The ESCWA Centre for Women and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Regional Office in Beirut are organizing a workshop on monitoring, control and protection of human rights including sexual and reproductive health and rights. This workshop, which will be held from 6-8 May 2018 in Amman – Jordan, targets national human rights institutions and national women machineries in the Middle East and North Africa region, as well as in some countries of the Horn of Africa.

The Palestinian Ministry of Transport requested ESCWA to build the capacity of the Supreme Traffic Council in Palestine in implementing road safety management to improve the safety situation and traffic congestion of Palestinian roads and urban streets.

The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), in collaboration with the Institut National de la Statistique (INS) in Tunisia, is organizing a training workshop on Short Term Economic Statistics during 14-17 November, 2016 in Tunis, Tunisia, in the context of implementation of the development account project that aims at strengthening capacities of member countries in the production and dissemination of Short Term Economics Statistics.
 

The management training module is targeting a group of experts from the Iraqi Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works (MoMPW). The Training forms a component of the UNDG Iraq Trust Fund financing a UNDP project to build the capacity of the Iraqi MoMPW. The training modules focus on management issues highlighting specialized topics relevant to each group of participants. The program of the modules also included field visits to various Lebanese private and public sector institutions to expose the Iraqi participants to the expertise and work methods of relevant Lebanese counterparts.