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| 2 October 2019 |
High-Level Conference on Progress Made in the Implementation of Beijing after Twenty-Five Years |
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| 1 October 2020 |
Capacity-Building Workshop on “Good food packaging, labeling, and marketing practices" |
Within 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 (ESCWA), in partnership with the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD), and the Arab Federation for Food Industries (AFFI), is organizing a capacity-building workshop on “Good food packaging, labeling, and marketing practices”. |
| 1 October 2020 |
Capacity-Building Workshop on "Good food packaging, labeling, and marketing practices" |
Within 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 (ESCWA), in partnership with the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD), and the Arab Federation for Food Industries (AFFI), is organizing a capacity-building workshop on “Good food packaging, labeling, and marketing practices”. |
| 25 May 2016 |
Arab Forum for Sustainable Development 2016 |
The 2016 Arab Forum for Sustainable Development is a multi-stakeholder platform that aims to engage a wide range of development actors on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. |
| 5 December 2014 |
Promoting Best Practices on Sustainable Rural Livelihoods in the ESCWA Region |
In December 2009, ESCWA organized an Expert Group Meeting on Adopting the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach for Promoting Rural Development in the ESCWA Region. The meeting, which was attended by 32 experts from various countries of the region, aimed to allow participants to better understand the importance of livelihood approaches to rural development, to assess its comparative advantage with regard to other approaches as well as to assess obstacles to its adoption and implementation. |
| 5 December 2014 |
Progress in Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in the ESCWA Region: A Gender Lens |
Since their adoption in 2000, gender experts criticized the MDG for their failure to adequately include a gender component in their goals, targets and indicators. In addition to reducing gender equality to one goal, the target of goal 3 on promoting gender equality and empowering women, is limited to eliminating gender disparity in primary education, preferably by 2005, and all levels of education by 2015. |
| 28 June 2019 |
Green Technology Transfer, Adaptation and Investment Required for Implementing SDG 12: Sustainable Consumption and Production |
For enhancing the capabilities of Arab countries in Green Technology, ETC will hold the expert group meeting on “Green Technology Transfer, Adaptation and Investment Required for Implementing SDG 12: Sustainable Consumption and Production” in Amman on 29-30 July 2019. The meeting will also discuss green investments needed in the region to support the green transformation in the agriculture sector and conflict solid waste management.
This meeting comes in the light of the role of ETC in enhancing the capabilities of innovation and technology in Arab countries, acquiring the necessary tools and capacities to accelerate economic and social development, and in finding suitable ways to help member countries on the best means of development and success |
| 12 April 2021 |
Virtual Workshop on the design and implementation of equality-oriented public policies and programmes in the Sudan |
In close cooperation and coordination with the Ministry of Social Development in the Sudan, ESCWA organized a virtual workshop on the Toolkit for Designing and Implementing Equality-oriented Policies in the Arab region”, on 7-8 April 2021. The workshop is one of a series of capacity building activities that ESCWA is organizing in cooperation with the Ministry of Social Development in Sudan, on issues of social justice, equality, participatory social protection policies, participation in democratic governance and youth participation. |
| 5 December 2014 |
Transport and Trade Facilitation in the ESCWA Region |
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| 3 February 2021 |
Dialogue with Inter-State Consultation Mechanisms on the GCM Regional Review in the Arab Region |
In line with the Global Compact on Migration guiding principles that call for a whole-of-government and whole-of society approach in the GCM, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) organized an online dialogue with Inter-State Consultation Mechanisms (ISCMs) on the GCM Regional Review in the Arab Region on 28 January 2021, in cooperation with the members of the Regional UN Network on Migration in the Arab Region. |