The Social Development Division at ESCWA has conducted in the period of four months in 2010 three online discussion forums on the following thematic areas: (a) Government -civil-society participation in public policy processes including social policies (1 July to 30 August 2010); (b) Media and Development (1 August to 30 September 2010); and (c) Social Integration towards achieving participation (1 September to 30 October 2010).

The regional workshop aims at strengthening the capacity of staff from national statistical offices, city authorities, local urban observatories and service providers, in: the identification of statistical gaps, collection, classification and analysis of data, and the periodic reporting on selected human settlements indicators; the development of action plans and means to collect data related to the implementation of SDG11; and the development of follow-up mechanisms to serve Arab countries in statistical capacity-building.

The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) together with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN ESCWA) is organizing a Training Workshop on SDMX tools for MDG Data Reporting from 2-5 December 2013 in Casablanca, Morocco.

Discussion Room - ESCWATC FORUM

The Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) will be organizing discussions for a Virtual Panel of Experts (VPE) on reviewing the first draft of a "Detailed Assessment of Regional Needs and Priorities and Identification of Implementation Mechanism" during 3-24 September 2007.