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5 December 2014	Global Financial and Economic Crisis: The Social Impact and Response in ESCWA Countries
5 December 2014	Expert Group Meeting on Measuring Multi Dimensional Poverty in the Arab Region
21 April 2015	Committee on Transport, 16th session	The Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA) convened the Sixteenth Session of the ESCWA Committee on Transport, in Cairo, Egypt, from 23 to 24 November 2015. The meeting is of special interest to experts in land and maritime transport, transport and trade facilitation and road safety.
5 December 2014	Expert Group Meeting on the Role of ICT in Socio-Economic Development
5 December 2014	Regional Seminar on Increasing Participation of ESCWA Member Countries in the WTO Negotiations
4 March 2021	Environmental Dimension of the Sustainable Development Agenda: Within the COVID-19 Pandemic, Can We Still Accelerate Action to Achieve SDG12 in the Arab Region?	The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and the UN Environment Regional Office for West Asia (UNEP-ROWA) organize the “Virtual Regional Consultation on the Environmental Dimension of the Sustainable Development Agenda: Within the COVID-19 Pandemic, Can We Still Accelerate Action to Achieve SDG12 in the Arab Region?” under the umbrella of the Council of Arab Ministers Responsible for the Environment (CAMRE) processes, to implement the resolution 575, that was adopted during its 31th regular session in October 2019.
29 July 2019	National Meeting on Women Empowerment and Entrepreneurial Development in the Rural Context: The Role of Renewable Energy	In the framework of the “Regional Initiative for Promoting Small-Scale Renewable Energy Applications in rural areas of the Arab region (REGEND)” project, the UN-Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN-ESCWA) is organizing a National Meeting on “Women Empowerment and Entrepreneurial Development in the Rural Context: The Role of Renewable Energy”. The objective of this meeting is sharing experiences and formulating gender mainstreaming and human rights strategy and action plans to support policy makers, government and local institutions in operationalizing a gender equality and human rights approach in the energy sector in Arab countries.
29 July 2020	Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture in the Arab Region	The Workshop discussed the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture and provided a platform for sharing on regional perspectives and issues related to agriculture and climate change negotiations and highlighted the need for a joint Arab position for a resilient agriculture sector. KJWA represents the unique opportunity to put forward the agriculture sector in a convention that does not look into specific sectoral issues and could be a game changer for the many Arab farmers. LAS, FAO and ESCWA were ready to assist countries in preparing their submissions and joining the KJWA process.
13 October 2020	Addressing the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus in the Context of Climate Change and Sustainable Development	The objective of this webinar series is to discuss the identification and promotion of suitable and efficient technologies as well as coherent policies regarding desalination technologies and water-energy-food systems as a whole.
5 December 2014	Committee on Social Development, 8th session	The Committee on Social Development was established pursuant to Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) resolution 198 (XVII) of 31 May 1994 concerning the establishment of a committee on social development in the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, which was endorsed by the United Nations Economic and Social Council in its resolution 27/1994 of 26 July 1994. It was established with the aim of promoting regional cooperation through the effective participation of relevant parties in member countries in planning the ESCWA programme of work in the field of soc

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