable Livelihood Approach (SLA) and helps improve and develop the well-being of the population in the ESCWA region.



Information and communications technology plays a significant role in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), in particular in the areas of awareness-raising, capacity-building and shortening distances, among others.

The thirteenth issue of the Bulletin on Population and Vital Statistics in the ESCWA Region disseminates data on population size and composition, and on vital events, namely fertility, mortality, marriage and divorce in ESCWA member countries for the period 2000-2009.

This bulletin provides data on, and ESCWA estimates of the gross domestic product (GDP), the consolidated national accounts for ESCWA member countries during the period 2005-2009 and the estimated real GDP growth rates for 2010. It comprises three chapters.

This year's Survey looks at the effect that the 2008 global financial crisis had on economies and social development in the Economic and Social Commission of Western Asia (ESCWA) region. Like other emerging economies, those of ESCWA member countries have been affected to varying degrees.